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Worry is not a plan; Hope is not a solution.
If it scares me, it's probably worth doing.
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by test driving this wacky idea on my way through South east Asia
I have had great experiences and met amazing people in India, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.
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Driven through Ho Chi Minh City traffic at rush hour. It's incredible.
Climbed Adam's peak in flip-flops and managed to do it without hurting my knees though my calves were shaking like pretty pledges at a frat party after all the girls have gone back to the dorm.
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I can teach yoga, I can cook with recipes and even a little without, I can bake bread, and I have a great sense of direction.
Countries I've Visited
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So long, said the Maya
But why, and why didn't they return? Some fresh discoveries hold clues
By Dan Vergano
YUCATAN, Mexico � Bird calls ring from the forest, echoing amid the crumbling ruins whose darkened doorways have long beckoned explorers and scholars.
The Maya ancients who built the ruins of Kiuic (kee-week) here fled those doorways in a hurry, an international archaeology team now realizes. Left behind may be frozen-in-time clues to the fabled collapse of their civilization.
"Why did they leave? That's the question," says archaeologist George Bey of Millsapps College in Jackson, Miss. The ancient Maya fled Kiuic, nestled in the Puuc (pook) foothills of the Yucatan, around 880. "Things were going full-bore, construction was underway. And things stopped," Bey says.
Archaeologists have explored Kiuic's ruins for more than a century, but working since 2000, Bey and colleagues are now reporting the first evidence of this rapid abandonment. USA TODAY was invited to the site to see what has been uncovered in the latest excavations.
The "classic" Maya peopled the lowland forests of Central America during Europe's Dark Ages, building a civilization of pyramids, palaces and slash-and-burn "milpa" farms made by burning trees and planting seeds in the ash. Maya rulers oversaw city-states that warred with one another, created elaborate calendars and lasted centuries. The abandonment of those monument-strewn centers stands as one of archaeology's most-debated mysteries. The "collapse" was underway in modern-day Guatemala by 800, but didn't take place at Kiuic until almost a century later.
Farther north, at centers such as Mayapan, pyramids and temples stayed in business until the arrival of Spain's conquistadors in the 1500s. The Maya people themselves remained, of course, with millions living today in Central America, from modern-day El Salvador to Mexico.
Scholars are entranced with the ruins at Kiuic that still bear the last traces of their owners' flight, a Maya version of Pompeii, the entombed town of Roman archaeological fame. Overlooked and overgrown for more than a millennium, a variety of clues now beg for interpretation:
•Walls, perfectly laid out with corner and vault stones, lying flat on the ground and waiting to be erected atop the second floor of a palace.
•A half-finished plaza, one side stuccoed and completed, the other composed of bowling-ball-sized stones.
•Pots and grinding stones left neatly in homes, awaiting their owners' return.
At Kiuic, "the evidence for rapid abandonment now appears more compelling," says archaeologist Takeshi Inomata of the University of Arizona-Tucson, who heads efforts to investigate the Maya settlement of Aguateca in Guatemala, a site suddenly abandoned in 830 during warfare. "It is a very important discovery."
Pumas roam the forest lining the overgrown trail leading out of Kiuic. Stones crumble underfoot on the tree-bedecked hillside, threatening to tumble visitors to the forest floor. Once a stair built of the stones, the Escalero al Cielo (Stairway to Heaven) leads to ruins of a temple courtyard and many homes that await 200 feet above.
"The climb kept away looters, and also sometimes older archaeologists," says Tom�s Gallareta Negr�n of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, a co-director of the site with Bey and William Ringle of Davidson (N.C.) College. Gallareta Negr�n has pioneered efforts to turn the site into a nature reserve and education center.
Kiuic has been visited by archaeologists since at least 1841, when John Lloyd Stephens, the so-called American Traveler, recorded the site for his Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, a best seller of the pre-Civil War era. Some of the ruins he noted at that time still stood there this summer, such as the three-story-tall Yaxch� pyramid and Kuche palaces.
But the Stairway to Heaven homes high above the site now attract as much, or more, attention from the archaeologists. During excavations last year, archaeologists found pottery and stone tools left in place inside homes, including a wealthy farmer's kitchen room perched on the edge of the hill. Corn grinding stones called metates still rest on their sides next to doorways, at the ready for preparing another meal.
In June, excavations revealed more pottery left neatly under another collapsed roof in the farmer's home. And under the floor of the main room, researchers found the site of a double burial. "We think these are ancestors of some kind," a burial arrangement in line with the practices of the ancient Maya, says archaeologist Stephanie Simms of Boston University. "They certainly merited special treatment," she says, buried with jade beads and elaborate stone tools.
The owners never returned, Simms says. "People left the hill in haste, they didn't take everything with them, a lot of artifacts were found."
Says anthropologist Rani Alexander of New Mexico State University-Las Cruces: "Rapid abandonments are rare finds for archaeologists. The new information at Kiuic offers another take on the Maya collapse."
Drought, disease, warfare, corn-borers, worn-out soils � almost as many theories as ruins abound to explain the collapse. "The Maya were not a single people. There were numerous regional languages and numerous regional cultures," Ringle says. Whatever led to the rapid abandonment at Kiuic will offer only clues to collapses elsewhere, not some sort of final word on the large-scale emptying of centers that took place across the Maya world.
The Puuc region has its own particular architecture, marked by small columns along tops of walls, the "colonette" style. But the palaces and temples conform to classic Maya styles, long row-houses facing each other across a central plaza. They built rooms whose narrow stone vaults simply leaned into each other, unlike true arches.
Towering trees bite into the limestone blocks fronting the ruins at Kiuic, and they hide dozens of ruins there from visitors' eyes. Once the trees only hugged the ridge tops, and the land below was cleared for plazas and corn. Today the site is thick with trees, vegetation and ticks, and years of swallow droppings have left a signature stench.
Kiuic's population boomed, reaching perhaps 4,000 inhabitants, just as the centers more than 200 miles farther south, at Tikal, Copan and Aguateca, suffered abandonment. "Undoubtedly there were some people who arrived here from that time, but Kiuic had already been thriving then for centuries," Bey says. The growth saw the elites move up the Stairway to Heaven (Gallareta acknowledges he is the Led Zeppelin fan behind the name) from which they could survey their fields.
Around that time, 850, populations swelled throughout the Puuc foothills, perhaps most notably at the city of Uxmal. Now a World Heritage Site about 20 miles north of Kiuic (as the crow flies, not by driving), Uxmal became a capital of the Yucatan Maya for centuries afterward. The newcomers likely added to already-growing populations.
But that growth just stopped in the hills at Kiuic and nearby sites, which had been occupied from 900 B.C. onwards by the Maya. "When they left, they didn't come back," Bey says.
"We know where they went � there are millions of Maya living today closer to the coast. Why would they leave here and not return for the things they left?"
Warfare, suggests Inomata, whose Aguateca site in Guatemala is surrounded by walls. However, Kiuic and the other towns close by show no signs of fortifications. The only warlike signs discovered are spear points dug up in the central plaza.
Another possibility is a long-term drought that dried up the choltuns, large holes dug in the limestone floors of the forest to contain water. Still that wouldn't explain why people never returned after 1,900 years of occupation. Choltuns seem to have only come into widespread use in the Puuc a few centuries before the abandonment, so people had made do without them before.
The careful packing of homes at the Stairway to Heaven points to a methodical retreat, not a plague or war, as well as another riddle. The whole ancient Maya way of life centered on ritual destruction of old homes and goods (smashed bits of pottery underlying the floors of structures serve as one of the handiest dating devices available to archaeologists) as a starting point for building anything new.
The whole idea of a widespread catastrophic collapse of the classic Maya is overstated, Alexander says, suggesting centers likely went through many cycles of building, abandonment and reuse.
So for now, the archaeologists will continue exploring these questions next summer. Residues in the pottery at the Stairway to Heaven should precisely time its abandonment, through carbon dating. Burnt wood left amid the burials should similarly time the site's construction. The team will keep asking questions with each new bit of evidence, aiming to uncover clues to Kiuic's collapse and the wider fall of a civilization.
"Kiuic is just one of many sites," Bey says. "What's important is the research there. What we are learning at Kiuic is crucial for a rethinking about the rise and fall of the Maya civilization in this part of the world."
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Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae handed out the warrants for 20 cabinet ministers and eight ministers outside cabinet at a Government House ceremony on Wednesday.
Mr Key formed his government after signing support agreements with ACT, United Future and the Maori Party, which gave him 64 votes in the 121-member parliament.
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PITTSBURGH - Cole Hamels insists that leading the major leagues in losses doesn't bother him and he has been able to keep a positive attitude in the most difficult season of his eight-year career.
"I've played a lot of baseball and I've pitched in a lot of games, and I know I'm going to play a lot more baseball and pitch in a lot more games," Hamels said. "I know that my record is just kind of a blip on the radar and you have to be who you are."
Hamels looked more like a former World Series MVP on Thursday as he pitched seven strong innings, Carlos Ruiz hit a tiebreaking single and the Phillies beat Gerrit Cole and the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-4 Thursday.
Hamels (3-11) gave up one earned run and five hits, striking out eight without a walk. He won for the first time since June 5.
"It was being able to get back to what I know, which is establish the strike zone early then throw all my pitches," Hamels said. "Ultimately, it was staying down in the zone. That's where I've got hurt in the past, I get guys where I want them and not able to finish them off because I'm getting too many balls up in the zone."
Cole (4-1) lost for the first time in the majors after becoming the first Pirates pitcher to win his first four career starts since Nick Maddox in 1907. Cole allowed three runs and eight hits in 5 1/3 innings.
"I thought he pitched well," Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said. "He's a 22-year-old young man. He's still learning, continuing to grow. He's fun to watch."
Ben Revere had three of the Phillies' 13 hits and two RBIs. Ruiz, Jimmy Rollins and Delmon Young each had two hits.
"It's not so much the raw number of hits you have but what you get them," Young said. "We were playing the best team in baseball with the Pirates. Their pitching has been outstanding and their offense has been lagging but they're winning because they hit in the clutch. That's what we did today, and what we need to continue to do."


