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Dave Ellis: Of Jams and Jazz
This interview was conducted in the summer of 2003, shortly after the release of State of Mind. It is presented for the first time here.
All About Jazz: What's the last book you read?
Dave Ellis: I'm reading two books right now. One is a copy of the Upanishads [a series of sacred Hindu works], that I got from Peter Russell, and the other is a book called The Elegant Universe , by Brian Greene, which is about string theory.
AAJ: Is that an interest of yours?
DE: Yes. Both things are strangely connected, so I've been into that pretty recently. The Elegant Universe takes a minute. It's in layperson's language, but it's still pretty complicated.
AAJ: So these are both the sort of things that you read regularly, spirituality and science?
DE: Yeah, the whole Tao of Physics type of thing, which is another book that I've read recently. That's really fascinating to me, both ends of it. The interesting thing about books like the Upanishads relative to string theory is that knowledge that's 8,000 or more years old, and was clearly understood then, is being borne out in very advanced scientific theory today. I can't get enough of that.
AAJ: Is it possible to draw a connection between that and your own philosophy of music?
DE: I think so. Just from a purely practical, scientific point of view, if you check into string theory, the current idea that the smallest piece of stuff is basically a vibrating string, and the notion that vibration creates everything that we observe.
I've always felt that and I have no idea where it came from, but we're talking about back to single-digit age here that I have a real difficult time doing things that I don't think are worthwhile. It's sometimes hard to say what's worthwhile, but music has always felt like a worthwhile endeavor, even back when I couldn't necessarily figure out why. But when you make this sort of connection... I have a degree in production and engineering from Berklee, and we had to take classes in math and science for recording, which was my first introduction to the connection between math and sound you're graphing sine waves and then you realize that these are the components that make up sound.
And then there the whole sort of notion of "vibrations" in the air... there's so many similarities between science, metaphysics, and philosophy. It's absolutely part and parcel of my music. I don't write tunes with titles like "The Tao of Physics" it's not that specific or upfront in the music, but certainly my state of mind infers this course that I'm on.
AAJ: Do you do a lot of writing?
DE: No. I've got a lot of tune titles, but nothing to go with them! I used to do a lot of writing in college, and later in the Charlie Hunter Trio we did a lot of group writing. And I've done some writing for each of the three records that I've put out, but a lot of that writing had deadlines to force me to do it. It's a difficult process, I'm sure, for every composer. But for me, I've always focused more on playing.
That's changing, because I'm really trying to figure out at this point in my career if there is such a thing as a "Dave Ellis song" what my sound is, compositionally. Most of what I wrote in college was more r&b oriented computer music with synthesizers and drum machines and stuff. I still enjoy that, and my music at home still winds up being full of samples and loops. It's like my "under a rock" type stuff. I enjoy that, and I do it, but I have not yet really incorporated it into what I do in public, so that's sort of what's coming up.
AAJ: So you're interested in incorporating the r&b flavor and the samples with the jazz?
DE: Yes, I always have been. The interesting thing about the Charlie Hunter Trio was that we always had that vibe right at the top. Jay Lane, the drummer in the trio at that time, is a real home-recording composer. He's crankin' jams all the time, as we say. And I have a lot of friends who do that; we've been doing that since 4-track cassettes were first made available to us after high school, in the mid-'80s. And we're still doing it. That vibe was always up front. The Charlie Hunter Trio was an improvisational format, but always with funky beats. Charlie still does that; he's really good at that, working it into an acoustically-based jazz format.
AAJ: Was that the trio's secret of success?
DE: Yeah. Coupled with the fact that initially we played and practiced and rehearsed for the pure joy of doing that; the gigs were a side benefit, and something for us to rehearse for. We didn't intend what eventually happened with it; it was a very organic thing, just for the joy of music. People tended to put something in front of the word "jazz" to classify us, like "acid jazz" or whatever. "Testosterone jazz." That mix of danceable beat, high-energy music, was a key to that group's success, and I think it remains a large part of what Charlie's crowd comes to see.
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Milva´s leg is still swollen. It actually looks worse today but it was the same thing the last time. The only thing I can do is wait. I tried to put some Blue Lotion a cooling lotion underneath the wound but Milva didn´t like it and Auntie Anita was already gone.
I went with Milva in the ridinghouse for half an hour to work on one rein stop and lateral flexion from the ground. I had the saddle on her and the natural hackamore to get her used to two reins. I also thought it might be a good idea to have the saddle on her without trying to sit on her.
Lateral flexion is not so much of a problem when she is standing still. I almost don´t have to use phase 1 for her to bend. I´m just using my little finger, barely touching her halter and voila she is bending.
It´s important that she knows what a one rein stop is about when I sit on her. So what I´m checking now is her relaxation when doing it and her response. I also develop her understanding and confidence when put in a vulnerable position where she cannot run off.
Flexion is also one of Pat Parelli´s 10 Qualities of a Horseman.
Flexion is necessary for the overall health of the horse when carrying a rider.
Flexion is essential for any explorations into collection.
Flexion is an important understanding in the pursuit of mastery.
The most important aspect of flexion is to understand it as a part of the entire formula that leads to collection.
I´m going to work on that now for the next 7 days and also put some direct rein work from the ground into our session so she going to start to understand the meaning of it.
Proper and Prior Preperation Prevents Poor Performance...as Pat Parelli is saying so nicely.
Oh I forgot to write about another thing. Mikke - a guy who I commute with to Denmark, and his wife were coming to the stable today to visit me. I think the reason they came was to check out the stable. I sure hope they move to our stable. Very nice people. Mikke has a big swedish warmblood whom he wants some help with. He asked me a couple of times if I wouldn´t like to come and ride him. I don´t know if I want to though. I´m not intressted in the traditional riding anymore and I definitely don´t want to put any horse into submission or use violence to ride it or artificial aids.
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Buyouts deals set to kick off after summer
Private equity executives in the UK mid-market are anticipating a busy second half of the year for new deals, despite a slower than expected period since January.
There have been 65 UK buyouts worth £150 million or under so far this year, compared with 60 during the same period in 2013, according to data provider Dealogic.
Jacques Callaghan, deputy head of European investment banking at Canaccord Genuity, said London's strong IPO market had taken several larger companies that would have previously gone to private equity firms.
Without commenting on specific deals, Callaghan said the second half could prove more active for buyout firms. He added: "There is still a valuation differential for certain types of companies and there will continue to be an active IPO market for the rest of the year.
"However, as the public markets are not as buoyant as they had been, more companies are thinking about dual-track processes and a number of these may well result in leveraged buyouts or trade sales rather than flotations."
Companies that could attract private equity interest in the coming months include the waste management unit of Serco, which the FTSE 250 outsourcing group is looking to sell, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The Adler and Allan Group, an oil and environmental services provider, is working with investment bank Rothschild to find a new investor, according to two people familiar with the situation.
London-based private equity firm MML Capital Partners is working with Canaccord to sell Regard Partnership, a company that provides residential care and accommodation for adults and children with learning disabilities, according to four people familiar with the matter.
The sale has attracted interest from private equity firms including London-based Graphite Capital and Swiss investment firm Montreux Capital Management in partnership with Australian investment bank Macquarie, which are understood to be in pole position to buy the company for up to £120 million.
Amigo Loans, a company that offers credit to people who can use creditworthy friends or relatives as guarantors, is also looking to bring in a new investor.
Other companies expected to be sold by the end of the year include AAC Capital UK's electrical components maker Strix, which is expected to be marketed to Asian buyers, and 3i Group's Agent Provocateur, which could fetch up to £200 million, according to people familiar with the matter.


