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With a conspicuous diss of Kathryn Bigelow, the un-nominated director of "Zero Dark Thirty," the Academy Awards nominations were announced Thursday morning.
"Zero Dark Thirty" was one of nine films given the best picture nomination nod. The others: "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; "Silver Linings Playbook"; "Lincoln"; "Les Miserables"; "Life of Pi"; "Amour"; "Django Unchained"; and "Argo." With 12 nominations total, director Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" led this year's pack, unusually full of films that have reached a broad mainstream audience. "Life of Pi" came in with 11 nominations; "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Les Miserables" received eight.
The best actress Oscar nominees include the oldest-ever performer in that category (Emmanuelle Riva, 85, for "Amour") as well as the youngest (Quvenzhane Wallis, 9, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"). They'll compete for the Feb. 24 Oscars against Naomi Watts ("The Impossible"), Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty") and Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings Playbook").
To the surprise of no one on this planet or any other, Daniel Day-Lewis led the best actor competition for "Lincoln." His fellow nominees: Denzel Washington, "Flight"; Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables"; Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"; and in the year's most unsettling performance, Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master."
"Silver Linings Playbook" fared well, against some predictions, scoring a supporting actor nomination for Robert De Niro and a supporting actress nod for Jacki Weaver. Other supporting actors nominated include Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained"; Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"; Alan Arkin, "Argo"; and Tommy Lee Jones," Lincoln." All have won Oscars before.
Along with Weaver, Sally Field received a supporting actress nomination, hers for "Lincoln." The competition: Anne Hathaway, singing her guts out all the way to the podium on Feb. 24 (I'm guessing) for "Les Miserables"; Helen Hunt for "The Sessions" (more of a leading role, in fact); and Amy Adams as the Lady Macbeth of the action in "The Master."
It's a huge showing for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," whose director, Benh Zeitlin, goes toe to toe against his fellow directing nominees David O. Russell ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Ang Lee ("Life of Pi"), Michael Haneke ("Amour") and Spielberg. Along with "Zero Dark Thirty" director Bigelow, "Argo" helmer Ben Affleck, widely expected to be nominated ... wasn't.
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American Sovereigns
The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War
Part of Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
- Author: Christian G. Fritz, University of New Mexico
- Date Published: April 2009
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American Sovereigns is a path-breaking interpretation of America's political history and constitutionalism that explores how Americans struggled over the idea that the people would rule as the sovereign after the American Revolution. National and state debates about government action, law, and the people's political powers reveal how Americans sought to understand how a collective sovereign-the people-could both play the role as the ruler and yet be ruled by governments of their own choosing.Read more
- Readable and accessible, intended to be read by the general reader, does not require specialized knowledge
- Contribution to scholarship, contributes to fundamental understanding of American citizenship and political rights
- Interdisciplinary appeal, provides relevant insights into history, politics and law
- Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2008
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"This is a superb and radical book, radical in the sense that it goes to the roots of the American constitutional tradition, pushes aside the crusty generations of constitution worship that have enshrined the federal constitution as a fixed, settled and static resolution of the nation's constitutional tradition and complicates matters enormously."
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"Professor Fritz's American Sovereigns tells a complicated story of constitutional development from the period of the Revolution to the Civil War. It is not a conventional account that takes its beginning from 1787 and a focus on the Federal Constitution; rather it offers an intimate account of change that reckons with the extraordinary role of the people as sovereigns. To be sure, Fritz discusses many questions that usually enter accounts of constitutions, but he gives these questions an unusual twist, and adds a fresh perspective through analysis of state constitutions, federal action with constitutional meanings; popular behavior in extraordinary events such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the Rhode Island crisis. In all of this intricate story, the people as sovereigns, a much contested proposition—as he demonstrates—serves to give his study its coherence. His book is not only a revisionist account; it is a beautifully written piece of history that illuminates a supremely important field."
Robert Middlekauff, University of California, Berkeley
"American Sovereigns is a welcome addition to the literature on constitutional theory, legal history, and American political development. While the book is dense, it is nevertheless readable and presents unique criticisms and corrections, specifically concerning the literatures on popular constitutionalism and extra-judicial constitutionalism."
-Justin Wert, Law and Politics Book Review
"Fritz's purpose in this painstakingly researched and richly rewarding study is to show that a number of events in the early American Republic can only be fully understood by viewing them as episodes in a longstanding debate over competing conceptions of collective sovereignty...Fritz succeeds admirably in the current work in offering an original and insightful analysis of competing conceptions of popular sovereignty through the mid-nineteenth century..." -John Dinan, H-Law
"A highly accessible, nicely produced, and beautifully researched and written book that is a must read for historians and teachers of public law." -Choice, Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University Choice
"American Sovereigns will probably become a primer for all who study the U.S. Constitution. It provides a superb analysis of the legal concepts and politics behind the creation, testing, and modification of that document before 1860....It should be a must read for scholars of that era." Sheldon Avenius, History: Review of New Books
"Christian Fritz dispels the myth that constitutional theory has survived unchanged from the day it was first implemented. Instead, he shows in stunning detail how the people's understanding of constitutionalism began before the 1787 convention and continued to evolve through numerous events over the course of the next half century...I was very pleased with American Sovereigns and would recommend it not only to those who have an interest in constitutional law or theory but for those who generally love American history. Fritz gives the reader a new perspective of how the early founders viewed government power and the people's right to remove that power." -Christopher Dykes, University of Houston, American Association of Law Librarians
"Popular sovereignty is one of the most powerful concepts in the American political vocabulary, and one of the most problematic....[Fritz] persuasively demonstrates that the rhetoric of popular sovereignty retained a striking vitality long after the Federalists exploited it to get the Constitution ratified....His explanation of the array of meanings ascribed to the nebulous idea of "interposition" is also superb." -Jack Rakove, American Historical Review
"There is still a debate today over the relationship between the citizens and government in American society. For this reason, this book should be of interest to those who are interested in constitutional history and the relationship between the people and the government." William E. Kelly, Perspectives on Political Science
"American Sovereigns… is an able contribution to the growing literature on "popular constitutionalism," a body of scholarship contending that early Americans believed "the people" had the right to shape and interpret constitutions and laws through methods outside formal political and legal systems….[Fritz] carries the day in his attempt to complicate our understanding of popular constitutionalism by showing its unsettled, conflicting usage and its endurance deep into the nineteenth century." -Terry Bouton, Journal of American History
"In one of his most important contributions, Fritz recovers the variety of methods that James Madison said the people could use to 'interpose' when they believed constitutional principles were being subverted...American Sovereigns is a good history retrieving long-lost understandings of the American constitutional system." Michael Les Benedict, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Christian Fritz's insightful study…should serve as a welcome correction to those constitutional absolutists who maintain there is only one acceptable interpretation possible (theirs) of the Constitution, or that 'The Founders' without question thought thus and so on every detail, as if there were unanimity at the beginning that somehow has been corrupted." Max J. Skidmore, Journal of American Culture
"This book succeeds in its task of bringing to light a central constitutional issue too often neglected today. It does so in lively style, peppered with compelling stories and incisive analysis. It should be read and enjoyed by academics, judges, lawyers, and anyone else interested in our constitutional history." -H. Robert Baker, Western Legal History
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- Date Published: April 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521125604
- length: 440 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 156 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.61kg
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Table of Contents
1. Prologue
Part I. The People's Sovereignty in the States:
2. Revolutionary constitutionalism
3. Grass-roots self-government: America's early determinist movements
4. Revolutionary tensions: 'friends of government' confront 'the regulators' in Massachusetts
Part II. The Sovereign Behind the Federal Constitution:
5. The federal constitution and the effort to constrain the people
6. Testing the constitutionalism of 1787: the Whiskey 'Rebellion' in Pennsylvania
7. Federal sovereignty: competing views of the federal constitution
Part III. The Struggle over a Constitutional Middle Ground:
8. The collective sovereign persists: the people's constitution in Rhode Island
9. Epilogue.
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Our guide is Sancho Rodriquez, editor of a Spanish surfing magazine and director of the "Surfilm Festibal". We met our friend Sancho through photographer and film maker Patrick Trefz who has documented Jim's artwork over the past several years. Sancho's father Jaime Rodriguez Salis and brother Telmo Rodriguez are renowned Spanish winemakers. With connections like this we are on our way.
