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Breaking the Business Ruleshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bizrules/atom.aspxTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)2009-04-30T07:52:00ZExecuting SQL queries from Ruleshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bizrules/archive/2009/05/29/executing-sql-queries-from-rules.aspx2009-05-29T10:15:00Z2009-05-29T10:15:00Z
Today, I had a request for a sample from one of the customers using BRE on the RFID platform. I built a simple sample for their scenario and thought it would be helpful for others as well if i post it here.

They want to add/delete rows from SQL tables in their rule actions. As far as I remember (correct me if I am wrong), the RFID interface to BRE doesnt provide any field for asserting .NET objects. You can only assert xml documents or sql connections. And to execute a query you have to have a SqlConnection object. Asserting DataConnection objects doesnt work, beacuse DataConnection doesn't expose the underlying SqlConnection object publicly. Ofcourse you can have a dirty solution in which you use reflection to get the SqlConnection object from the DataConnection object.

The solution that I built uses "FactRetrievers". I created a helper class that has a couple of helper methods for creating connections and executing queries and also implementing IFactRetriever interface. The IFactRetriever interface simply asserts an instance of itself into the ruleengine. Now the customer wanted to open the connection dynamically in rule actions. So there is a helper method

 public void CreateConnection(string connectionString, IRuleSetExecutor engine)

that opens up the connection and calls engine.Halt() if the connection opening fails. This method should be called in a rule that is always true ( IF 1 =1 ) and has a prirority higher than all other rules so that it would be executed first.

I have created another helper method

 public void ExecuteQuery(string query, string arg1, object value1, string arg2, object value2)
That can be used execute any sql queries. The arguments are and parameter name-value pairs that the query takes. Modify suit it to your needs. If BRC supported methods taking params arguments, things would have been much simpler.

Attached is the code and input files that I have used for this sample. You need the northwind database for trying out this sample. Also, remember to gac the generated DatabaseHelper.dll before using the sample.

Download the sample here.

RaghuRam Nadimintihttp://blogs.msdn.com/raghuram.nadiminti/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxPolicyUtilityApphttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bizrules/archive/2009/05/25/policyutilityapp.aspx2009-05-25T16:33:00Z2009-05-25T16:33:00Z
Yet another simple but useful tool.

This tool is a console application, which is developed to make the life of an admin who manages the policies for BRE to be easy. The current version of the tool can be used to "Deploy" and "Undeploy" multiple policies (rulesets) at the same time.

Usage: PolicyUtilityApp -[deploy|undeploy] <policies to be deployed separated by spaces>

Examples:
PolicyUtilityApp -deploy policy.1.1 policy.1.3 testpolicy.1.5
PolicyUtilityApp -undeploy policy.1.1 policy.1.3 testpolicy.1.5

Download the tool here.

In the following version you can expect me to add few more features like Import and Export multiple policies from and to a filestore.

Waiting for comments to update this tool for better use of the MS BRE community. Also, add your wishlist and lets see how far can we go.

NOTE: This tool is not throughly tested.

Sukhmal Kommidihttp://blogs.msdn.com/Sukhmal-Sena/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxVocabulary Updater Toolhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bizrules/archive/2009/05/01/vocabulary-updater-tool.aspx2009-05-01T11:58:00Z2009-05-01T11:58:00Z
So to keep up the promise that I made yesterday, I am posting a simple yet very useful (in my opinion :) ) application to help the MS BRE users out there. MS BRE has a useful artifact called vocabulary. To quote from msdn,

The terms used to define rule conditions and actions are usually expressed by domain or industry-specific nomenclature.Underlying this domain-specific terminology are the technology artifacts (objects, database tables, and XML documents) that implement rule conditions and rule actions. Vocabularies are designed to bridge the gap between business semantics and implementation.

 In short, vocabularies are industry-specific, business analyst friendly aliases for facts. Vocabularies help the domain experts to encapsulate their process knowledge in business rules without worrying about the underlying technical implementation details. Vocabularies as a concept itself seems to be very useful. Once you start developing your rules with vocabularies you would both love them a lot and hate them a lot.

The biggest pain point with vocabularies is that once they are published they cannot be modified, and that you cannot use your vocabularies in your rules without publishing them. This really causes a problem while developing rules as often a case arises when you have to modify a vocabulary definition and then you have to modify all the rules that used this vocabulary definition. Vocabularies are not first class citizens in MS BRE. The core engine doesn't understand vocabulary definitions. Rules instead of linking to the individual vocabulary definitions contain the complete vocabulary definition embedded in them. Hence, just changing a vocabulary definition does not automatically update the rules that use this definition. There are two design considerations in this implementation

Tracking becomes difficult. Its very hard to go back in time and say what rule executed on a particular saturday.

Performance suffers. Now at run-time, you have to do all the validation checks and then merge all the vocabularies with the ruleset to get an executable ruleset.

Rules become inconsistent very often. Changing a vocabulary definition from float to double might not cause much trouble, but if you change a constant from column1 to column2 where in you use the constant value as a SQL column name.

To solve some of these issues I have written a small command line tool to update your policies to use the latest version of your vocabularies. Using it is simple. Run

 VocabChanger.exe <policy-name> <policy-version>

 Running this creates a new version of the policy with all the rules updated to use the latest vocabulary definitions. The tool tries to be as friendly as possible by letting you not only change the values of vocabulary definition like changing pi from 3.14 to 3.1415 but also letting you change the definition types like changing customer-id from an xml-element to a sql column as long as the types remain compatible.

Download the tool here.

RaghuRam Nadimintihttp://blogs.msdn.com/raghuram.nadiminti/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWelcome to "Breaking the Business Rules"http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bizrules/archive/2009/04/30/welcome-to-breaking-the-business-rules.aspx2009-04-30T09:52:00Z2009-04-30T09:52:00Z
Welcome to "Breaking the Business Rules". I am RaghuRam Nadiminti, dev responsible for MS BRE that ships as a part of Biztalk server. I will be using this blog as a platform to discuss business rules, the biztalk rules engine and any other microsoft technology that interests me. I will also try to post some prototypes from time to time for public testing :) and feedback. Comment and post your feedback !!! lets see where this goes on !!!

RaghuRam Nadimintihttp://blogs.msdn.com/raghuram.nadiminti/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx


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Harland Sanders's key to the city of St. Louis for only $75. (Works in most locks.)
Turns out, the KFC icon was very into regionally specific recipes and farm-sourced food.
Plus: The local food movement is the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry; and Colonel Sanders dug "real old-time country and farm cooking," all in our morning news roundup.
Plus the joys of cheese-sculpting and more, all in our morning news round-up.
KFC is hoping to reintroduce their famous founder to future generations, if they could only remember who he was exactly.
Plus: Mexican papayas cause a small food-poisoning outbreak in Illinois; and American officials are pushing to broaden the types of E. coli that's subject to regulation, all in our morning news roundup.
Plus Mexican papayas blamed for food poisoning outbreak and more, all in our morning news round-up.
An old letter is unearthed showing a death threat to the king of KFC.
The comedian's chili pot pie falls flat with peers, while the Vice President served wieners to U.S. soldiers on The Colbert Report.
Plus 56 food recalls affected Pennsylvania since food-safety legislation hit a roadblock in Congress, and Joe Biden handed out hot dogs on the Colbert Report last night, all in our morning news roundup.
The Street Food Festival will find a famous French chef cooking from a truck.
Plus, KFC franchisees are steamed that corporate higher-ups are choosing grilled over fried.
• Though Ad Hoc at Home is billed as Thomas Keller's most accessible book yet, home cooks may still find it challenging. [WSJ] • Michael Bauer defends the role of better-than-Denny's restaurants in society. [Between Meals/SF Gate] • Bay Bridge...
Outdoor smoking may be banned in L.A., while a fake Colonel Sanders pulls a high-profile stunt.
Plus: New cookbooks, and Colonel Sanders finagles his way into the U.N., all in our morning news roundup.