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Ashley Hebert Gives JP Rosenbaum The Final Rose In 'Bachelorette' Finale
After a night of the Bachelors "telling all" Ashley has to choose which man will have the liberty of proposing to her. Will it be Ben or J.P.? Ashley tells her family that she is in love and ready to get engaged but can't decide which one because they are both so great. J.P. is first up to meet the family and you can tell that he is nervous, we would be too if we were meeting Kat Von D, or Ashley's sister. Immediately her sister disses him and says she doesn't think that he is the one. Ouch, bring on the tears. After disagreeing with her sister she goes crying to her brother, who has clearly never been on a tropical island because he is a sweating his face off and getting a massive sunburn after five minutes in the sun. Ashley's sister cuts right to the chase and goes to J.P. for the drilling questions. He tells him that when Ashley said he didn't make her laugh, it was the big clue that he wasn't the one. J.P. seems speechless when she tells him that he is much too old for and "too much" for his personality. This girl does not mess around- if he proposes to Ashley, she wouldn't be happy. Ashley's sister is going to influence the way Ashley feels and J.P. is pissed about the fact that she thought Ashley had more feelings with Brad than with J.P. and Ashley did nothing to stand up for him.
Now its Ben's turn to go in front of the firing squad, "let's go meet the fam." The two seem very comfortable around each other but Ben is sweating profusely through his shirt. Note to self, do not do doggy voices on ABC. We could tell Ashley was overdoing it to show her sister that she can be herself around Ben. Ashley's sister pulls him aside and grills him like she did J.P. but we get the feeling that she actually approves of this guy. Cue the upbeat music and a smile on Ashley's sister's face and we think we have a winner to the key to Ashley's heart. Although she did give J.P.'s buns a little pinch just like she did Ben's. "Bye buns!"
Ben gets the first date and the two take a helicopter ride to a "sexy" mud bath and rub each other down with muck. Too bad when they get back to the states they won't have ABC to foot the bill for their dates and they will be bathing in a real mud pit. Okay, we are just a tad bit jealous. Next, Ben takes her in the bedroom and sits her down next to some champagne and a custard desert and says he loves her in so many words. She doesn't say it back but they definitely get it on.
Ashley choses a nicely padded bikini top for her date with J.P. and is still noticeably upset about her sister's reaction to them as a couple. Side note- they only drink Fiji water in Fiji. J.P. is very defensive about their relationship and it's almost like Ashley is trying to force him to give up. He tells her that he is madly in love with her and she whispers, "You're the best boy ever." If that isn't a nice way to let someone down, we don't know what is. Then J.P. has to turn it around and give her a photo album with a hand written poem that is the start of their life together….we shall see.
The two boys head out to meet Neil Lane and select the gorgeous diamond rings that they may get the chance to give to Ashley, their future wife. We are coming to the end folks and we are still torn as to who Ashley is going to pick to spend the rest of her reality show life with. As she waits on the mountain top cliff for her men to come down to her from the sea plane, we are almost as nervous as she is. First off the plane is Ben and we can't remember if the first guy off the plane is the reject or the winner? Does it even matter? Oh my goodness, we are so nervous right now. Is she crying because she is happy or because she is ready to tell him that she loves him? He gets down on one knee and proposes and she pulls him back up and says sorry. It's not him, it's J.P. Wow, we didn't see that one coming. He walks away from her completely shut off and full of anger and as she tells him that she never thought they would leave on these terms, he tells her what other terms would there be? He sarcastically ends it by saying, "J.P.'s a wonderful guy and I'm sure you'll have a great life together." How embarrassing for Ben.
J.P.'s sea plane is about to land and little does he know she is ready to say yes to his proposal. Given the situation with Ashley's sister, we think it was definitely the poem J.P. wrote that moved him to the top of the leader board. He tells her he is madly in love with her and she accepts his proposal, time for the J.P. montage to REO Speedwagon. Now run into the ocean and ruin your couture dress you silly lovebirds. The End.