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FCS falls in Class A finals
MURFREESBORO — Stephen Gant fired a two-hitter and struck out 12, leading Decatur County to its second straight Class A baseball title with a 6-1 win over Friendship Christian at MTSU's Reese Smith Jr. Field Friday morning.
Gant also had three RBI as the Panthers (37-2) extended their win streak to 27 consecutive games.
""The kids overcame a lot this season to to reach this point," said Commander coach John McNeal. "Caleb (Snider) kept 'em off balance early, a good team like that is going to bite you when you make defensive mistakes."
Decatur County took a 1-0 lead in the third inning on second baseman Cale Mitchell's throwing error. Friendship (29-9) tied it 1-1 on Connor Gaines' RBI single in the fourth, but ended the inning with the bases loaded.
Decatur County scored three in the fifth to take a 4-1 lead on Gant's RBI triple and Ryne Bivens' two-run double.
Gant helped his own cause with a two-run double to increase the Panthers' lead to 6-1 in the sixth inning.
Dylan Boyd finished 3-for-3 for the Commanders while Kyle Wood had a pair of runs batted in.


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According to a leading Shahrukh Khan's two conditions are, " Shahrukh Khan's film contract reportedly made two things clear: One, the actor will not lock lips with his heroine on screen; two, he will not ride a horse. The second condition came into being after SRK experienced severe back pain a few years ago."
Due to his back pain Shahrukh Khan also underwent a major cervical surgery few years back. Talking about his surgery Shahrukh Khan had said, ''I'm fine but its too early to say. One does not really know how good or bad a surgery is till life goes on. But as always, the spirit cannot be stymied.''
Well, we understand why Shahrukh says no to ride a horse but it seems that the actor is really scared of his wife Gauri that is why he does not kiss any actress onscreen!


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Henry Reich's MinutePhysics YouTube channel is a highly entertaining and educational foray into the world of physics and space and mysteries of the universe. I've featured it several times on this blog as ways to present complicated information to viewers in a visual format.
With MinuteEarth, Reich is doing the same thing with Earth-based topics, specifically biology and environmental topics. This week, he tackles the issue of bedbugs. Hmmmm.
WARNING: You may never go back to sleep after watching this.
Anyone else checking their mattresses tonight?
Keith Shaw rounds up the best in geek video in his ITworld.tv blog. Follow Keith on Twitter at @shawkeith. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.