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Retail legend Eddie Bentley honoured at retailTRUST Midsummer Celebration 2016 - raising over £113,000
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Archive for 'Imperialism'
The Australian of the year and veterans
Posted by John, January 31st, 2016 - under Australian army, Australian imperialism, Imperialism, US imperialism, Veterans, War.
Comments: 1
As socialists we should argue for more money for the support of veterans and of course for the support of all people suffering mental illness, domestic violence , homelessness, poverty etc. Aborigines, victims of domestic violence, gays and lesbians, especially young gays and lesbians, refugees locked up in Australia's concentration camps, for example, all have high levels of stress and anxiety, with PTSD and suicide rates well above average. Fund adequate services for them all. Make big business pay a fair share of tax to pay for these services. In relation to refugees, close down the mental illness camps. In relation to war, stop.
Ultimately however the only way to end war and its rotten consequences for all the combatants and all the peoples of the countries the West has invaded is to end the system that creates war – capitalism.
Intervention in Syria will only sow the seeds of further chaos
Posted by John, December 1st, 2015 - under Arab Spring, Imperialism, Syria.
Comments: none
Intervention in Syria will only sow the seeds of further chaos writes Simon Assaf in Socialist Review.
Australia's Grand Mufti is right
Posted by John, November 18th, 2015 - under Grand Mufti of Australia, Imperialism, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Muslims, Racism, War.
Comments: 11
Invading Iraq and killing up to 1.5 m Iraqis was, as we pointed out in our demonstrations against the Iraq War in 2003, always going to produce a backlash. It has, and this mirror of Western barbarity called ISIS is now wreaking some destruction in the West, although its main victims remain Muslims in Iraq and Syria. Far from being condemned, the Grand Mufti of Australia deserves our support for pointing out some of the Western drivers behind these terrorist attacks. More of the same – bombings, racism, xenophobia, locking up people without evidence, closing the borders – will only strengthen support for ISIS.
John Mullen in Paris: Three days after the attacks
Posted by John, November 17th, 2015 - under France, Imperialism, ISIS, Terrorism.
Comments: none
John Mullen in Paris has written a heartfelt note about the bombings, the anti-democratic and brutal nature of the French State, the real risks of a racist and fascist backlash and the need for the left to unite to fight Islamophobia. Click 'Paris three days after the attacks: State of emergency, profiteers and confusions' to read the whole article on John's blog.
Letter from Paris — France's 'war on terror' and the backlash
Posted by John, November 16th, 2015 - under France, Imperialism, ISIS, Nick Riemer, Terrorism.
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Nick Riemer in France writes about the terrorist attacks and the ruling class's warmongering response in socialist magazine Solidarity. Among other things he says:
'The opportunism of France's political leadership will be paid for in more tragic and avoidable blood-baths, whether in France or in Raqqa. As a worshipper at a northern Paris mosque told Libération, "If we consider ourselves as at war, then the terrorists will have won their battle". The three mainstream parties have no interest in that lesson: ordinary people's interests do not figure in their calculations. A new French war on terror won't bring peace; it will only reinforce the power of the political establishment.
'Everyone else's interests can only be safeguarded by a progressive and democratic movement from below. The radical, anti-capitalist left has a heavy responsibility, both in France and outside it.'
To read the whole article click here.
Your wars, our dead
Posted by John, November 15th, 2015 - under France, Imperialism, ISIS, New Anticapitalist Party, Paris, Terrorism, Unity.
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Julien Salingue lives in Paris and is a leading member of the New Anti-capitalist Party in France. He is a long-time Palestine solidarity activist and the author of La Palestine d'Oslo. He wrote the following comments after coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13 that left at least 129 dead and 352 injured. The article was first published at Resisteralairdutemps.blogspot.fr. It was translated by Todd Chretien and published in Socialist Worker US.
Fight for another world, a world that is not only possible, but more necessary than ever. Keep our heads and don't give in to emotional pressure and shock. You may accuse me of being a dreamer. But my dreams never killed anyone in contrast to your "pragmatism." More than ever, we must "resist the irresistible." That's the only way to move ahead. So…No, Cambadélis. No, Sarkozy. No, Hollande. "We" are not at war. It is not my war, it is not our war. It is your war. And once more, they are our dead. Just like Madrid in 2004, London in 2005, Egypt two weeks ago, Beirut this week. And everywhere else you sow your terror. Your wars, our dead. Your war, no more.
Why is Russia bombing in Syria?
Posted by John, October 5th, 2015 - under Imperialism, Russia, Russian imperialism, Syria, US imperialism.
Comments: 1
With Vladimir Putin's Russia carrying out air strikes in Syria, Eric Ruder in Socialist Worker US explains the backdrop to the conflict and the consequences of this new stage in the violence. RUSSIA'S INTERVENTION in the civil war in Syria marks the beginning of an ominous new chapter in a conflict that has already […]
Save the children – open the borders
Posted by John, September 3rd, 2015 - under Asylum seekers, Europe, Imperialism, Open borders, Refugees.
Comments: 1
There is no migrant crisis. There is a crisis of imperialism, of intervention, of capitalism. End the cycle of death and tears. Stop invading countries, bombing them and supporting dictators.Open the borders everywhere.
Evidently the ANZACs died for free speech, except at SBS
Posted by John, April 26th, 2015 - under Free speech, Freedom, Gallipoli, Imperialism, Malcolm Turnbull, SBS, Scott McIntyre, War, World War I.
Comments: 3
McIntyre was telling his version of the truth, a version much closer to reality than the war porn about ANZAC Day the Australian ruling class has force fed us over the last week. Sacking McIntyre explodes the lies of the ruling class that our participation in this imperialist war was about defending freedom and democracy then and now.
ANZAC Day – less bread means more circuses
Posted by John, April 25th, 2015 - under ANZAC day, Gallipoli, Imperialism, War.
Comments: none
As Tony Abbott prepares to spend $12 billion on useless fighter jets and up to $30 billion on submarines while at the same time he attacks Medicare, Universities, jobs, wages, unions, pensions, disability pensions, legal aid, Aboriginal communities, scientific research, and spending on social services, remember this. We are not all in this together. ANZAC Day is cover for these attacks on the poor and workers. It celebrates an imperialist war to divert attention away from the one sided class war the rich have waged against us for the last 32 years and to prepare us for future wars and justify our ruling class's imperialist expansion in the region. The less bread we get the more circuses they put on.