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The psychology major from Coal City was seen on the NBC talk show wearing a North Central basketball shirt in the segment "Models and Buckets." The segment parodies the "Deal or No Deal" game show.
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With cohabitation replacing marriage, divorce is receding as a cause of family breakdown, but it remains a serious problem. An article in the Washington Times cites US Census Bureau survey figures indicating that there were well over a million divorces in American in 2008 (1,087,920) giving a divorce rate of 8.2 per 1000 population.
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"By 2050 no synthetic computer nor machine intelligence will have become truly self-aware (ie. will become conscious)."
Spivack's Argument:
(This summary includes my argument, a method for judging the outcomeof this bet and some other thoughts on how to measure awareness…)
Even if a computer passes the Turing Test it will not really beaware that it has passed the Turing Test. Even if a computer seems tobe intelligent and can answer most questions as well as an intelligent,self-aware, human being, it will not really have a continuum ofawareness, it will not really be aware of what it seems to "think" or"know," it will not have any experience of it's own reality or being.It will be nothing more than a fancy inanimate object, a clevermachine, it will not be a truly sentient being.
Self-awareness is not the same thing as merely answering questionsintelligently. Therefore even if you ask a computer if it is self-awareand it answers that it is self-aware and that it has passed the TuringTest, it will not really be self-aware or really know that it haspassed the Turing Test.
AsJohn Searle and others have pointed out, the Turing Test does notactually measure awareness, it just measures informationprocessing—particularly the ability to follow rules or at leastimitate a particular style of communication. In particular it measuresthe ability of a computer program to imitate humanlike dialogue, whichis different than measuring awareness itself. Thus even if we succeedin creating good AI, we won't necessarily succeed in creating AA("Artificial Awareness").
But why does this matter? Becauseultimately, real awareness may be necessary to making an AI that is asintelligent as a human sentient being. However, since AA istheoretically impossible in my opinion, truly self-aware AI will neverbe created and thus no AI will ever be as intelligent as a humansentient being even if it manages to fool someone into thinking it is(and thus passing the Turing Test).
In my opinion, awareness isnot an information process at all and will never be simulated orsynthesized by any information process. Awareness cannot be measured byan information processing system, it can only be measured by awarenessitself—something no formal information processing system can eversimulate or synthesize.
One might ask how it is that a humanhas awareness then? My answer is that awareness does not arise from thebody or the brain, nor does it arise from any physical cause. Awarenessis not in the body or the brain, but rather the body and the brain arein awareness. The situation is analagous to a dream, a simulation orvirtual reality, such as that portrayed in the popular film "TheMatrix."
We exist in the ultimate virtual reality. The mediumof this virtual reality is awareness. That is to say that whateverappears to be happening "out there" or "within the mind" is happeningwithin a unified, nondualistic field of awareness: both the "subject"and the "object" exist equally within this field and neither is thesource of awareness.
This is similar to the case where weproject ourselves as dream protagonists in our own dreams—even thoughour dream bodies appear to be different than other dream-images theyare really equally dream appearances, they are no more fundamental thandream-objects. We identify with our dream-bodies out of habit andbecause it's practical because the stories that take place appear fromthe perspective of particular bodies. But just because this virtualreality is structured as if awareness is coming from within our heads,it does not mean that is actually the case. In fact, quite the oppositeis taking place.
Awareness is not actually "in" the VR, the VR is"in" awareness. Things are exactly the opposite of how they appear. Ofcourse this is just an analogy—for example, unlike the Matrix, thevirtual reality we live in is not running on some giant computersomewhere and there is no other hidden force controlling it from behindthe scenes. Awareness is the fabric of reality and there is nothingdeeper, nothing creating it, it is not running on some cosmic computer,it comes out of of nowhere yet everything else comes out of it.
Ifwe look for awareness we can't find anything to grasp, it is empty yetnot a mere nothingness, it is an emptiness that is awake, creative,alert, radiant, self-realizing.
Awareness is empty andfundamental like space, but it goes beyond space for it is also lucid.If we look for space we don't find anything there. Nobody has evertouched or grasped space directly! But unlike space, awareness can atleast be measured directly–it can measure itself, it knows its ownnature.
Awareness is simply fundamental, a given, theunderlying meta-reality in which everything appears. How did it come tobe? That is unanswerable. What is it? That is unanswerable as well. Butthere is no doubt that awareness is taking place. Each sentient beinghas a direct and intimate experience of their own self-awareness.
Each of us experiences a virtual reality in which we and our world areprojections. That which both projects these projections and experiencesthem is awareness. This is like saying that the VR inherently knows itsown content. But in my opinion this knowing comes from outside thesystem, not from some construct that we can create inside it. So anyawareness that arises comes from the transcendental nature of realityitself, not from our bodies, minds, or any physical system within aparticular reality.
So is there one cosmic awareness out therethat we are all a part of? Not exactly, there is not one awareness norare there many awarenesses because awareness is not a physical thingand cannot be limited by such logical materialist extremes. After allif it is not graspable how can we say it is one or many or any otherlogical combination of one or many? All we can say is that we are it,whatever it is, and that we cannot explain it further. In beingawareness, we are all equal, but we are clearly not the same. We aredifferent projections and on a relative level we are each unique, eventhough on an ultimate level perhaps we are also unified by beingprojections within the same underlying continuum. Yet this continuum isfundamentally empty, impossible to locate or limit, and infinitelybeyond the confines of any formal system or universe, so it cannotreally be called a "thing" and thus we are not "many" or "one" inactuality, what we really are is totally beyond such dualisticdistinctions.
Awareness is like space or reality, something sofundamental, so axiomatic, that it is impossible to prove, grasp ordescribe from "inside" the system using the formal logical tools of thesystem. Since nothing is beyond awareness, there is no outside, no wayto ever gain a perspective on awareness that is not mediated byawareness itself.
Therefore there is no way to reduce awarenessto anything deeper; there is no way to find anything more fundamentalthan awareness. But despite this awareness can be directly experienced,at least by itself.
That which is aware is self-aware.Self-awareness is the very nature of awareness. The self-awareness ofawareness does not come from something else, it is inherent toawareness itself. Only awareness is capable of awareness. Nothing thatis not aware can ever become aware.
This means awareness istruly fundamental, it has always been present everywhere. Awareness isinherent in the universe as the very basis of everything, it is notsomething anyone can synthesize and we cannot build a machine that cansuddenly experience awareness.
Only beings who are awarealready can ever experience awareness. The fact that we are aware nowmeans that we were always aware, even before we were born! Otherwise wenever could have become aware in the first place!
Each of us "is"awareness. The experience of being aware is unique and undeniable. Ithas its own particular nature, but this cannot be expressed it can onlybe known directly. There is no sentient being that is not aware.Furthermore, it would be a logical contradiction to claim that "I amnot aware that I am aware" or "that I am aware that I am not aware" andthus if anyone claims they are not aware or have ever experienced, orcan even imagine, there not being awareness they are lying. There isnobody who does not experience their own awareness, even if they don'trecognize or admit that they experience it.
The experience ofbeing self-aware is the unique experience of "being" — an experienceso basic that it is indescribable in terms of anything else —something that no synthetic computer will ever have.
Eventually, it will be proved that no formal information processingsystem is capable of self-awareness and that thus formal computerscannot be self-aware in principle. This proof will use the abstractself-referential structure of self-awareness to establish that noformal computer can ever be self-aware.
Simplyput, computers and computer programs cannot be truly self-referential:they always must refer to something else—there must at least be a setof fixed meta-rules that are not self-referential for a computer orprogram to work. Awareness is not like this however, awareness isperfectly self-referential without referring to anything else.
Thequestion will then arise as to what self-awareness is and how it ispossible. We will eventually conclude that systems that are self-awareare not formal systems and that awareness must be at least asfundamental as, or more fundamental than, space, time and energy.