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How Bad is it to Sniff Sharpies?
Sharpies are a brand name line of permanent markers that are known for their ability to write on glossy surfaces. There are no warning labels on Sharpie markers. However, they bear the new AP (Approved Product) certification symbol of The Art & Creative Materials Institute, Inc. (ACMI). The new AP (Approved Product) Seal identifies art materials that are safe and that are certified in a toxicological evaluation by a medical expert to contain no materials in sufficient quantities to be toxic or injurious to humans, including children, or to cause acute or chronic health problems. They are considered non-toxic for "normal uses", meaning writing on posters, soccer balls, and for other creative projects.
However, according to the manufacturer'sSafety Data Sheets (MSDS), various Sharpies contain: n-propanol, n-butanol,diacetone alcohol and cresol. The first of these, n-propanol, is commonly used in cosmetics. The other three, however, are industrial solvents, chemicals that should not be sniffed, eaten, or put on the skin. As solvents, they penetrate the skin and fingernails and can enter the bloodstream.
Many solvent are used in every day ordinary products. Unfortunately these products are also used for getting high. If the vapors from these products are sniffed directly from the can, bottle or container, it is called "inhaling". If the vapors from these products are sprayed into a bag, empty pop can or container and then breathed in, this is called "bagging". Lastly, the vapors can be sprayed or poured onto a cloth or piece of clothing (say, a sock) and inhaled deeply or put into the mouth, a practice called "huffing". These products are cheap, you can find them in your home or buy them at any local grocery, hardware or variety store, and they are easy to hide. The 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse revealed that the primary population of inhalant abusers is the 12 to 17 age group, followed by the 18 to 25 year old population. In 2000, 18% of eighth graders admitted having used inhalants (huffing) at least once in their lifetime.
Substances commonly used by inhalant abusers fall into several categories:
· Volatile solvents, such as those found in felt tip markers, paint thinner, gasoline, nail polish remover, glue and other house hold products
· Aerosol sprays containing propellants and solvents (spray paint, deodorant, and hair care products.)
· Gases, most commonly nitrous oxide (laughing gas.)
Inhalants produce an effect that may be similar toalcohol intoxication. Initial symptoms described by abusers who were "huffing" include:
· Drowsiness
· Being light headed
· Loss of inhibition
· Dizziness
· Hallucinations or delusions
· Apathy
· Impaired judgment
Chronic inhalant abuse may result in serious and sometimes irreversible damage to the user's heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, and brain. Brain damage may result in personality changes, diminished cognitive functioning, memory impairment, and slurred speech. So to answer your question, if used for their intended use Sharpies do not present a danger to the people using them. But if a person's goal is to get high with the use of Sharpie's it is possible but as with any other type of solvent extremely dangerous.
If you have been getting high using some of the products mentioned above then you really need to stop right away to protect your health. If you are having trouble stopping then you need to get a substance abuse evaluation to see what level of treatment is needed.
If you live in northern New Jersey and need help finding a right treatment facility you can call the Access Center from Atlantic Behavioral Health at 888-247-1400. Outside of this area you can log onto the US Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website for referrals in your area. You can also contact your insurance company to get a list of in-network providers.
Teens often abuse prescription drugs because of the myth that these drugs provide a medically safe high.
It is estimated that major depressive disorder (MDD) affects about 5% of adolescents, and that between 10 - 15% of adolescents have some symptoms of depression at any one time.
Statistics show that giving a teen a credit card does not teach them to be financially responsible or to encourage self-restraint, but actually promotes a "spend now and deal with the consequences later" mindset.
Girls are more likely to intentionally abuse prescription drugs than boys.
The reality of excessive interest rates and fees that often accompany credit card use for teens, can put youngsters in a position where they are losing out on admission to graduate school, getting a job, or renting an apartment because of damaged credit history.
Less than 33% of teens with depression get help, yet 80% of teens with depression can be successfully treated if they seek help from a doctor or therapist.
Traffic crashes are the greatest single cause of death for all persons age 6-33, and about 45% of these fatalities are alcohol-related crashes.
About 6.2 million Americans get a new genital HPV infection each year.
30% of teens with depression also have a substance abuse problem.
Freshmen bring an average of $1,585.00 in credit card debt to college.
About a third of women who seek services related to unprotected sex, such as pregnancy testing or emergency contraception, do not receive STD counseling, testing, or treatment.
7-10% of college students will drop out of school because of credit problems.
Teens with untreated depression are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors, leading to higher rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Most smokers begin smoking as teens, and the average age of initiation is 12.5 years of age.
People with manic symptoms and Bipolar Disorder II are at a significant risk of later developing an alcohol abuse or dependence problem.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, accounting for 36% of all deaths in this age group.
The teen pregnancy rate in the United States is the highest of any industrialized democracy, nearly twice that of Great Britain and 10 times that of Japan. 4
Compared with other age groups, teens have the lowest rate of seat belt use, and male high school students are more likely than female students to rarely or never wear seat belts.
A national study of women ages 15-44 found that women were almost twice as likely to receive contraceptive services rather than STD services.
The teenage pregnancy rate in the U.S. is at its lowest level in thirty years, down 36% since its peak in 1990. Research suggests that both increased abstinence and positive changes in contraceptive practice are responsible these recent declines in teen pregnancy.
A sexually active teenager who does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within one year. 8
In the United States, at least 5-10 million girls and women and 1 million boys and men are struggling with eating disorders. 11
Among male drivers between 15 and 20 years of age who were involved in fatal crashes in 2005, 38% were speeding at the time of the crash and 24% had been drinking.
Homicide is the second leading cause of death among 15- to 24-year-olds overall. 16
Every two minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. 22
One in four teenage girls in the U.S. had at least one common sexually transmitted disease.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among youths ages 15 to 20. 19
The highest Chlamydia rates occurred among women ages 15 to 19 and 20 to 24.
About 44% of rape victims are under age 18. Three out of every twenty victims (15%) are under age 12. 25
Each year, half of all HIV infections are among people under the age of 25.
Crash risk is particularly high during the first year that teenagers are eligible to drive.
One out of every six American women have been the victims of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. A total of 17.7 million women have been victims of these crimes. 23
Teen girls ages 15-19 have the highest Gonorrhea rate of any age group.
The motor vehicle death rate for male drivers and passengers ages 16-19 is more than one and half times that of their female counterparts.
More than four in 10 young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20 - nearly one million teen pregnancies a year 3
The presence of teen passengers increases the crash risk of unsupervised teen drivers; the risk increases with the number of teen passengers.
Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in this country. More than 400,000 Americans die from tobacco-related causes each year, and most of them began using tobacco before the age of 18.
The risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among 16- to 19-year-olds than among any other age group.
Underage drinking costs the U.S. more than $58 billion every year; enough to buy every public school student a state-of-the-art computer.
At all levels of blood alcohol concentration (BAC), the risk of involvement in a motor vehicle crash is greater for teens than for older drivers.
Teens who drink are more likely to be victims of violent crimes and sexual assault, have serious problems in school, be involved in drinking-related traffic crashes, and develop problems with alcohol later in life.
Nearly all the poison deaths in the U.S. are attributed to drugs, and most drug poisonings result from the abuse of prescription and illegal drugs.
Alcohol kills 6.5 times more youth than all other illicit drugs combined.
Persons aged 15-24, who represent only 14% of the U.S. population, account for 30% ($19 billion) of the total costs of motor vehicle injuries among males and 28% ($7 billion) among females.
Among young people ages 12-17, prescription drugs have become the second most abused illegal drug, behind marijuana.


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The Champ Is Here
In 1999, Muhamma Ali was crowned Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated. Ali retired the same year Leon Chavis was born, but that hasn't stopped him from being fascinated with "The Champ." Inspired by Ali, Chavis has punched his way to the top of the Zydeco world. A main event in the Zydeco club, trailride and radio scene, Chavis has retired "Zydeco Soul Child," his old nickname, with a new, bold proclamation... "The Champ Is Here!"
Released in November 2012, 15 tracks. CLICK HERE TO ORDER!
Holla @ Me
On their second CD, Holla at Me, Leon Chavis and the Zydeco Flames offer smooth, polished contemporary zydeco that also draws on the energy and power of old style music played by Leon's cousin, the late Boozoo Chavis.
Released in November 2008, 16 tracks. CLICK HERE TO ORDER!
The Heat is On
There is a fresh new sound and movement in the Zydeco Nation. One can hear the rumblings over the sounds of crowd as Leon sings the anthem: "Everybody comes on out, just to hear Leon and the Zydeco Flames, because the Heat is On!"
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Tobey Maguire is reportedly planning to propose to his girlfriend of two years, Jennifer Meyer
Tobey Maguire, the actor best known for his action in "Spider-Man" movie, reportedly is planning to propose his girlfriend of two years, Jennifer Meyer. Still according to rumors, the idea to pop up the question came after Maguire learned that his best pal Leonardo DiCaprio's romance with Gisele Bundchen had fizzled out.
A source quoted as saying "Leo is still down about losing Gisele, and he told Tobey that if he really loves Jen, he should step up to the table and not twiddle his thumbs about marriage. He told me he absolutely wants to marry Jennifer in the coming year. He doesn't want to lose her! I think she'd marry Tobey in a second!"


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'The Wire' Actor Jamie "Marlo" Hector Talks Pusha T, Reveals Motivation For "My Name Is My Name"
Most fans of HBO's hit series The Wire know that the title for Pusha T's debut album My Name Is My Name is derived from a memorable quote from one of the show's most infamous characters, Marlo Stanfield. Jamie Hector, the Brooklyn actor who portray Marlo on the show recently sat down with The Urban Daily and reveal how he found out about the Virginia MC's homage and what inspired the line. Hector said he got word of the line's use by a friend. "I was in California at the time, and I got a text saying 'Did you hear that Pusha song?'" said Hector. "When I heard that he named the album that, I was like 'It's true bruh. Pusha T is your name and that's what everybody is going to remember, so you have to carry that weight.' I appreciated it."
Hector said, in order to help him get in character to deliver that particular monolog the show's producer gave him a similar scenario to ponder. "If IBM or Apple or any major corporation did not that know their name was being dragged through the mud, they would be pissed off with their employees when they found out, because your name is everything," he said. "It holds its weight and that's what brought the intensity for me to do that scene."
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Mind uploading: a link to a bunch of more links to preprints of journal articles
LessWrong and cryonics
Since I occasionally mention LessWrong and Eliezer Yudkowsky in favorable ways, I get questions about them from people who are suspicious. One thing that makes people suspicious is apparent high levels of enthusiasm for cryonics, which Quackwatch has labeled quackery, in part reasoning that we know brain cells deteriorate within minutes after death. [Read more…]
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A long time ago I decided that when I finally finished writing my book, I would make it available as an ebook on a pay-what-you-want basis (where "pay-what-you-want" means "even $0"). There are a couple reasons for doing this. The first is purely selfish. As Cory Doctorow likes to say, most creative types suffer more [Read More…]
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I've decided I finally have to set mine up. Any advice? I'm going to go post an ad on ELance, looking for someone who can design a cover for me, and redesign my blog banner while I'm at it. What else? [Read more…]
"People Make Poor Monitors for Computers"
That's the title of a new book that I intend to try to read, time permitting. There's sort of an encouraging thought in there: we've gotten so good at designing computers, that giving humans too much control over them may no longer be a good idea. [Read more…]
I really should know more about ebook formats. Help please?
I like the concept of ebooks, but I've never gotten a Kindle or Nook or anything like that. I just read them on my computer. So there's a lot I don't know about ebook readers. Like I only just now found out that EPUB is supposed to be great because you can read them on [Read More…]
It's hard to plan 75 years into the future
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I have officially stopped cleaning out my spam filter
When I started this blog, I initially tried to check the comment spam filter semi-regularly to see if legitimate comments were getting blocked. A few were, and I hit "not spam" on them. But as I type this, I now have 1,029 comments in the spam filter, and there's no way I'm going to find [Read More…]
What are AIs doing right now?
Though Luke and the LessWrong crew in general, I've recently gotten interested in in the future of AI. This has spilled over into an interest in what (weak) AIs are doing right now, which is why I want to highlight this fascinating story (and hilarious; via Cory Doctorow): [Read more…]