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Honor killings—in which families murder their own children for defying the elders' wishes for their marriage—have become so frequent in North India we hardly have time to absorb news of one before another is reported.
The Indian Supreme Court recently ordered the governments of six states (including Punjab and Haryana, two of India's wealthiest) to end the practice. The number of victims reported each year varies (from four hundred to a thousand), but civil-rights groups claim even the higher figure is too low, because many such killings are called suicides or not reported at all.
The term "honor killing" implies a certain degree of virtue—a wronged citizen is forced by his own higher standards to take the law into his hands to protect his family's name. Under an archaic community legal system, a khap panchayat, or village council, believes it can still order that an offending couple, or just the woman alone, be killed. The woman's own family is expected to carry out the sentence.
The community is so united that those directly responsible have no problem admitting to the crime or claiming it was justified. In June, for example, a nineteen-year-old woman and her twenty-one-year-old boyfriend were beaten mercilessly in Delhi and finally...
Jo McGowan, a Commonweal columnist, writes from Deradoon, India.
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" We planted 26,500 seeds per acre, and it looks like we have a stand of about 26,000, which being irrigated land, that hits our target. We may lose some between now and the time when it puts on an ear."
John Malazzo farms in the Brazos bottom we were surprised that he hopes for one ear of corn per stalk.
"If our plant population is lower than that, we tend to get some suckers that come up, or we will have stalks with double ears, which basically that second ear takes fertilizer and water away from the main ear which makes it weigh less and produce less."
In the Brazos bottom corn has been used as a rotation crop with cotton for years, and with the high price corn is bringing, it's tempting to change your planting program.
"To be honest with you, here in the Brazos bottom we don't have the corn infrastructure that we need to plant a lot of corn. We have storage problems, we have truck problems, I guess cotton is king here in the bottom because we're set up as far as the infrastructure it takes for cotton."
Spring brings with it huge demands on farmers' time.
"We've got our corn crop up, we need to spray it with the herbicides. We need to hurry up and get our side dressed fertilizer put out on it before it gets too tall. It's also time to plant cotton, so we're having to knock down beds, and plant cotton, and fertilize corn and run our sprayers."


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We are all too familiar with the road going entertainment that 1300 cubic centimeters of internal combustion fury can unleash when packaged in a lightweight rear-wheel drive car. Our own personal version of this winning formula is not nearly as stylish as this 1967 Fiat 1300 Abarth 2-door Coupe. Th ... Read more
Among sub-liter racing specials, the Fiat Abarth Zagato is one of the most sought after, and for good reason – the Zagato lines are outstanding, the proportions are all right, and the performance is legendary. This 1959 Abarth Zagato for sale on Hemmings.com appears from the photos to be an e ... Read more


