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A UNLV staff member and her daughter left injury today when a car followed them onto campus and opened fire on their car, inning accordance with university authorities.
The female stated she didn't understand the guy owning the car and thought the occurrence may have been the outcome of road rage, police stated.
The female informed private investigators the parking area next to her pickup truck in a parking lot before the driver supported and started shooting, police said. A minimum of three rounds struck the windshield and passenger side of the truck, authorities said.
Neither the woman nor her 11-year-old daughter were harmed, police said.
The chauffeur who fired the shots got away, authorities stated.
After the shooting, trainees and faculty were cautioned to lock doors and remain inside. But the campus is now protected and open, authorities stated.
"No more occurrences reported," UNLV Authorities said.
UNLV and Metro Cops are examining. Individuals are recommended to prevent the location, which is just north of the Thomas & & Mack Center.


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Let Mr. Hakim, Chief Town Planner of Kashmir complete the Master Plan for Srinagar.
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Dear Dr. Nirmal Kumar Singh:
A Proposed Master Plan for Srinagar is being completed and was scheduled for submission to the government by October 26, 2016. The proposed plan, in the making for about a year, was being done under the direction of, Mr. Iftikhar Hakim, Chief of the Town Planner Organization. Mr Iftikhar Hakim is a highly qualified, experienced City Planner. He is an honest and dedicated professional who by his diligent work has earned the respect of his subordinates and the general public.
Mr. Hakim has recently been relieved of his duties and transferred to Srinagar Municipality. Mr. Hakim's replacement is an architect with very limited planning education, and has no work experience in Master Planning of cities.
What is the rational for this last minute change in the planning organization leadership?
Allegations are that the appointment is nepotism. The new head of the planning organization has superseded many existing employees within the planning organization who are better educated and experienced in city planning, compared to the architect who is to head the organization.
Allegations are that Mr. Hakim's transfer is also at the behest of vested interests who want a free hand for land speculation. Land speculators do not want provisions for green belt areas and other public interest provisions in the proposed Master Plan. Having an inexperienced person, who would be prone to influence, officiate the planning organization would give the land mafia in Kashmir a free hand to turn Srinagar into a Cement-nagar.
This petition is a demand not to succumb to the dictates of the land speculators.
Please restore Mr Hakim as head of the town planning organization, and allow him to continue and complete a credible planning process for the Srinagar Master Plan.
Originator and first signer of the petition is :
Rafique A Khan
A personal note for Dr. Singh.
I am a city planner, educated in architecture and city planning in India, and in public administration in America. I practice city planning, specialization in redevelopment planning and urban design. For forty plus years I am a student of Kashmir Affairs. My particular interest is to help conserve and enhance Kashmir's natural environment, www.kashmirfoa.org
You Sir are a historian. Fate has offered you an opportunity to captain Kashmir's future. Do not let the history of Kashmir count you with the likes of the destroyer Tarter Zulzu. Instead, captain conservation and enhancement of Kashmiri's natural and man-made environment, and thus join the ranks of visionaries like Pandit Suyya and Budshah of Kashmir.
Rafique A Khan
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Masaya is a city in Nicaragua
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Hospedaje Central located just a few blocks from the Artisans Market and across from Fruti Fruti. Easier (2015) you find hotel Central next to Hotel Regis. It's a small hostel in a family's home. The rooms were $5 (130 cordobas) per person a night and had a very basic bathroom and shower in the bedroom as well as a TV and free wifi. The family was very friendly and helpful. They let us use their fridge and helped us try to arrange a night tour of the volcano. Locks are provided for the bedroom but not the outdoor gate to get out of the house so you have to call for a family member to unlock the exterior door every time you go in and out. Also they close the front door at 10p.m. A basic but great place to stay. Location at google map: 11.978002, -86.095998. Update April 2016: There are rooms starting at 8$ with shared bathroom. 10$ for double with bathroom. For single travellers there is no 5$ option.