Currentlymost scientists and non-scientists consider the physical world to beoutside of awareness and independent of it. But considering that nobodyhas or will ever experience anything without awareness it is illogicalto assume that anything is really outside of awareness. It is actuallyfar more rational to assume that whatever arises or is experienced isinside awareness, and that nothing is outside of awareness. Thisassumption of everything being within awareness would actually be amore scientific, observation-based conclusion than the oppositeassumption which is entirely unfounded on anything we have ever or willever be able to observe. After all, we have never observed anythingapart from awareness have we? Thus contrary to current beliefs, theonus is on scientists to prove that anything is outside of awareness,not the other way around!
Awareness is quite simply theultimate primordial basic nature of reality itself—without awarenessthere could be no "objective reality" at all and no "subjective beings"to experience it. Awareness is completely transcendental, beyond alllimitations and boundaries, outside of all possible systems. Whathubris to think we can simply manufacture, or evolve, awareness with apile of electrified silicon hardware and some software rules.
Nomatter how powerful the computer, no matter what it is made of, and nomatter how sophisticated or emergent the software is, it will stillnever be aware or evolve awareness. No computer or machine intelligencewill ever be aware. Even a quantum computer—if it is equivalent to afinite non-quantum computer at least—will not be capable ofawareness, and even if it is a transinfinite computer I still have mydoubts that it could ever be aware. Awareness is simply not aninformation process.
So the question ultimately is, how do we measureawareness or at least determine whether a computer is or is not aware?How can we judge the outcome of this bet?
I propose a method here: we let the bettors mutually agree on a judge.If the judge is a computer, fine. If the judge is a human, fine. Butboth bettors must agree on the judge. If both bettors accept that partyas the judge then the result will be deemed final and reliable. If acomputer is chosen by both parties to judge this, then I will concededefeat—but it would take a lot for any computer to convince me thatit is aware and thus qualified to judge this competition. On the otherhand, my opponent in this debate may accept a human judge—butobviously since they believe that computers can be aware if they accepta human judge they would be contradicting their own assertion—if acomputer is really intelligent and aware why would they choose a humanjudge over a computer judge?
This "recursive" judge-selection judging approach appeals to ourinherent direct human experience of awareness and the fact that wetrust another aware sentient being more than an inaminate machine tojudge whether or not something is aware. This may be the only practicalsolution to this problem: If both parties agree that a computer canjudge and the computer says the other computer is aware, then so be it!If both parties agree that a human can judge and the human says thatthe computer is not aware, so be it! May the best judge win!
Now, as long as we're on the subject, how do we know that otherhumans, such as our potential human judge(s), are actually aware? Iactually believe that self-awareness is detectable by other beings thatare also aware, but not detectable by computers that are not aware.
Ipropose a reversal of the Turing test for determining whether acomputer is aware (and forgive me in advance if anyone else has alreadyproposed this somewhere, I would be happy to give them credit).
Here is the test: Something is aware if whenever it is presented with acase where a human being and a synthetic machine intelligence areequally intelligent and capable of expression and interaction BUT notequally aware (the human is aware and the machine is not actuallyaware), then it can reliably and accurately figure out that the humanbeing is really aware and the machine is not really aware.
Ibelieve that only systems that are actually aware can correctlydifferentiate between two equally intelligent entities where one issentient and the other just a simulation of sentience, given enoughtime and experience with those systems.
How can such a differentiation be made? Assuming the human andcomputer candidates are equally intelligent and interactive, what isthe signature of awareness or lack of awareness? What difference isthere that can be measured? In my opinion there is a particular, yetindescribable mutual recognition that takes place when I encounteranother sentient being. I recognize their self-awareness with my ownself-awareness. Think of it as the equivalent of a "network handshake"that occurs at a fundamental level between entities that are actuallyaware.
How is this recognition possible? Perhaps it is due tothe fact that awareness, being inherently self-aware, is alsoinherently capable of recognizing awareness when it encounters it.
Onanother front, I actually have my doubts that any AI will ever beequally intelligent and interactive as a human sentient being. Inparticular I think this is not merely a matter of the difficulty ofbuilding such a complex computer, but rather it is a fundamentaldifference between machine cognition and the congition of a sentientbeing.
A human sentient being's mind transcends computation.Sentient cognition transcends the limits of formal computation, it isnot equivalent to Turing Machine, it is much more powerful than that.We humans are not formal systems, we are not Turing Machines. Humanscan think in a way that no computer will ever be able to match letalone imitate convincingly. We are able to transcend our own logics,our own belief systems, our own programs, we are able to enter andbreak out of loops at will, we are able to know inifinities, to docompletely irrational, spontaneous and creative things. We are muchcloser to infinity than any finite state automaton can ever be. We aresimply not computers, although we can sometimes think like them theycannot really think like us.
In any case, this may be "faith"but for now at least I am quite certain that I am aware and that otherhumans and animals are also aware but that machines, plants and otherinanimate objects are not aware. I am certain that my awareness vastlytranscends any machine intelligence that exists or ever will exist. Iam certain that your awareness is just as transcendent as mine.Although I cannot prove that I am aware or that you are aware to you Iam willing to state such on the basis of my own direct experience and Iknow that if you take a moment to meditate on your own self-awarenessyou will agree.
After all, we cannot prove the existence of spaceor time either—these are just ideas and even physics has notexplained their origins nor can anyone even detect them directly, yetwe both believe they exist, don't we?
Now if I claimed that asuitably complex computer simulation would someday suddenly containreal physical space and time that was indistinguishable in any way fromthe physical space and time outside the simulation—you would probablydisagree. You would say that the only "real" space-time is actually notin the computer but containing the computer, and any space-time thatappears within the computer simulation is but a mere lower-orderimitation and nothing like the real space-time that contains thecomputer.
No simulation can ever be exactly the same as what itsimulates, even if it is functionally similar or equivalent, forseveral reasons. On a purely information basis, it should be obviousthat if simulation B is within something else called A, then for B tobe exactly the same as A it must contain A and B and so on infinitely.At least if there is a finite amount of space and time to work with wesimply cannot build anything like this, we cannot build a simulationthat contains an exact simulation of itself without getting into aninfinite regression. Beyond this, there is a difference in medium: Inthe case of machine intelligence the medium is physical space, time andenergy—that is what machine intelligence is made of. In the case ofhuman awareness the medium is awareness itself, something at least asfundamental as space-time-energy if not more fundamental. Althoughhuman sentience can perform intelligent cognition, using a brain forexample, it is not a computer and it is not made of space-time-energy.Human sentience goes beyond the limits of space-time-energy andtherefore beyond computers.
If someone builds a Turing Machine that simulates a Turing Machinesimulating a Turing Machine, the simulation will never even start, letalone be useable! As the saying goes, it's Turtles All The Way Down! Ifyou have a finite space and time, but an infinite initial condition, ittakes forever to simply set up the simulation let alone to compute it.
Thisis the case with self-awareness as well: It is truly self-referential.No finite formal system can complete an infinitely self-referentialprocess in finite time. We sentient beings can do this however.Whenever we realize our own awareness direclty—that is whenever weARE aware (as opposed to just representing this fact as a thought) weare being infinitely self-referential in finite time. That must mean weare either able to do an infinite amount of computing in a finiteamount of time, or we are not computing at all. Perhaps self-awarenessjust happens instantly and inherently rather than iteratively.
On a practical level as well we can see that there is adiffernece between a simulated experience within a simulation and theactual reality it attempts to simulate that exists outside thesimulation. For example, suppose I make a computer simulation ofchocolate and a simulated person who can eat the chocolate. Even thoughthat simulated person tastes the simulated chocolate, they do notreally taste chocolate at all—they have no actual experience of whatchocolate really tastes like to beings in reality (beings outside thesimulation).
Even if there are an infinite number of levels ofsimulation above the virtual reality we are in now, awareness is alwaysultimately beyond them all—it is the ultimate highest-level ofreality, there is nothing beyond it.
Thus even an infinitelyhigh-end computer simulation of awareness will be nothing like actualawareness and will not convince a truly aware being that it is actuallyaware.