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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LIBRARY DATABASE OR ONLINE RESOURCE AND A WEBSITE?A library database is an online resource to which the library subscribes that contains articles and other information from print sources such as magazines, newspapers, journals, and reference books. Although these resources are delivered by the Internet and look like websites, most of the information you find in a library database cannot be found by searching Google or Yahoo. A good example is Consumer Reports: on the CR website, you can find a reference to an article containing the information you need, but CR charges for that article. However, your library database not only provides that article for you to print, download, and share, but it also allows you to research your subject or keyword in other non-consumer oriented magazines, such as Family Handyman or Popular Mechanics or Home Theater.
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A Colossal Victory
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Mr Kennedy - are you ok? by ToxicHimeWatch
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He is now!!
Wonderful ! <3
OH shoot, I think I'm jealous of Mr Kennedy...
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Third Annual Conference on Operable Heart Disease.—
This conference will take place at Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco on March 3 and 4, 1961. Those interested may obtain further information by writing to the Conference Chairman, Dr. Frank Gerbode.
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Amazon (AMZN) reported its 5th straight quarterly profit. Earnings beat on both top and bottom lines on growth in its cloud business and an increase in prime subscriptions.
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Good spoof
This was a pretty good spoof on Salad Fingers , specially the way it really exaggerated some of the things in Salad Fingers that tend to piss you off after a while. Maybe more of a story line though? Graphics crud also. Overall good though. Nowhere NEAR as bad as Banana Fingers 2...
first is the best
Wow I watch this next to Banana Fingers 3 (what happened to banana fingers 2? Where is the point in that?) and it's hard to believe how much better this is.
It's still a LONG way from perfect but I'm surprised most people prefer the other one, I didn't understand the humour in that and in this one I did, the relevance to salad fingers was so much better with the heavy breathing exaggerated.
The sound was really good and very close to the real music used in the Salad fingers cartoon and the only problems I have with this are:
a) The graphics looked WAY too MS Paint - made and the graphics seemed very shakey, they actually wobbled whilst I watched this! You will definately need to sort this out.
b) It was a bit boring - not really much happened and nearly all of the flash consisted of banana fingers stroking a monkey. You really need to make this less repetetive, put in some good crazy Salad fingers action!
Overall a pretty funny spoof of salad fingers, the way you have replaced this with banana and put banana peels on the character is very interesting too. It's only a shame that the second one isn't half as good, but for this well done :)
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Pretty poor imitation
This has not enough in common with Salad Fingers to be a parody and not enough original material to be more than a rip-off.
Okaeey, so the "second" episode - is Banana Fingers 3 supposed to be the second one or has weeblsstuff got it wrong? - has some amusing points, but this first one is absolutely shocking.
A work of Art (maggot_corp13 is an idiot)
Im sorry about that last review and the reviewer by the name of maggot_corps13....seeing he called you a fag.JESUS CHRIST maggot_corp13!!Don't be a fag!!Phoomph was'nt aiming too make fun of david firths salad fingers,his doing a parody which a normal person would laugh at.Get a sense of humour maggot you dick!
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I love the heavy breathing.
Serves That Salid Fingers Pothead right!!
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On November 15, 2012, PulteGroup, Inc. (the "Company") announced that James L. Ossowski will be appointed Vice President-Finance and Controller, and will become the Company's principal accounting officer, effective immediately after the filing of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012. Mr. Ossowski, who is 44 years of age, joined the Company in April 2002 as Director of Corporate Audit and has held various finance positions of increasing responsibility with the Company. He was appointed to his current position of Vice President - Finance, Homebuilding Operations in August, 2010. Prior to joining the Company, he was with the accounting and advisory services firm of Arthur Andersen, LLP for 11 years.
Effective upon Mr. Ossowski's appointment as Vice President-Finance and Controller, his annual base salary will be increased by $25,000 per year. In addition, the value of Mr. Ossowski's target equity award for 2013 will be increased by $50,000, subject to approval by the Compensation and Management Development Committee of the Board of Directors.
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The Mosgiel Taieri Community board is strongly urging the
Dunedin City Council to allocate $30,000 seed funding for a
new pool.
This comes after the council in January decided to consult
the public through its draft annual plan on a proposal to
give $30,000 to a community trust to take on the next stage.
The Taieri Community Facilities Trust has since offered to
investigate the pool project in conjunction with the council
and community and be responsible for its establishment and
Support for the proposal forms a major part of the community
board's submission to the Dunedin City Council on its 2014-15
draft annual plan.
Board chairman Bill Feather said it would be a ''huge
disappointment'' for the Mosgiel community if the council
decided against giving the funding.
If the money was allocated, it would be ''a turning point''
for the project and ''appease'' those in the community who
felt Mosgiel was not a priority for the council.
''Up until this point, in all of the long-term and annual
plans there has not ever been a line in the budget providing
for a new pool.
''This is that first step.''
Having the funding would allow the community to take a lead
on the project and get the ball rolling to raise funds for
The desire among the community for a new pool was shown by
the fact it attracted the fourth-highest number of
submissions during consultation on the draft annual plan.
''The area is sorely in need of having its pool replaced,''
Mr Feather said.
''[The current one] doesn't meet the community's needs.''
Mosgiel residents needed to keep fighting for the project and
show a willingness to raise funds for it.
The issue will be discussed at annual plan hearings next
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On a floured surface, roll out pastry dough 1/4 inch (5 mm) thick.
Cut out 2-1/2-inch (6-cm) rounds with a fluted cutter.
Place a halved anchovy fillet on half the dough rounds.
Brush edges of each round with egg yolk; join rounds together in pairs, sealing edges Well.
Brush tops with egg yolk; sprinkle with salt.
Sprinkle a baking sheet with cold water; arrange rounds on dampened baking sheet.
Refrigerate 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 425°F (220°C).
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Calories 5584 Calories from Fat 3478
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 386 g593.9%
Saturated Fat 97.1 g485.6%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 215.1 mg71.7%
Sodium 9186.6 mg382.8%
Total Carbohydrates 448 g149.3%
Dietary Fiber 14.9 g59.5%
Sugars 7.4 g
Protein 83 g165.6%
Vitamin A 4.5% Vitamin C
Calcium 23.9% Iron 151.4%
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Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Gets Four New Characters
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It seems that there's still a few characters to come for Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, as this weekend has seen a mother lode of new fighters being announced, with no less than four being added to the ever-expanding roster.
Well, two new characters have been officially announced with Ghosts 'n Goblins' Arthur and Bionic Commando's Nathan 'Rad' Spencer unveiled by Capcom, while Marvel.com went and leaked X-Men antagonist Magneto and big-faced enemy of Iron Man and Captain America, MODOK. Naturally, Marvel.com has now removed the images, but not before Joystiq managed to snap them up first.
We've got all of the new screenshots and trailers for Arthur and 'Rad' Spencer's official reveal and the leaked screens for Magneto and MODOK. That makes a grand total of 10 sparkly new images packed with new characters to ogle in our Marvel vs. Capcom 3 gallery. You might also notice some natty alternate costumes too, such as Spidey's symbiote threads. Woot!
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What's Up with Apple's iPad Announcements?
Following Apple's recent iPad announcement, there were two big questions that most people had. First, why update the New (now old) iPad? And second, why such a high price on the iPad mini? To answer these questions, we need to take out our crystal ball and gaze into 2013.
The New New iPad
The iPad 4th generation is the iPad that Apple really wanted to release this year, but the stars were not aligned for a spring release. Wall Street and the media following Apple would have freaked out if Apple didn't update the iPad last spring. So, we got the "New iPad," now referred to as the iPad 3rd generation, instead.
I think Apple really wanted an A6 chip and better LTE support in the New iPad, but they just were not ready yet. So, with the holiday season approaching and the stars now aligned, why not put your best foot forward and release the iPad with the best features possible right now!
I also think this means we will not get another new iPad next spring and when we do get an iPad next year, the changes will be something more radical than a speed bump.
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The house is best described as an authentic and cosy residence. There are 4 bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a laundry. However, the true residence is outside. The terraces are one of a kind and one basically lives outside.
This holiday home is suitable for people who are looking for a cosy spot (not a place for tourism) at sea. The street is one of its kind in Curaçao. Over the past 30 years, many houses have been built and restored and so this became one of the finest 'typical´places to be on the island.
Cable television with more than 100 channels and two televisions in the house
Wireless internet in the whole house and garden
Air conditioning in the bedrooms
Washing machine available
Dishwasher, microwave and oven
Pots and pans, crockery, glassware, and so on (complete kitchen for the whole family)
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Holiday home Redaweg Curaçao
We offer you this holiday home on one of the most beautiful spots of Curaçao. 7.748 km from Amsterdam and 3.349 km from Miami. Visitors are allowed to leave their own plate on the pole.
The villa is located on the 'quiet' side of Willemstad (no tourist centre). In 10 minutes you reach the city centre of Willemstad. At 5 minutes there's a big supermarket. And right before your doorstep (your own staircase to the Atlantic Ocean) you have one of the top diving spots (the 'Slangenbaai') of Curaçao. The villa lies on the rocks, right at sea. It has a terrace 'above the sea'. From your own terrace, you can use a staircase to go to the sea where you can snorkel and dive. 50m. next to the house you can reach the shore from a very small beach (a special dive location), this way it is easier to enter the sea with your diving equipment.
This holiday home is ideal for people who are looking for a cosy spot (not a place of tourism) at sea. The street is one of its kind on Curaçao. Over the past 30 years, many houses have been built and restored and so this became one of the finest 'typical´places to be on the island.