Hotel Regis is the perfect place for a single traveller. Single with shared bathroom 5$ (140C$), double 10$, leaded by Doña Yolanda and her sister. They are happy to give you a lot of useful tips, they are so friendly that they will serve you coffee for free and if you stay there more than 2 days, they will make your laundry for free !!! (Incredible, right? :-)) Simple, but very nice place. Centrally located, about 4 blocks from Parque Central and consequently alao near to the Mercado Viejo (Artesania for tourists) and Mercado Muncipal (mixed market for locals)Nearly from everywhere in Masaya you can take a taxi for 15 to 20 Cordoba to the hotel. Free, fast Wifi which reaches all the rooms. Close at 10pm the front door.
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Kampong Thom (Khmer: កំពង់ធំ, IPA: [kɑmpɔːŋ tʰom] "Grand Port") is a province (khaet) ofCambodia. It borders the provinces of Siem Reap to the northwest, Preah Vihear to the north, Stung Treng to the northeast, Kratie to the east, Kampong Cham, Kampong Chhnangto the south, and the Tonle Sap to the west.
The provincial capital is Kampong Thom City, a town of approximately 30,000 people on the banks of the Stung Sen River.
Kampong Thom is Cambodia's second largest province by area. There are a number of significant Angkorian sites in the area, including Prasat Sambor Prei Kuk and Prasat Andettemples. As one of the nine provinces bordering Tonle Sap Lake, Kampong Thom is part of the Tonlé Sap Biosphere Reserve.
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Map of Cambodia highlighting Kampong Thom
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The province is subdivided into 8 districts.
The previous name of the province was Kampong Pous Thom (Port/City of the Great Snakes). According to local legend, at a lakeside dock near the Sen River, a pair of large snakes inhabited a nearby cave. On every Buddhist holiday, the snakes would make appearances to the people nearby who then began to refer to the area as Kampong Pous Thom. Eventually the snakes disappeared and the name was shortened to Kampong Thom. During theColonial Cambodia period, the French divided Cambodian territory into provinces and named most of them according to the local popular names for the respective areas.
Kampong Thom was a powerful capital in Southeast Asia during the Funan period. Prasat Sambor Prei Kuk, dating from the Chenla Era, is in Kampong Thom Province.
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Team Dalewood Golf Club wins inaugural CFM/Class A Scramble
May 24, 2017
THORNTON, ON - After a beautiful Victoria Day weekend tried to erase an undesirable start to the golf season, the PGA of Canada – Ontario Zone was at Tangle Creek Golf Club on Tuesday for the inaugural CFM/CLASS A Team Scramble. The brand new event series pairs one Class A Professional with a Candidate for Membership newer to the Association and was designed to facilitate mentorship and create a wider reaching networking experience.
Taking the first ever CFM/CLASS A Scramble title was on twenty-four teams minds as they took to the course but it was the team from Dalewood Golf Club who raised to the top. Head Professional Brad Pemberton and his Assistant Shea Varty caught fire early and didn't take their foot off the pedal all day. They finished their round at an impressive 13-under par and narrowly bested Aaron Wagner (Focus Golf Group) and Thomas Keddy (Oslerbrook Golf Club) who missed a birdie putt on their last hole to finish one back of the lead.
The team from Dalewood Golf Club almost missed the start of the event all together, arriving at Tangle Creek Golf Club at 1:27 for a 1:30 shotgun. That didn't stop the pair from getting off to a hot start. Pemberton was making the putter count early in the round and they relied heavily on the long drive of Shea Varty to keep them attacking greens on their second shot. "Shea made a putt for eagle on the backside," Pemberton said after the round. "That got us feeling good about our chances. We made our shots and the ball was finding the hole." The pair from Dalewood Golf Club was 5-under after six holes which propelled them forward into the winners circle.
"I like the new format," Varty commented. "It's funny, it seems more directed at getting the CFM's out playing but I think it's a great event for the Class A's to get away from their courses and get a round in. They're busier than us most of the time." With lowered entry fees of $113/player and an afternoon shotgun, the CFM/Class A Scramble has been tailored to the working PGA Professional. The second and final CFM/Class A Scramble will be on September 26, 2017 at Turnberry Golf Club in Brampton, ON.
