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How to create a mind, or die trying
- By John Hewitt on December 7, 2012 at 8:30 am
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Any attempts to create consciousness in hardware, even in detailed neuromorphic chips would then be doomed to failure. In these chips, artificial neurons are powered top-down from without. In other words, their "spikes," which are their sole means of output and communication with their neighbors reflect nothing of themselves, only their dendritic inputs. In real neurons, spikes are the energetic end result of every activity inside the cell. In addition to dendritic integration of neighboring input, they are the result of the activity of the thousands of mitochondria in the cell competing for every molecule of oxygen and glucose metabolite in their domain.
In a real brain, collections of cells continue to create novel thoughts in the absence of sensory input. A similar connectome comprised of neuromorphic neurons might very well do the same. After a short while however, the activities of these two networks will have diverged so as to bear little relation to each other — much like the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings and changing the weather. Without rich internal activity which can support large scale growth and remodeling, neuromorphic collections are reduced to less vital activity dictated by the mundane stable points of their shallow dynamics.
What will become of brains and machines when the singularity is achieved? Kurzweil has left this door open and others have leaped in with wild speculation. One extreme idea is that minds will transition to a technology operating on scales smaller than the nanoscale we have today. At this "femtoscale," communications and computations using elementary particles at highly compressed scales would enable thought to occur much faster than before. This could be risky business as it is well established that when matter is compressed beyond a certain limit, it is transformed by its own gravity into a black hole.
There is no evidence that future minds would have the power to organize and control a survivable collapse to black hole. The idea is a topic of much discussion among singularitarians because it suggests one explanation to the Fermi Paradox — the question being, if intelligence is so likely to arise in the universe, where did everybody go? If the idea is preposterous, then it should be easy to disprove. Otherwise disproving it must be among the formative pursuits in the development of the technological singularity.
Once again Kurzweil has rallied the troops, not by declaring an enemy or instilling fear, but preaching cautionary optimism. The achievements of artificial intelligence, of which Kurzweil himself played significant part, including speech-to-text and the backbone of new technologies like Siri, are impressive but do not lead directly to conscioussness or the technological singularity by themselves. We must be the singularity, using and merging with our machines along the way, maintaining the thermodynamically deep links to elementary building blocks of nature as they continue to quicken.
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I like shiny things.
It seems to me that with our really fuzzy understanding of what consciousness is, it's a bit premature to be making the pronouncements made in this article.
It seems entirely possible that consciousness may be virtually preserved across a variety of hardware implementations. Certainly the 'me' that hosted my consciousness as a baby did not have the same awesome hardware I had in my teens, nor the somewhat degraded hardware I have these days.
Things as basic as time perception may very well be a function of the hardware and may not pose a problem for a consciousness. Hopefully being uploaded doesn't destroy the original – it could lead to lots of interesting experiments, as well as lots of legal issues as to who the 'real' consciousness is.
What happens to the economy of self when there is no longer any scarcity of me?
Thanks for the insightful comment. Yes, premature perhaps, but not necessarily wrong. I am not trying to rain on the upload parade, but preserving consciousness across a variety of implementations doesn't make sense for the simple reason that consciousness is the implementation. Uploading it is therefore meaningless. Even if you were to outright copy something, a stronger procedure than uploading to another substrate, and miraculously could do it without destroying the original, you have just that, a copy, nothing more. If the copy goes for a nap, you are not going for a nap. Not only that, but your structure, the structure of the one copied from, would begin to diverge chaotically away form that of the copy immediately, even if the detail was copied down to every last atom.
Fortunately, what you can do is replace and augment your structure with new hardware, either biological or machine, bit by bit. Whether you can replace all the biology with machine (and as biology is really machine as well I therefore mean top-down configured machine) and maintain consciousness, I would be premature to claim to to know. But even if you can, satisfaction of the result will depend on it being done step by step, just as we are replaced now step by step, meal by meal.
Edgy Fuckwad
We are neither mind nor body, therefore we can't be copied over. Our mind could be copied but it wouldn't be us. Mind is something we just possess.
In my view, some humans are actually philosophical zombies, they've got all the biological hardware there and a mind and so on but they lack spirit and therefore have no experiences. As far as you can tell they're real people but really they are not.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1221163242 Andy Van Berkum
If the robot brains aren't like human brains, how can you say they feel anything? There will never be a conscious robot. It would have to be so incredibly absent-minded that it thought it was a person experiencing the world, if we are really just robots who do so. Where is the sense in us all identifying ourselves as robots? Is this going to end up looking like we're all doing that cool dance move "the robot"? Is this all supposed to be taken this seriously?
Joel Detrow
People used to say "Man will never fly." Don't say such nonsense. Consciousness is presumably easy when a brain is created with the same flexibility, interconnectedness, and computational capacity as our own brains, regardless of the actual physical hardware it is created with (whether neurons or capacitors)
Thanks again for the informed contributions. Just a cautionary note – the developmental processes that create the brain are the same processes that fluidly permit its continued function. How about I hand you a bag of silicon, germanium, boron and oxygen and you start to shake it. When your computer brain is ready let me know. Then see if it can copy itself and replace its parts when needed. If it can not do these simple things, which any animal cell can, it is not going to be that powerful, relatively speaking, any of its self-transformative functions would have to be informed by top-down sources, which can not possibly measure the internal goings on with sufficient speed, resolution and accuracy to oversee much of anything. No machine will do what the brain does in the same physical space because biology is hands down the best way to do what brains do with the tools available in our universe. If top down machine tech can simulate biology, as many say, fine, but the simulation will be much larger and therefore not as powerful. Sure machines do many functions important to brains much better and will soon become essential components of a brains personal evolution but unfortunately I don't think consciousness is one of those functions. The solid state benefit is speed, but the number of atoms per function is way higher than with bio. Plus, with bio, the ratio of purposeful results obtained by brownian collisions, (ie formation or dissolution of bonds, reactions or energy transitions), to non-purposeful results, ( reaction-less interaction of molecules,) is way higher, in fact as optimal as our universe seems capable of producing. Stated another way, the heat evolved when one bacterium becomes two is minimal. Anyone that thinks a machine can be made to 3D print a bacterium with less energy is negligent in their understanding of how things of that scale can be assembled from constituent parts.
http://www.coffeecraftsandclues.com/ Des Malone
Actually, not true. Japanese scientists have been developing robots that literally feel and react as we do, through the use of neurochemicals and signals – just like us. Our feelings are end results of these chemical signals, causing our perceptions to shift from one state to another, reacting as we've learned to react and cope. These robots do the same thing, respond affectionately to stroking and cuddling, responding with despair being rejected, responding with anger to being antagonized. It's not hard at all to implement legitimate human feelings and states of emotion because it's all chemistry at the end of the day…which is why if you're manic and spastic, your doctor gives you medicine to settle you down, and if you're depressed, you get medicine designed to bring you up – by shifting the chemistry of your brain.
Joel Detrow
As far as I can speculate, I think the only way a brain could be "uploaded" without breaking the "continuity of the self" would be to gradually replace that brain's function with hardware that can instantly perform a "save state" operation.
I guess the main issue I have with brain uploading and such is that, if there is no "soul" in the supernatural sense, then there is no way to maintain or transfer a single "self" from one container to another, only to create a duplicate.
If all my brain functions were copied at the moment of my death, and an exact duplicate was created, that duplicate would have all my memories and, in a sense, be indistinguishable from me, but it would not have the same "self" that I have. Regardless of the information that was saved and recreated, when my "self" dies, it's gone forever, even if the physical material the "self" inhabited is later repaired to its former state.
Of course, this again assumes there is no "soul" that makes up the "self" and binds to every being that achieves a certain level of intelligence. If one believes as I do that there is a soul, then my speculation is either that the soul needs a continuous physical manifestation to attach to or it will be detached from the universe permanently, or that so long as at any time there is only one physical manifestation that matches the information the soul is paired to, the soul will inhabit that manifestation, and the "self" will not be interrupted.