My vacation needet to be peacefull and quiet, and that's what is what I got. When we
opend the fences there was already a beautifull garden. Once we got inside there was a nice and warm home. The experience was by the water. You could almost say we lived outside. Not far away there were some really nice places to eat. It was a wonderfull vaction !
We hebben genoten van deze plek. Alle gemakken voorzien. Heerlijke natuur en zee. Echt prachtig. Onze nieuwe vriend de Leguaan zullen we niet snel vergeten.
This villa lies in a small village close to Sint Michiel. The villa is situated directly at sea and you can use a staircase to go down to the beach and go for a swim, to snorkel or to dive. You can reach Willemstad by car within 15-20 minutes. A supermarket can be reached in 5-10 minutes by car. Thanks to the fact that the villa is somewhat remote, it is also a very quiet place.
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Uh.... Saturday, October 17, 2006?!
Better late than never, I guess.
Also, fixed.
It's too late!
Man. Did they really send it out with a botched date?
I was planning on going in a suit. I like suits. Not rainbows. And there will be a special message for Alexey Ledyaev on my sign.
And it's me, Mr. Poe. So you know it will be tasteful.
Uh.... "Great Spirit"?!
They did indeed - got the wrong day, too (it's the 20th, not the 17th, which is today). Bummer.
Holy shit! I'll fix all the wrong stuff in the post, and send an email to the writer suggesting she resend the press release with correct info.
I can't make it - will someone please wield a "WATCH YOURSELF" sign in my stead?
Plus, October 17 last year wasn't a Saturday either! I think a homophobe sneaked onto their computer and screwed the whole thing up.
That will be my backup sign for when people tell me to stop acting like a child.
I think they had 'auto-date' on in Word and just didn't notice that it did what it usually does when you start filling the current month out - give you today's date.
Of a previous year, Poe?
Great, this is already starting up to be a huge cluster fuck and not in a good way either.
Oh, yeah, the Saturday. Let's just say they're stupid. And forgiven. Because they did what none of us would do because we're lazy.
I'm sure the creepy homophobes will be terrified by the protestors. So, am I suggesting doing nothing? Actually, yeah, your protest will only legitimize what they already think of you. And more. That said, I think a gaggle of the more brutish fags should come armed and ready to bash heads. Wouldn't that be a great headline?
I hope they don't have a Rainbow Haters gathering today. Things could get ugly.
Sweet! Somebody who actually does press releases. Makes my Facebook event look pretty sad by comparison.
Fatalism is for chumps.
(thx Poe. Don't be afraid to flip the sign around if it gets ugly)
I want it to get ugly. I'm not going to lie. I see nothing wrong with attacking one of them. We're not going there to change minds, and everybody knows it. We're going there to show them we're here to stay, and there isn't a fucking thing they can do about it other than hold these shitty meetings.
The fags have had enough of you. It's on, bitches.
Good for you Schmader! Rules are very important. Feels like so many years (back in the Hands Off Washington days) since something REALLY worth protesting has come up. These are true haters in the most violent sense. I think the general public is pretty familar with the scenes from the violent Moscow Pride, etc. to know that they don't want that here. Protesting just for the sake of protesting is counterproductive and it makes the haters look like victims. Hopefully, Hutch has bitten off more than he expected. Doesn't realize it yet but hopefully the fallout makes even his followers start questioning things and it doesn't end up polorizing them even more. They'll be playing the "victim" card soon.
Kinda funny... that's the same night that HRC is having a big benefit.
I actually think a crossed-out swastika or crossed out "Taliban" would make for a great protest sign for this event, especially as an image-byte for a local news lead-in. I'm surprise I never see this.
Make this a John Watersesque protest if possible. Start whistling at the attendees and yelling to see their hot cocks. When Hutch arrives someone should yell out in front of the tv cameras "Hey Hutch, remember me, we met in Volunteer Park summer and you blew me in that Dodge mini van?" Leer at them, make them uncomfortable. Bait them just a little bit, but in a comical way.
You know what would really show them? PUPPET THEATER!
Protest, but please leave your kids at home. They don't need to see see enraged people and hear their heated verbal exchanges. I find parents that use their kids in this way to be exploitive -- no matter what the cause is.
Gay kissing booth, anyone?
How about signs with some choice quotes from Hutch and some of the scarier WotW folks in big, block letters?
I'm going to put on my church badge and start a greeting line at the convention center front door. Can I get some trannies to dress up in their Sunday best and join me?
Mimes. We need mimes.
#14 - I agree. So let's trick 'em! - I say we dress like them, act like them, and get some brilliant HOW WAS IT? video footage... let them hang themselves with their own hateful ropes
My only advice, which appears to not be about to be followed, is to control the message. If you are seen on the news to be angry homos protesting against the nice Christian boys and girls, you're going to do these idiots a world of good. If people sitting at home hear more about "Nazism was a homosexual conspiracy" and "gayz must be exterminated to protect the purity of decency", then you look smarter for opposing them.
Everybody: Listen to Fnarf.
If I actually have to say it, I'm not going to attack anybody. Jesus.
But I'm not going to just sit back and take it if I'm attacked, either.
Immigration Office phone number: 206.553.6785 Call and get their butts up there to do a little meet and greet! Their fax number is: 206.553.2238 if they need any more information about this organization and where the conference is being held at.
Wear rainbow colors, and don't forget to bring puppets.
You could Yes-man them. Dress as conservatives and act like bigots and idiots, to the point that average Americans are repulsed and repudiate conservatism.
I'm a homosexualist who will be protesting dressed as the biker guy from the Village People. Colors are great and all, but Costumes People!!! What could be better than than YMCA 24-7 during their conference? I mean, C is for Christian, right?
One tranny here for Greg. Will have church badge too, but not in Sunday best. Plan to follow the request and wear a rainbow tye dye dress.
Some really good suggestions (puppet theatre, mimes, trannies, etc.)! Looking forward to it!
As for me, I'll probably be moderately well-dressed (sorry, rainbow colors don't suit me well), and saying my favorite prayer for reduction of hate over and over again. Too bad I'm a polytheist in a queer religion, otherwise they might give a fuck (hurrah for being doubly damned--NOT!! As if any of these people have any idea about theology or religion at all, even their own...!)...but so what, I'll be there with my druid princess friend, and that's that!
Let me get this straight... a TOLERANCE rally where the "loud and clear" message was "YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE"? Only in Seattle would the hypocrisy of this approach be lost on the indigenous population. I'm sure you all were just shining examples of the "love and acceptance" you hoped the convention goers would embrace, right? Uh huh. Right.
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A Close Up Look at a Comet as the Rosetta Space Probe Finally Closes in on its PreyPosted by Greg at 13:24, 06 Aug 2014
Ten years ago, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta space probe on a ten-year mission to 'hunt' Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Over the last few days, Rosetta has finally closed in on its prey, and today ESA scientists put it into 'orbit' around the comet (not a natural gravitational orbit yet, but a triangular, thruster-assisted orbit). It will slowly edge closer over coming days and weeks, before eventually deploying the Philae* lander to drop on to the comet itself.
But as part of the celebrations today, the ESA released the amazing image above of the comet (click for higher resolution), taken a few days ago from a distance of around 300km (today Rosetta is only around 100km away). It's a gnarly looking beast, almost dumbbell shaped with many house-sized boulders visible on its surface (the entire comet is around 4km in diameter). Not to mention that shadowy bit on the end looks like it could easily house an exogorth...
With Rosetta in 'orbit', the ESA are now updating their website fairly regularly with new images as they are downloaded from the probe...keep an eye on the Rosetta blog and the Rosetta mission image gallery for updates, and what are sure to be jaw-dropping pictures of another world.
* Both Rosetta and Philae are named after the Rosetta Stone and its place of discovery
A Q&A with UFOlogical Heretic Jacques Vallee (via Open Minds)Posted by red pill junkie at 22:10, 25 Jul 2014
If you were to conduct a poll about who is the most important UFO researcher in the world, the name of Jacques Vallee would rightfully appear among the highest rankings in the list. His books remain as provocative & influential today as when they were fresh out of the printers, several decades ago; and his proposal to regard the phenomenon as a 'control system' instead of merely the occasional visits of interplanetary interlopers, helped catapult UFOlogy into a whole different level.
As we all know, Jacques is no longer an active figure in this wacky field polluted with self-promoters, hoaxers & unaware disinformants —which, frankly, speaks volumes about his sanity— so it was an incredibly pleasant surprise to find that our friends at Open Minds had posted a recent e-mail interview with Vallee, conducted by a group of French UFOlogists who were kind enough to translate it into English. In the lengthy Q&A monsieur Vallee offers plenty of valuable insights —along with caustic criticism!— not only about the nature of the phenomenon and the current state of the field in general, but also how the undeniable existence of UFOs should move us to question the very nature of Reality itself.
Below are some of my favorite portions of the interview:
Q5: Do governments (and especially the USA) hide information about Ufos on the public (according to you and your experience)?
There are two levels to that question: (1) governments (and not only the USA) keep some information they think most sensitive, especially reports which come from the military. It seems that since 1947 this policy has been viewed as legitimate, in the interest of populations and in the hope of discovering technological breakthroughs. (2) The most difficult question is to know if breakthroughs have actually taken place. To my mind, the phenomenon has probably resisted all analysis, classified or not. The issue of opening all the files is going to arise again but it's not as simple to understand the Ufo phenomenon as to dismantle a MIG or to secretly copy the space shuttle.
Q6: What advice would you give to the ufology community?
I don't think I have personal advice to give. It is obvious that we won't make real progress in an environment of petty squabbling. It would be best to avoid accusations that discourage researchers from working together. The phenomenon is accessible at a local level, so the possibility of field study and fast exchange of data is wide open. That would be more useful than speculating on inaccessible, hypothetical secrets in the drawers of governments.
Q1: In your books, you propose the hypothesis that manifestations of the Ufo phenomenon could correlate with a learning program for humanity. This system could be the same type as psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner's training process. Would you explain this hypothesis and show that the manifestations of the Ufo phenomenon follow a program?