Brad Pemberton/Shea Varty (-13), Aaron Wagner/Thomas Keddy (-12), Gord Burns/Nick Kenney (-11), Bruce Rogerson/Dennis Hendershott (-10), and Chris Near/Sterling Emery (-10) rounded out the top five.
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Data change events are used by Teiid to invalidate result set cache entries. Result set cache entries are tracked by the tables that contributed to their results. By default Teiid will capture internal data events against physical sources and distribute them across the cluster. This approach has several limitations. First updates are scoped only to their originating VDB/version. Second updates made out side of Teiid are not captured. To increase data consistency external change data capture tools can be used to send events to Teiid. From within a Teiid cluster the org.teiid.events.EventDistributorFactory and org.teiid.events.EventDistributor can be used to distribute change events. The EventDistributorFactory can be looked up by its name "teiid/event-distributor-factory". See Programmatic Control for a dataModification example.
When externally capturing all update events, "detect-change-events" property in the teiid subsystem in can be set to false, to not duplicate change events. By default, this property is set to true.
|Using the org.teiid.events.EventDistributor interface you can also update runtime metadata. Please check the API.
The use of the other EventDistributor methods to manually distribute other events is not always necessary. Check the System Procedures for SQL based updates.
Runtime Metadata Updates
Runtime updates via system procedures and DDL statements are by default ephemeral. They are effective across the cluster only for the currently running vdbs. With the next vdb start the values will revert to whatever is stored in the vdb. Updates may be made persistent though by configuring a org.teiid.metadata.MetadataRepository. An instance of a MetadataRepository can be installed via VDB file. In Designer based VDB, you can edit the vdb.xml file in the META-INF directory or use Dynamic VDB file as below.
In the above code fragment, replace the {jboss-as-module-name} with a JBoss AS module name that has library that implements the org.teiid.metadata.MetadataRepository interface and defines file "META-INF/services/org.teiid.metadata.MetadataRepository" with name of the implementation file.
The MetadataRepository repository instance may fully implement as many of the methods as needed and return null from any unneeded getter.
|It is not recommended to directly manipulate org.teiid.metadata.AbstractMetadataRecord instances. System procedures and DDL statements should be used instead since the effects will be distributed through the cluster and will not introduce inconsistencies.
org.teiid.metadata.AbstractMetadataRecord objects passed to the MetadataRepository have not yet been modified. If the MetadataRepository cannot persist the update, then a RuntimeException should be thrown to prevent the update from being applied by the runtime engine.
|The MetadataRepository can be accessed by multiple threads both during load or at runtime with through DDL statements. Your implementation should handle any needed synchronization.
Costing Updates
See the Reference for the system procedures SYSADMIN.setColumnStats and SYSADMIN.setTableStats. To make costing updates persistent MetadataRepository implementations should be provided for:
Schema Updates
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EU Medical Device Directive (93/42/EEC)
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amazing reading lately & I just have to share it with you all! There is
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I also have a knack for picking out series that are not finished yet. Oops.
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survive underground. When main character and her partner are exiled from their underground
home to fight for their lives on the surface, she has to choose between life and love. I was on
the edge of my seat the entire time! Definitely a new take on a post-apocalyptic world when
all humans are forced underground to survive! Simply dying to read the last book that
was released just a couple days ago!
3 Legend Trilogy The United States is now run by the Republic and is at war with
all its neighbors. A wealthy, Republic-born military elite, June, crosses paths with a
slum-born criminal, Day, when June's brother is murdered and the prime suspect is Day.
This book is nonstop action and I am waiting impatiently for the third book, Champion,
to come out in just 5 short days!
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engineered soldiers that look like humans called Partials, the human race is almost
completely wiped out by war. The humans were reduced to a mere tens of thousands
due to a weaponized virus called RM and not a single baby that has been born in more
than a decade has survived. The partials are also being wiped out by an expiration date
set by the human engineers and are quickly dwindling. A nurse on the front lines is
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2. A moment that caused me to be blown away by the goodness, love and sovereignty of God.