But now I'm really getting into philosophical stuff, and in philosophy there is no right or wrong answer. I'm honestly just having fun by thinking about all these things.
When you say "after death the self is gone forever, even if repaired," that would not go over so well with people like Kurzweil who are signed on for a cryonic suspension, where it is hoped that the damage due to ice crystal formation during the suspension, and the cause of deanimation can be repaired. Cryonics is a step in the right direction I would say as society begins to recapture some level of appreciation for the individual which begins again to appraoch that attained by the Egyptians who at least made effort to preserve the dead from decay. It is shocking that later day savages, in the name of sophistication, ground up hundreds of these mummies into a powder and consumed it at parties http://blog.aurorahistoryboutique.com/mummy-powder-and-the-household-use-of-the-egyptian-dead/
Joel Detrow
Presumably, cryonic suspension needs to be done in such a manner that no ice crystals form; first using drugs and gases to induce a state of hibernation, then cooling the subject's body to a point close to freezing, then dunking them into a bath of liquid nitrogen for a freeze too rapid for crystals to form. That sort of process essentially slows all the biological and chemical processes before halting them, to prevent cryogenic shock that can be caused by rapid cooling of the body from the normal temperature.
The Egyptians only preserved individuals because they believed that preservation of the body and its organs was essential to the afterlife, and anything buried with them would also be usable in said afterlife. Grave robbers would sometimes do nothing more with a preserved body than sever its head, which from their perspective would kill that person in the afterlife, consigning them to oblivion.
http://twitter.com/Matthew_Bailey Matthew_Bailey
Only problem is that it is illegal in most nations to do most of these things, because they have to be done before "death" is declared.
States that have assisted Suicide Laws (a few in Europe) have been taking steps to allow for the manner of suicide to coincide with preservation techniques (currently these methods only involve drug-assisted suicide).
Joel Detrow
Illegal to induce hibernation, or cool the body down? It's not – some rare and risky surgical operations take the same steps to preserve the patient's life, it would be considered the same thing. That kind of cryonic suspension should be fully reversible with today's technology (as long as temperatures are brought back up *slowly*).
actually we don't know if the same 'self' who went to bed last night is back right now.
also after a brain surgery, we don't know if it is the same self after the operation.
i am pretty sure that i am not the guy i used to be at my age 7 or 10. so until we find what 'self' is – that whether it is a continous uninterrupted thing or it can have interrupts in between – then we won't know whether we can copy it.
Joel Detrow
You do indeed have a point, I was starting to get to that, but I felt my comment was too long already.
actually we don't know if the same 'self' who went to bed last night is back right now.
also after a brain surgery, we don't know if it is the same self after the operation.
i am pretty sure that i am not the guy i used to be at my age 7 or 10. so until we find what 'self' is – that whether it is a continous uninterrupted thing or it can have interrupts in between – then we won't know whether we can copy it.
http://www.facebook.com/Sylve5ter Sly Cooper
If brain activity instantly ceased, then the copy was made, it could work.
You'd do a lot of damage to a conciousness by systematically copying it/streaming it.
Robert Foy
Interesting to say the least.
Glenn Scott
How long would a backup take, and how often would you do it?
If we do attain the ability to migrate to a machine, motile or not, the fear of destruction would require a form of backup. How often would you do that? Would you keep an old backup on hand just in case, or would you back up every 15 minutes?
I saw a movie once where an alien species was able to transfer someone to a remote location, but it involved copying the person at the originating point, sending the digitized self to the remote location, and, to prevent an issue, destroying the "original".
If you make a backup of your "self", who would, legally, be "you"?
All this is moot I believe. Everyone knows that if we are able to transfer ourselves to a machine format, that spyware and malware and advertising would just ruin it. :)
why do people think that we have to reach the point of intelligence the
human brain has, to mimic or artificially develop consciousness. does that mean bacteria or flies or single celled organisms are not conscious?
think brain and consciousness is 2 different things. but i also think
that it can be artificially made.i think, usually people who think that
consciousness can't be mimicked are afraid of after-life.
Sure consciousness might in theory be mimicked, just not by an inert piece of silicon that operates roughly them same when almost frozen as it does near the boiling point of water. I say that because without extreme fragility how else could something be as flexible and morphable on the scales at which it maps informations of reality? Software or algorithms allow complexity increases only within ever narrowly prescribed regions of possibility and function – they are mechanistically proprietary, and would to require rigid or predictable hardware to operate on.
i am completely unaware of the technical side of these things.
but, the difference between 'conscious being' and machine is that conscious beings can do a little bit more stuff than machines.
they can love, hate, be angry etc. these things are not logical. we can't do mathematical operations on it.
but there are lots of stuff in our body that is logical. all our senses work logically, our heart, brain etc work on logic.
we may be able to replace the logic stuff with another technology. if that is silicon processors. or something 'biological' or maybe some future technology.
but the thing is we don't know where does the logic stuff ends and 'conscious' stuff starts in our body.
people strongly believed that test tube babies were not possible. or they won't have consciousness as we had.
but that turned out to be wrong.
same way, i think it will be possible to copy 'self' too.
but the problem with current digital technologies is, that they are completely predictive. even the averaging systems like neural networks. it is complete logic with predictable logic changes.
even the random outputs are predictable.
once we can move pass that predictable logic + whatever that makes bacteria or flies conscious, then i think it will be possible.
people strongly believed that test tube babies were not possible. or they won't have consciousness as we had.
but that turned out to be wrong.
same way, i think it will be possible to copy 'self' too.
but the problem with current digital technologies is, that they are completely predictive. even the averaging systems like neural networks. it is complete logic with predictable logic changes.
even the random outputs are predictable.
once we can move pass that predictable logic + whatever that makes bacteria or flies conscious, then i think it will be possible.
http://twitter.com/Matthew_Bailey Matthew_Bailey
Something that not many people stop to consider when making these sorts of predictions, and I have t constantly remind Ray (Kurzweil) of this fact as well.
As "machine intelligence" (of the type we construct, because human intelligence is technically also a "machine" intelligence – just a machine of a different type) becomes more intelligent, so to will "human" intelligence.
It will be increasing via all manner of technologies, many of which will be "merging" with us, as Ray points out.
This means that, for any "Singularity" to occur (as most people define it), this "Machine Intelligence" will need to catch up to "Human Intelligence."
That means that the Machine Intelligence will be trying to catch up to an already accelerating target.
Let us say that both machine intelligence and human intelligence are both cars.
And that the different domains of intelligence represent different "road surfaces."
The Human-Intelligence "Car" is capable at high speeds on just about any surface: Side-roads, suburban roads, highways, race-tracks, drag-strips, off-road, mountain-roads, frozen ice-roads, etc.
On some of these roads (Race tracks and drag-strips) the Machine Intelligence beats the ass off of human intelligence.
But on other roads (off road, frozen Ice-roads) the Machine Intelligence can't even compete (remember, the "roads" are just metaphors for different domains of thought and behavior, or functioning of the human or machine mind).
And, as we progress through time and space, both human intelligence and machine intelligence are going to be gaining abilities in these different domains.
So, while the computer/machine intelligence may continue to beat our ass on "prepared tracks" (with human intelligence doing the catching up), the machine intelligence will be slowly falling behind in other areas, barely catching up in others, and making significant progress in others.
The Machine Intelligence is going to be nearly forever in "catching up" to the ever increasing capabilities of the human intelligence.
This means that we may NEVER get to this so-called "Singularity."
one way or the other Singularity will happen.
it may not be as in the post. like machines and the body merges into one.
for example many thinks that nano machines can alter stuff in our body. so even if we loose a hand, it maybe possible to inject some nano machine medicine and 'biologically' grow the hand.
if we come to such a point, then it maybe a matter of time, we can look into our memory and alter it. we can grow wings to fly. or change dna and become x-men.
maybe even digital enlightenment will be possible.