This hypothesis comes from data processing compilations made during the 60s and 70s, which lead to a frequency curve of the phenomenon which looks like a learning program (a "schedule of reinforcement" according to Skinner), that is to say, a sequence of stimuli which is pseudo-periodical. According to Skinner, such a program leads to irreversible learning. It is also difficult to detect unless we study a long series of observations.
Let's notice at the same time that military studies like the US Air Force Blue Book Project, or academic analyses like that of Professor Condon at the University of Colorado have always treated Ufo cases one by one, without any global perspective, which obviously hides such a program if it exists. The often-recycled statement in the declarations of governmental agencies that Ufos are not a threat, has never taken into account the structure of the global evolution of the phenomenon.
To prove or disprove that hypothesis, we should review recent data and update former cases in order to expand the study in a longer period. I have had the opportunity to talk it over with computer scientists from CNES. It is possible that many hypotheses would converge within such an analysis.
Q2: What is your opinion about current evolutions of quantum physics ? According to you, would we be close to discoveries which can help partly to explain some phenomena related to Ufos?
The question is legitimate, especially as reliable researches about psychic functioning are facing the same problem. From the non-locality principle, we must wonder whether thought is not transmitted immediately (rather than electromagnetic waves, as in Soviet researches from 1930 to 1940 or French and English scientists' works in the beginning of the last century with the "mental radio" concept). If so, it might be theoretically possible to get into contact with other forms of consciousness, while beings capable of moving in space might influence us at a distance, or even make us perceive imaginary scenes.
However, to tell the truth, it seems to me that in their enthusiasm some researchers use quantum physics a little bit too much: since these mechanisms remain mysterious, they can be stretched to explain a lot of phenomena in an exaggerated way. I am more interested in new ideas on the physics of information, as I said earlier. If space and time are a side effect of our consciousness and a physical illusion, we should face the problem of phenomena related to Ufos in a more fundamental way.
Link: Interview with UFO researcher and author Jacques Vallée
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Our Alien DNAPosted by Greg at 23:05, 24 Jul 2014
In 1960, a young astronomer by the name of Frank Drake pointed the Green Bank radio telescope at the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani…and listened for the sounds of an alien civilization. Drake's little experiment marks the official beginning of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Since that time, SETI has continued to scan greater parts of the sky, listening over wider and wider bands of the radio spectrum, but the silence has been deafening. While many have taken this as a likely sign that the cosmos is largely empty, it may be more likely that SETI's search has been far too restricted in its scope, relying on just one particular 20th century technology that is already fading in use. As the psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna once dryly noted, "To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant".
To broaden the search, other technologies of transmission have been suggested, such as lasers. But even those ideas seem limited to our cultural ideas of an 'advanced', artificial technology - but which seem likely to be considered as quaint just a century or two into our future. What if, however, aliens had already left a message for us, 'hidden in plain sight', since the dawn of history? What if we only had to look within ourselves?
A paper published last year in Icarus, the prestigious journal of planetary science, asked if it was possible that terrestrial life on Earth had been 'seeded' from beyond the Earth - and if so, does the building block of that life, DNA, contain any sort of message from our alien creators. Using mathematics, the authors of the paper - "The "Wow! signal" of the terrestrial genetic code" - looked for evidence of a statistically strong 'informational' signal in the genetic code, with surprising results:
Here we show that the terrestrial code displays a thorough precision-type orderliness matching the criteria to be considered an informational signal. Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of the same symbolic language. Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing rather than of stochastic processes (the null hypothesis that they are due to chance coupled with presumable evolutionary pathways is rejected with P-value < 10–13).
The signal displays readily recognizable hallmarks of artificiality.
(For counter-comments against the claims of the paper, see this Pharyngula blog post).
Interestingly, this was not the first time that Icarus had featured a paper entertaining the idea of 'biological SETI'. In 1979 the journal - under editor Carl Sagan - published a paper titled "Is bacteriophage φX174 DNA a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence?", written by Japanese biochemists Hiromitsu Yokoo and Tairo Oshima. Given how crazy the idea sounded, Sagan asked a young protégé, David Grinspoon (now a prominent astrobiologist in his own right), to check out the paper to assess whether it was legitimate. Here's how Grinspoon describes the paper in
Buzz Aldrin Clarifies Apollo 11 'UFO'Posted by Greg at 14:37, 09 Jul 2014
One of the long-running stories in ufology touches on UFOs allegedly seen by astronauts on the Apollo Moon missions, with one of those being Buzz Aldrin's supposed confession that he saw a UFO outside the Apollo 11 spacecraft on the way to the Moon. The legendary American astronaut participated in a Reddit AMA yesterday, and during that question and answer session clarified what the 'UFO' likely was:
On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world – it was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft. So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And i feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels. Which one? I don't know. So technically, the definition could be "unidentified."
We well understood exactly what that was. And when we returned, we debriefed and explained exactly what we had observed. And I felt that this had been distributed to the outside world, the outside audience, and apparently it wasn't, and so many years later, I had the time in an interview to disclose these observations, on another country's television network. And the UFO people in the United States were very very angry with me, that i had not given them the information. It was not an alien.
Link: Buzz Aldrin Reddit AMA
This UFO is Real, According to a Government AgencyPosted by red pill junkie at 06:22, 04 Jul 2014
After the US Air Force used the conclusion of the Condon Report as an excuse to officially close down its involvement in the investigation of UFOs, Blue Book abandoned all concerned citizens wishing to file an official report of a sighting. That void was unevenly filled by civilian organizations like MUFON, and more recently with social channels like Youtube, which allows the almost instantaneous dissemination of audiovisual content purportedly showing anomalous objects in the sky. The convenience & ubiquitousness of the Internet has turned into a double-edge sword, though: Even if the photo or video doesn't appear to be a blatant hoax, if the poster doesn't bother to include pertaining information about the circumstances of the sighting --location, date, duration, etc-- barely nothing of true value can be learned from it.
But some countries still take UFOs seriously, and they have even established official agencies in charge of gathering & analyzing all reports of unidentified aerial phenomena occurring within their national territory. Such is the case of CEFAA (Commitee of Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena), the Chilean agency subordinate to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC). It's mission statement according to their webpage, is to study such cases "through a serious, scientific and objective investigation, with the purpose of determining if the security of aerial operations has been compromised, thus contributing to aviation safety in Chile" [My translation].
The latest case CEFAA investigated --which has received a lot of attention from the Spanish-speaking media this week-- was a series of 2 photographs taken during the mid of April of 2013 at the Collahuasi mine in the north of Chile, located 4,300 meters above sea level. The images, taken by a digital Samsung camera model Kenox S860, show a silvery 'flattened disk' of approx. 5 to 10 meters in diameter at an altitude of around 600 meters, which was observed by several witnesses (35 technicians & mine workers) performing a series of aerial maneuvers --vertical & horizontal displacements, showing sometimes the disk as a lenticular object, other times as an ovoid-- for a span of 1 to 2 hours, denoting some sort of intelligent control or predetermined flight.
A meteorologist concluded the object could not have been a lenticular cloud, and after an expert analyzed the photographs using a series of filters, the official conclusion of the agency is that the object is a real UFO --which does NOT mean they're saying the disk is an interstellar alien ship; it simply means the object is not a conventional aeoronautical craft, nor a known meteorological event.
In her best-selling book UFOs: Generals, Pilots & Government Officials Go on the Record --the kind of book you need to keep a copy in your library, in order to shut the mouth of lazy debunkers claiming the phenomenon is not taken seriously by anyone other than woo woo peddlers-- Leslie Kean included the testimony of General Ricardo Bermúdez Sanhueza (ret), who was the director of CEFAA from 1998 to 2002. In it, Bermúdez stated that of all the cases analyzed by the agency, approximately 4% remained unexplained. He also went as far as to affirm that although there wasn't sufficient evidence to support the Extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) in his opinion the possibility should not be discarded beforehand "just because it may sound harebrained."
In this age of Photoshop & digital manipulation, photographic evidence is barely evidence of anything. Yet it is still comforting to know there are still researchers out there, committed to apply scientific rigor in the analysis of an image showing what very well may be a truly extraordinary phenomenon. Even more comforting, is knowing there are nations not willing to let the United States dictate them what is or isn't of significance to their national security; and if the USA wishes to retain their position as leaders of the world perhaps they should start by getting their head off the sand and acknowledge that, no matter how much they refuse to look up, the UFOs are not going anywhere.
They should also improve their performance at the World Cup, while they're at it --I mean, srsly guys.
Link: Ovni visto en Chile; científicos confirman autenticidad
Original CEFAA file: Informe Caso Collahuasi (Power Point)
UPDATE: Leslie Kean wrote about the Collahuasi photos for the Huffington Post. He also contacted Ret. General Bermúdez for comment, along with veteran UFO researcher Bruce Maccabee:
"This is clearly not a normal thing seen in the sky (bird, plane, cloud, etc.)," added Dr. Maccabee in an email. "That makes it either the real thing - UFO - or a hoax, and it doesn't appear to be a hoax, although the inability to question witnesses does reduce the credibility. Certainly this case is worthy of further study."
Ufologist Stanton Friedman Suffers a Heart AttackPosted by Greg at 13:24, 01 Jul 2014