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Wife cannot drop charges. You need a good lawyer because you are facing serious charges and Harris County has a special division to handle cases in which complainants become uncooperative.
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Your wife cannot "drop charges." Criminal charging decisions in every American state are made by the police and District Attorney. Private citizens who are victims of crime can call the police and cooperate with the DA's efforts to prosecute the case, but that's it. There is no such thing as "pressing charges" aside from that.
I am not licensed to practice in Texas, but I can tell you that no one can tell you with any certainty what is likely to happen in a case based on so little information as is here. You need to consult with your own attorney, in private. You have the right to be appointed an attorney to represent you if you can't afford one.
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"I wrote that song," he says, "but they put a couple of lines in it. The melody was always there, and my producer, Quin Ivy, told me to put the feeling into it."
When a Man Loves a Woman topped the popular charts for two weeks in March, 1966. Using the uncontracted Fame Studio musicians of Rick Hall (the town's leading producer), including Spooner Oldham, who contributed the delicate organ legato, and the future Memphis Horns, it was Hall who actually passed the recording on to Jerry Wexler at Atlantic, since Ivy, an intellectual, and studio owner Marlin Greene, were greenhorns in the business.
Memphis Horn musician Wayne Jackson recalls the session. "Percy had the hugest smile and the biggest head of hair I've ever seen. I remember us being in a hurry to get back to Memphis. We'd been over at Rick's doing Wilson (Pickett), so this session wasn't particularly flashy with us, although we liked the song. To our surprise, the song hasn't been off the radio since."
One hit wonder? Not quite. Sledge, a cousin of soul singer Jimmy Hughes, hasn't recorded much, but to his credit, he's scored seven gold records, all found on the Best of Percy Sledge. Released in 1969, it was more of a concept album of classy, sad songs such as It Tears Me Up, Warm and Tender Love and Dark End of the Street. Despite few recording sessions between 1974 and 1994, Sledge toured the world on the back of Woman.
Then, in 1994, out of the blue came the Blue Night album. With Sledge's baritone intact, it included a soulful rendition of Otis Redding's I've Got Dreams To Remember. Welcoming the singer's return to the studio, Wexler described it as impeccable. As the producer of some of the most memorable songs in soul music, he should know.
Wexler would know about the tear in the singer's voice and must have kicked himself for returning to New York the day When a Man Loves a Woman fell into place in November, 1965. He would have identified the inherent sadness in the soaring baritone, noting, perhaps, its depth, comparable only to Joe Simon, who, like Sledge, was able to integrate a country feel into an r'n'b format with a tear.
"I do have a tear in there," Sledge explains. "If you heard my mother's voice in the church, you'd know I got it from her. Many people say I have a one-artist's voice."
With its church-inspired organ, When a Man Loves a Woman didn't just influence subsequent soul music. Rock musicians also took note. Procol Harum stretched the organ's phrasing on their classic A Whiter Shade of Pale in 1967, with its vocal drenched in a Sledge-like tone.
"I can tell you a strange story," says Sledge. "The Hammond organ came out strongly in 1966, and the keyboard also became a powerful instrument since the success of When a Man Loves a Woman. I was lying on a beach in Barbados listening to the transistor radio when I heard this beautiful song, A Whiter Shade of Pale. I said to myself, 'I have to record this', and I did.
"But I could never understand the lyrics. Gary Brooker, who was in the group, called me when I was in London next. I asked him what went through his mind when he wrote it, because I loved the poetry and the feeling of the song. Do you know what he said? 'I don't really know.'"
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La Junta and the Arkansas Valley is famous for its fresh vegetables and melons. As summer approaches the farm markets will open to the delight of residents and visitors alike.
Follow Highway 50 through Otero County: Late summer is here and so are the Farm Markets. The Arkansas Valley farmers have worked hard on their farms all season to grow a wide variety of produce. The farmer's markets are open now - and La Junta and the other towns along the Arkansas River Valley are inundated with visitors seeking the good bounty from this fertile land. Corn, melons, and fresh produce will be the treasures brought home from La Junta - ready to grace the tables throughout Colorado. The Farm Markets are such an important tradition in Southeast Colorado. Come on over to La Junta and check them out!
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Octagon Hall, Franklin, Ky.
Reported activity
Apparitions, many voices and evp's. Just about anything paranormal you can think of.
Our findings
In august 2008, we were invited to investigate the Octagon hall museum in Franklin Ky. by our friends at BGPS. This turned into a true event. It turned into a pretty good size group hunt with teams from all over. We were represented by Tom, Steve, Leonard, and JJ. There was BGPS from Frankfort Ky., ourselves, Capt from Iowa, and 2 taps family members Shannon from API in California, and Danny from Leinster Paranormal in Ireland. So this was an international group investigation. We get there to find the place had been broken into, and the sheriff was still doing a crime scene report. The owners still let us investigate even though they were broken into.
We split into groups and started investigating. Many clear evp's were picked up this night. We also got good results on our Irish wind chime (a description of this is on our equipment page) in one of the bedroom. The chime was seen swinging on a video monitor. No one was in the room. 2 different groups heard the sounds a little girl crying. Tom and Steve heard it in the library room down stairs. Danny and JJ heard it also, close to this area. This was the first time for hearing a disembodied voice for all four of these investigators. The voice of a little girl has been picked up all over the property of the Octagon Hall. It's believed she is the little girl who died when she got too close the fireplace in the basement. Her dress caught fire and she died later from her injuries.
In Nov., We were invited back by BGPS to the Octagon to help for the last night of the Halloween haunted tour. It was the least we could do to help recover the money from the break in from the day of our first visit. We were told the week before our visit the apparition of a civil war soldier was seen near the front door. That night we didn't get anything on video or in pictures, but again the Octagon gave us some great evps. We didn't get as much investigating in that night as we would like, but we were glad we could help for this fundraiser. Check out a few of the evps we collected on the player below.
There's most definitely something paranormal going on at the Octagon Hall in Franklin Ky. It's hard to base a haunt on an evp, but the number and quality of the evps make it hard to deny. Eddie Sloan of BGPS was in contact with Billy Byrd (the owner of the Octagon) to find out things have stepped up a little. After the break in, he installed an alarm with motion detectors. He told Eddie about the glass display case was turned on its side and the bed in a bedroom was moved to the center of the room with the bed clothes thrown off. All this happened without the alarm going off. It's obvious this place as a few intelligent spirits roaming its property, and maybe some residual activity lingering around too. Our vists are done with the octagon. We'll have more soon .