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In this TED talk, architect and urbanist Teddy Cruz urges us to rethink urban growth. Sharing lessons from the slums of Tijuana, Cruz denounces the "stupid" and consumption-driven ways in which our cities have been expanding and declares that the future depends on the reorganization of social economic relations.
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AIAS FORUM 2011 To Be Held In Sunny Phoenix Arizona
The annual AIAS FORUM meeting for 2011 will take a break from the snow of the past two years (2009 Minnesota, 2010 Toronto) and be held in sunny downtown Phoenix, Arizona. FORUM is the annual meeting of the AIAS and the premier global gathering of architecture and design students. The conference provides students with the opportunity to learn about important issues facing architectural education and the profession, to meet students, educators, and professionals with common interests, and to interact with some of today's leading architects through keynote addresses, tours, workshops and seminars, last years FORUM was attended by over 1,000 young and ambitious architecture students and AIAS members. This years Keynote Speakers will be Jeffrey Inaba, founder of C-Lab and former project manager with Rem Koolhaas and OMA, Brad Lancaster, author of www.harvestingrainwater.com, and University of Californa, San Diego architect and professor Teddy Cruz.


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The graph of y=5X^2-5 is the graph of y=X^2-1 stretched vertically or horizontally?
I get that it streches by 5 but how do i tell if its vertical or horizontial?
What are the x and y intercepts of F(x)=4xsquared-1?
i got +or-1/8 for the x intercept but im sure its wrong. I thought i got it in class but i guess not. Why is math pure 30 required for college
Any thing done before the "main function" changes x (and so affects the graph horizontally), anything done after the "main function" changes y (and so affects the graph vertically).
Here your "main function" is given as . multiplies by 5 after doing and so affects the graph vertically.
The x-intercepts are where the graph "intercepts" the x-axis and so y= 0. is the same as or . The x-intercepts are at x= and . Some people refer to the "x-intercepts" as just the x value ( and ) and some as the points ( and . Check with your teacher or textbook to see which convention is used in your class.
The y-intercepts are where the graph "intercepts" the y-axis and so x= 0. Just put x= 0 into to get y= -1. Again, the y-intercept is either the value y= -1 or the point (0, -1) depending on the convention used.
I have no idea what "math pure 30" is but (liberal arts) colleges want you to be educated in a broad range of subjects. You will very likely be required to take at least one mathematics course in college.


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- Birthdate: 06/02/1977 (age 39)
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- Weight: 215 Ib
He is best known for his 12-year tenure in Tota...
TNA could be closing its doors in the relevant future. What a loaded statement right? I mean; the company is only in its eleventh year and still in a form of infancy as far as businesses go.
I can admit that for an 11-year old company, TNA is doing quite well for themselves. Many pay-per-views are great enough to be considered the greatest matches of all-time. AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Bully Ray, Gunner, Bobby Roode and Austin Aries on a roster full of other great wrestlers can be considered an amazing wrestling promotion.
Let's not look at the sole fact that it's not succeeding at this moment. To clarify, they aren't succeeding in the business-world, but may be in the fan's world.
To make my insane judgment come to pass, let's take a trip down memory lane.
July 3rd, 2013: With the help of pro wrestling.net as a partial source, it was reported that TNA was a month late on the payroll and it got so bad that a former champ claimed to be six weeks behind on his pay. This did happen one other time, but someone in the office was behind, which is understandable if true.
July 3rd, 2013: TNA releases five talented stars from the roster including Crimson, Christian York, Madison Rayne, Joey Ryan and Taeler Hendrix. A few weeks later, Matt Morgan was released, so was D-Lo Brown. To add on, they re-signed Tax after the slew of cuts.
July 3rd, 2013: Reports of OVW and TNA's relationship in shambles. Those problems include former head trainer Rip Rodgers' problems about money. Also, sources to Al Snow claim he is making promises to wrestlers that he can't keep.
July 4th, 2013: According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, TNA house shows that took place on June 26th and 27th accommodated fans of 750 fans and 700 respectively. While the Impact Zone holds 1,350 fans, scoring only 700 is not something to be proud of.
July 4th, 2013: More from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, those long waits for pay aren't just wrestlers, but officials as well.
July 8th, 2013: Thanks to tnawrestlingnews.com, EWN and they found that one source blamed the late pay on the Panda Energy (owner of TNA) side of things. Just to add something, Panda is worth billions of dollars, much more than WWE.
One wrestler said he knew of wrestlers who were four weeks behind on pay. And, there were reports of third party vendors having problems with receiving payment. Lastly, over the past few weeks, regular office workers have been departing the company. Not one of them were Impact executives.
July 17th, 2013: Bruce Prichard has been officially release from his position as Senior Vice President, Programming & Talent Relations position that he has held since October 2011. Eric Bischoff commented on it saying, "Been a tough, productive week. Great teamwork netted a great Impact on Spike Thursday. I'm going to miss working with Bruce Pritchard..."
"Bruce has been a key player at the Big Show and knows the business. But I respect the fact that he puts family first." And that was according to wrestlingnewssource.com.
July 22nd, 2013: The night prior, there was a huge complication at a house show in Missouri that six wrestlers could not even compete at the show, due to not having a license to wrestle in the state.
The Missouri Athletic Commission would not allow Chris Sabin, Garrett Bischoff, Jay Bradley, Wes Brisco, Gail Kim and Miss Tessmacher to work. Eight wrestlers performed for an hour and a half in front of a crowd of 500.
That brings us to where we are today, a week after Destination-X. The former PPV brought in a 1.16 ratings on the scale, which is much better than normal TNA shows that usually provide a .8.
Now, I told all of you in the beginning of this post that I enjoy TNA. I like the fact that wrestling is a priority because in WWE, that is not the case. It's all about Entertainment over at the "E".
I urge all of the wrestling fans reacting to this post by considering the "business" aspect of it all. You can be a fan of the product all you want and I believe the product to be quite good, much better than a couple of years ago.
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Clarke denies dossier plot
Michael Clarke is adamant he had no knowledge that a dossier outlining precisely how Australia will attack South Africa over the next month would be leaked to the media on the eve of the first Test.
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Several newspapers carried the story that said Australia would look to use short-pitched bowling and verbal aggression to get into the heads of the Proteas, the number one-ranked Test nation.
Dubbed the 'Protea files', the dossier dissects the strengths and weaknesses of the South African squad and the methods intended to unsettle them - including world-number-one batsman Hashim Alma, who it is suggested Australia will target in a 'psychological war'.
Asked if he knew if the file was deliberately leaked to newspapers as part of a mental game with the South Africans, Clarke told reporters: "I can only talk from my behalf - no, not that I know of.
"Good read, wasn't it? There's certainly information in there that's common knowledge.
"We as a team don't have an official dossier, as such. We look at footage, we talk about opposition players, we study opposition strengths and weaknesses as a bowling group and a batting group.
"There was some other stuff in there that was quite an interesting read ... (that) we certainly haven't spoken about.
"At the end of the day we have plans for every opposition we play against and it's no different against South Africa."
This is not the first time a secret Australian cricket team document has been published in full ahead of a series.
In 2000, former coach John Buchanan's entire gameplan was leaked ahead of a one-day tournament in New Zealand.
Clarke said the onus was on Australia to stop talking about what they plan to do in the three-Test series which begins tonight at the Gabba, and simply get it done.
"Both teams would have read the papers, that's for sure. That's what we do," he said.
"The most important thing for me is, it's not about what you say, it's about what you do.
"That's the Australian team's attitude at the moment, making sure tomorrow morning we turn up.
"Enough's been said in the media, the series has been built up beautifully. Now it's about what we do."
Meanwhile, Australia are no closer to deciding who their 12th man will be for the first Test at the seamer-friendly Brisbane ground.
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Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Gameplay Puts The Power In Your Hands
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is a game that will literally put the power in your hands. Five years since the release of Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, Skyrim aims to please hardcore RPG fans with its intriguing story and immersive world. With the brand new Creation Engine, this RPG experience will be more personal than ever before. Watch...
Skyrim Info Dump: Bethesda Talks Beards, Dragon-Transformation And More
There is no game I'm more looking forward to than Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. All I want is more hours in the day this fall, when the game comes out, so I'll have enough time to truly experience the game. Game Director Todd Howard, Lead Designer Bruce Nesmith, and Lead Artist Matt Carofano answered fans' questions in a triple-team, forum Interview...
Skyrim Pre-Order To Include Exclusive Premium World Map
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim pre-orders will include a premium map of Skyrim. The map is the tangible kind and you'll only be able to get it if you pre-order the game. I know a real life map doesn't sound enticing at first, but Elder Scrolls players know the importance of taping the giant map to the wall right next the TV or monitor. Plus, this...
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A bunch of new Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim screenshots have been released, and they are not a joke, in spite of the date on the calendar. They show off a lush and detailed world reminiscent of the works of Frank Franzetta. Fun Fact of the day: If Skyrim had been released in 1978, it would have been on the side of a van. Check out the entire...
Skyrim Gameplay Trailer vs. Oblivion Trailer -- Elder Scrolls Comparison
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is the sequel 2006's The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Bethesda has had five years to build on Oblivion, so we decided to make a comparison video showing the progress. The Elder Scrolls IV was built on the Gamebryo engine while The Elder Scrolls V used a new engine called the Creative Engine. Can you see any major...
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Gameplay Trailer Shows Combat, Landscape And Dragon Shout
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim's first gameplay trailer will blow you away. Skyrim is built on a brand new engine called the Creative Engine. The engine promised to provide gamers with amazing graphics. This trailer proves Bethesda made good on their promises; combat, AI and even snowfall have been improved. I don't know what's more impressive,...
Bethesda Will Award Free Games For Life If You Give Birth To A Child On 11/11/11 And Name It "Dovahkin"
Bethesda let us know last week that if we wanted to give birth to a child on the day The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is released then February 18th would be an ideal time to conceive. Readers of the Bethesda Blog had a nice laugh over the original post but it turns out Bethesda wasn't simply pointing out a fun fact, but setting us up for a real...
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Uses Bethesda's Creation Engine -- Upgraded Graphics And AI
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim has been anticipated by fans of Oblivion since its release in March of 2006. Bethesda is aware of the high expectations fans have due to the success of The Elder Scrolls IV and Fallout 3. To make sure every tree has leaves, every glacier sparkles and every arrow is sharp Bethesda is building Skyrim on a new engine...
Todd Howard Gives Elder Scrolls 5, Bethesda Studio Behind The Scenes Tour
The fine folks over at Bethesda Softworks are currently busting their swords and shields working on its next epic RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, but studio head Todd Howard recently took some time out of his "busy" schedule to give Game Informer a behind the scenes look at the daily operations of one of the most respected...
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Details Emerge
Ever since the throaty voice of Max Von Sydow spouted his "Power of Christ compels you!" urgency across the trailer for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, we were hooked. Of course, if you were looking for any…you know…actual information about the title itself, there wasn't much to be gleaned from the trailer. Simply...
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Cryptic Code Has Been Cracked
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was announced a month ago with a dramatic trailer that left plenty to the imagination as few details were given, other than dragons will most likely be in it. Game Informer's February Issue will feature more information on Skyrim in the form of a cryptic poem written in the "tongue of dragons," a language...
The Future of RPGs: Looking Forward At Diablo 3, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Mass Effect 3 And More
We looked to the future as part of Epictober back in, er ... October, but suffice it to say, we're still looking forward to 2011. We've updated these posts with the games that were announced since then, and here's what you can start looking forward to in 2011 and beyond. Just as a friendly reminder, 2011 starts in less than a week. So start...
Gaming in 2011 - Sessler's Soapbox
As the New Year approaches, it's natural to look forward and try to predict what will happen in the next year. Adam Sessler is no different, and with the long list of amazing games set to release in 2011 he just had to take a moment to gaze into his crystal ball. What games are you excited to play next year? Watch Larger Version | Watch...
Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Built On Brand New Engine
According to a tweet from Bethesda, the new Elder Scrolls game, Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim will be built on a new engine. Here's the tweet: "Seeing lots of speculation about #tesv game engine. It's brand new... and it's spectacular!" The last Elder Scrolls game is powered by Gamebryo, which has a reputation for being a glitchy engine,...
Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Release Date Announced
At the VGA awards moments ago, Bethesda's Todd Howard announced and dated the newest Elder Scrolls game. Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim will be available on November 11, 2011. We'll fill in the specific details as we get them, but until then, here's a little background on Skyrim. It's the the northernmost province of Tamriel, and home to the Falmer,...