3. A satisfying ending to a fun, well-written, DC-based book: "Sammy's House" by Kristin Gore. Bridget Jones meets the West Wing - highly recommended if you enjoyed either of both of those.
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Chapter Two- Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
I was sitting in The Breakfast Club once again, pondering over a new hard drive update that I was considering. Talya had just started her break when I heard her footsteps stop at the door. She was silent for a long moment until I heard her start back inside. She eventually came to stop beside me. I shot a smile across the table where she sat down.
" You're always by yourself. Don't you have anyone else, Mercedes?" She asked me.
I felt a small pang of…something at her words. Something sad, I think. Probably just indigestion. I smiled brightly at her simple, almost innocent question.
"Of course I do. I have my brother."
She snorted, and I had to chuckle a little myself. Mercy was certainly not a people person.
"You know what I mean. Friends. People to just spend time with. People who don't talk to you like you're five and incapable of thoughts of your own." Talya laughed lightly with that lovely voice she had.
It was a very insightful thing to say, really. Far more so than I had expected from her. It made me wonder what sort of career she had before working in this small little coffee shop. Sometimes I wondered what it would be like to not be a part of the Mortiferi. To be…somewhat normal. Sometimes, though I would never say it out loud, I wondered what it would be like to be able to see. To be like Mercy, and to experience things that everyone else took for granted every day. What would it be like to see a painting in the Louvre or the sunset over the ocean?
"Of course, I do. I have a cat. She doesn't talk at all."
The bell dinged merrily as two sets of footsteps bustled in out of the light drizzle. It always seemed to be raining in London.
"Hey, Talya! Are you on break already?"
I could almost feel Talya's whole demeanor perk and I have to admit, it irked me somewhat. Merceilious was such an egoist that I wonder if he ever changed like that just from a person's presence. I wonder if anyone would ever light up that way for me.
"Hey guys! Oh, Mercedes, this is Nathaniel and Shaun. Guys, this is Mercedes De Luca." Talya said happily, not wanting to leave her new friend out of the conversation.
Shaun, I learned almost instantly, was the bigger of the two. Nathaniel was the smaller, more soft spoken one. I suddenly felt some displaced air that confused me.
"Put 'er there! Any friend of Talya's is a friend of mine." Shaun said in his good old boy voice.
I half expected him to be wearing a cowboy hat and going around saying odd things like "partner" and "howdy". I frowned, confused at his strange words.
"Put what where?"
There was an awkward pause before Talya took my hand and put it in what I assumed was Shaun's own lightly. He shook my hand, his figure emanating confusion. I gave a small smile but it wasn't a happy one. He stilled momentarily when he saw my eyes. Talya and Nathaniel started out the door, heading to the nearest convenience store for a fag. Apparently, Shaun found me interesting because he stayed behind, watching me over the table. Once the door shut, the bell signaling it's closure, he addressed me.
"Hey, I apologize for that. You know…" He began, embarrassed.
I gave him a nod and an understanding grin.
"It's okay. I'm used to it. It happens all the time."
He seemed to give me a nod in return before realizing I couldn't see it and humming.
"So…how do you know Talya?"
My hand found my suddenly vibrating Blackberry and the word-to-voice program announced that I had a message from my brother. I ignored it.
"I met her on her first day working here. This is my favorite shop, you see. I come here all the time."
"And you don't have any…designs on her?"
I couldn't keep the look of surprise and shock off of my face. That was direct. Shaun was apparently a very blunt and direct person, but I was beginning to see that his heart was in the right place. He seemed very protective of Talya, but not in an obnoxious boyfriend way. More like in an older brother fashion.
"Er…no, I don't have 'designs' on anyone." What kind of a question was that to ask a perfect stranger? "She's nice and I like Talya but I don't fancy her. She's not exactly my type." I chuckled, starting to unfold my cane from where it lay in my bag next to me.
Shaun was pleased by this and it showed in his tone. His next words were interested, as if I were some sort of unique commodity. It was flattering that someone was taking interest in me, though embarassing.
"So do you come here often? I think I've seen you here a few times."