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Why I Interrupted President Obama's Speech on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy
Posted by , August 04, 2010 at 1:59pm
An editorial by Charles King, President and CEO, Housing Works
On July 13, I interrupted President Obama's speech at a reception marking the release of his National HIV/AIDS Strategy. While I only got out two words—the now-infamous "Mr. President!"—I backed off when the president promised to speak with me after his speech.
Since, I've received a lot of criticism. On my organization's Web site and in the blogosphere, many have called me disrespectful and overly brash, citing the interruption as counterproductive. I'd like to explain why I believe it was necessary to take such a bold action at such a formal event.
President Obama's plan fails to identify HIV/AIDS in the U.S. as the emergency that it is—and if we want him to do so, we've got to take him to task. There is a catastrophic AIDS epidemic in Obama's own backyard. Seven percent of black men in Washington, D.C. have HIV. Seven percent. In Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, 2.2 percent of the population is positive. Yet even close proximity to the epidemic has not been enough to wake President Obama to the urgent reality we face as a nation.
Today, Housing Works released a policy document explaining what's wrong with the president's plan and how we would like to see it revised. It's easy to sum up the plan's most egregious defects. Thirty years into the AIDS crisis, President Obama's long-awaited strategy aims to cut new HIV infections by a mere 25 percent—in a leisurely five years. It offers no solution for the 2,359 Americans on AIDS Drug Assistance Program wait lists. It minimizes housing as an important component of care and completely ignores the role of homelessness in HIV transmission. It offers little in new funding to carry out its goals.
This is a strategy to manage the epidemic, not end it.
Yet almost all of the nation's major AIDS organizations embraced the plan with enthusiasm. Indeed, the audience at the White House that day laughed approvingly at another interruption: the man who shouted, "We love you!" when President Obama began to speak.
We cannot allow affection for President Obama (and gratitude that he is not President Bush) to subdue us into acceptance of the status quo. Even if the president's plan succeeds, more than a quarter million Americans will have been infected with HIV in the next five years. In 2015 alone, we will still have more than 42,000 new HIV infections.
Assuming that the administration's goals remain constant (reducing infections by 25 percent every five years), we won't reach 10,000 new infections per year until 2040. We won't get near 5,000 new infections until 2055.
We have effective HIV treatment and prevention methods. It is disgraceful that we are expected to endorse the pace of a plan that will take more than half a century to realize its vision of a nation where "HIV infections are rare."
Is this truly the best we can expect? In his first major speech about the Gulf Coast oil disaster, President Obama said that we must approach that unprecedented environmental catastrophe as if it were an "epidemic," and he vowed to clean up all of the spillage. Why won't he vow to eradicate AIDS? From where I sit, we know far more about stopping the virus than we do about cleaning up deep-water oil spills.
I was at the closing ceremony of the International AIDS Conference in Vienna in July when my colleague Larry Bryant took the stage to tell thousands about the epidemic in Washington, D.C. Jaws literally dropped. People from Haiti and Burundi and South Africa had no idea. I was embarrassed. Here we are, a nation that has allotted more than $1 trillion to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet we cannot make the financial commitment to end the killer virus in our own homeland.
Perhaps interrupting President Obama was a little brazen. Believe me, I was caught up in the historic nature of the event, too. I was so nervous that it took me three tries to get up the courage to interrupt the nation's 44th president. It was only when President Obama referred to the ADAP crisis, which he has failed to resolve, that I knew I had no choice but to speak up.
I'm not sorry that I did so, though I knew I would be the proverbial skunk at the party. I got the chance to speak with the president after his speech, an opportunity I otherwise never would have had amid a throng of well-wishers.
Whether or not he acts on them, President Obama heard my concerns. Now we in the AIDS community have to decide if we'll cheerlead—or demand real change.blog comments powered by Disqus


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Henri was born in 1991 in Sallanches, France. He started getting piano lessons at about age 6 with his teacher Colette Daltier. This lasted until 2007, when his teacher retired. In 2008, Henri entered preparation in mathematics and physics for entrance to French engineering schools at the lycée "Aux Lazaristes" in Lyon. Currently, his studies don't allow him to spend much time on his piano, though he didn't give up practice.
Henri plays both classical and ragtime-boogie-woogie music. His favourite classical composers are Mozart (piano sonatas), Chopin (waltzes, nocturnes), Beethoven (piano sonatas) and Schubert (impromptus). He also loves Rachmaninov (especially piano concertos 1,2,3 & 4).


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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Thursday Peter Chernin, the Hollywood film producer and long-time News Corp executive, has joined its board of directors, one of the first directors to be brought in from outside the company.
Twitter's board is dominated by Silicon Valley insiders like Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, former Netscape chief financial officer Peter Currie, and venture investor Peter Fenton of Benchmark Capital.
"I've been a long-time user of twitter for news and information," Chernin said in a tweet late on Thursday. "Happy to be joining board of this very exciting company."
Chernin's appointment comes at a time when the company is ramping up its ad sales efforts and exploring potential media deals.
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Steph Curry Wins MVP, Dominates Grizzlies, So Here Are His Best Plays of the Year
In the end, it wasn't even close.
In the end, it wasn't even close.
This year the NBA saw its share of late-game heroics, and the league has collected the season's 10 best buzzer-beating shots in its latest compilation (following the best crossovers and dunks).
A good dunk can shift momentum, get the crowd on its feet and let everyone know you've got serious game.
This weekend, the 2015 NBA playoffs get started. We're going to miss Russell Westbrook and the Thunder, but other than that, the league's biggest stars will take the league's biggest stage on Saturday and Sunday, with all eight first-round series kicking off either Saturday or Sunday.
During the match between the Cavs and Rockets, James Harden kicked King James in the groin.
Shaquille O'Neal gave us some memorable Christmas viewing.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has imposed a lifetime ban on Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling following the racist comments he made on a phone conversation with his girlfriend.
Take a look back at 2013 with these incredible NBA dunks.
NBA basketball is back! After the Miami Heat won their second straight championship last season, 29 teams are hoping to dethrone them and win a title of their own. Who will win the 2013-2014 NBA championship?
With the NBA summer league under way, teams are starting to grab up all the free agents. So of the few that are left, who is the best bet for any team?
The 2013 NBA Draft will be remembered for its unpredictability, with a night of surprises right from the get-go. Here's a recap from Thursday night's event:
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Breeders v singles: a tale of two summers
Looking forward to holidaying with the kids? Spare a thought for those of us left behind - taking it easy and partying hard
It hit me the other day — almost literally — that everyone else's summer holidays are upon us when I nearly lost my life to a frozen soiled nappy dropped from the heavens, that most potent of possible symbols that the breeder world is slinging its collective hook. The message was clear. While the procreative jet off to their cottages/farmhouses/gîtes/dear little B&Bs, so we single types are being left to clear up the s***. By our summers we are divided: those who must use it and lose it within the next six weeks versus those who remain chained to their desks to facilitate this not so great escape.
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The broad market, as represented by the S&P 500, appears poised to break to new highs. This is supported by price action, internal indicators and sentiment numbers. AAII recently reported that its members' optimism is below normal, saying, "More individual investors remain pessimistic than optimistic about the short-term direction of stock prices." Since this is a contrarian indicator, the report is bullish, and so, along with the tape action, the weight of evidence is still in favor of the bulls. New long trading strategies can be initiated, but chasing stocks that have made huge gaps up is probably not the best course of action.
This month's list of stock to buy is populated with names that are in powerful bull markets. If the broader market breaks to new highs, these stocks should participate. But as we enter the annual period when volume falls and trading tends to slow, volatility increases and market corrections become more likely. Thus, wise investors should decide what prices they are willing to pay for these top performers and enter buy orders at those prices.
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Los Angeles attorney Leonard Gumport investigated the county's acquisition of an Adelanto jail. Among his findings:
Granlund and his employer, the Sacramento lobbying firm Platinum Advisors, violated Platinum's contract with the county by failing to give the county prior written notice of Platinum's clients and conflicts of interest. The clients included Maranatha and its owner Terry Moreland, and conflicts of interest included Platinum's role, through Granlund, in soliciting the county to enter into a $43million lease and option to purchase Maranatha for $28million.
Granlund likely influenced the county's decision to approve the $43 million lease and to exercise the $28 million purchase option in spite of a mold condition at the jail, and even though an "as is" appraisal reflecting the actual current value of the jail had not been completed.
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Once kimchi has gotten its hooks into you — stinky and fiery as it may be — life becomes unthinkable without the fermented Korean dish. It makes masochists of those who happily endure its scorch — even Super Food Nerds like myself. Kimchi packs the earthy-fruity wallop of a good hot sauce, the crunch and tang of a great pickle, and, rumbling beneath it all, a funky-savory-umami bass note uniquely its own. Any food that can do one of those things well deserves a place in your kitchen. A food that excels at all three is, quite simply, indispensable.
As I embarked on the quest to develop a worthy kimchi recipe, I enlisted the help of my colleague Esther Choi, a marvelous chef who, having grown up in a traditional Korean kitchen, has kimchi pretty much coursing through her veins.
What I learned from Esther could fill a book; I'll stick to the highlights. According to Esther, kimchi is more method than dish. There are hundreds of harvest-preserving kimchis: summer kimchis, fall kimchis, kimchis meant for eating fresh and those meant to see you through a season. Once you get the hang of the method, nearly any vegetable can be kimcheed. I once tasted watermelon rind kimchi Esther made; it was spectacular.