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The West Texas A&M women's basketball team has announced the signing of junior college transfer Deatra Wheeler and incoming freshman La Tia Banks for the 2001-02 season.
Wheeler, a 5-foot-8 wing from Neosho County Community College (Kan.) was named first-team all-conference last season after averaging 17.4 points and making 42 percent of her 3-point field-goal attempts.
"Deatra is a good shooter with a good release who is also a fine ball-handler and passer," Lady Buffs coach Bob Schneider said. "She is a good leader who is very personable, and we expect her to become a leader even as a newcomer."
Banks is a 5-4 point guard from Crowley High School (near Fort Worth), where she was an all-district selection last season. Banks averaged 10.4 points, 6.7 assists and 3.8 steals per game last basketball season, and in track, she recently set a school record in the 400 meters at 57.96 seconds.
"La Tia is one of the quickest players we've had in a while," Schneider said. "She is a good ball-handler, can penetrate well and can also shoot the 3. She is the type that can get the ball down the floor very quickly."
Wheeler and Banks join the Lady Buffs' three early signees: Lauren Martin from Celina, Celeste Stevenson from Abilene Cooper and Val Wootan from Midland Christian.
Martin, a 5-9 guard, was last season's District 12-2A MVP, averaging 15.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 4.0 assists. Stevenson, a 5-9 wing, was named Big Country Super Team Class 4A-5A player of the year by the Abilene Reporter-News after averaging 18.4 points and 10.4 rebounds per game last season. Wootan, a 6-1 post, averaged 21.4 points and 9.5 rebounds last season and was her district's MVP.
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With yesterday's M4 release all wrapped up, this is the perfect time to 'talk shop' about the releases in general and some of the comments we are seeing.
What are the M's for?
The M-releases are our best effort to provide an actual 'release cycle' for ourselves and users alike. In previous generations of CM, we were super active but released sparingly, with months between releases and with an unpredictable cycle. This was bad for users, specifically those less likely to use nightlies, and bad for developers on our team – never knowing in advance when we'd collectively say "Okay, let's do a release now".
M-releases exist on a monthly cycle to force our hand at not only releasing, but addressing bug-fixes in a timely manner. These releases are scheduled for the first week of every month, usually the first Friday/Saturday. Every M release for CM 11 has gone through a very specific code preparation and release process, both of which were less stringent in CM's previous incarnations. In terms of time, this allows for roughly 3.5 weeks out of any given month for code review and mergers to be included in a release. The last week or so is spent making sure that the code for release is tested and branched accordingly to the new 'stable/cm-11.0′ branches on our Github (example). This ensures that newer, more experimental features are properly vetted in a separate release stream, and do not impede or prevent a timely release.
What M-releases are not
When we introduced the M's, the common consensus was that they were just specially named nightlies. This was close to true for the majority of the CM9 cycle and most of the CM 10.x cycle. With CM 11 though, this is no longer the case. CM 11 M# releases are a code path that lags behind nightlies.
This means a few things:
- Nightlies have newer code than the M-releases
- You should be extra careful flashing an M build on top of a new nightly due to #1
In Practice
As the Ghostbusters would say, "Don't cross the streams". While this isn't a hard-stop rule, it is still very apt advice to take into account. Let's give you a real-world scenario.
M4 was branched for release last week – let's use an easy date and say February 28th. This means all the code that exists in the stable/cm-11.0 branches on Github contain code 8 days old, with only bugfixes placed on top (or unstable features removed). This also means that any change merged in the last 8 days to the master 'cm-11.0′ branch is not captured in the branch for M4. On March 2nd, we merged in some relatively sweeping telephony changes based on QCRIL (Qualcomm specific radio code) and the beginnings of Multi-SIM phone support. If you are using a nightly from March 2nd to today, you have this new code. If you flashed M4, you don't. Simple enough right?
But what happens if you are on nightly March 7, for example, and then flash M4? In terms of code, you have just downgraded. Downgrading can be perfectly benign, or flat out make your phone unbootable. In the QCRIL example, if you downgraded you would see broken phone calls and radio behavior. This is one of the many reasons veteran users advocate making a backup before making any changes, and we'd echo that advice.
So what are the release streams?
There are effectively 3 release streams for CM: Nightlies, M/Stable, and Installer:
Nightlies are always the most bleeding edge in code, features, and yes, bugs (including the kind that may prevent the device from booting at all).
Update process: Flash a new nightly on top of the old – no need to wipe
M/Stable are specifically tagged, branched, tested and released. If you are a tinkerer but adverse to the chaos of nightlies, this is for you.
Update process: Flash a new M/Stable on top of the previous M/Stable – no need to wipe
Installer builds are those served via the CM Installer applications (Windows, Mac). These builds are specially signed and named separately – there is no concept of an 'M' build for this release channel – so saying 'Installer skipped M#' is an incorrect interpretation. This channel only ever receives specially created Stable builds – they even come with their own naming structure (eg XNPQ02R).
Update process: Incremental OTA's are provided using the CMFota application – updates are handled by device logic with minimal user interaction, no wipe needed
If you are a nightly user, use nightlies. If you prefer to tinker but want something less chaotic, use the M/Stables. If you aren't a tinkerer and don't want chaos, use the Installer builds (if available).
If you want to cross streams, make a backup first! It should also be noted, to cross into or out of the Installer build release channel will require you to wipe your data (due to the different key signing).
Devices and greenlights
As a team, we leave it to the maintainers to opt-in to releases. If for any reason your maintainer does not flag a device as ready for release – be it for technical reasons, lack of time, or anything else – we will not issue a release for that device.
For some examples, I'll point you to the d2lte, jflte and hlte devices. These are the unified builds we announced last month. The maintainers decided that the unified devices were not ready to be issued outside of the nightly release stream and so no builds for these devices were generated.
Part of what I do on this project is the user interaction – talking to you all via this blog, comments, forums, social media, etc. All too often I see "you didn't release for [device], you must have abandoned it". This simply is not the case. You trust the CM maintainers to keep your devices functional and in a working state, if you didn't you wouldn't be using the work that they provide. But part of that trust also entails trusting their decision making abilities about the suitability of any device for release. These guys are working hard to get your devices in the best possible shape – so when they say "no" to any particular release, don't take it as a slight against you, they are making a judgement call.
We all know that everyone wants the latest and greatest, but that mentality is for the nightly channel, and if the latest and greatest is what you want, use those. But for M/Stable, you want things that work (for those that will inevitably point out various bugs on M4 now, please do so constructively via JIRA).