"Pretty often. I like the quiet and Laurence is a good friend." I told him, turning at the smell of Laurence's evening cinnamon rolls.
He always made an extra batch in the afternoons for the children stopping by on their way home from school or those who were looking for a snack before heading out. In my opinion, his afternoon rolls were even better than the morning rolls. Wonderfully delicious. They were always a perfect blend of spicy cinnamon, piping hot soft bread and gooey icing all in one mouthwatering appetizer. He brought me one, already knowing I would want it. I ordered one every afternoon I was here. It was my favorite. I gave him a brilliant smile, taking a second for Shaun. I couldn't eat in front of a guest, after all. I don't know why I considered him my guest since we weren't at my home. Maybe because he was one of the only people to ever stay behind to talk to me and didn't make a single stupid comment about me.
"Thank you. Yeah, I stick around Talya a lot. You know, to keep creeps away. You never know in this place." I got the distinct impression that there was more to the story than just "creeps", "I'll be here tomorrow too. Maybe I'll see you around."
I gave him a grin. Were this boys the sort of "friends" Talya had in mind for me? Perhaps he was just being polite. Isn't that what people did? Being polite simply for the sake of it?
I could still feel his eyes on me as I slipped my roll into a napkin and made my way out of the shop, my cane making it's 'tap, tap' noise as I walked.
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I found it a little strange when Mercy was late coming home that night. And then I could hear that stupid idiotic smile in his unusually cheerful voice. It was sickening and I'm sure I would have been much more annoyed if I wasn't too busy thinking about my own encounter this afternoon. That and the new systems program I had ordered. I ignored him practically spewing rainbows from his butt and sulked my way up to my room. I wasn't even sure myself why I was feeling so sulky, but I was. Mercy's happiness was my annoyance. I could hear Helix's bell from where she lay purring on my bed and I plopped down beside her. I knew from Anette that Helix was pure white. She was my sole companion most of the time, and I adored her. Merceillious despised her. Something about white cat hair all over my black clothes and such. My thoughts turned back to the outgoing Shaun.
I had to give him his props. He sure knew how to grab someone's attention. He had a voice that was both pleasant and soothing, he kind that forced people to like him, regardless of what they wanted. It was the type of voice that made heads turn in a public place. Perhaps I was so irritable because I hadn't had the opportunity to make friends in a very long time, no thanks to my protective brother. Sigh. What a waste. Maybe I would go and see the three of them tomorrow. Why not? I was a grown adult, I could make friends as I chose. I started to work on installing my new system but my mind was too full of the things I had missed out on and the potential friends I had made. I would go tomorrow and would not be tell Mercy.
Merceillious would mock me ruthlessly if he ever found out. No matter. It probably wouldn't pan out anyways. Most people were a little disturbed by my eyes since I refused to wear sunglasses to cover them. They were mine. Why should I have to hide them just because they were different? No one could convince me to hide a part of myself from the world simply because the world didn't like it. I had never wished to see before. Mercy had helped me realize very young that my blindness could be an advantage, and even though other people couldn't understand that, that just made them the more blind of all of us. Not to mention there was that whole, "I help to kill people for a living because Fate told me so" thing. I imagine it was a little off putting for normal people. I tended to have visions randomly. I could explain them away in public as seizures but getting close to others was harder. The closer you got, the more friendly you became, the more those people would notice strange behavior. It would be like walking a very thin tight rope, being friends but remaining aloof as well. It was a challenge I was more than ready to attempt.
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I walked into the Breakfast Club the next day, somewhat eager to meet them again. I wasn't used to being around many strangers but I was glad to know that I was able to make friends finally. I'd always been somewhat awkward around others my age, especially since I was tutored at home with only Mercy and the other Mortiferi for company. I didn't expect them to be there when I arrived but as soon as I stepped into the café, I heard Nathaniel call out my name from the little bar area by the cash register.
"Mercedes! So you made it after all." Shaun's voice was cheerful and happy-go-lucky and it brightened my mood further.
I grinned, giving him and offhanded shrug.