I hope you are largely correct. Tell Ray congratulations next time your talking to him, I am sure his first day at Goog is quite busy. Also note that the brain works quite well at 3 pounds such that when we start expanding it, it will be quite tricky to know what is working out the best. The criteria for judgement must be stability – if you can do a web search in your head, or output video directly that would be a cool trick, but more important is that your moods, motivations, ethics and cares are stable I would say, even more so than when you began.
http://twitter.com/rewtoetzi Reiner Wilhelms
I like most of the ideas in this article, in particular the good objections against "copying" consciousness, which has been an even more outlandish idea than the much "simpler" hypothesis that machine intelligence might develop some form of consciousness (which I find plausible but believe it may have nothing in common with human consciousness). I don't get though why the author is even dealing with the most "extreme ideas", namely the stuff Ben Goetzel says (the link "extreme ideas" points to an interview with him). Why even make any postulates about "femtoscale" when so much is still open about "nanoscale"? You wrote – I guess as a reference to what Ben Goetzel said in the interview: "This could be risky business as it is well established that when matter is compressed beyond a certain limit, it is transformed by its own gravity into a black hole." It's hard for me to see any connection between the topic at hand and black holes, other than the general talk about "singularities". I'm suspicious about the increasing crowd of people who now go on record to make speculative claims that make even the wildest speculations by Kurzweil appear pale and rational. It seems that a lot of money can be made with this kind of hand waving hyper-speculations, and there seems to be a big following easily enticed in making bets on any pie in the sky. It reminds just too much of the start-up bubble around 2000 which was almost entirely based on vapor ware, and much less on software.
http://www.facebook.com/Sylve5ter Sly Cooper
One might then ask how much more complex is this box, then a box containing just a single Windows 8 hard drive?
Where x is the box with 1 HDD, then x^2 wholly represents the complexity of the box with 2 HDDs.
".. it might be said that consciousness requires continuity to be maintained…. then only the universe itself can create consciousness. "
I agree that mind-uploading seems impossible (you can read about my thoughts on the matter in an essay I wrote in 2011: http://accidentsofdesign.tumblr.com/post/12819934195/theseuss-ship-and-the-nature-of-selfhood), but let's not confuse the 'problem of consciousness' with the 'problem of identity', they are two different things. Even if continuity were impossible to maintain in mind-uploading; that doesn't say anything about (or rule out) the possibility of creating entirely new consciousnesses artificially. After all, test tube babies or cloning can also be considered the creation of new conscious minds, but they are entirely new minds, not copies of some original consciousness, so the problem of maintaining identity doesn't come up. The consensus in philosophy of mind is that there's no logical reason to suppose consciousness can only be realized using human brains or brains created by nature, i.e. the " multiple realizability thesis". http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiple-realizability/


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C.E.B. Reas
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Casey Reas is an artist whose conceptual and minimal works explore ideas through the contemporary lens of software. Reas's software and images derive from short text instructions explaining processes that define networks. The instructions are expressed in different media including natural language, machine code, computer simulations, and static images. Each translation reveals a different perspective on the process and combines with the others to form a more complete representation.
He has shown his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art's artport,[1] Ars Electronica in Austria, ZKM in Germany, Transmediale in Berlin, GAFFTA in San Francisco, Uijeongbu International Digital Art Festival in Korea, the Danish Film Institute, bitforms gallery in New York and Seoul, IAMAS and ICC in Japan, the Microwave International Media Art Festival in Hong Kong, and the Sonar Festival in Barcelona.
Reas was a graduate student and researcher in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT Media Lab from 1999 to 2001. Building on his professional experience and undergraduate studies in design at the University of Cincinnati, he spent the next two years developing software and electronics as an artistic exploration.
While studying design in Cincinnati, Casey Reas was a member of a band called 'nancy' with Scott Devendorf and Matt Berninger, who went on to become members of The National.[2] They released one album, called 'ruther 3429'.
After graduating, Reas began to exhibit his software and installations internationally in galleries and festivals.
In 2003, Reas moved to Los Angeles where he is currently an associate professor in the department of Design | Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reas is also notable for having created the Processing programming language. Together with Ben Fry, he created the software while at MIT, and it is now used by thousands of artists and designers worldwide.[3]
Public collections[edit]
His work is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and other institutions.
See also[edit]
Processing programming language
- Casey Reas and Ben Fry, Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, MIT Press, 2007. (With Ben Fry)
- Casey Reas, Process compendium 2004-2010, REAS Studio, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4507-2713-6
Further reading[edit]
- Bruce Wands, Art of the Digital Age, Thames & Hudson, 2006. ISBN 0-500-23817-0.
- Mark Tribe and Reena Jana, New Media Art, Taschen, 2006. ISBN 3-8228-3041-0.
- Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito, At the Edge of Art, Thames & Hudson, 2006. ISBN 0-500-23822-7.
External links[edit]
- ^ http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/softwarestructures/ Software Structures
- ^ http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/creas/eat/ruther3429.html
- ^ Reas, Casey; Fry, Ben (2007). Processing: a programming handbook for visual designers and artists. MIT Press.

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Thanks to the Hobo Custom Link Love WordPress plug-in that I blogged about yesterday, we are now offering dofollow links from the comments field of this blog.
Spammers beware though, because I'll be deleting any comments stashed full with links, with spammy names or anything that just doesn't quite smell right! So if you want a nice link from this blog then you'd better bring something fun to the party like, oh, I don't know, perhaps some coversation skills or maybe something to contribute to the conversation.
Radical isn't it!?
I've been very generous and set the number of posts required to 3 before you're trusted enough to get the link. But I might up it if I find that it's too low.
Are you planning on doing the same with your blog? Let me know in the comments!
Not radical at all. I fare well this way for 2 years now. The Hobo.co.uk plugin is a real gift to the blog community though. I Used Lucia's Linky Love it's based on for the last few months anyways. I'm considering switching although I like to reward every single commenter and don't care for "PageRank drain" or something.
I also run a dofollow blog albeit on a WP Platform the same as this one where the askimet plugin weeds out most of the trash i suspect the same as this one
It's all about a little of give and take if posters bring some originality to the topic subject then why not let them publicise their link, it's how the world goes around isn't.
Personally I think the spammers need to read up on no follow links they are not as important as they think they are..
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Fly-half George Ford believes Bath Rugby's back-line can continue to shine in the dry
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Fly-half George Ford is delighted Bath Rugby's back- line are finally getting the chance to show what they can do.
After relying heavily on Ford's boot during weeks of wet weather, Bath's recent matches against Exeter Chiefs in the LV= Cup and Wasps in the Aviva Premiership have been played in relatively dry conditions.
Winger Matt Banahan got one of four Bath tries against Chiefs, while Jonathan Joseph, Anthony Watson and Nick Abendanon created plenty of headaches.
And Fijian flyer Semesa Rokoduguni showed his finishing prowess at Wasps, running in a brace of touchdowns in a dominant win.
No rain is expected for Saturday's Premiership clash against Exeter and Ford believes Bath have shown they are capable of grinding out a result whatever the conditions.
"It has been massively frustrating for people like JJ and Anthony that they haven't been getting the ball they want to on a dry track," said the 20-year-old.
"I have been trying to give it to them but the last time we played Exeter the conditions allowed us to do that. You could see what they could do and it's massively exciting to play in a back-line like that.
"Hopefully we can just wish for more dry days in the future but we want to be a side that can play in every condition.
"That's what marks out a great team. They can turn up when it's throwing it down and grind a win out and they can turn up when it's dry and score some tries.
"We've had a good mixture and I think we have shown we can play in both."
Ford has shone since arriving at The Rec from Premiership rivals Leicester Tigers this summer, with the youngster rewarded with more regular playing time than he enjoyed at Welford Road.
The 20-year-old has started seven of Bath's Premiership fixtures so far this term and Ford says he can already feel the benefits to his game.
"I am playing okay. I am in a good place," said Ford.
"I feel good about myself, I feel good in training, I feel good in games.
"I probably feel the best I have ever felt since I have been playing professionally and I am probably the fittest I have ever been.