Our base is the beautiful coastal town of San Sebastian
After all the constant travel Dave decided to take it easy and hang in San Sebastian as Jim and Katy made plans to meet up with Sancho and his girlfriend in La Rioja for an overnight visit to the Remelluri estate. Sancho's father Jaime Rodriguez Solis founded the winery in 1968 reviving a disused property that had seen wine production over several centuries. The site is located on the remains of a tenth century town and archeological digs have shown artifacts dating from Roman times through the Bronze age. We gathered that evening with several of Sancho's relatives and shared a home cooked meal prepared on the Remelluri hearth ,enjoying several outstanding family wines.
Sancho Rodriguez takes us on a tour of the family estate
Sancho as a boy, on a tractor during grape harvest
Stopping for a sip from the vineyard well
The Remelluri Estate Vineyard
Our next stop was a visit to Telmo Rodriguez winery located several miles down the road. Wine maker Telmo has been called the rockstar of Spanish wine. His unusual program includes a far flung 30 different wines made in 10 distinct regions of Spain. On a windy, chilly afternoon we pulled up for a tour of the winery. Telmo's winery, ultra modern but understated in design contrasted sharply with the history infused Remulluri estate. Sancho gave us a tour of the property greeting the busy staff with warm hellos.
On our way back to San Sebastian we stopped here for freshly baked bread
Returning to the coast it was time for some sightseeing before a night visiting several notable pintxos restaurants in San Sebastian.
Jim Denevan at the Eduardo Chillida sculpture garden
The next day we met Sancho and Luis Chillida for a private tour of the Chillida-Leku museum located just outside San Sebastian. The museum features the work of Luis' late father internationally renowned Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida.
The farmhouse gallery
After touring the impressive monumental works and garden we said our goodbye's and headed off for a lunch visit to Asador Extabarri where chef Victor Arguinzoniz cooks almost everything over specially constructed charcoal grills. Located high in the mountains in the beautiful town of Axte (very difficult to find) Asador Extabarri recieves a steady flow of international culinary pilgrims. We ordered from the tasting menu experienced a meal that was among the best of our trip. After savoring the experience we visited the kitchen; chef Victor and his sous chef generously gave us a thorough tour of the kitchen.
Asador Extabarri
The next day Sancho took time for a detailed exploration, showing some of his favorite sites including several scenic Basque farms located around the town of Irun on the Spain France border, followed by lunch at a traditional Batzoki (political clubhouse).
Several locations were deemed good table sites and we took notes regarding our anticipated return in September.
On our last full day on our scouting trip was capped with a visit to Mugaritz Restaurant located a short distance outside San Sebastian. Mugaritz has a reputation as one of the best restaurants in the world and we concur with that assessment. Our meal began with a visit to the kitchen where we received a full description of sourcing, technique and goals of the restaurant. Chef owner Andoni Luis Aduriz had the night off because of the imminent arrival of a new child so his able chef de cuisine directed our experience. The warmth of staff and passion and attention to the art of cooking at Mugaritz are truly remarkable. It was pretty amazing to dine at the best of the best with our partner in culinary exploration Sancho, a good friend of the restaurant and also a friend it seemed with just about everyone we came upon. All of us left with a feeling of having experienced something profound and unforgettable. It was the perfect ending to a very successful Outstanding in the Field scouting tour.


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Mass estimates: North vs South redux/
I have good news and bad news - the bad news is today is not the day you get a general estimate of the mass of Spinosaurus. I know, I know, and I'm sorry. Here's the good news - in preparation for a deeper look at the challenges of estimating the mass of Spinosaurus, I've produced far more rigorous mass estimates of Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus from GDI, and I got some surprising results. Jump below the fold to see who is bigger (and why I think this is so).Read More


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Sept. 3, 2006
GUELPH, Ontario _ It's all about getting better each time a team hits the court.
Such was the case for the Lipscomb Bisons Saturday night as they took a 70-64 victory against the University of Guelph Gryphons, rebounding from an 84-77 loss to the University of Toronto earlier in the day.
"I thought we did a great job of bouncing back and playing," said Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson. "We didn't make quite as many mistakes in the half-court defensively, but we still struggled in transition defense especially in the first half. But in the second half we held them to 24 points and when you do that and execute offensively you have a chance to win.
"I thought we did some nice execution down the stretch on offense and defense. I thought we played much better."
The Bisons had to recover from the earlier game and also bounce back from a road trip of more than an hour away from Toronto. Guelph was very physical team which made the second game an even tougher challenge.
"They were a much bigger, stronger and more physical team than Toronto," said Sanderson. "Our guys bounced back and responded. I was proud of them. They reminded me of Campbell.
Once again freshman Michael Teller was an integral part of the game. After leading the Bisons in scoring with 17 against Toronto, he came back to score 11 against Guelph.
"Michael knows how to play, with or without the ball," said Sanderson. "What he lacks in speed and quickness he makes up for in smarts. He knows when to cut, when to back door and when to fade. Defensively, he is in the right spots."
Eddie Ard led the Bisons in scoring with 16 points followed by Brian Fisk with 14.
"Eddie had a couple of nice drives and Brian had a big three-point play at the end," said Sanderson. "But they haven't played yet like they last season."
Trey Williams also was in double figures for the Bisons with 11 points.
"Of all the guys on the team Trey has been shooting the eyes out of the ball," said Sanderson. "He is a guy who can make threes. He has worked extremely hard. He is a threat offensively He is also a strong guy who can get to the basket."
Jason Hopkins was in double figures in rebounds with a team-leading 11. The Bisons finished the game with 32. Even more impressive was Hopkins' five assists which tied him with Trey Williams for the team lead. "Those five assists are more than we had in a lifetime from the center position," said Sanderson. "Not only can he score, but he can pass it. He did a much better of seeing things on the court.
"He also did a much better job of rebounding. He went and pursued rebounds. He didn't just get rebounds in his area."
Jay Mott led Guelph with 16 followed by Nick Pankerichan with 11 and Aron Bariagabre with 10. Borko Popic posted the game high in rebounds with 12 as the Gryphons pulled down 35 boards.
The Bisons shot 43.5 percent (27-of-62) from the field and 71.4 percent (10-of-14) from the free throw line. Guelph shot 42.3 percent (22-of-52) from the field and 60 percent from the free throw line (9-of-15).
The Bisons will spend most of the day Sunday sight-seeing with a trip to Niagra Falls. They are back on the court Sunday night at 7 CDT against York University.
The four-game exhibition schedule in Canada ends Monday morning with a game against Humber College.
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Binge eating may lead to addiction-like behaviors
A history of binge eating -- consuming large amounts of food in a short period of time -- may make an individual more likely to show other addiction-like behaviors, including substance abuse, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. In the short term, this finding may shed light on the factors that promote substance abuse, addiction, and relapse. In the long term, may help clinicians treat individuals suffering from this devastating disease.


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Congratulations to Bob Riedinger who walked away with $100 in cash & the win on Saturday in our BBQ rib contest. Bob used a "UDS – Ugly Drum Smoker" and Kingsford Competition Briquettes to win. His sauce was a "doctored" over the counter variety – that's all we could get from him.
John Ruloff representing, "The Big Green Egg" for providing an Egg-cellent demonstration of several types of ribs, sausage and pork loin. John, a KCBS certified judge, coordinated and judged with the panel to determine the winning contestant…We couldn't have done it without you.
Thanks to David Brown and Dave Avila our other contestants. Also, judges Merve and Barabra King. Special thanks to Village Fresh Market, in Turlock for providing the venue and all meats in support of our event. Thanks also for the support of veteran Village Fresh Market meat cutter Mark Hamblin, both in assistance to the contestants and as a judge.
Photography supported by Carrie Brunelle, and Kara Tornquist.
We'll be posting more pictures of the event as the days unfold – look for us in November for another BBQ Competition.