"I guess I just find you diverting enough to drag my bum out to Soho. And my brother has some business friends over today." I laughed, thankful that he seemed just as amused by it as me.
"Well, I'm glad to be of service then." He joked as I sat down and ordered a round of cinnamon buns and teas, "So where do you live? Is it far?"
The store sounded pretty dead. It was Tuesday after all. Our order came quickly, by way of a grinning Talya and within moments we were setting into our sticky buns.
"It isn't too far. Hyde Park."
He whistled long and low. Hyde Park was one of the wealthiest areas in London. It was no surprise that he was intrigued.
"So what about you? Where do you live?" I asked curiously.
He had such a mish mash of language that it made for an interesting question. I heard him hum alittle and Nathaniel cleared his throat somewhat awkwardly.
"Here and there. Wherever we want to really. I could sleep under the stars or in a tunnel and be perfectly happy as I would in a bed. I can go where I want and do what I want and it's more freeing than any house or shelter could ever be."
It sounded wonderful. I wonder what it would be like to have no restrictions on your wishes. To have the freedom to be whatever person you wanted to be, to have breathing space to grow as you pleased. I couldn't help but feel envious of his descriptions. I hated being stuck under the foot of whatever guard or nanny Mercy decided to stick me under that day. It was annoying and stifling.
"Wow. That sounds great. I wish I could be like that." I said, somewhat bitterly as I stabbed my tea bag viciously with my spoon.
I wanted independence. I wanted to not have to rely on anyone. Nathaniel patted my hand lightly, easing my ruthless attack on the poor bag.
"I know you will be one day. You just have to make them all see that you're no more damaged than they are. I know you can do it." He said, his voice serious for once.
I flushed lightly, embarrassed at his ardent belief in me. No one had ever said that to me before. Oh, Mercy had encouraged me in his own way, yes, but it was never really the same as actually hearing the words said. I smiled at him, brighter than I could even imagine as my chest swelled softly.
"Thank you…" I whispered with a bright smile creeping along my mouth.
I could hear his grin in his voice when he replied.
"No problem."
Shaun clapped me on the back happily before launching into a spiel about the loveliness of the parks on rainy days when they were empty and you had only yourself for company.
~ o ~
Shaun and I kept meeting inconspicuously over the next couple of weeks and each time I saw him, I grew even more fond of him. We developed an easy camaraderie, given our vastly different backgrounds. I came to see him as the best friend I'd always read about in books but never known. He was enlightening and engaging and so interested in the little things I created and programmed. We spent and entire afternoon with just me showing him my mini-laptop and everything on it. We didn't always meet up at the café. Sometimes we would just wander, ending up over by Charing Cross or in the nearest terminal, just listening to the trains roll by and talking for hours. It was so much fun. I was in a better mood even at home and Mercy had started to eye me suspiciously whenever I went out now. I didn't care. He could shove his curiosity. This was one thing that he couldn't tell me I couldn't do. He couldn't make me take a babysitter and he couldn't make me give up the only friend I'd ever had. Let him find out. I would have a few choice words for him if he told me no. I was an adult, and I was taking my life in my own hands for once!
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Cryogenically Frozen Humans - Why I Want to Become One
Err, What is Cryogenics Again?
Cryogenics is a sub-field of physics dealing with extremely low temperatures. Have you ever put something in the freezer too long, like a soda perhaps, and something (probably unfortunate) happens? Well it's kinda like that, except the temperature is much, MUCH lower than your typical freezer. Really though, what I'm interested in isn't all the applied fields of crogenics, it's in the medical application to humans, which is called cryonics.
Okay...Cryonics it is. So What?
...If you lived about 100 years ago and you had an abnormal heart rhythm or a stroke you would die, well, soon. Now we have the luxury of professional medical specialists and surgeons that can 'fix' fatal medical emergencies. So, right now it could be said that cancer is the modern stroke. Why? Well, cancer is a serious problem and we don't know much about it, or how to cure it. In about 100 years, do you think that there will be a cure for cancer? I have to say that I would definitely think that there will be a cure before then. I use cancer as an example, but any terminal disease to humans right now might not be so fatal in the future.