"But all I can keep doing is keep trying to get better. That's my only aim day in, day out.
"I can always learn, I can always get better. I don't think I will ever be fully happy with the way that I am playing."


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January 31, 2007
Sundance. Acidente (Accident)."Pondering the everyday and discovering the sublime, Cao Guimaraes's and Pablo Lobato's gentle tone poem of a film, Accident turns the idea of armchair travel upside down," writes Robert Koehler in Variety. "Cinema's power to observe and transform is beautifully achieved." A second opinion: "My award for the most frustrating exercise in the festival goes to... Acidente," writes Michael Lerman at indieWIRE. "A mishmash of shaky digital video and cheap, twangy sound turns what could have been a beautiful, visceral exercise a la the work of landscape filmmaker Peter Hutton instead feels like a screening of somebody's homemade vacation footage." Coverage of the coverage: The Park City Index.
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There are 2 ways to do it. Either install the channel itself or a forwarder.
From the FAQ:
What are the differences between the forwarder and the channel? Which one should I use?
First we will start with what is the same:
Covers and disk images are saved at the SD/USB
Changes at settings are saved at the SD/USB
Cheats (ocarina) are saved at the SD/USB
Both Update via Wii's internet connection
Both are channels taking space at you Wii memory (NAND)
Now here is what is different:
The channel includes the program which is also saved to your Wii memory too
The forwarder is a link to the program (dol/elf) saved at your SD card or at your USB HDD
What are the pros of the channel?
1.You can play your games without an SD card or a second partition at you USB HDD
2.It starts around a second faster
What are the disadvantages of the channel?
1.It takes about 1.8 MB more space at the Wii Memory that the forwarder does.
2.If you use it without an SD (or a second partition at you USB HDD) you can't save your settings, you don't have covers and disk images and you can't use cheats (ocarina)
3.You don't have the cool loading screen (see above)
What are the pros of the forwarder?
1.It takes 1.8 MB less than the channel of your precious Wii Memory
2.If you want to manually update is faster and easier than the channel as you only have to replace boot.dol (or elf) at your SD/USB
3.You don't have to update often the forwarder, you don't have to update it at all if you don't want to
4.It has the cool loading screen
What are the disadvantages of the forwarder?
1.You need an SD at your Wii with the dol file to be able to use the program (or a second, fat32, partition at the usb device)
2.It's a second slower to start the program compared to the channel
Do I have to use one of those too?
No. You can use HBC, BannerBomb, twilight hack, loadmii, preloader or w****ver else you can and want to use to load the dol file at the revisions page
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Nate Diaz made waves in the MMA community following his recent appearance on BJPenn.com Radio as he made several accusations towards the man who had just finished him inside the octagon, Josh Thomson. Diaz claimed Thomson made feminine noises while they fought, and that Thomson ran throughout the fight because he was, 'a guy who's running scared shitless for his life.' While Diaz is rallying for a rematch with Thomson now and the interview has gotten plenty of publicity, Josh Thomson decided to come out with some pretty serious accusations of his own.
Thomson was featured on the latest episode of BJPenn.com Radio where he dropped this bomb on George and Pedro, Josh stated, "I think the biggest thing is this; he is interested in a rematch with me, one thing he needs to remember before the fight even happened, he was complaining after weigh in's about how he was moving back up to 170, so he couldn't even make weight when we fought the first time. Nate knows this." Stop the presses! Diaz never made weight? That is quite the accusation indeed!
Thomson went on to address Diaz directly stating, "I am going to say this directly to him; Nate, you didn't make the weight, so how are you going to make the weight when we fight again? That's the thing that's discerning, we all let it slide because it was a huge fight, but you didn't make the weight and you still lost. So unless you plan on fighting me a 170 then I'm not really interested. Like I said, I'm looking forward to the title shot, I'm looking forward to getting in there for the title. If I have to go through him again to do it, then so be it, maybe you should start watching what you eat, maybe you should start doing that to take care of yourself. You couldn't make the weight the first time and that was something I was going to keep to myself, but you want to start talking trash? Saying all these things, knowing that I beat you fair and square, I guess next time we'll take 20% of your purse if you don't make weight."
"It's an issue I could have brought up and made a big deal about but I didn't do it because that's not the kind of person I am. I could have made a big fuss and taken it, rubbed some salt in the wound and taken 20% percent of your purse after you lost, but I didn't That's the kind of person I am, I moved on and I suggest you do the same thing."
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Nate fuckn with the wrong dude
We can fight again??? That was more like Nate was trying to kick your ass the whole time and Thompson ran and did what he could to survive. I wouldn't call that a fight.
LOL.. You've got to be the stupidest poster on this site. So you don't consider someone getting head kicked into unconsciousness a fight?… yeah maybe your right, I'd be more inclined to call that an @ss kickin!
@ Sasquatch it's not a fight you fucking moron! Thompson was running away the whole time. The UFC didn't get famous from gay ass shit like that. Do everyone a favor and go kill yourself motherfucker!
LOL.. Apparently you are retarded cause you don't even know were to Reply to my comment. Let me explain this to you in layman's terms so you can understand. Two men entered the octagon to engage in combat.. they engaged.. one man simple walked forward kind of like a zombie and attempted to unsuccessfully throw strikes.. the other more superior fighter evaded the slow strikes and counter stuck the zombie with a solid head kick almost knocking him unconscious.. apparently the zombie failed to learn from that exchange and proceeded to continued walking forward unfortunately getting kicked in the head again this time losing consciousness.. This unfortunate chain of events resulted in the inferior fighter losing the FIGHT because of his zombie like behavior. Now pull the zombie's nuts out of your mouth and deal with it sh!t for brains!
You wander in the "hugger" side of things with your silly comments about Diaz.
HE GOT KTFO man!! his lack of gameplan was exposed, Thompson stuck to his plan, played to his strengths and Diaz's weakness and KHTFO!!! what part of that don't you get?
it's not a backyard fight, it's not a schoolyard scrap…it's organized MMA and Diaz got beat…fair and square.
walking forward scowling is NOT a game plan…he and big bro need to understand that if they want to win again. They are both predictable and have both been exposed…evolve or go away.
I don't know about this tard man, just listen to the sh!t he spews.. "The UFC didn't get famous from gay ass shit like that". Yeah the UFC don't like KO highlight reels alright.. LOL
LOL…not sure what he's looking for if it ain't someone getting KTFO!! lol
…huggers gonna hug! lol
Your in some serious denial there pal.Face it your boy got KTFO!
You idiots miss the whole entire picture. I never denied Diaz didn't get knocked out. I'm talking about boring fighters like Thompson. Sure he had a gameplan but running away is not fighting. The UFC became famous for its brutal hand to hand everything goes fights. If Diaz did the same shit then what?not the kind of shit anybody wants to see. In that case ill just watch boxing. A true gentlemen sport not no ass grabbing grappling matches. I already know what most of you homos are going to say.
The sport of MMA doesn't need or want fans like you.. have fun watching school yard scraps on youtube.
yo bro dont even wast your time with mr big daddy he has know clue about MMA
Hahaha! The comments are the best part of this article! BJPENN.com needs a like button for comments!
No body seems to mention that as the ref was stopping the fight, Nick threw in the towel!! The fight went longer than it should have. He clearly wasn't defending himself, and the ref let him get hit at least 4 or 5 times after what I thought was a clear win for Josh. I apoligize if I didn't use correct grammer!!!
Durrrrr I'm a bigot asstard who can't tell MMA from Ballet because he heads shoved so far up my own ass.
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New Statesmanship
To the Editor:
John Mander does not quite do justice to Kingsley Martin's position on British foreign policy in the 30's. He refers only in passing to Martin's own discussion of Conor Cruise O'Brien's attack, which appeared in the New Statesman for April 26, 1963. In this article, Martin makes it clear that while he opposed war against Germany by the West alone, he "favored running the risk of war if Britain and France in the west were supported by Russia in the east." What the New Statesman consistently opposed was Chamberlain's policy of making guarantees to the Czechs which the British had no intention of going to war for, while at the same time disdaining collective security arrangements which could have assured a decisive defeat for Hitler. Within this context Martin's statements become more meaningful. . .