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Clemson University Smoking Ban
Officials with Clemson University say a new task force is being formed to help make the campus a smoke free campus by 2014. George Clay, the Executive director of Student Health Services at Clemson says the college recognizes the trend among higher education to go tobacco free, and its time Clemson does the same thing. The school has already banned smoking within 25 feet of its buildings. Clay says the college leaders have decided to make the ban campus wide, but the college is assembling a task force to write the policy. Clemson would become the 4th college in South Carolina to ban tobacco use campus wide. The other SC colleges with smoking bans are Charleston Southern, Lander, and USC-Upstate. Other schools, such as university of South Carolina have indoor smoking bans


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The champions you see on television and on magazine covers, as well as other highly-ranked, high-profile players usually have racket contracts. Some are actually paid to play with a particular brand while others get rackets free.
Serve the ball over the net into the box. Sounds simple, doesn't it. But players fault all the time, which means they're violating the principle. Let's break this down.
In non-officiated matches, losing track of the score can be frustrating; the players must backtrack and reconstruct the game in question until they find an agreed-upon starting point.
Millions of people played tennis today and probably half of them missed an overhead smash or two (or three).
Often we watch a great point between two good players that is loaded with fantastic shotmaking. A beautful first serve somehow is blocked back with an incredible off-balance return. This followed by repeated, powerful forehand and backhand groundstrokes directed with uncanny accuracy all over the court. Wow! And just when we expect an inspired conclusion to this building crescendo...one player dumps an easy one directly into the net.
In the old days, wooden rackets warped; that's why they were stored in presses, screwed tightly onto the frame. Even so, wood fatigued and got softer with use. Any hard contact with the court produced an immediate crack which rendered the thing useless.
When you play a match in a tournament, the referee will limit the time allowed to warm up. Typically you're given about 10 minutes.
From the net position, volleyers have quite a few interesting volleying options.
When you're tearing your hair out wondering why your game has gone sour, a knowledgeable, understanding coach can be invaluable. His or her experienced, trained eye sees things you may be missing out on the court.
If you are a Federer fan, you probably admire his great one-handed backhand drive. It certainly rivals the best two-handers on the circuit and that means it's a model for a analysis.
What shoe do the pros wear? Almost unanimously they wear what they're paid to wear - they have shoe contracts.
Most players scoff at the idea of carrying an extra racket to the court. Somehow that conveys the image of "hot shot".
Your racket is your tool; keep it sharpened by heeding the following tried-and-true advice:
I'm not writing about courts with leaves and debris or trash and bottles. I'm stressing the importance of removing stray balls from your side of the court between points.
Have you ever tried to extract a tightly-embedded screw with a thin-handled screwdriver? It's tough to twist. So get a larger tool and the job becomes easier.
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Last week, Rick Santorum had to walk back his comment that he opposes women serving in combat because "of emotions that are involved" by saying it's not that he's against women serving in combat, he's just concerned that men are emotionally unfit to serve alongside women.
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association — an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group — picked up the ball for Santorum, saying outright that women aren't capable of serving in combat:
FISCHER: If our national security is on the line, the defense of your children, your family, when that's on the line, who do you want manning the Howitzers? Who do you want manning the M-16s. Who do you want manning the fighter planes? Do you want somebody who is characterized by sensitivity, warmth and apprehension? That is somebody who is sensitive, who is warm and who is easily spooked? Is that who you want defending your national security?
Or do you want somebody who is characterized by emotional stability, dominance, rule, consciousness and vigilance? Well if your answer is B, which I think any objective, logical, right thinking, clear-headed, non politically correct corrupted thinking person would think, clearly you have just said we ought to have men in combat. … Women are not wired, either by evolution or by God, whoever is responsible for this difference, they are not prepared by DNA and innate personality characteristics to be in those positions.
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Manage:. I created a 2 day Free Book Promotion and read it for free starting tomorrow. Needless to it a pen name. Video game companies will use nudity where they deem it appropriate. If it is true that online gaming art(That they're), Designers should when you have use it where they deem it appropriate. Censoring such materials starts to slide down a slippery slope that may end in large black bars over paintings in museums and cute tops and speedos on marble statues.
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I guess I should have expanded on the real reason i want to do this, I have a cmd that is as such right now:
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Opened: 1942 on the Veteran's Administration campus as an entertainment facility for veterans. During the 40s the theatre was used for USO shows, movies and lectures.
Architect: Unknown
Status: After 40 years of only sporadic use, the Brentwood got a renovation by Richmark Entertainment, headed by Richard Willis, in 2004. The venue is used for legit theatre as well as occasional film screenings.
Richmark also manages the adjacent Wadsworth Theatre.
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SWINDON was a big Polo Mint, it was all change at the council and poor old Family Fortunes veteran Les Dennis scored a resounding 'ne-nerrrr' at the Wyvern Theatre.
In the week when April of 2003 gave way to May, Les's management said the former gameshow host was going back to his comedy roots.
It was also in 2003 that he and Amanda Holden divorced for reasons including her affair with Neil Morrissey, so if ever a man deserved a break it was Les.
Unfortunately, it wasn't going to happen here.
We said: "TV funnyman Les Dennis has been snubbed by Swindon in his bid to make a stage comeback.
"The former presenter of Family Fortunes is set to appear at the Wyvern Theatre on May 4.
"But only 37 of the 617 tickets on offer have been sold for his stand-up gig, making it one of the Wyvern's least popular shows in living memory.
"Although he is a national TV star who hit the headlines on Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother, where he starred alongside Swindon favourite Melinda Messenger, Mr Dennis's 15-date tour looks set to be a flop, with just 21 tickets sold for his performance at the Epsom Playhouse and 27 for his night at the Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon."
Les soldiered on regardless, and ended up playing to about 60 people at the Wyvern, but career revival was only a couple of years away.
A self-deprecating appearance on Extras, Ricky Gervais' follow-up to The Office, brought public admiration and led to countless acting roles on stage, TV and film as well as various presenting jobs.
If there was an empty space where Les's Wyvern audience should have been, there was an even bigger one in the town centre – or so said various movers and shakers of the time.
'Plugging the Hole' was our headline next to a photo of a certain iconic mint, and our story lamented the relative lack of town centre attractions – or affordable housing for people working in such places.
"There's a big hole in the middle where we haven't got a quality town centre, " said the then council chief executive, Simon Birch.
We spoke to Michael Kent, boss of Bromford Housing Group, whose Isambard Place development of affordable housing was intended to help address the problem.
"Swindon is hampered by low unemployment and a high demand for houses," he said. "Two or three people are going for each property, so the price goes up."
Perhaps the most pertinent comments came from Swindon Chamber of Commerce boss Dennis Grant, who said: "We've spent far too long deciding whether to build on land known as the Front Garden, but it'll be another five years before we see a brick laid and that's not going to improve the situation now."
Grant, of course, went on to head the Cotswold Water Park Society, and defraud it of about £700,000. The crook was jailed for four years and four months in 2011 and later had an extra 1,237 days added for failing to repay more than £300,000.
Election fever gripped the town this week in 2003. Actually, that's not true at all. The percentage turning out to vote in the 20 wards with seats up for grabs was mostly in the 20s and low 30s.
In Penhill, where the turnout was 26.54 percent, voters had to report to a big tent because the council of the day had shut down the usual polling station, the community centre, a month earlier.
Mike Bawden's Tories gained six seats, taking control from Kevin Small's Labour group.
Unsurprisingly, Coun Small wasn't pleased, and said: "I'm very disappointed because the people of Swindon have rejected us and the Conservatives will now benefit from our extra work and resources.
"We were brave enough to put council tax up by 15.5 per cent and we will see improvements, but that's simply because of the work we have done."
For one of the losing candidates, though, another chapter of life was beginning.
A couple of days later we revealed: "Community campaigner Phil Rashid is leaving Swindon for Malaysia after finding his wife-to-be in an internet chatroom.
"The 49-year-old chairman of Swindon's Race Coalition clicked with Maria Ithnin, 44, when they got talking on muslimmatch.com – a matrimonial website – back in July.
"Since then the father-of-one, who stood as the Labour candidate for Toothill and Westlea ward in Thursday's council elections, says the couple have been emailing daily and are 'truly, madly and deeply in love.' "Phil is now planning to up sticks and leave his home of 16 years in Thornford Drive, Westlea, for the Far East in November – the Muslim month of Ramadan."
Our most unusual story that week was about a two-year-old Rodbourne Cheney toddler called Caiden Williams, whose growing vocabulary included phrases such as 'Ello ello' and 'Timmy's a good boy.' He picked them up from a family member called Timmy – his grandmother's African Grey parrot.
MONDAY, APRIL 28: "Swindon pop star Billie Piper is to use her acting skills in a television adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The 20-year-old former Bradon Forest School pupil will play the part of Alison, the teenage bride of an older man, in The Miller's Tale. Her on-screen husband is played by Dennis Waterman, formerly of Minder and The Sweeney. Also starring will be actor James Nesbitt of Cold Feet."
TUESDAY, APRIL 29: "ADVANCE ticket sales suggest that this year's Swindon Festival of Literature is going to be the most successful yet. Several of the events at this, the 10th and most ambitious festival, which runs from Thursday until May 17, are already sold out. Magnus Magnusson, Edwina Currie, Claire Rayner and Poet Laureate Andrew Motion are among the celebrities who will be coming to Swindon during the 16 days of readings, personal appearances, talks, entertainment and workshops. Director Matt Holland said: "My feeling is that the diversity of the programme is making this festival the best yet.'"
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30: "TRADERS in Wroughton are helping police crack down on village vandals – by banning the sale of eggs to youngsters. The Co-op in High Street and Somerfield in the Ellendune Centre are united in encouraging staff not to sell to children in a bid to stamp out spates of egg-throwing in the area."
THURSDAY, MAY 1: "A TOTAL of 96 guns and 1,129 rounds of ammunition have been handed over to Swindon police stations during a month-long gun amnesty. The collection was part of a national firearms amnesty, which ended yesterday, aimed at encouraging members of the public to hand over guns and ammunition without being prosecuted for illegal possession. Police were also asking people to hand over replica guns and air weapons which can also be used in crime."
FRIDAY, MAY 2: "A NIGHTCLUB flyer showing two girls kissing has angered parents who say it gives children the wrong impression. The leaflet advertises Old Town night club Soda's Worldwide DJ night on Saturday, May 31, which urges revellers to come together and shows a colour photograph of two blonde clubbers caught in a passionate clinch. Soda promoter and DJ Nick Ferro, 26, has received a series of phone calls and emails complaining about the risque nature of the flyer. He said: 'To be quite honest I don't know what all the fuss is about, because children can easily walk into a newsagent and pick up a copy of The Sun and have a look at page three or stare at covers of magazines which often show nudity.'"