Cryptozoology legend Loren Coleman informed me today of the concerning news that well-known ufologist Stanton Friedman suffered a mild heart attack last Friday night. Thankfully, Stan survived the emergency and is making good progress. Here's the latest update from one of his close friends Kathleen Marden, with whom he has co-authored multiple books:
I spoke with Stan Friedman this morning and am very pleased to report that he is feeling strong and chipper. His heart enzymes have declined, so he has turned the corner. He wants me to make it clear that he will be transported to a larger hospital, only because his local facility doesn't have the equipment to do a dye test and an echo cardiogram. This will probably occur today or Wednesday, as July 1 is a national holiday in Canada.
"Well wishers can send cards to Stan at P.O. Box 958, Houlton, ME 04730. He appreciates everyone's thoughts and prayers.
Stan's medical issues will sadly stop him from attending this year's Roswell UFO Festival, but hopefully his good medical outcome will allow him to spend many more future years there. We send our best wishes for a speedy recovery to him.
UFOs Explained: It's the Alcohol Silly!Posted by Greg at 02:23, 30 Jun 2014
A new low in UFO debunkery from The Economist, with the chart above suggesting that UFO sightings are simply a function of people drinking too much alcohol.
[T]he National UFO Reporting Centre, a non-profit, has catalogued almost 90,000 reported sightings of UFOs, mostly in America, since 1974. It turns out that aliens are considerate. They seldom disturb earthlings during working or sleeping hours. Rather, they tend to arrive in the evening, especially on Fridays, when folks are sitting on the front porch nursing their fourth beer, the better to appreciate flashing lights in the heavens (see chart). The state aliens like best is Washington—a finding that pre-dates the legalisation of pot there. Other popular destinations are also near the Canadian border, where the Northern lights are sometimes visible. UFOs tend to shun big cities, where there are lots of other lights, and daylight hours, when people might think they were just aeroplanes.
The numbers obviously have nothing to do with the fact that 'drinking hours' strangely coincide with the time of day that most people would notice something in the sky (night-time), but are not yet asleep. I totally expected that the highest number of sightings of things in the sky would be when people are asleep in their bedrooms... (/snark).
Flying Saucer Origins: Debunking DebunkeryPosted by Greg at 00:07, 18 Jun 2014
Last week's planned testing of NASA's flying saucer lookalike, the 'Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator' (LDSD, pictured above), has inspired a few news stories discussing the iconic nature of the alien saucer image (see for example the BBC's "The Lasting Allure of the Flying Saucer"). On Sunday The Atlantic joined in with "The Man Who Introduced the World to Flying Saucers", a look back at the seminal Kenneth Arnold sighting in 1947 and the idea that the flying saucer mythos has its origins in a misquote:
On June 25, Arnold ended up at the offices of the East Oregonian, a Pendleton newspaper. He told reporters about his sighting. He emphasized the "unidentified" as much as the "flying objects." He described their movements, saying that they flew "like a saucer if you skip it across the water."
...Arnold himself, however, would say that he was misquoted — or, at least, taken out of context. Some argue that the entire idea of a flying saucer was based on a reporter's misunderstanding of Arnold's "like a saucer" description as describing a saucer itself—making it "one of the most significant reporter misquotes in history." A 1970 study reviewing U.S. newspaper accounts of the Arnold UFO sighting concluded that the term had been introduced by an editor or headline writer, since the bodies of the early Arnold news stories didn't mention "flying saucers" or "flying discs."
...Was it a "historical misquote," or the second thoughts of reluctant source? (Just after the sighting, on June 27, Arnold would tell reporters that "I haven't had a moment of peace since I first told the story.") More than a half century later, it's even more difficult than it was back then to determine the lines between phantom and fact. The first draft of history can be a rough one.
What is clear, in retrospect, is that, starting on June 26, the flying saucer—as an idea, if not an object—was introduced to Americans. Newspapers began using the terms "flying saucer" and "flying disk" (occasionally: "flying disc") to describe the objects Arnold had seen. And the concept spread; once the idea had been planted in people's minds, they, too, began seeing saucers.
Readers of our Fortean anthology series Darklore would know that this 'debunking' of the Arnold flying saucer story is itself a bit of a myth. In "Return of the Flying Saucers" (in Volume 5 of Darklore, also available as a free PDF download on the DL site), Martin Shough examines the history of the sighting in detail and comes to the conclusion that Arnold probably did see (or at least, thought he saw) something disk-shaped - though not perfectly circular - on that day:
Arnold himself used both "saucer like objects" and "saucer-like discs" as shape-similes in his own original Air Force report typed by his own hand on or about July 08 1947. Once again, just as important as the fact that Arnold uses these phrases is the conspicuous fact that he does not use these terms in the context of any motion simile.
The Oregon Journal, June 27, said that Arnold "clung stoutly to his story that he saw nine shiny crescent-shaped planes", but these words are not in quotes from Arnold, they are the writer's. Where Arnold is actually quoted in the same article he says, "They were
half-moon shaped, oval in front and convex on the rear. I was in a beautiful position to watch them...they looked like a big flat disk [emphases added]." This describes the sort of shape Arnold drew for the Army Air Force, a flat plate with a trimmed off or tapered rear edge, and the "half-moon" clearly plays the same role here as the
"half pie-pan" in the description used by Arnold elsewhere: "half a pie-pan with a convex triangle in the rear". The shape in Arnold's drawing suggests that he may have had in mind a gibbous moon, i.e. between half and full; howsoever the reporter has interpreted "half " to mean "crescent" (in some people's imaginations "moon" and "crescent" might be almost synonymous) and neglected the rest of the description.
Shough argues that the morphing of Arnold's memory of the objects into 'boomerang-shaped' may have had its origin in a meeting with military officials a month after his sighting:
On July 31 1947 Army CIC officers Brown and Davidson exposed Arnold to what they called a "flying wing" photographed by William Rhodes in Phoenix, intimating that it was "genuine". Arnold's reaction is consistent with a tendency to seek the endorsement of conservative military authorities.
It's certainly a story that can be interpreted in various ways, but Martin's essay in Darklore 5 I think is one of the most authoritative histories available.
Beyond Planet X - Are There Actually Two Undiscovered Giant Planets in the Outer Solar System?Posted by Greg at 02:23, 14 Jun 2014
Back in March some astronomers were touting a new discovery that hinted at the existence of a 'Planet X' lurking in the outer Solar System, far beyond our ability for direct observation. Now, in a paper on arXiv.org, Carlos and Raul de la Fuente Marcos at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain have asked whether strange patterns in the orbital alignments of the dwarf planets beyond Pluto suggest the existence of not one, but two giant planets:
Small groups of the objects have very similar orbital paths. Because they are not massive enough to be tugging on each other, the researchers think the objects are being "shepherded" by a larger object in a pattern known as orbital resonance.
For instance, we know that Neptune and Pluto are in orbital resonance – for every two orbits Pluto makes around the sun, Neptune makes three. Similarly, one group of small objects seems to be in lockstep with a much more distant, unseen planet. That world would have a mass between that of Mars and Saturn and would sit about 200 times Earth's distance from the sun.
Some of the smaller objects have very elongated orbits that would take them out to this distance. It is unusual for a large planet to orbit so close to other bodies unless it is dynamically tied to something else, so the researchers suggest that the large planet is itself in resonance with a more massive world at about 250 times the Earth-sun distance – just like the one predicted in the previous work.
Read more: Two giant planets may cruise unseen beyond Pluto
Paper: "Extreme trans-Neptunian objects and the Kozai mechanism: signaling the presence of trans-Plutonian planets?"
Something Just Went BOOM* in the Galaxy Next DoorPosted by Greg at 00:57, 28 May 2014
There are a lot of very excited astronomers about today with the possible detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) in the closest galaxy to us, Andromeda (known under the Messier catalogue designation 'M31'). GRBs have been detected before, but never this close (Andromeda is 'just' 2.5million light years away). It's thought that the explosion has likely been caused by two colliding neutron stars (another possibility is a supernova, but the stars in that area are not thought to be large enough to nova).
But what are GRBs, and should we be concerned? After all, what happened to Bruce Banner actually paints GRBs in a *good light*...
Gamma rays are blamed for making Bruce Banner the Incredible Hulk. But what are gamma rays and what can they really do?
Gamma rays are the highest energy form of light. The rainbow of visible light that we are most familiar with is just part of a far broader spectrum of light, the electromagnetic spectrum. Past the red end of the rainbow, where wavelengths get longer, are infrared rays, microwaves and radio waves, while beyond violet lie the shorter wavelengths of ultraviolet rays, X-rays and, finally, gamma rays.
A gamma ray packs at least 10,000 times more energy than a visible light ray. Unlike the Incredible Hulk, gamma rays are not green — lying as they do beyond the visible spectrum, gamma rays have no color at all that we can describe.
Exactly how Bruce Banner survives his transformation is unclear. Just as high doses of X-rays are typically lethal, so too would an explosion of gamma rays kill the average person.
Gamma rays can knock electrons around like a bowling ball would bowling pins. These charged particles can then disrupt any chemical bond they come across, wreaking havoc on the delicate chemical machinery of the cell and generating molecular fragments that can act as toxins.
To put it gently, a gamma bomb in the real world would not turn Bruce Banner into the Incredible Hulk. Rather, it would likely quickly turn him into a corpse dead from radiation sickness, if not incinerating him instantly.
In short: if a GRB hit us hard, it would kill all life on planet Earth. Gulp. Doesn't sound too good does it? Fortunately, GRBs are highly directional, and this one wasn't pointing at us (and additionally, even the galaxy next door is still a long distance away from us). As astronomer Robert Rutledge responded to a concerned person on social media, the basic rule of thumb with GRBs is "if you can get to the end of the sentence, 'Hey, what's going on?' You're gonna be fine".
Astronomers are awaiting detection of neutrinos here on Earth to confirm the event as a GRB - another possibility is that it is an ultra-luminous X-ray source (ULX) - it's still very early days (it was only detected a couple of hours before the writing of this post). The Heavy Metallicity blog is one of the first reporting this in layman's terms (as opposed to the more science-directed releases), and will be updated as more is known, so keep an eye on it and the Twitter hashtag #GRBm31 for new developments over time.
(* And by "just went BOOM", I mean "went BOOM about 2.5 million years ago...like I said, the galaxy next door is still a loooong way away)
Update: False alarm folks. If it's any consolation, we may still be obliterated by a gamma-ray burst anytime now.