Mr. Mander classifies the New Statesman's policy as pseudo-revolutionary. Actually, it is not revolutionary at all, having become under the present editor, John Freeman, the organ of the modern Labor technocrats. While its sympathies might still be with unilateralism, the New Statesman now prints serious discussions about defense. Its arguments for scrapping Britain's nuclear deterrent, for example, as Mr. Mander shows, rest "not on moral but on financial grounds." Paul Johnson, for instance (who even favors, of all things, British possession of the deterrent for possible action in Malaysia and the Persian Gulf States), has pointed out, as have others, Britain's role in improving conventional arms. Moreover, almost all traces of anti-Americanism are gone. . . . While the New Statesman strongly favors attempts toward a détente, it no longer has any "illusions" about Russian-Chinese motives. The New Statesman has shown a surprising realization of the problems of the old colonies—which has not, however, precluded sharp criticism. The magazine has been skeptical, for example, of African misuse of the United Nations against South Africa and Angola, critical of the obsession with neo-colonialism, sharply disappointed with developments in Ghana and Indonesia. . . .
In short, the transformation of the New Statesman reflects the transformation of the English Left from the old revolutionaries to the possibilists—concerned mainly with economic growth. I feel that Mr. Mander should have done more to try to get this point across.
Steven J. Kelman
Great Neck, New York
To the Editor:
I would like to communicate my appreciation of the remarkable article by John Mander, "The New Statesman & the English Left," [February]. I am only afraid that its lightness of form and casual-ness of manner may deceive, causing it to be passed over more quickly than would be right. It is, I think, one of the most searching essays, on mind and society in the England of our generation, that has come from any hand.
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Washington, D.C.


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Here is a selected listing of births in Allen County hospitals sent to the Allen County Bureau of Vital Records through Aug. 25. Only cities in The News-Sentinel's circulation area are included.
•Roman C. Carroll to Shelby L. Lortie and Cyler W. Carroll.
•Asher S. Pawloski to Trisha L. and Buddy C. Pawloski.
•Xander M. Prater to Rebecca A. Sutton and Aaron M. Prater.
•Cody N. Kroemer to Angela L. and Nicholas W. Kroemer.
•Jacob C. Snowball to Samantha S. and Kevin C. Snowball.
•Finley H. Snider to Brooke D. and Brad L. Snider.
•Koen R. Rodenbeck to Megan L. and Nolan L. Rodenbeck.
•Brant S. Bridge to Brelle J. and Brandon L. Bridge.
•Lucy G. Klotz to Megan K. Cooper and Brent A. Klotz.
Columbia City
•Brooklyn P. Stump to Laura B. and Justin J. Stump.
•David A. Soards to Lindsay N. and Ian C. Soards.
•Harmony E. Robinson to Jennifer N. and Justin M. Robinson.
•Kinley H. Eames to Janica S. and Kevin D. Eames.
•CC A. Knox to Jo D. and Tyler W. Knox.
•Brianna L. Hogue to Erika L. Shaw and Matthew R. Hogue.
•Charles S. Omlor to Sarah A. and Charles P. Omlor.
•Colson R. Houk to Erin R. and Matthew B. Houk.
•Greyson A. Jordan to Stefanie A. Knote and Brian A. Jordan.
•Kaileigh E. Coats to Christina E. and David A. Coats.
•Miles J. Johnson to Amanda J. and Joseph M. Johnson III.
•Mya R. Morgan to Katherine M. and Jason D. Morgan.
•Noah Z. Douglas to Jordan N. Chaney and Zackary A. Douglas.
•Lilah M. Hicks to Lindsey R. and Brad W. Hicks.
•Aiden J. Cutler to Sarah R. and Aaron M. Cutler.
•Leah G. Eicher to Leah H. and Daniel D. Eicher.
•Hannah R. Adamson to Susan K. and Joseph W. Adamson.
•Autumn N. Meade to Ashley A. and Michael M. Meade.
•Harper L. Pierce to Kathryn S. and Jason D. Pierce.
•Larose E. Kauffman to Irene R. and Mervin A. Kauffman.
•Malissa K. Brandenberger to Malinda M. and Loren J. Brandenberger.
•Ruby L. Osborne to Kadie M. Osborne.
•Samuel F. Krey to Amanda C. and Frederick N. Krey.
•Brielle M. Parrett to Tonya R. and Tucker W. Parrett.
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•Alivia E. Myers to Misti M. and Hugh L. Myers.
•Gage L. Tracy to Hazel L. and Travis W. Tracy.
•Kasyian S. Maurer to Tanya L. and Lee C. Maurer.
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•Dylan M. Hughes to Amanda J. and Johnathon C. Hughes.
•Maeve A. McDaniel to Angela D. and Troy L. McDaniel.
•Ellis J. Knipper to Amanda L. and Jared J. Knipper.
•Juliette N. Ball to Rhoda D. and Jeremiah L. Ball.
•Zadie R. Johnson to Devyn R. and Matthew A. Johnson.
•Cadence N. Roy to Jennifer R. and Daniel J. Roy.
•Edward D. Buuck to Megan M. and Jason A. Buuck.
•Lincoln D. Aspy to Stacey M. Ottenweller and Abram D. Aspy.
•Zander B. Foltz to Amy M. and Steven J. Foltz.
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•Connor T. Isenbarger to Emma R. and Christopher L. Isenbarger.
•Grace E. Beck to Megan L. Beck.
•Jubron J. Childs to Monique L. Childs and Julius D. Smith.
•Keegan M. Williams to Lydia R. Carter and Kyle M. Williams.
•Scarlet R. Kuhn to Michelle L. and Shane L. Kuhn.
•Carter J. Bradburn to Samantha F. and Johnathan O. Bradburn.
•Samantha A. Mast to Christina A. and Luke R. Mast.
•Paul R. Crull to Kristin M. and Marvin P. Crull Jr.
•Gracie L. Debaillie to Shelby C. Jarrell and Riley A. Debaillie.
St. Joe
•Kyna R. Miller to Renell K. and Bryan P. Miller.
Silver Lake
•Leo T. Brovont to Nell L. and Thomas D. Brovont.
South Whitley
•Lilley A. Moyer to Christy M. Green and Tristan J. Moyer.
•Natalie H. Gonzalez to Jamie N. and Joshua D. Gonzalez.
•Aubrie A. Freimuth to Chelsie K. Howe and Robert J. Freimuth IV.
•Graham M. Hockemeyer to Jennifer R. and Todd M. Hockemeyer.
•Lillianna M. Graber to Annetta K. and John D. Graber.
•Kenidee N. Hubbard to Ashley N. Hubbard.
•Laina C. Dyson to Melanie A. and Michael J. Dyson.
•Anson C. Shuler to Jennie A. and Johnn W. Shuler.
•Carter J. Blinn to Lindsey R. and Adam J. Blinn.
•Kae-Jay Vuittonet to Cara G. and Keith J. Vuittonet.
•Maddox W. Polston to Krista D. and Nathan W. Polston.
•Myles A. Sensibaugh to Haley C. Sensibaugh.
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•Avary D. Masel to Brittany D. Jones and Justin S. Masel.
•Lynette M. Graber to Nancy J. and Benjamin Graber Jr.
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What do you guys think this new PP costing structure will do to draw odds this year? I am on the fence of putting in for one of 2 tags. First, one tag I should draw based on past stats as it took only 1 PP and I have 2. The second I have about a 75% chance at drawing with 2 PP's.
I'm thinking this new costing will have a lot of people applying and burning points this year and maybe over the next couple years that normally wouldn't have applied and would have kept saving. Thoughts?
It's only more expensive if you buy points for just one species right? If you do multiple species it should actually be cheaper I thought.