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Salaams and Saluations,
This is a new series I'm starting because I realized that I don't buy much clothes 'off the rack'. Do to size that does not conform to US numbers I tend to have clothes made to fit. So I have various shirts, skirts, abayas and overgarments that are made to fit my body.
Over the next couple of weeks I will be showcasing these made items along with the designers that made them.
Stick around.
Be Beautiful
Umm Amirah
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Fit to a T...
Salaams and Saluations,
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Vela Scarves
Salaams and Salutations,
LONG time no post. Busy..that's the ONLY thing that can describe it.
Here is my VELA scarf post. I've been eyeing *wink, wink* VELA for a while. They are SOOO pretty to look at. Their hijabs come in various price points. Since these are my VELA scarves I picked the inexpensive ones. Now inexpensive does NOT mean low quality.
So I received my 3 VELA scarves very quickly after purchasing online.
Can I say they ARE lovely.
I plan on wearing one to an event this weekend..
Cat's Meow
This one is in honor of my Sorors Aliya K and Ameenah M-D...since they love animal print..lol.
Vintage Lavender
Lavender...well I'm a Gamma so...I couldn't resist. Pretty
A la mode
This hijab is lovely!! I mean its silky and really pretty.
VELA scarves has a tutorial for their hijabs. The hijab is simple and easy to follow. Try it..you might just like it.
B Beautiful,
Umm Amirah
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4.9 Releases – Quality, Stability
KDE has announced its Version 4.9 Releases to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Development Platform, dedicated to the memory of KDE contributor Claire Lotion. The full announcement has details.
These releases got special attention to the general levels of quality and stability. In particular, there was a focus on eliminating any regressions from previous releases. Thanks to the efforts of the KDE Quality Team and its new contributors, the 4.9 Releases are the best ever.
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Substantial improvements were made to Plasma Workspace core components in this release. There are new KDE Applications and major improvements to Okular, Kopete, KDE PIM, education, games and others. The KDE Platform release includes quality improvements and preparation for Frameworks 5 based on Qt5. The announcements have more details.
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Great looking super mega release
Pure awesomeness. Best thing ever!
By kragil at Sun, 2012/08/05 - 10:09am
Thank you for this great release!
Thank you, all developers of KDE!!!
In the meantime I programmed a lot with Qt4, but under windows...
Trying the new release of KDE (now for 4 weeks 4.8 and then 4.9) I have to tell you that I'm SOOOO HAPPY with this new desktop!!!!
I also like the activity concept very much and I'm excited how you will extend it in the future!
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I have data that could mute the Great Randi challenge. I know that is quite a statement but I do. Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell
We are all one with the one who is all. Reply of aliens to question about God by abductee Bret Oldham.
We are all one with the one who is all. Reply of aliens to question about God by abductee Bret Oldham.
In a fair and just world, if confirmed, the research experiments just conducted by Dr. Diane Powell would be a contender for a Nobel Prize. The key words are of course "fair and just" world.
Dr. Powell is a practicing psychiatrist; John Hopkins trained neuroscientist, a former faculty member at Harvard Medical School, and a contributor to the Institute of Noetic Sciences. She is also the author of the book The ESP Enigma.
Dr. Powell's interest in the area of ESP was sparked in part by one encounter with a female patient in a hospital ward who indicated she was receiving psychic information about Dr. Powell that she should hear. What the woman said in terms of information was 98% accurate. It was a life altering event for Powell.
The scientific investigation work that Powell has just completed in the field of ESP was described accurately as "data that could mute the great Amazing Randy challenge." This is a $1,000,000 challenge for a one-million-dollar prize "to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event."
What does Powell have that is so good that Randi will have to possibly eat crow and pay out the prize? What is it that is such a major discovery that it might deserve a Nobel Prize?
The research has to do with non-verbal autistic children. In her newsletter Powell described her research.
Another source of evidence might come from mute autistic children, whose caregivers frequently report that their children can read their minds. If true, that suggests telepathy might be an alternative or default means of communication for those with language impairment.
Parents of the autistic savants I evaluated in India all reported telepathic experiences, in addition to other abilities. Then, shortly after my return to the USA, I read an article about an allegedly telepathic, autistic girl named Nandana. When possible, I hope to investigate her abilities. Her mother described her daughter's process of communication as follows: I taught her how to use the keyboard ... Now, if I ask her to write what I'm thinking, she can do it. Sometimes spelling errors happen and she still does not understand well the concepts of punctuation. If I say "space" (between words) in my mind, she types the word "space" instead of typing the "separation" between terms.
Next month I'll be filming experiments with another ten year-old autistic girl who was referred to me by my colleague Darold Treffert, the psychiatrist famous for his fifty-plus years of work on savants. Her parents were initially strong skeptics, so they were startled when they witnessed her ability to read her therapist's mind. Recognizing the profound significance this may have for our understanding of consciousness, they reached out to aid science, while requesting that their identity be hidden.
The family first thought their daughter was a mathematical savant, because she could provide answers to multiplication and division problems involving numbers over six digits, even though she couldn't do much simpler multiplication. Then her answers switched from an ordinary numerical format to an exponential one... immediately after the therapist began calculating on a device that displayed in exponential notation. This prompted the therapist to ask the girl how she knew the answer. The girl typed, "I see the numerators and denominators in your head." The therapist then tested her with pictures and sentences that were hidden from the girl's view. She was able to type accurate answers, even if the sentences were in a foreign language. These sessions were videotaped by the family and sent to me and Dr. Treffert. They are very intriguing and show 100% accuracy. Are these reports of telepathy real? Stay tuned.
A couple nights ago the results of the filmed scientific testing started to leak out. The results are absolutely staggering hinting that severely autistic children who exhibit ESP abilities may in fact be receiving a pure signal and be 100% accurate on the given targets.
The 100% accuracy has already been seen with autistic prodigious savants. Whatever their talent is they are usually 100% accurate. Therefore if you give then 2 five digit numbers to multiply together they will be accurate on the first try, or if they do calendar calculations they will be able on the first try to tell you the days of the week for any date in the past of future you can give them even though they often can't multiply 7 x 4 or think there are 10 minutes in an hours and 10 seconds in a minute.
Were the non-verbal autistic children accurate? This is what Dr. Powell stated in an interview on June 12th,
Believe it or not but I have data that could mute the Great Randi challenge. I know that is quite a statement but I do. To meet that challenge you have to have it reviewed scientifically and they want a recommendation from some science journal. They want to see it in print somewhere.
This is fresh. I just did these experiments last month. That's how fresh this information is… I have digit sequences that are 18 and 19 numbers long and 100% accuracy. The stats on that are incredible. I even had this one sequence where it's 162 digits Out of 162 digits there was only 7 mistakes, and when told that is the wrong number this autistic child got it right on the second go. The stats on that are just staggering. That's why I am saying it is well beyond the great Amazing Randi challenge.
|This is not the 162 digit telepathic target but this is
what such a target would look like.
This evidence was filed and if repeatable will be conclusive evidence that there is a consciousness element that is independent to the brain and which can make a non-local connection with other consciousnesses. It will be the final nail in the coffin of the idea that the brain produces consciousness and that it disappears at death. If confirmed there would be few discoveries in the history of science that would rival its importance.
A simplistic model of what be going on has to do with the right/left brain and their connection to a non-local mind that is part of the holographic universe.
This idea has been proposed by many people such as Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon. He pointed out that as soon as science develops a generalized theory of information, non-locality, the Zero-Point Energy field and the Quantum Hologram that we will begin to develop an accurate understanding of consciousness.
"I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings," said Mitchell. "At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe."
The revelation of this new world view of consciousness began in 1935 with the Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen experiment challenging an idea that had arisen out of the mathematical calculation of the time that there was a non-local quantum-interconnectedness to the universe. The idea was that entangled photons at a distance appeared to be conscious of the other and any action placed on one would be instantly balanced by the other independent of time and space.
Mathematical proof of this non-local interconnectedness was provided by physicist John Steward Bell in 1964 and experimental proof was provided in a number of experiments around the world in the early 1980s. It became a fact that our space time reality is non-local.