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April 2012
String class
Nesin Cultural Arts Center, adults $5, students $3. nesinculturalarts.org.
Piano class
Nesin Cultural Arts Center, adults $5, student $3. nesinculturalarts.org.
Concert: Black Bear Conservatory of Music's 'Music Express'
Hawley Silk Mill, 7:30-9:30pm, $8. firstname.lastname@example.com.
CDD golf outing
Hosted by The Center for Developmental Disabilities at Lords Valley Country Club, shotgun start 12:30pm. Best ball format, fee includes lunch, dinner buffet receptions, awards & prizes. RSVP: 570/296-3992, ext. 64.
It's a family affair
While we desperately need the rain, wet weather does tend to impact family fun over the weekend here in the Upper Delaware valley. While the folks at Bethel Woods (www.bethelwoodscenter.org) have it covered—sponsoring indoor, kid-friendly events in the form of their World Stage Series—the moisture can affect the music, even with a roof overhead. Read more
Arrest in Honesdale arson cases
After a nearly one month long investigation, on 4/25/2012, the Honesdale Borough Police served an arrest warrant on Samuel Joseph WEST age 33 from Honesdale, for the two arsons that took place on 03/30/12 in the Borough of Honesdale. WEST was arrested at SCI Waymart where he is currently incarcerated on unrelated charges.
WEST was arraigned at the Wayne County Courthouse where he was formally charged with 2 counts of felony Arson Endangering Persons, 2 counts of misdemeanor Causing or Risking a Catastrophe, and 19 counts of misdemeanor Recklessly Endangering Another person. Read more
Bethel adopts drilling ban
The board of the Town of Bethel became the third in Sullivan County to change their zoning in a way that bans gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing. The vote at the town meeting on April 26 was five to zero. Read more
Concert: The Speckers
Featuring John & daughters Lila & Ida Mae playing roots of American music at Tusten Theatre, 8pm, $22. 845/252-7272.
Solar Sundays
Introduction to energy efficiency & renewable energy, inspection of several on-site systems at Apple Pond Farm & Renewable Energy Education Center, noon-2pm, $20. 845/482-4764.
Peace of Mind introductory meditation retreat
Take a break from the stresses & hectic pace of life at Kadampa Meditation Center through 5/13, $75 (accommodations extra). 845/856-9000.