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Session 3A: CEU Poster Session
12:30 PM–12:30 PM, Friday, October 27, 2006
Gaylord Opryland Room: Cheekwood ABC, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Chair: Warren Rogers, Westmont College
Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.DNP.3A.6
Abstract: 3A.00006 : Modeling nuclear stopping with in-medium modifications of nucleon-nucleon cross sections.
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Stopping in heavy ion collisions is investigated with the aim of understanding microscopic dynamics of collisions and transport properties of nuclear matter. Boltzmann-equation simulations are compared to available data on stopping in the energy range between 0.02 A and 1.5 A GeV. Stopping observables used include momentum anisotropy, linear momentum transfer, and isospin tracing. The data clearly shows that modeling the transport with free elementary cross-sections is inaccurate and reduced cross-sections are required. Reduction of the cross-sections produce an increase in transport coefficients of nuclear matter, compared to calculations based on free cross-sections.
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Football roundup - December 13, 2011
Ultimate Bowl Junior 2 Division at Simi Valley High
Fillmore: The offensive line of Eric Corona, Marco Villa, Moy Perdroza, Anthony Morales, Junior Sandoval, Chad Hope and Marcus Gonzalez blocked well for the Gold Coast Youth Football League Super Bowl finalists. Corona raced 39 yards for a touchdown with 7:20 remaining in the first half. Marcus Gonzalez caught a 22-yard pass from Johnny Grove with 39 seconds left in the first quarter. Chad Hope ran for the 2-point conversion to make it 14-0 against the Pacific Youth Football League Super Bowl finalists. Tyler Bode, 10, celebrated his first career TD with a 1-yard plunge. Hope added the 2-point conversion to increase the lead to 28-0 with 7:33 remaining in the first half. Marco Villa scored the last TD with 8:55 left in the game.
Calabasas: Marcus Daire scored on a 34-yard run. Courtney Chandler scored on a 2-point conversion run. Cameron Curtis and Brysen McGee played well on offense.
Ultimate Bowl Senior Division at Simi Valley High
Simi Valley: The Vikings needed an interception by Blake Rutherford with 1:10 remaining to seal the win. The Vikings had won the Senior Super Bowl on Nov. 19 at Royal High. Bryce Seeler scored on a 3-yard run with 2:12 left in the first quarter. The Vikings failed on a 2-point conversion run. Seeler's second-quarter scoring run from the 2 made it 12-8. The 2-point pass play was broken up. In the third quarter, the Vikings took an 18-14 lead on Rutherford's fumble recovery return of 60 yards. The 2-point run failed with 9:05 left. A 12-yard run by Seeler made it 24-22 early in the fourth quarter. Rutherford grabbed a 41-yard TD pass from Tommy Costello to extend the lead to 31-22. The Vikings and the Fillmore Raiders celebrated an inaugural Ultimate Bowl sweep.
Santa Clarita: Michael Pittman caught a 25-yard TD pass from Cole Parkinson with 5:57 left. Nelson James rushed for the 2-point conversion to give the Warriors an 8-0 lead. Nelson James scored on a 3-yard run to make it 14-12. Rutherford stopped the 2-point conversion run. Nelson scored on a 71-yard scamper and went ahead 22-18. Cole Parkinson caught a 21-yard TD pass and James scored the 2-point conversion to make it 31-30, trailing the Vikings by a point with 4:41 left.
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i personally attended 2 of these job corps, one in dayton ohio and then the one here in my home town of cleveland. i have to say that i too believe that the program should be scrapped. the program only seems to work for the students most likely to have succeed without going. every student ive known who needs the help terribly have never made it through this program. i myself graduated once from dayton and then left from the center in cleveland because i was verbally abused and then physically attacked by a student while attending. as far as i know this student still attends but both staff and myself wanted me to leave the program even though i was the one attacked, but after that i really didnt wanna be there any further. i left here and went to a local college where im still at. i feel that the hostile environment here contributed to this situation and made it impossible to find any maintainable peace or to learn much while on center.
i believe in programs that try to help troubled teens but some programs just dont cut it. when the new company Serrato came into this canter the staff addressed the student population stressed to us that although alot will change, everything for the students would get better or not change for the worse. what really happened? the company came in and went termination crazy. i personally helped to pack up and ship home students that were leaving. i volunteered alongside my classwork. i personally had to pack out sometimes up to 25 students a WEEK!! (do you know how much it must cost to terminate that many students!?! with them typically having up to 5 or more boxes of stuff to ship home through fedex not counting their bus ticket) is what they call helping?? find all the students that need the most of the program and instead of helping them, send them back home to fend for them selves on the streets. real smart. then they get students coming in that have the same problems and the process continues. the center only holds 400 i believe and packing out 10-25 students a weeks seems kinda excessive.(since thats around a quarter of their population a month!) this program is a failure, it failed every student it sent home! students came here with real problems because they trusted that they could make a fresh start and maybe get the help and direction they needed and instead they end up wasting their time and costing people (tax payers!) massive amounts of money because its not free to pay for their tickets to come, their food appointments for healthcare and everything they need plus pay them every 2 weeks as this program goes, then send them home with nothing in their hands, no change at all to their life. what a waste to the students it let down and to the tax payers who have to cover the massive bill, money down the drain!!
i personally feel from my time at both centers that the job corps program its self isn't a complete failure, although it does need to be revised because its ruleset comes from over 50 years ago. times are different now, these youths needs different kinds of help then youths did 50 years ago not to mention that this program started out as a militairy program and no longer has anything to do with it but still treats its students as if you in bootcamp/jail. for the time i was enrolled in dayton job corps they were number 2 in the nation while at cleveland center it was number 121 yet it had more resources and nicer facilities then dayton (i personally got to see how every moneth the dayton center got better and better while the cleveland center sank month by month getting worse and worse). even at dayton i saw the same things happening in the student body except that they didnt go termination crazy. in the dayton center they have programs in place to recognize troubled students and to try to work with them. it was easy for me to find help while i was in dayton (i maintained honor roll almost the entire time i was there thanks to their ability to listen and help) while it was impossible to find any help at all when i needed it at cleveland (trying my best at this center including volunteering to help make it a better place didnt turn out a single recognition of any kind and only my supervising staff appreciated my efforts). if you have a problem in the cleveland center your pretty much on your own and if it has a massive enough effect on your stay, you'll most likely be going home because you cant find the help you need. in dayton all i had to do was mention to any staff memeber that i was having trouble and i was in a meeting the following week meeting and discussing/assessing what was bothering me and how they could help. thats the kind of thing the WHOLE program needs. these students need HELP! not to be thrown back out on the streets with nothing coming out of this program. its a WASTE!!!
as far as the direction Serrato took when they took over, i believe they thought that if they terminate all the in need students that over time they would be left with mostly students that dont need as much help, thus making it easier to improve the centers beyond terrible performance ratings. i believe a more sensible solution would have been to use the opportunity to implement intervention programs like anger management and better counseling services for those who need an ear to listen. i also believe they may have done well to introduce a more tactful and understanding staff population that are sensitive to at risk students and their needs, not to give them the cold shoulder.
i could go on about this place until im blue in the face, but in short i feel like this center not only failed me, but everyone that counted on them for help. i believe they are letting the tax payers down by not delivering the quality of education these young people need to make something of them selves. i personally believe that the Serrato corperation have done a terrible job thus far and i dont expect the next 4 years of their contract to be any better then this first year. all they seem to care about is cutting corners by getting rid of the problems rather then implimenting programs to solve them. i'd put money on that this center will never make it into the top 50 and that any student going here that truely needs help will not find much of it here. instead they will find endless struggle, pain, ignorance among staff, and a general unwillingness among long term staff to help. the most eager people i found that wanted to help me were new staff members who still care about people, but sadly most of the newer staff population have no real power to help you if something needs doing and they also get ignored and brushed off by higher ranking staff. the program is broken and i believe it needs to be shut down. save the people some money and save these poor students attending the trouble and disappointment. that or give the contract to MTC who runs a superb Center in dayton ohio because i feel that they have the ability to make the change needed to this center.
if i had my way i wouldn't close the program down, but instead i would ask the center director of daytons program and his staff to come in and take the Cleveland center under his wing because they ran a very fine center even though they didnt have alot to work with. there and they had an identical student population, it was way more clear that the center there was much much much much much better run and that they cared about these students and where their lives were going.