At the same time work done on rat brains in the 1950s by biologist Karl Lashley showed that trained rats could still runs a maze with huge sections of the brain removed which indicated that memory was not stored in any particular part of the brain. Lashley declared that there was no memory center in the brain.
In the 1960s Dr. Karl Pribram noticed that when brain-injured patients had large sections of their brain removed, their memories became hazy but they also did not suffer a loss of any specific memories. He also importantly pointed out that the brain was using fourier transform mathematics (conversion of images into wave forms and back again).
About the same time the hologram was discovered in 1964 by Dr. Dennis Gabor and he described the same two factors 1) like the brain that lost no memory when parts were cut out no information was lost when a hologram was cut into pieces. Each piece contained the information of the whole hologram, but like the human memories the image would become hazier as the pieces got smaller. 2) The hologram image like the human brain used fourier transform mathematics indicated a key common characteristic between the two systems.
In 1977 Pribram proposed that memories are not localized in any specific brain cells, but rather, memory seemed to be distribution throughout the whole brain just like the hologram. He described a holnomic model for the brain.
Next in 1992 Dr. Walter Schempp, a mathematician at the University of Siegen in Germany discovered the quantum hologram while studying functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The quantum hologram stated "that the event history of all macro scale matter is continuously broadcast non-locally and is received by and interacts with other matter in its environment through a process of exchange of quantum information. This is an extension of the known process of quantum emission/absorption."[1]
The discovery placed the storage of all information in the zero point energy field. According to Dr. Edgar Mitchell,
It elevates information in physics to the same level of importance as energy itself – information if we define it broadly as patterns of energy, so the particular mathematical formulism that goes with the quantum holography is a group study. It also tells us that this information or energy is non-local which means that it is carried in the zero point energy field.
We can then start to say – we have heard the mystical tradition for example of the akashic record. Well this seems to be the mechanism of that which allows the akashic record to take place. It is nature memory system. I have written a paper called the Quantum Hologram – Nature's Mind to suggest this ubiquitous application. It is a mechanism to carry the history of everything and it carries it out throughout nature, and the point is that it is recoverable through resonance. Resonance is exactly how we get information."
The mind therefore is a hologram enfolded in a holographic universe, or as Dr. Mitchell's Quantrek group describes it, "the totality of our physical and subjective experience can be thought of as a multimedia hologram resonant with ourselves and the zero-point field."
Like a piece cut from a hologram our minds contain all the information in the universal hologram. The quality of that information, however, is dependent on much noise and interference there is from the left of the brain.
In the normal brain the left side is the dominant part of the brain responsible for language, hearing processing most of the duties of speaking. It's also in charge of carrying out logic and exact mathematical computations. It is the brain of the physical world that acts as a reducer and regulator producing only the consciousness necessary to survive in the physical world and blocking out the rest.
The right side is the creative side that handles spatial abilities, visual imagery, face recognition and music processing. Most artists and musicians have dominant right brains. Dr. Roger Lear, who became famous for performing alien implant removals, lived and worked in Hollywood. He maintained that the only common characteristics of people claiming the abduction experience is that they were all right brained.
The other analogy that can be used is the signal to noise ratio. The left brain is noise and the right brain is signal.
This can be seen when people are trying to meditate. People will complain that they cannot do it. Every time they try and find that quite place thoughts keep coming into their minds which they cannot stop. Those thoughts are the left rational brain creating noise in the experience which prevent a right brain inspirational experience.
In the same way abductees report that their experiences appear to have made them more psychic. This may be explainable by the fact they have interacted with aliens who are strongly telepathic (the key difference between aliens and humans is that aliens are telepathic).
Abductees report that when the alien talks to them telepathically the signal is clear with no noise. They know exactly what the alien is saying. Therefore, the aliens may be teaching the abductee, or altering their brain to receive the signal with the right side and block the noise from the left hemisphere.
Autistic people have damage in the left brain. Because of this the normally dominant left brain cannot produce the noise into the signal as it usually does. The more severe the damage the less noise there is. Consequently, the less noise there is the better the signal is.
That may be why Powell's non-verbal autistic subjects have almost pure telepathy. The left brain is severely damaged as evidenced by the inability to speak, and there is nothing preventing the mind connection to the information stored in the zero point field.
This idea of brain damage creating a clear signal is also supported by some of the greatest psychics of the last century who reported corresponding brain injuries. Peter Hurkos, considered by some as the greatest psychic ever received his psychic abilities after falling off a ladder in 1941 and sustaining a head injury. Edgar Cayce, considered the best psychic in America, received his amazing abilities after being hit in the head with a baseball( and he made the claim that the psychic material he was providing was coming from the akashic field). Joe McMoneagle, the top remote viewer for the CIA work being done at the Stanford Research Institute suffered from brain seizures while in the army.
The results being reported by Powell of perfect telepathic hits on 18 and 19 digits numbers or the complete hit on a 162 digit number would indicate that the a condition exists where the brain is receiving all signal and no noise. The left brain has gone on a permanent coffee break.
In one interview Powell described that the one child was being taught to develop some verbal communication, and she wondered if this would affect the ability to do psi down the road. This is a valid consideration because activating and training the damaged left brain should in theory create noise in the signal. Therefore if the child was successfully brought back to full normal capability, theoretically the psi ability should disappear.
The non-verbal autistic savants are therefore the perfect candidates to demonstrate this telepathic ability that we all theoretically have but cannot demonstrate because of noise and interference from the left hemisphere dominance. The savants are also the perfect candidates because they are compulsive and very good at what they do. They will not be rattled in an experimental setting because they live in their own world of performance and have the rest of the world on mute. Because of this they do not suffer from stage fright.
It is evident that we are getting close to confirming the idea that the physical universe is only a small part of overall reality. Material reductionist scientists will fight the idea to the bitter end but it appears that it may already be all over except for the crying.
The evidence is gathering quickly that we all have telepathic abilities but because of the wiring of our brains we are unable to pick up the signal. This idea is supported by the fact that experiencer's report pure telepathy during their alien encounters but not in daily life.
The accumulating evidence in quantum physics, along with work like that being done with autistics by Powell, points to the idea that the brain is simply a computer interface between the quantum hologram and the physical world which we perceive with our senses.
The research done in past years with savants has helped to develop the idea of left brain/noise and right brain/signal. This new understanding of the brain has even allowed some scientists to perform supporting experiments in the laboratory.
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What Snyder did in his lab was inhibit the high level functioning left hemisphere. He did this by sending a series of electromagnetic pulses (transcranial magnetic stimulation) into the left frontal lobe. In 40% of test subjects this produced a strange savant like intelligence in drawing, proofreading, and mathematics. The savant like abilities were being caused by shutting part of the brain down just like brain damage does in the savants.[2] "We all have that information," Snyder said, "but our brains are deliberately wired not to see it."[3]
The days are coming when the general realization will come "wow, I guess consciousness is not all in the brain." At that point the really exciting job of understanding the true nature of reality and the consciousness that underlies it will begin.
Postscript: Dr. Diane Powell will be presenting the results of her telepathic research with non-verbal savants at the 57th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association in Concord, California, Topic: "Evidence for Telepathic Communication in a Nonverbal Autistic Child." Presentation will include tables of data, statistical analysis, and a brief video of a ten year old child with severe autism who appears to demonstrate this ability to a remarkable degree.
[2] Lawrence Osborne, "Savant for a Day," New York Times, June 22, 2003, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/22SAVANT.html?ex=1371614400&en=0497e5b30fc4a9d8&ei=5007&
[3] "Unlock Your Inner Rain Man" http://www.wired.com/2012/07/unlock-inner-savant/


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The average American has 140 to 150 pounds of sugar per person of sugar added to their diets each year. Another 18 percent of our calories come from white flour (which acts a lot like sugar in our bodies). Eating almost twice our weight in sugar and white flour each year, it's not surprising that we have become a nation of sugar addicts. Like many other addictive substances, sugar may leave you feeling a bit better for a few hours, but then wreaks havoc on your body.