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Hailey: No, we weren't...we were filmed for TV today.
Matt: What's the difference?
Hailey: sigh...
Matt: Anyway, some new people came into the house and we didn't even cry.
Hailey: Yeah...we were totally cool. Oh, and my dress was beautiful.
Matt: sigh...
Hailey: They set up this HUGE camera in our living room with a really bright light.
Matt: Oh my God...that thing hurt my eyes. Then this lady started asking Mommy a bunch of boring questions about infertility, her feelings, what she went through. All I heard was "blah, blah, blah..."
Hailey: You are so silly. That's important stuff!
Matt: Why? Hailey: Because if Mommy and Daddy didn't go through all of that, we wouldn't be here.
Matt: I still don't get it...
Hailey: sigh...
Matt: Then they just wanted to film us playing. This kind of made me happy b/c Mommy and Daddy (mostly Daddy since Mommy is a gimp) spent so much time cleaning up and I couldn't find any of my toys.
Hailey: Seriously...Matt went on a spree and pulled lots of toys out. I kept hiding from Fred...he was the cameraman and he was huge! We don't have people that tall in our house very often...it was cool.
Matt: All of the sudden, everyone packed up and went bye bye! I was thinking they'd follow us around all day, but they said something about working since 3:30 AM, so I excused them.
Hailey: You excused them? Like they're your servants or something?
Matt: I wish I had servants!!!
Hailey: Then it was all over and we had to get back to normal life...how boring.
Matt: Seriously! The food store and playing outside...YAWN!
Hailey: It's so funny when you scream "NO FOOD STORE!" over and over while Mommy ignores you and then you spend the entire time flirting with all the ladies.
Matt: I do have a way with the women.
Hailey: Then Daddy took us to the park and we went WHEEEEE on the swings for a while.
Matt: Awesome.
Hailey: Tomorrow is our orientation for preschool...so exciting. We get to scope out our teacher.
Matt: Yes, and the ladies.
Hailey: G.G. is also coming tomorrow b/c Mommy has to see the doctor for her knee.
Matt: Mommy hurt her knee. She needs to get it fixed b/c she can't play with us the right way anymore...it kind of sucks.
Hailey: So, we're not sure how long Mommy will be out of commission, but we're pretty sure that she'll be back to writing on this blog before she's back to playing with us.
Matt: Yeah...we heard her saying something about being able to write while under the influence of pain killers, but taking care of kids is another matter. Personally, I think it would be easier to take care of us while under the influence, but what do I know? I'M TWO!!!
Hailey: And with that being said, thanks Matt, we're done for the night. We're already up way past our bedtime.
Matt: Wish us luck with our new school tomorrow.
Hailey: Oh, and Mommy too...hopefully this will fix her b/c she knocked her kneecap out twice in the past two days...silly kneecap...stay put!
Matt: Good night...
Hailey: Sleep tight...
Matt: Don't let the Ice Cream Man get you...
Hailey: sigh...
This is a picture of us "waiting" for Daddy to take us to the park...patient, aren't we?


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Journal of Central Nervous System Disease 2009:1 39-43
Published on 30 Mar 2009
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The use of Telemedicine in the assessment of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's Disease is evolving with advances in Information and Communication Technology. This article outlines the course of evolution in Western Australia, a large state with a sparse population outside of the capital city. The starting point of the evolution, video-conferencing in Telehealth studios, is reviewed as well as the next stage, use of desktop technology, which enables the physician to consult from the office or clinic. A pilot study currently being undertaken to assess the validity of the latest stage in evolution of Telehealth - the use of handheld mobile cell phone video calling that allows the physician and patient to interact at locations convenient to both parties. The pitfalls and implications of the use of this stage, should it prove to be a valid approach, are discussed.
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text: Finding drunks in a bar -- what are the chances?Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:02 AM ETSAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on Wednesday.The first sting operation was conducted recently in a Dallas suburb where agents infiltrated 36 bars and arrested 30 people for public intoxication, said the commission's Carolyn Beck.Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkeness, Beck said.The goal, she said, was to detain drunks before they leave a bar and go do something dangerous like drive a car."We feel that the only way we're going to get at the drunk driving problem and the problem of people hurting each other while drunk is by crackdowns like this," she said."There are a lot of dangerous and stupid things people do when they're intoxicated, other than get behind the wheel of a car," Beck said. "People walk out into traffic and get run over, people jump off of balconies trying to reach a swimming pool and miss."She said the sting operations would continue throughout the state.


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CSI CATS The evidence clearly points to "well who the hell is going to feed us now!!!!"
After the incident with the dead rat in the Gucci bag, Susan was understandably suspicious of her "birthday present".
Well, I got 9 flies, 2 cockroaches and a dead moth. Is not tuna, but hey... it's the ghetto!


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The ailing chief executive of metro Toledo's second largest corporation, Owens-Illinois Inc., is stepping down and being replaced by an O-I board member.
Steven McCracken, the chief executive and chairman who had surgery for stomach cancer in August, will leave his job by the end of November.
Named by the Perrysburg company yesterday as the new CEO and chairman is Albert Stroucken, who had been CEO and chairman of H.B. Fuller Co., a St. Paul, Minn., manufacturing of adhesives, sealants, and other chemical products.
He resigned his Minnesota post yesterday morning, and starts Dec. 4 at his job at the top of one of the world's largest glass-bottle makers.
Mr. Stroucken, 58, has been a member of O-I's board since August, 2005. He oversaw a financial turnaround at H.B. Fuller after being named chairman and CEO in the late 1990s. His company had $1.5 billion in sales last year.
The announcement was almost as surprising as the July disclosure about Mr. McCracken's cancer. Last month, the firm announced the 53-year-old would not be back to work full-time for a while as he underwent post-operative care.
His health status is unchanged, said Carol Gee, a spokesman for the $7.2 billion-a-year manufacturer of bottles for beer, wine, and other uses.
"This is about certainty for the company, his family, and himself," Ms. Gee said yesterday.
Mr. McCracken came to O-I in 2004. He and the board of directors later authorized the firm's move from its long-time headquarters on Toledo's downtown riverfront to suburban Perrysburg. The firm has 30,000 global employees.
"We fully understand and respect Steve's decision," the newly appointed CEO said in a statement. "We thank him for his enormous contributions in leading our strategic transformation and I look forward to engaging with the employees of O-I to continue driving toward our goals."
Mr. Stroucken received praise yesterday for his work at H.B. Fuller, in particular for helping to boost the shares of the firm by 68 percent after taking over as CEO in 1998.
"Stroucken wrought a substantial positive transformation on the company," Wall Street analysts Allan Cohen and Ray Kramer of First Analysis Securities Corp. said in a report. "That transformation remains a work in progress."
The H.B. Fuller leader said in a Bloomberg News report: "I find myself ready for a change and a new challenge."
James Baehren, O-I's legal chief, took over temporary leadership of the local firm after Mr. McCracken's illness, though he was not given the title of CEO. With the arrival of a new CEO, he will return to his former post as general counsel, Ms. Gee said.
The O-I leadership change was announced after the close of the stock market last evening. Its shares rose 43 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $17.57 in trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Contact Gary T. Pakulski at:
or 419-724-6082.


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 The goal of this project is to improve access to water for irrigation in a community garden in Mali. When the men and women of the garden committee originally constructed the garden, they elected to expand its dimensions beyond what was planned by an additional 1250 m². However, they neglected to add an additional water source beyond the single well already planned. Unfortunately the well is not centrally located, making it significantly more difficult to water some sections of the garden than others. Primarily because of this issue, approximately 40% of the plots are untended at this point. Initial enthusiasm for the community garden project was such that the organizers had hoped to expand the garden yet again after a year. It seems unlikely that they will achieve this goal unless the irrigation process becomes simpler. The first step in that process is the construction of a second well.

 The garden committee took it upon themselves to collect funds for the digging of a traditional unimproved well, and proceeded to locate qualified laborers. They then approached the volunteer to see if it would be possible to improve the well to protect it from erosion and collapse.

 The funds requested would purchase cement and other re-enforcement materials for the community to construct an improved well. Successful implementation would allow the community to irrigate the entire garden, thereby securing the garden as an improved source of nutrition and allowing increased opportunities for income generation.

 Note: This summary was provided by a Peace Corps Volunteer and the community administering this project.
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