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To say that Team Nautique rider Mike Dowdy has had a breakout rookie season is an incredible understatement. As the 2013 season comes to a close Dowdy has racked up a laundry list of accomplishments including WakeWorld Riders Choice Awards "Rookie of the Year," "Most Improved Rider of the Year," and placed 7th in the running for top male wakeboarder. To top that off, Mike was awarded Transworld's "Trick of the Year" at the Wake Awards for a double back roll to blind/late melon grab behind his Super Air Nautique G23; one of his four entries.


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WHITMAN – A Dingess woman was injured after an altercation with her boyfriend became violent.
Kevin Thompson, 33, of Whitman, is charged with malicious wounding. If convicted, Thompson could face anywhere from one to ten years in prison.
When officers arrived at 34 Flatwoods Drive at Whitman, they found Thompson had allegedly waged a relentless attack on his girlfriend, the victim, Kala Moore.
Thompson is accused of striking Moore in the back of the head, face and ribs with both his fists and feet. Bruises were observed by the officers on the left side of the victim's torso, there was blood inside and around the victim's mouth, and a serious laceration on the back, left side of the victim's head was bleeding profusely. The laceration the victim suffered was severe enough for her to be transported by emergency medical services to the Logan Regional Medical Center for treatment.
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How the great shadow advances from the left - half a mile per second. Airplane pictures taken above the clouds at intervals of five seconds... National Geographic Magazine, Nov. 1932.
RASC Hamilton Centre—1932 Eclipse
Scanned by Colin Haig
These slides are from the August 31st, 1932 solar eclipse expedition in Acton Vale, Quebec. There was an 8mm film that somebody (no idea who) transferred key frames to 35mm slides. I am not sure when actually that transfer was done or when the slides were developed. I scanned these (2006-02-11 through 2006-04-06) using a NIKON Coolscan V ED at highest resolution.
[1] http://www.rasc.ca/category/archivetags/1932
[2] http://www.rasc.ca/category/archivetags/hamilton
[3] http://www.rasc.ca/category/archivetags/solareclipse
[4] http://www.rasc.ca/category/image-galleries/national-archives/archives-1932-solar-eclipse-0


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- Twombly's Anatomy of Melancholy (2008)
- A wall-sized canvas by Twombly hanging in a purpose-built pavilion by Renzo Piano, commissioned by the Menil Collection in Houston, bears the scrawled inscription »Anatomy of Melancholy.« Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor) is the culminating statement of the artist's maturity: begun in 1972, it was first exhibited in 1994. In this monumental cenotaph, Twombly's painting displays phrases from Archilochos, Catullus, Keats and Rilke, as well as the title of Burton's famous tome, worked into the fabric of the composition, integral to the iconic content. It is the aching heart of the select permanent exhibition of his oeuvre at the pavilion, known as the Twombly Gallery (www.menil.org/twombly.html). The austerity of Piano's architectural setting, as well as the cunningly filtered Texas sunlight, makes this a site of cult, like the chapel containing the dark, final canvases of Mark Rothko, situated around the corner in the same urban grove of old oak. The setting is a modern Dodona, remote seat of the oaken oracle of Zeus, and it makes an evocative home for Twombly's enigmatic constructions. These disarm conventional vocabularies of aesthetic response, drawing attention to words and snatches of verse as points of association and recognition. Looking at them involves siting a phrase such as »Anatomy of Melancholy« in other dimensions – in lines, patches, figures, colors.
- Science in Wonderland (2008)
- Lewis Carroll's Alice, who first explores Wonderland (1865) and later on the country behind the Looking-Glass (1872), belongs to the most well-known characters in world literature. [...] The scientific reception of Carroll's stories – concerning physics as well as the humanities – has taken place on different levels. On the one hand, […] various Carrollian ideas and episodes obviously correspond to topics, subjects and models that are treated in the contexts of scientific discourses. Therefore, they can be quoted or alluded to in order to represent theories and questions […] – as […] physical models of the world […]or theoretical models of language and communication. […] On a more abstract level of observation, Carroll's stories have been used in order to explain and to discuss the pre-conditions, the procedures, and the limits . of scientific modeling as such. Above all, they make it possible to narrate on the problem of defining and observing an 'object' of research. […] According to Deleuze, the paradox structures of the world that Alice experiences give an idea of all meaning being groundless and all logic being subverted by the illogical. Finally, besides all affinities of Alice's adventures to scientific attempts to explain the world, the absolutely incomprehensible is present in Carroll's books as well. Especially the self proves to be something profoundly incomprehensible […].
- Digital document and interpretation : re-thinking "text" and scholarship in electronic settings (2008)
- The contribution starts from outlining the evolution of the scholarly production flow from the print based paradigm to the digital age and in this context it explores the opposition of digital versus analog representation modes. It then develops on the triple paradigm shift caused by genuine digital publishing and its specific consequences for the social sciences and humanities (SSH) which in turn results in re-constituting basic scholarly notions such as 'text' and 'document'. The paper concludes with discussing the specific value that could be added in systematically using digital text resources as a basis for scholarly work and also states some of the necessary conditions for such a 'digital turn' to be successful in the SSH.


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Fred Sauceman Sr. served in the Normandy Invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. Photo courtesy of Fred Sauceman Jr.
It was Christmas, 1944. My father, a soldier in a World War II glider unit, had survived the Normandy Invasion on June 6, 1944, only to find himself in even greater danger just a few months later, hiding in Belgian basements during the Germans' desperate push to the west: The Battle of the Bulge. The weather that winter was the coldest in decades.
My father and mother were not yet married. Their wedding was nearly three years in the future. In harm's way as he had been during most of the war, my father naturally wondered if that day would ever come.
Like so many other fiancées, wives, mothers, grandmothers and sisters, my mother felt a paralyzing helplessness as news reports told of the entrapment of the 101st Airborne Division, my father's outfit.
While the troops of the 101st Airborne were fighting for their lives and for the preservation of Western civilization in the woodlands of Belgium, my mother, back home, oversaw the making of armored flyers' vests at Southern Garment Corporation in Greeneville. With so many Greenevillians far from home battling the Axis Powers, the employees of Southern Garment embraced the chance to support the war effort by literally creating an extra layer of protection for the American soldiers.
On the company's bulletin board, a sign proclaimed: "You all may be very proud of the work you are doing, as you are instrumental in getting our boys a life saving garment. The demand for these garments is critical, and YOU are surely doing your share to help in the war."
World War II was the defining event of my parents' lives. The postcards from Paris, the German camera, the wooden plate with a Screaming Eagle carved into the center, and the Bronze Star in my father's war-era trunk all made for good fourth grade show-and-tell at East View Elementary School in Greeneville.
But somehow, though, a letter had gotten buried in that trunk, beneath all those souvenirs of war. I found it 25 years after my father died at the age of 53. The paper is yellowed and creased now, but every typewritten letter is still legible. The grammar is mathematically precise. The masthead is a hand-drawn screaming eagle, emblem of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division. The date is Christmas Eve, 1944.
What I had found was Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe's newsletter to his troops engaged in the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne, Belgium. "Merry Christmas" is emblazoned across the top.
"What's Merry about all this, you ask?," McAuliffe wrote on that snowy Dec. 24. "We're fighting — it's cold, we aren't home. All true but what has the proud Eagle Division accomplished with its worthy comrades the 10th Armored Division, the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion and all the rest? Just this: We have stopped cold everything that has been thrown at us from the North, East, South and West. How effectively this was done will be written in history, not alone in our Division's glorious history but in World history. The Germans actually did surround us; their radios blared our doom."