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My friend, Dave Huth, has a great graphic on his blog about heresy. Here's the first panel:
As I've Said Before, You're Probably a Heretic
Evolution vs. Creation: I'm Over It
Last week, I attended and participated in a conference at Fuller Seminary called "Talk of God, Talk of Science." I'm always happy to return to Fuller, and I was warmly received, particularly by president-elect, Mark Labberton. Fuller's a good place, people. Believe me.
Anyhoo, the background of the conference is that it was supported and underwritten by the Templeton Foundation, particularly the Scientists in Congregations Project. By a show of hands, it seemed that over 1/3 of the attendees were part of that project. Everyone at this conference was a fan of science. Everyone wants faith and science to embrace and make whoopee. That was the de facto assumption in the room.
What I found most interesting about the talks that I heard was that they all dealt with one particular issue in the science and religion world: evolution and creation. That was the case study around which the talks that I heard revolved (I probably heard 2/3's of the plenary talks at the conference).
I sat on a panel on Friday evening, and, when asked about my experience of science in the church, observed what I'd seen that day. And then I said, "No one under 40 gives a crap about creationism. Only Baby Boomers care about that."
Jesus Hugging Dinosaurs: Talking to Kids about Science…at Church
You may have already seen the above test, given to 4th graders at Blue Ridge Christian Academy in Greenville, SC (as confirmed by Snopes, where you can also see the second page of the test and read the backstory). Yeah, that's pretty bad.
On the other hand, you've got these three amazing teenage girls who won the 2011 Google Science Fair and gave a talk at TEDxWomen.
It is those two juxtaposed images of youth engaging science with which I'm going to start my talk tomorrow at Fuller Seminary's conference, Talk of God, Talk of Science, which is described thusly:
Nancey Murphy on the Universe's Purpose
One of my mentors, Nancey Murphy, weighs in on the Templeton Foundation's new series, Does the Universe Have a Purpose?
But it is not possible to know that by looking at the natural world alone. The question of purpose is closely related to the question of whether something like the God of Western monotheistic religions can be known to exist by studying the order, goodness, and grandeur of the universe. Already around 1750 David Hume pointed out that if one is looking at evidence of design, then all of the evidence must be taken into account: not only order and goodness but disorder and evil as well. He seems to think that some sort of creator is possible (in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, published posthumously in 1779, it is not clear which character represents Hume's own views). But if so, we can know next to nothing about the creator's qualities: an intelligence, for all we know, as much like ours as our intelligence is like the rotting of a turnip–one deity or a team; alive or dead; a juvenile or superannuated deity. Nothing can be known of any plan for the future perfection of the world or the human condition.
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The day is nearly upon us! We have Edinburgh players, we have a bbq, we have inflatables, we have a shed load of Santa suits...all we need is you!!!
If you haven't registered yet then why not? It couldn't be easier..just head over to the SUBS tab (above this article!) and scroll down to 'Santa World Record'. It's only £10 for adults, £5 for kids and money raised goes to the club and the Craig Hogkinson Trust, which raises money to buy Defibrillators for rugby clubs around Scotland. An amazing cause.