In our new Beat Sugar Addiction NOW! (BSAN) book, we describe the four main types of sugar addicts. In each type, there are different forces driving the addiction, and in all four types the excess sugar leaves people feeling much worse overall. By treating the underlying causes that are active in your type of addiction, you will find that not only do your sugar cravings go away, but you also feel dramatically better overall.
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For thousands of years, humans ate sugar found naturally in their food. Sugar was not a problem; it was a treat. But now more than one-third of the calories we consume come from sugar and white flour added by food processing. Our bodies simply were not designed to handle this massive load.
Many of you have already noticed that although sugar gives you an initial high, you crash several hours later, and this leaves you wanting more sugar. In fact, sugar acts as an energy loan shark, taking away more energy than it gives. Eventually, your "credit line" runs out and you find yourself exhausted, anxious, and moody.
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In addition to the immediate fatigue and emotional problems, sugar also causes many long-term health problems. For example, our consumption of high-fructose corn syrup has risen 250 percent in the past fifteen years--and our rate of diabetes has increased approximately 45 percent during the same time period. Although the sugar industry sometimes tries to confuse the public by claiming that corn syrup is not sugar, it is a form of sugar as far as your body is concerned--and more toxic than cane sugar.
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Mary Qingnatuq
Community: Gjoa Haven
Medium: Wall Hangings
Mary began sewing at the age of thirteen after learning from her mother Katie Kamimmalik. Mary is a master seamstress who has sewn traditional Inuit clothing for many generations of children in her large family. Mary uses materials hunted from the land, such as caribou skins and sealskins to make items such as mittens and kamiiks that are both warm and beautiful. Mary enjoys going out on the land to hunt animals, which she uses to feed and clothe her children, grand-children and great-grandchildren. With a steady supply of hunted seal and caribou, Mary is able to provide healthy food and warm clothing for her family.
Igah Hainnu
Community: Clyde River
Medium: Bead Work, Wall Hangings, Fashion, Jewellery, Carving
Igah Hainnu was born on February 21, 1962 and is a resident of Clyde River. Igah's father was a carver and at the age of thirteen she started carving. Since she was young Igah has been carving and creating tapestries, bead work, traditional clothing, and jewellery. Igah learned her artistic skills by watching her grandmother, mother and father. Igah's art has been exhibited at the Ottawa School of Art and The Museum of Aviation and has been featured in Inuit Art Quarterly magazine and at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC..
Lavinia Van Heuvelen
Community: Iqaluit
Medium: Jewellery and Metal Work
Lavinia was born November 25, 1992 and raised in Bowmansville, Ontario. After completing high school Lavinia moved to Iqaluit where she completed the Jewellery and Metalwork program at Nunavut Arctic College. As a student, Lavinia received numerous awards including the BMO First Art Award in 2012, the Skills Canada Competition in 2012, Honorable Mention at the 9th Annual National Jewellery Student Competition and was awarded the Most Promising Emerging Artist Award and the Artist's Choice Award in the jewellery category at the 2013 Great Northern Arts Festival. Since graduating Lavinia has worked out of a studio in Iqaluit that she shares with other well-known Jewelers. Lavinia's passion for art stems from her mother Illisapi who is also an artist.
Helen Kaloon
Community: Gjoa Haven
Medium: Wall Hangings, Sewing
Helen was born in Kugluktuk in 1959, but she has made Gjoa Haven her home since 1977. Like all girls living in the traditional Inuit ways, Helen started sewing when she was very young, at only 8 years old. Helen states that she is driven to produce wall hangings, mittens and dolls, and when ideas come to her she must sit down and complete the work. Helen uses her sewing skills to create new style traditional clothing for her family and beautiful tapestries and wall hangings. In 2002, Helen's clothing was part of a fashion show in her home town of Kugluktuk, and in July 2003 Helen was an invited artist at the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, NWT. Helen has served on the board of directors of the Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association and Inuit Art Foundation.
Alina Tungilik
Community: Kugaaruk
Medium: Carving, Jewellery
Alina Tungilik lives in Kuugaaruk and started carving at the age of twelve. She was taught by her mother. The influence of her aunt, master artist Emily Pangnerk Illuitok is very evident in her carving style. Her works are in the classic Kuugaaruk style working in mixed materials incorporating inlays of ivory, whalebone and caribou antler. She has been carving for many years in varied subject matters from day to day life in the community to the traditional ways of living on the land.
Susan Nuluk
Community: Naujaat
Medium: Sewing, Doll Making
Susan has been making dolls and traditional clothing for many years. Her beautiful dolls are highly sought after; she is regarded for her excellent craftsmanship and attention to detail. Susan has taken Introductory Carving and the Jewelry & Metalwork Program at Nunavut Arctic College. She teaches others in her community traditional tanning and sewing techniques in seal skin, passed down from generation to generation and has received awards for teaching. Her work is included in the Kivalliq Doll Collection and has been exhibited at the Burnaby Art Gallery.
Helen Iguptak
Community: Rankin Inlet
Medium: Wall Hangings, Traditional Crafts, Sewing, Doll Making
Helen was only seven when she was first taught to sew by her mother. She is well known for her beautifully crafted dolls and remarkable beadwork; she also works in painting, pottery and music as a gifted accordion player. She has taken courses at the Matchbox Gallery in Rankin Inlet and was selected as Rankin Inlet's Artist of the Year in 2012. Helen is continuously gaining recognition for her work. She describes her desire to create art as going hand-in-hand with a desire to keep Inuit culture alive.
Danny Aaluk
Community: Gjoa Haven
Medium: Drawing
Born in Gjoa Haven, Danny Aaluk has been drawing since he was a child. Even at an early age, he recalls the need to draw. Over the last decade, Danny has been gaining recognition for his detailed and imaginative scenes, illustrated in black ink. He has come to be known for his distinct style of circular illustrations, and signature "drum" drawings, where he uses the skin of a traditional Inuit drum as a canvas.
Wayne Puqiqnak
Community: Gjoa Haven
Medium: Carving
Wayne comes from a family of artists – his grandfather, Nelson Takkiruq, is a well-known carver and his grandmother Mary makes wall hangings and sculptures. His parents, Uriash and Lorraine Puqiqnak, are also both carvers. Wayne's style is strongly influenced by the works of his grandfather and father, he carves hunters and dancers with exaggerated movement and expressive faces with wide staring eyes. The Kitikmeot region is renowned for its "grotesque" style and Wayne is the third generation in his family to carve in this iconic style.
Koonook Oleekatalik
Community: Taloyoak
Medium: Sewing
Koonook learned to sew as a young girl by watching other women in her community mend and create garments. She makes parkas, snow pants and amautis, for family and friends. She has attended seamstress courses to expand her sewing skills and is considered a talented artist and respected community leader.
Simon Oleekatalik
Community: Taloyoak
Medium: Carving
Simon Oleekatalik was born in 1942 near Gjoa Haven and now lives in Taloyoak with his wife. He is a self-taught carver who began carving in 1969. He likes to carve human figures with expressive faces and bodies, usually engaged in an activity such as hunting or dancing. He often hollows out the chest area and suspends a heart or bones carved in stone within the open space. Simon includes implements made from caribou antler, musk ox horn and sinew. Simon is a recognized Elder who participated in the World Wildlife Fund's "Witness to Climate Change" project.
Roy Klengenberg
Community: Kugluktuk
Medium: Carving
Roy was born in 1965 in Kugluktuk, Nunavut. He began carving as a boy and is known for his exceptional carving skills, especially for the intricate details in his miniature carvings. Roy normally carves with a hard white stone that is found in the islands of the Coronation Gulf. The white stone is very difficult to acquire because of the significant geographical distances in this region. Roy's specialty is dioramas of traditional Inuit camp-life.
Sandra Rideout
Community: Goose Bay
Medium: Sewing
Sandra is a seamstress and textile artist from Goose Bay, Nunatsiavut. She is primarily self-taught, having acquired many skills and techniques over time from friends and family members. As a small child, she began watching her mother and grandmother work; they would give her scraps to practice with, and answer questions or offer tips. Because sewing was their livelihood, Sandra learned through observation and her own trial and error. Once she began making larger items like mitts and slippers, her mother started offering more direct feedback and technical suggestions. Sandra makes sealskin ties, boots, mitts, and other wearable items. Most recently, she has learned to sew coats.