In that letter I found in my father's possessions, McAuliffe quotes the German commander's demand for surrender. If you don't think words can change the world, consider the impact of just one — a simple word of only four letters. About four-fifths of the way down the page, centered, each letter underlined, spaced, capitalized, and ending with an exclamation point, is McAuliffe's rejoinder to that call for surrender — maybe the most famous one-word quotation in history:
"Allied Troops are counterattacking in force," McAuliffe reported to his men. "We continue to hold Bastogne. By holding Bastogne we assure the success of the Allied Armies. We are giving our country and our loved ones at home a worthy Christmas present."
That one word, N U T S !, has resounded through history. It gave hope to cold and hungry men who were completely surrounded by the enemy. It inspired the world. It boosted morale in every theater of Allied operations.
The word became a symbol of defiance, of courage and determination under fire. That word, and the emotions it engendered, helped change the course of World War II. It helped save Western civilization.
Anthony McAuliffe was not a flashy general. As you can tell from the language in his newsletter, he was businesslike, concerned with getting the job done. Yet his bravery preserved the free world.
A citation honoring him in January of 1945 reads: "General McAuliffe continuously exposed himself to enemy bombing, strafing, and armored and infantry attacks to personally direct his troops, utterly disregarding his own safety.
Brig. Gen. McAuliffe's courage, fearless determination, and inspiring, heroic leadership exemplify the highest traditions of the military forces of the United States and reflect great credit upon himself, the 101st Airborne Division, and the United States Army."
The Department of Veterans Affairs tells us that World War II veterans are dying at the rate of 740 a day. McAuliffe died in 1975.
Veterans Day observances remind us of the urgency to learn from those who are still among us. To hear and document their stories. To honor their valor, their courage, their sacrifices while we can.
I did not have the privilege of serving in the armed forces, but one of the proudest facts of my life is my father's record of service at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. And among my most treasured possessions is that noble letter and its message of defiance and hope that kept us free.
Fred Sauceman holds a bachelor's degree in English and history and a master's degree in English from East Tennessee State University.


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Today is download day at MSDN. There are some very interesting things published.
- New release of Windows SDK (new classes for WPF 3.5, bugs fixes, and enhanced support for Windows Server 2008, including speech, error reporting and UAC). Download it here. For more information, visit SDK blog
- Windows XP SP3 RC2 (it's not final release), but if you want to try it (not in production environment) download it here. As well as if you are ready to harm your system. Give a try to Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for XP (or for Vista/Home Server 2008, or Windows Server 2003 SP2).
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LOBO FLASHBACKS: Lobo Flashbacks is a summer feature of GoLobo.com looking back on special teams, players, games or moments from the 2012-13 University of New Mexico athletic season.
Today:UNM's Joonas Rasanen Skis To National Title
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British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection
Edward Dayes (1763-1804)
Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
Paul Sandby (1725-1809)
John Warwick Smith (1749-1831)
John Robert Cozens (1752-1799)
J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851)
Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827)
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
John Sell Cotman (1782-1842)
17th November 2005 - 12 February 2006
The remarkable Spooner collection
of early British watercolours is one of the finest of its kind and
will be exhibited for the first time since 1968 at the Hermitage
Rooms, Somerset House, London.
This is a rare opportunity to see the majority
of this little-known but important collection with around 80 works
on view, including outstanding landscape and figurative subjects
by Thomas Gainsborough, Paul Sandby, Francis Towne, Alexander and
J.R. Cozens, Thomas Girtin, John Constable, John Sell Cotman and
J.M.W.Turner, as well as numerous fine works by lesser-known artists,
many never previously exhibited. The exhibition, entitled Gainsborough
to Turner: British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection,
spans the 'golden age' of watercolour painting from
around 1750 to 1850 and demonstrates the inventiveness and imagination
of artists working in the medium during this extraordinary period
of British art.
William Wycliffe Spooner (1882-1967) was
the eldest son of Dr William Archibald Spooner, the celebrated Warden
of New College, Oxford, forever associated with the linguistic lapses
or 'spoonerisms' that bear his name. An engineer and
inventor of an industrial drying process, he ran his company in
Ilkley, Yorkshire, until well into his seventies. He had always
been interested in art and acquired his first drawings while still
struggling to make his mark as an engineer and subsequent success
in business enabled him to extend his collection. Although he had
a good eye for drawings, he had little interest in art scholarship
and took guidance from friends and dealers and especially from his
wife, Mercie, whom he married in 1955, and whose wide knowledge
of the London art market was invaluable to the formation of the
collection. Spooner's close friendship with Sir John Witt
led him to bequeath the collection to the Courtauld Institute of
Art on his death in 1967.
A key work in the exhibition is one of
Spooner's early purchases, Edward Dayes' Somerset House
from the Thames, which took pride of place in his house. The fact
that this picture will now be on display in the very building depicted
would no doubt have given him immense pleasure. Precisely drawn
architectural images such as Somerset House and Girtin's majestic
Peterborough Cathedral were chosen with Spooner's engineer's
eye for fine draughtsmanship. However, his abiding love was for
the countryside, which can be seen from the numerous images of mountains,
lakes and rivers in the collection, exemplified by Francis Towne's
panoramic Welsh vistas and Cozens's dramatic Alpine view,
In the Canton of Unterwalden. Spooner owned a house near Dove Cottage
in Grasmere and his affection for the Lake District led him to purchase
two magnificent views of Borrowdale and Skiddaw by John White Abbott.
Spooner's choice of subject matter
is reflected in the exhibition's themes through which the
theory and practice of British watercolour are explored. The first
room contains architectural images, among them watercolours of London
and the Thames, including Somerset House and two fine views of Greenwich
by Cozens and John Varley. Spooner's penchant for drawings
of ecclesiastical and ancient buildings mirrors the eighteenth-century
collectors' taste for antiquity and ruins, as epitomised by
Cotman's evocative Doorway to the Refectory, Kirkham Priory,
Yorkshire - a brilliant example of his distinctive simplified drawing
style developed around 1805.
Improved transportation and the subsequent
growth of tourism encouraged artists to travel in Britain and beyond,
recording scenery and human life both for sale to patrons and collectors
as well as for their own pleasure. One of Spooner's favourite
pictures, Cozens's Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, and two
small Turner sketches of the Drachenfels on the Rhine and Bregenz
by Lake Constance, completed in 1817 and 1840 on his return to England,
are just a few of the great works displayed in a section dedicated
to artists abroad, some of whom, such as David Wilkie and William
Daniell, travelled as far as Constantinople and India to find their
Rural landscapes dominate the collection,
as evident from the following two rooms in which the treatment of
nature is investigated, from Gainsborough's 'invented'
compositions of woods, cattle and sheep of the early 1780s to closely
observed river scenes made 'on the spot' in Wales by
William James Müller some sixty years later. Alexander Cozens's
symbolic Blasted Tree in a Landscape is one of a number of drawings
in a section focusing on trees.
The exhibition concludes with seascapes
and figurative groups, among them seven by Rowlandson whose work
Spooner particularly enjoyed. His Coombe Bridge, Devon, a fanciful
wooded scene with river, packhorse and rustic figures, typifies
the 'Picturesque' - the fashionable aesthetic theory
popularised by amateur artist the Revd William Gilpin following
a tour of the Lake District in 1772, and later satirised by Rowlandson
in his famous illustrated book of the 'tours' of Dr
As a guide to the technical development
of watercolour, key works are highlighted throughout the exhibition.
Topographical views, such as Paul Sandby's brightly coloured
gouache drawing, Henry VIII Gateway, Windsor Castle, and Towne's
characteristic 'coloured' outline drawings, contrast
with the later more naturalistic and freely handled washes of Girtin,
Turner and de Wint. The eighteenth-century view of watercolour as
a less serious art than oil painting persists to this day. However,
the power and quality of the images shown in this exhibition dispel
any notion of watercolour as unglamorous and instead demonstrate
the aesthetic appeal and beauty of the medium.
The exhibition, a collaboration between
the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Huntington Library, Art Collections
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will be held in the Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House - an appropriately
intimate setting for these fine works.
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