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Former 8 division world champion Manny Pacquiao (55-5-2, 38 KO's) will be fighting for the last time in his career this Saturday in his rematch against WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley (31-0, 12 KO's) in their fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the belief of Bradley's trainer Joel Diaz, who believes that Pacquiao will choose retirement after Bradley beats him for a second time in front of a huge nationwide audience watching on HBO pay-per-view.
"This what we're here for. I think it's Manny Pacquiao's last fight," Diaz said at the final press conference on Wednesday of this week. "Like everything in life, everything has a beginning and there's an end. I think this is Manny Pacquiao's end."
Pacquiao has other ideas about how this fight will go, as he believes he's going to beat the 30-year-old Bradley in a decisive enough manner to where there will be no doubts. However, Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach has already gone on record by saying that he'll sit Pacquiao down and tell him that he needs to retire if he loses this fight.
Roach won't have much choice in the matter. Pacquiao has lost 2 out of his last 3 fights, and another defeat would make it painfully obvious that it's time for the 35-year-old Pacquiao to hang up his gloves permanently.
It's been two years since Pacquiao was beaten by Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez in disappointing back to back defeats. Pacquiao has fought only once since then in defeating Brandon Rios in a tune-up fight last November. That win, as good as it was, proved little in terms of Pacquiao having come back from his crushing defeats, because Rios wasn't a talented enough fighter to prove anything for Pacquiao.
Saturday's fight between Pacquiao and Bradley is the match-up that will show whether Pacquiao should retire or continue with his career. If he loses, then Pacquiao will need to make a decision whether it's worth it for him to continue fighting given his lack of success.


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