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Illustration NEWS
Tina BERNING illustrated a motif for the column of IWC Schaffhausen's WATCH timepiece magazine.
Illustrator Olaf HAJEK created an album cover to mark the 200th birthday of Chopin for UNIVERSAL MUSIC.
Various motifs by Martin HAAKE were used as back walls in the LODEN-FREY, Munich fashion house shop windows.
CONTAINER realised illustrations for WEBERBANK's DISKURS magazine. The concept was 'cranking out ideas' and how thoughts cannot be produced. Still, plenty of companies do give it a go: researchers are supposed to find the answers to tomorrow's questions in so-called thought factories.
Carmen SEGOVIA completed an illustration on the subject of 'migrant children in day care' for Hamburg's HINZ & KUNZT street magazine.
The 2Agenten illustrators' portfolios can once again be viewed at this year's UPdate, on 14 may in Frankfurt.


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The folks at DigInfo News bring us another innovation in the field of health care, showing us how Japanese researchers have created a simulator that can show a person's heartbeat based on the user's CT scans and other pulsation data.
The video discusses several use cases for the technology, including teaching doctors and students about the heart, as well as simulating heart attacks and virtual heart disease.
Pretty soon we'll be able to see virtual representations of everything inside our bodies. I'm just hoping that we never have to see a virtualization of the chili dog I ate for lunch.
Keith Shaw rounds up the best in geek video in his ITworld.tv blog. Follow Keith on Twitter at @shawkeith. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.
Watch some more cool videos: Science Monday #1: Why it's dark at night BBC gives Doctor Who fans an Amy/Rory postscript The best remote-control car chase ever Science Monday: Origins of Quantum Mechanics in under 5 minutes Motion-copy robot can mimic painting brush strokes


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YAZ++ is a C++ programmer's toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50v3 clients and servers. It includes an implementation of the ZOOM C++ binding, a generic YAZ++ client/server API, and a powerful Z39.50 proxy.
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Release Notes: Updated for YAZ 3. An assignment operator has been added for the class Yaz_Z_Query (breaks binary compatibility with the previous version). The license has been changed to 'Revised BSD'.
Release Notes: SRW/SRU support. Bugfixes for event handling. C++ compile fixes (for more picky GCC). The YAZ proxy is now a separate project and is no longer part of YAZ++.
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for one too. Find a pet to adopt.
I am already neutered, housetrained, in need of an experienced adopter, and up to date with shots.
It takes Zeus a little while to warm up to new people, men more than women. While he's great at home, I think he has led a fairly secluded life until now with not much interaction with the outside world.
A passive, female dog would probably be a good match for Zeus. I'm not sure about cats. Also, I would suggest older children considerig he gets nervous when he first meets new people.
If you would like to meet Zeus, please contact Robin at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 602-501-1844. Zeus' adoption donation of $225 helps us care for the other rescued dogs in our care.
Zeus, a Phoenix Shepherd (Unknown Type)/Brittany dog was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Shepherd (Unknown Type)/Brittany for sale in Phoenix, or seeking a Shepherd (Unknown Type)/Brittany dog from a breeder in Phoenix.


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Global Green Headquarters - Santa Monica
Located in beautiful, downtown Santa Monica is the HQ housing our administrative and support services.
Programs handled in this office are:
- LEED Neighborhood Development
- Bike Share Santa Monica
- Los Angeles Policy
- EcoDistricts
Global Green USA Headquarters
1617 Broadway Second Floor,
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: 310.581.2700
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New York, NY
In New York City, Global Green's initiatives include Solar for Sandy and our Coalition for Resource Recovery. Since 2009, Global Green has led a combination of pilots, research and outreach in New York City to help build urban sustainability locally and nationally. This year we developed resilient solar systems in Brooklyn, advised cities on strategic policy planning, helped increase food donations from large Manhattan events - and rang the closing bell at NASDAQ with a call for greater investment in solutions to climate change. Global Green welcomes you to come visit us and help build urban sustainability.
Global Green USA - New York
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Global Green USA spearheads the work of the DC Environmental Network at their Washington, DC office, situated in the historic and vibrant Capitol Hill neighborhood. The DC Environmental Network founded in 1996 by Global Green USA is working toward a vision of rebuilding Washington DC's neighborhoods and communities for long term economic stability - accomplishing this by protecting and restoring the Capitol City's urban environment. Global Green USA's DC office compliments the sustainability programs in motion throughout the country, including efforts in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, New Orleans, New York City and San Francisco. The office also serves to give Global Green USA a presence in our nations capitol city and a regular seat at the table when important national sustainability priorities are discussed and acted upon.
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After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Global Green USA made a dedicated commitment to the sustainable rebuilding of New Orleans. In 2006, Global Green broke ground on its LEED Platinum Holy Cross Project, a catalytic sustainable village in the Lower Ninth Ward and the result of an international design competition that has been toured by over 25,000 visitors since 2008. Programs like Build It Back Green and the Green Schools Initiative have helped residents recover in more sustainable and resilitent ways. Current New Orleans programs like Water Wise NOLA and NOLA Wise help residents use green infrastructure techniques and save energy, therefore reducing utility bills and helping mitigate the effects of climate change by lessening the use of fossil fuel resources.
Global Green USA - New Orleans
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The latest OpenSceneGraph developer series is the 2.9.x series that are the stepping stones towards out next stable release OpenSceneGraph-3.0 that is due early 2010. We aim to keep Developer releases as usable for daily work as possible, with a rapid turnaround on reported bugs and build issues. However, these release don't undergo the same testing rounds that the stable releases are subject to so be prepared for the occasional build/runtime issue, if you come across these report the problems to the osg-users mailing list/forum, and any fixes to osg-submissions.
OpenSceneGraph 3.1.x latest development release:
- OpenSceneGraph-3.1.1, released on 9th March 2012, key deliverables in this dev release are:
- Merged pending submissions that fixed a range of bugs and minor feature additions.
source package : OpenSceneGraph-3.1.1.zip
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- OpenSceneGraph-3.1.0, released on 29th February 2012, key deliverables in this dev release are:
- new general purpose shadow technique ViewDependentShadowMap.
- Improvements to IOS, Android and OpenGL ES support.
- Merged pending submissions that fixed a range of bugs and minor feature additions.
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|Volume 6, Issue 4
April 2008
Citizen Input wins underground utilities
Citizen members of the Murray Road Improvement Project (Highway 26 to Cornell) have been expressing concern that the project plans didn't include putting utilities (cable, power, telephone) into underground trenches to match what was done for the Cornell project. Underground utilities not only provide safety benefits, but create a more attractive prospect for everyone and easier navigation for pedestrians.
Washington County rarely requires "undergrounding" as part of capital projects because it's too expensive. Citizens argued that roads within the Town Center deserve special treatment. CPO 1 and the Cedar Mill Business Association, among others, wrote letters to the utilities and the county urging them to work together to accomplish this.
Project Manager Alex Sander announced in early March that, "Certain existing overhead utilities will be relocated underground. The areas where utilities will be undergrounded include the Murray/Cornell intersection, Cornell east of the Murray/Cornell intersection to Dale (where existing utilities are underground), and Murray from the Murray/Cornell intersection south to Highway 26."
Sander explains, "The costs will be shared by Washington County and utilities. These include trench excavation, vaults, and conduits, and are estimated at $250,000. Utilities further bear the costs of removing poles and lines, and installing new lines. We won't have a precise cost estimate until utilities and the county complete final plans. The county share of funding is from the road capital fund."
Sander has been negotiating with the utilities for several months to accomplish this. He says, "Citizen input has been very important. The County does not have regulations or policy guidance providing for undergrounding of utilities in situations such as this (Town Center). In the absence of citizen input, the typical practice would be to keep utilities above-ground because it is less expensive."
County Land Use Senior Program Educator Anne Madden says, "Alex Sander's careful listening to the community, his perseverance in working with the utilities, and his ability to line up the various options and their related costs to the county helped all involved arrive at this happy conclusion."
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