Niore Iqalukjuak
Community: Clyde River
Medium: Photography
Niore was born in Frobisher Bay and has lived in Arctic Bay, and now resides in Clyde River. He started taking photos around 1980. At first a hobby, Niore photographed landscapes, people, and nature; he is now well-regarded for his stunning photographs of Arctic life. He has won awards for his photography from Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., and his photographs have been featured in Vice Magazine, Ottawa Magazine and The Ottawa Citizen. Niore was formerly the mayor of Arctic Bay, and is a strong advocate for Inuit.
Naomi Hikoalok
Community: Cambridge Bay
Medium: Sewing
Naomi learned how to sew from her grandmother. In 2010 she began working full-time on her art. Her body of work includes beautiful wall-hangings, mittens and kamiks. Her grandmother is the inspiration for all of Naomi's work. She longs to pass the knowledge of traditional sewing on to future generations, just as her grandmother passed it on to her.
Elisapee Itulu
Community: Kimmirut
Medium: Jewellery/ Metal Work, Sewing
Elisapee first developed an interest in making jewelry because she felt drawn to using different materials from paper to metal to bring her ideas to life. She works primarily with silver and brass, and enjoys creating brooches, earrings and pendants, as well as more unusual items like bowls and letter-openers. Recently, Elisapee has also been concentrating on her sewing, but is hoping to go back to school in the Arctic College's Goldsmith Program.
Eena Angmarlik
Community: Pangnirtung
Medium: Print Making
Eena was born outside of Pangnirtung in a camp called Nunataa. She has been drawing from an early age and was able to take her drawing skills to a new level when she took a printmaking course at the Uqqurmiut Center for Arts & Crafts in Pangnirtung in 2010. Eena has worked in a number of media including: stencil, linocut, watercolour, drypoint and etching. Shells and natural landscapes are some of her favoured subjects as she finds inspiration in Pangnirtung's breath-taking natural beauty.
Charmaine Okatsiak
Community: Rankin Inlet
Medium: Wall Hangings and Ulu Backpacks
Charmaine began art making when she was a child, participating in projects and programs involving art and growing up around her family of artists. She started creating her wall hangings and ulu backpacks around 6 years ago. Charmaine grew up sewing, learning from her mother and eventually furthering her education in a 5 month sewing course. Her father inspired her through his patience in making traditional Inuit drums and drum beaters. She ran projects, teaching young women how to sew and bead traditional Inuit head dresses which she learned from her parents and while she studied at Nunavut Sivuniksavut. Charmaine found her inspiration in the people and stories that surrounded her growing up but mainly found her inspiration for sewing from her mother.
Mosha Arnatsiaq
Community: Igloolik
Medium: Jewellery and Carving
Mosha started making art over twelve years ago, learning from his father Maurice. Since completing the Jewellery and Metalwork program at the Nunavut Arctic College in 2003, Mosha has been focusing on creating unique jewellery pieces. Currently enrolled in the Goldsmith program, Mosha is always learning new skills to allow him to create increasingly fascinating and intricate pieces. Extremely kind and helpful, Mosha likes to encourage his peers to excel in their craft in the same way he has. His drive and determination show in the high-quality and innovative pieces he creates.
Inuujaq Leslie Dean
Community: Rankin Inlet
Medium: Photography, Sewing, Beading, and Fashion
Inuujaq is, her own words, a new artist; having been sewing since the age of 13, but trying her hand at different art forms since. As someone who learns from trial and error, Inuujaq has become somewhat of a multidisciplinary artist who seeks to learn new art-making skills at every opportunity. Currently focusing primarily on her photography, Inuujaq is eager to expand artistically into ceramics and jewellery making. Her enthusiasm towards art and need to create are sure to make her an up-and-coming Nunavut artist.
Ann Wingnek
Community: Cambridge Bay
Medium: Sewing
Ann learned to sew when she was a young woman and has been making beautiful work ever since. She learned many different techniques from many different people and incorporates various styles to create unique works of functional art. She is inspired by the pure enjoyment she gets from exercising her creativity.
Noah Kudluk
Community: Cambridge Bay
Medium: Carving
Noah has been carving, creating and selling his own artwork since the early nineteen seventies. In 1999 he won the Emerging Artist Award in at the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik. He has also received ample publicity across Canada throughout his career as an artist. Noah is proud that he has created his own livelihood, and among other forms of motivation, is especially inspired by his elders.
Roy Goose Jr.
Community: Cambridge Bay
Medium: Carving, Traditional Tools
Roy is a self-taught artist who began making art in the '90s. He was inspired by necessity; he needed properly functioning hunting tools so he started making his own. Roy has created many different traditional tools including fishing spears, kayaks, drums and ulus (Inuit women's knife) just to name a few.
Geronimo Inutiq
Community: Montreal
Medium: Sound, Music, Video, Multimedia
Geronimo Inutiq (AKA Madeskimo) is an accomplished artist in electronic music composition, recording, performance, DJing and multi-media and video installations. His work has been featured and performed at the Musées de la civilisation Quebec City; Beat Nation – Hip Hop as Indigenous Culture; Transmediale and Club Transmediale in Berlin; in Material Experiments curated by Danielle Printup as part of ImagineNative 2015; The NFB film Timuti; and the Arctic Noise Project a solo multi-media exhibition shown in Vancouver, Toronto and Saskatoon. His work reflects on popular and underground electronic music, weaving multiple cultural threads and allowing organic imagery as well as exploring more synthetic sources. He is increasingly interested in digital video and images and working with archival film in the context of museum and art gallery exhibits.
Bobby Itta
Community: Anchorage
Medium: Sewing, Fashion, Traditional arts
Bobby Itta is from Barrow, Alaska and is the mother of four beautiful children and wife of Price Itta. She currently resides in Anchorage, Alaska but still regularly participates in helping both her father and her father-in-laws whaling crews, Ikayuaq crew and Saggan crew in Barrow. Bobby has always admired the cultural skills and knowledge of her Iñupiat people. One day her mother brought home a muskrat fur parka for her daughter and she fell in love with it. She became inspired to design and sew traditional clothing for her children. Even though her focus remains on traditional clothing and accessories, she incorporates modern fashion and style into her practical designs. Over the years of learning, she started her own business and has received funding from grants to bring her business even farther. Bobby is the winner of the 2011 Rasmuson Fellowship Award and the 2015 Rasmuson Project Award. .
Dora Fannie Aluniq Paniŋaluk Siliun Kippi Brower
Community: Anchorage
Medium: Sewing, Fashion, Traditional arts
Dora Fannie Aluniq Paniŋaluk Siliun Kippi Brower was named after both her maternal and paternal grandmothers. She is the wife of Vernon Pauyuuraq Brower and is the mother of three children ranging in ages from 21 to 12. Born and raised in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, Aluniq works in the Iñupiaq Education Department of the North Slope Borough School District where she oversees culturally relevant instructional materials distribution to eleven schools. As a young girl, Aluniq watched and learned to sew from her relatives including her mother who was a very talented seamstress. Aluniq's works of art imbued with modern twists include barrettes, flowers, wedding bouquets, vases, earrings, trim delicately crafted with traditional media including seal skin, dried or bleached sealskin, dried seal intestines, caribou sinew, baleen, ivory and different furs. Aluniq has a ton of ideas that she is eager to follow- up on and is avid about learning new techniques. Her next challenge is to learn to design and manufacture traditional foot and fashion ware.
Elizabeth Gordon
Medium: Mixed media
Elizabeth was born and raised in Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is a mixed media artist, originally having been taught sewing and beadwork by her family. Elizabeth makes works on gourds and produces dolls, sculpting detailed and expressive faces of Inuit elders in clay. She has been a member of the Canadian Gourd Society for four years and has won numerous ribbons every year in the annual Gourdfest competitions in Toronto and Buckhorn, as well as winning best of show in 2009. Elizabeth has been an invited artist at the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik and the Nunavut Arts Festival. She recently had an exhibition of her work at Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum in Iqaluit.
Elizabeth Kolb
Medium: Weaving
Elizabeth is an accomplished textile artist and teacher. Living in a remote cabin in the Yukon, Elizabeth develops her weaving techniques through intensive study. The style of weaving bands or trim that Elizabeth does originates from Scandinavia. Though self-taught, she credits her ancestors with the design of tools and techniques she uses, and the northern climate for making band weaving necessary. Elizabeth also teaches qiviut (muskox down) spinning.


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Yes, we know it's more than half decent for a number of other tasks, but media is definitely one of the new iPad 4's strong points.
The capacities aren't upped with the third iteration of Apple's tablet though; that's going to be a bit of a worry when you look at some of the media sizes now on offer and you can only choose a 16GB, 32GB or 64GB model.
With no expandable memory on display… well, Apple may have played itself into a corner for the new iPad.
Music used to be the core focus of any Apple product, but that's clearly no longer the case – not to say the fruity firm has lost its way when it comes to audio playback.
It's one of the few elements that Apple has deigned to give a widget-like experience too – both on the lock screen and the multi-tasking pane – and users will really feel the benefit of being able to control their tunes from anywhere within the system.
However, the main music player itself isn't actually that easy to use; we were unimpressed with the fact the controls were stuck high in the top left-hand corner of the app, and there's no way to increase their size.
It's not a terrible system, but if you're using the new iPad 4 to listen to some tunes, there's not a lot more you're going to want from the music app when flicking through tracks – larger icons would make much more sense here.
However, in terms of music quality the new iPad is certainly up there – even without messing around with the equaliser or sound check options, the results are still more than good enough for everyone but the most discerning audiophile.
In terms of music formats the device is capable of playing back, we think most would struggle in this day and age to have some incompatible formats from the list of MP3, most types of AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV files.
Imagine the jump from your standard definition TV to a full 1080p video of something the BBC shot with David Attenborough… it was immense. We were expecting something along the same lines with the iPad 4, but in reality, we weren't that blown away.
That's going to sound odd to some people, and we should probably qualify it: with the Retina Display, Apple has brought tablet video watching to the level it should be at. Most users will have seen video on a smartphone at around WVGA or HD level, and been gobsmacked at the sharpness.
Tablets haven't been able to match that so far… until the iPad 4 that is. Video looks as good on a larger display as it does on a larger screened TV or tiny smartphone, and that's what we've been waiting for.
However, it's worth pointing out that, like on a full HD TV, the wow factor only comes when you're viewing 1080p content – other SD movies and TV shows just look OK in comparison. Not terrible by any means… just not amazing.
The new iPad 4 has the best video playback quality we've seen from the Apple tablet range so far, with the expected good levels of sharpness.
It sometimes still struggles with the contrast ratios (the difference between the light and dark areas of the video) on non-HD content, and the glossy screen will still annoy people that can see their reflection more than the content on the screen in bright areas.
But it's still a great movie experience when lying on a deckchair on the beach, or around a campfire in the Amazon (or whatever hip scenario the Cupertino brand is pushing this week) as long as you've got some nice content to watch.
Thankfully, Apple has deigned to give users a fully stocked iTunes portal to download video from, and there's so much to choose from. It's also pulled a neat trick by making it possible to access 1080p content without adding too much onto the file sizes seen at 720p, which should aid some users' decisions.
However, there are two areas that severely limit the iTunes store in terms of making it a really compelling video portal: price and file size.
It seems ludicrous that the first season of Modern Family should cost £35 in the UK or $AU40 in Australia when you can pick up the DVD for £10 ($AU20) in most places. We know that's at HD level, but still – it's way too expensive to be a viable alternative to just watching it on a TV.
And then there's the issue of file size – most full HD movies are between 3-4GB in size, which means if you've only got a 16GB new iPad, you're going to be severely limited in what you can take with you (and that's even before we get into the app sizes).
So it's a double edged sword when it comes to video on the new iPad 4: on the one hand the screen is pin sharp, the quality excellent at full HD and even the sound out the little grille at the side is strong and relatively powerful on the bass.
But then there's issue of paying through the nose to actually get the content onto your device (unless you happen to have a glut of M4V-ready HD video files on your home computer) and the fact it will dominate your internal storage too.
We hoped the iPad 4 was going to be the truly amazing video playing device, but this is clearly just a minor upgrade so we should be looking for the iPad 5 (or new iPad fifth generation) until we get up to 128GB of onboard storage and a more affordable video store.


text: Perdana Botanical Gardens ADD TO TRIP PLANNER REMOVE FROM TRIP PLANNER Perdana Botanical Gardens, better known by its old name "Lake Gardens", is the oldest and most popular park in Kuala Lumpur. It lies just on the edge of the city and used to be where the British elite built their fine homes in colonial times. Today, its landscaped hills and beautiful trails provide an escape for city dwellers out for a jog or some early morning t'ai chi. Its main attraction is the lake surrounded by lush greenery in a 92ha. (227 acres) parkland that provides a refreshing ambience. Roam through the aviaries at the Bird Park and Butterfly Park. Or take a stroll through the beautiful Deer Park and Orchid Garden, which are all reachable either by foot or by regular shuttle buses. From the gardens, you can also visit other attractions such as the National Monument, the Planetarium and the Islamic Museum. Getting Here By TaxiEntrances to the Perdana Botanical Gardens are on Jalan Parlimen and behind the National Mosque. Who To Contact Perdana Botanical Gardens Phone:+603-2617 6404 Fax:+603-2698 3850 Email Website Related Brochure View all brochure


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The soil zoology department investigates various aspects of the taxonomy, systematics, morphology, biogeography, autecology and community ecology of soil organisms.
He focused the ecological research on the investigation of the succession of soil-animal communities in primary habitats, such as reclaimed opencast mining areas. We are still continuing this research today. For more than 50 years we have been studying in a unique field experiment how such communities develop in initial soils over time, which immigration mechanisms different animal groups use when colonizing sterile soils, when which soil-animal communities develop under differing conditions, as well as how a highly disturbed habitat develops into a functioning soil ecosystem.
Further soil.-zoological research topics in Görlitz include soil food webs, the fauna of mofette fields, soil-zoological floodplain ecology, the upscaling of soil animal communities to the landscape level, as well as biological soil conservation and the protection of soil fauna. For the investigation of the interrelations between soil organisms and soil physics and chemistry, a soil-science laboratory has been available since 2010.
Major projects of the Department of Soil Zoology are currently:
International publications of the Department of Soil Zoology are:
Further projects and additional information can be found on the pages of the individual Sections.
Our research results are transferred to the public via public lecturs, academic education at a number of different universities, training courses and educational material for schoolteachers and, in particular, via museum exhibitions such as the touring exhibitions "Beneath our Feet – Life in Soil", "Tiere im Tagebau" (Animals in Opencast Mining Sites), and the virtual soil column at the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz.


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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
EasyLunchbox fiesta!
In the big section: cheddar cheese stars, a strawberry, a few peppered turkey rolls (secured with monkey picks), two grape kabobs (on swizzle sticks), a homemade granola bar, and baby carrots.
The smaller sections contain homemade salsa (heavy on cilantro - So.Good.) and corn chips.
I used a small piece of plastic cling wrap over the section with the salsa and it worked really well to keep it contained. I think as long as you are using a lunchbag that holds the EasyLunchbox flat (such as their own) and you aren't swinging it crazily all around, most liquidy things will stay put very well.
9 comments:
- The Planet Pink said... [Reply to comment]
Mmmm... homemade salsa recipe please! I've got cilantro growing in my garden!
- June 1, 2010 at 12:21 PM
- Mrs. Ed said... [Reply to comment]
I think this lunch looks fun and colorful!
- June 1, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- EasyLunchboxes (Kelly Lester) said... [Reply to comment]
If this is a mess then I only want to eat messes. I live for cilantro. That looks delish!
- June 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks, ladies!
Planet Pink - I'll have to get the recipe from my hubs. He's the resident salsa maker around here. :)
- June 1, 2010 at 1:50 PM
- Pigs Do Fly said... [Reply to comment]
When I read "you aren't swinging it crazily all around most liquidy things will stay put very well", I decided that I want your kids ;) I've watched mine carrying in his lunchbox to school and that's all he does - swing his lunch around, his backpack, narrowly avoiding bopping other kids as he spins around happily. I tried cling wrap over some yogurt once -- lets just say that it didn't go well ;)
- June 1, 2010 at 2:19 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Ha! Pigs Do Fly - the thing is, my son has learned the hard way that swinging his lunchbox all over tarnation causes his food to not look so nice when he goes to eat. ;-) So he's pretty careful with it. At least prior to lunch he's careful, after lunch all bets are off. :p
- June 1, 2010 at 3:00 PM
- Fill your belly and SAVE said... [Reply to comment]
Salsa recipe please YUM
- June 1, 2010 at 3:26 PM
- Cranky Apple said... [Reply to comment]
I love your ideas! What do you do with the scraps after you cut out all the cute shapes?
- June 1, 2010 at 5:19 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Hi Cranky Apple, thanks! The scraps don't go to waste! For cheese they sometimes get eaten by me or my hovering vultures, um, I mean, darling children. When I can I put them aside for the baby (he's one) since his needs to be cut in tiny nibbles anyway. Sometimes I'll hide the odd pieces under the pretty shapes on top. :)
- June 1, 2010 at 7:11 PM


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Rough year on farmers
"It's been a hot and windy year," said Gordon Grandbouche as he sat behind one of the truck scales waiting for trucks full of grain to pull in.
He would know he is the final stop for all of the grain trucks once they have taken in their harvest from the fields around Craig.
Grandbouche sees the final results of what Mother Nature and hard work have combined to provide.
As the owner of Craig Grain, one gets the feeling that he has been through tough years before and has learned to accept them as part of the business. He remains calm as he discusses the yields.
"I have noticed yields are between 17 and 25 (bushels per acre). For the last seven years, it has been more like 30 to 35," said Grandbouche.
The price of grain has remained relatively the same as last year, said Grandbouche. As of Sunday it was at $1.72 per bushel. In 1999 it was closer to $1.65.
Grandbouche believes the consistent low prices are due to the excess amount of grain produced around the world a problem that he doesn't see going away anytime soon.
"There isn't enough exported," said the local businessman.
If a grain farmer is lucky enough to get through the hot, dry weather with a decent harvest, the gas pump soaks up a fair share of any profits. Grandbouche believes fuel prices have had significant effects on grain producers this year.
"That's a big factor," said Grandbouche. "If you're doing anything at all, you're going through a couple hundred gallons a day. The price is up around 60-cents per gallon. It's a major thing."
Grain is a tough business. Grandbouche has seen the local grain industry gravitate toward larger acreage and other crops.
"In this area, 70 percent of what used to be grain has gone in to grass," said Grandbouche.
At the U.S. Department of Agriculture, officials see the results of a tough year in the form of farmers applying for assistance.
To get normal assistance, farmers have to be certified by sometime in July. This way, they build a history where yields can be compared. Without certification, the only assistance that they can receive is if the area is declared a disaster area.
"I normally certify 200 farms a year," said Patrica Moralez, county executive director for the farm census agency. "This year, I certified 300. We have a lot of people coming in and asking questions."
According to Moralez, they have applied for disaster relief in this area and are waiting on approval from the secretary of agriculture.
"We have wells drying up, people running out of irrigation water in May. You can drive around town and see how bad it is just by seeing all the brown grass in people's yards," said Moralez.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - The Osaka Securities Exchange is investigating how Universal Entertainment Corp 6425.OS accounted for millions of dollars paid in 2010 to advance the Japanese firm's casino project on Manila Bay, people with direct knowledge of the inquiry said.
The exchange's involvement is the first time the payments have drawn the attention of Japanese regulators. The FBI and Philippine authorities have been investigating $40 million in payments to a politically-connected consultant in Manila since last year.
The exchange, which oversees Universal's Jasdaq stock listing, has asked the company to explain how the payments were treated in Universal's financial statements for the fiscal year to March 2010, said people with knowledge of the request, who didn't want to be named as the investigation is ongoing.
Universal has said it carried out its business in the Philippines lawfully. The company, which also makes pachinko machines, announced in December it filed a defamation lawsuit against Reuters for reporting on its payments to Rodolfo Soriano, a former consultant to the gaming regulator in the Philippines. Universal declined to answer specific questions about its accounting.
In a statement last month, Universal said there was a "need to verify the suitability of accounting procedures", and it would revise its accounting if directed to do so by a panel of three outside experts it has commissioned to look into the payments.
One of the issues examined by the Osaka exchange involves a $10 million payment that was wired to Soriano from a Universal affiliate in Hong Kong and immediately circulated back to Universal by a former employee in May 2010, as the company was preparing to release its financial statements that June, said the people with knowledge of the investigation.
The exchange is focused on whether Universal improperly booked part of the payment as an asset on its balance sheet, inflating its profits, the people said.
A spokesman for the Japan Exchange Group, the OSE's holding company, said it did not comment on any investigation underway at a specific company. Soriano could not be reached for comment.
Reuters was first to report in December that the $10 million was wired to Soriano's firm and immediately circulated back to Universal's accounts with the objective of closing the books on a loan that Universal determined could not be recovered.
Universal has sued three former employees over the $10 million transfer, claiming they made the payment without authorization.
A Universal representative told a Philippine congressional hearing on the payments on November 28 that the transaction had been neutral to Universal's accounts because a bank cheque for $10 million from HSBC, made out to Universal, arrived on the same day $10 million was transferred to a firm registered in Soriano's name. The representative did not say who, if any individual, signed the cheque.
"Nothing lost, nothing gained. But, as Universal Entertainment, we don't know what is this transaction," Masahiro Terada, the president of Tiger Resort, Leisure and Entertainment, the company set up to operate the Manila casino, told the hearing. "It came back. Return, return."
But the exchange is questioning whether Universal sought to avoid taking a charge for the loan as well as other aspects of the accounting for the $30 million that remained with Soriano, people with knowledge of the matter said.
The $10 million payment was booked as the repayment of a loan to a firm called AZ Games International which had been dissolved for several months at the time of the transfer, according to people with knowledge of the transaction and records viewed by Reuters. Universal originally lent the money to AZ Games in 2008 to invest in Philippine casino clubs, said a person with direct knowledge of that deal.
One of the problems from an accounting perspective is that part of the $10 million was booked as a fixed asset related to its plot of land for the casino on Manila Bay, said people with knowledge of how the payments were accounted for.
That has raised questions over whether its profits were boosted by not fully accounting for what would have normally been a cost to dispose of a bad loan.
"It goes without saying, but if what's on the balance sheet does not represent a payment to a real counterparty - a real asset with value - then that's a problem," said Mitsuru Tagaya, a professor at Aoyama Gakuin, one of five outside accounting experts who reviewed Universal's accounting record at the request of Reuters.
The Philippines National Bureau of Investigation has been examining the payments to Soriano as a potential bribery case.
People interviewed by the FBI have said U.S. investigators have also indicated an interest in whether the payments violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The FBI has been involved as there is evidence that funds paid to Soriano originated at a U.S. bank account of a Universal affiliate.
Universal founder and chairman Kazuo Okada has been in a legal dispute since early 2012 with U.S. casino magnate Steve Wynn. Okada had been an investor in Wynn Resorts (WYNN.O) before the board voted to redeem his investment at a discount after finding his company paid $110,000 to entertain gaming regulators from South Korea and the Philippines. Wynn said that made Okada an unsuitable partner.
Okada has said he was singled out after raising questions about Wynn's operations in Macau. The two sides remain locked in a legal fight that is playing out in courts in the United States, Japan and the Philippines.
Investigators from the Nevada Gaming Control Board have also been looking into Universal's activity in the Philippines, people with direct knowledge of that investigation have said. Universal has a gaming license in Nevada as a maker of slot machines.
Reporting by Nathan Layne, Taro Fuse, Kevin Krolicki and Teppei Kasai; Editing by Ian Geoghegan


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