The allure of cryonics is that it might be possible to freeze humans as they are in the present and thaw them out sometime in the future. If you take a second and think about it, cryonics is a one-way time machine to the future!
How Does it Work?
The major 'player' of the cryogenic world is liquid nitrogen. Super cooled liquid nitrogen makes things...different. Certain things gain (or lose) their normal physical properties at really low temperatures. The theory is that you can cryogenically freeze humans and when technological advancement reaches the necessary level, it will be possible to fix any medical conditions you had and reanimate you!
In a way, this could mean immortality. If every time you were faced with a fatal condition you were cryo frozen, you could live pretty close to forever.
What About Your Soul? Ethical?
Some people consider this to be highly unethical and immoral, but I would disagree. There are two kinds of dying, physical death and clinical death. If your body simply can't function properly, then that's physical death, if your brain stops working, that's clinical death (in simple terms). You can't be cryo frozen if you experience clinical death..so you never really died, so your soul (if you believe in them) never left you, at least, that's how I imagine it to work.
This could branch off into a lot of different discussions, such as what about cybernetic enhancements, what if the world ends, and more, I'm sure.
But You Can't Get Cryogenically Frozen Yet - Or CAN You?
This is the exciting part (or scary to some) is that Cryonics is already commercially available! Alcor (http://www.alcor.org) is one of the leading providers, and you can get affordable insurance policies through services such as the Cryonics Institute (cryonics.org).
In general this is all just food for thought, I find this subject to be extremely interesting and have considered potentially taking part in it in the future.
What are your thoughts?
This is an interesting topic, however, I wouldn't want to try it. I can't imagine waking up 100 years from now totally ignorant of past history, however if it were 10 years from now that might be tolerable. The unknown is certainly the thawing out process and if it works, what effects might that have on the body? Rated up and interesting.
Nice hub! voted up!
Technologically possible it may be, but it is probably foolish on your part to assume you will be thawed out in the future. Say it takes a hundred years or more to cure what ails you and to perfect the thawing out process. After a few people are thawed out and edically healed, why would our descendants continue with the process.
A hundred years from now, no matter how sophisticated you believe yourself to be, in the future you will be a barbarian. You will be ignorant of 100 years of social change, you will think in terms that are different from the current population - in short, you will need to be sent to re-education camp in order to fit in. You, the re-thawed human, will present them with difficulties and for what, to wake up some 8 years-old geezer filled to the brim with wrong-thin? THey have no reason other than intellectual curiosity to do it.


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Apr 22, 2012 2:35 PM CST
|Nice bit of useful re-purposing for the clematis, and a very pretty scene!
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|Thank you, Chelle! Always fun explaining to visitors what it used to be. The biggest problem was finding a vine to grow and cover the 10 foot dish on top of the 8 foot pole and survive a zone 4 winter. Clematis tangutica has worked much better than I first thought it would and with the added interest of the sead heads later in the fall, a fun and unexpected bonus.
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|Well shoot, I am going to have to get another dish! I like this 'mushroom' 'umbrella' look~ I have one on 4 poles as a pergola over a bench, (as seen in my blog) it's going to take a while before the crossvine and honeysuckle grow up and over it.
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Most everyone who knows me knows I have a complete and consuming devotion to my sweet dog, Marshall. (aka Moo Man.) We got Marshall through a wonderful rescue group who saved him from a kill shelter with an hour to spare before he was put down. Marshall was what opened my eyes to the animal overpopulation. Before I met this nearly perfect, sweet, well trained love of my life, I honestly thought the only animals that were euthanized were those that were too old, too sick, or too ferocious. I had no idea that every day loving and gentle and fun animals were being put down. I simply cannot imagine our family without Marshall. He is a joy spreader.
Unfortunately (but apparently), my mantra of "food is love" has spilled over into Marshall's dog bowl. Without whipping out embarrassing numbers, suffice it to say the Moo Man has grown exponentially since we first brought him home. There is still a thin veil of confusion for me - we never feed him any people food, and he only eats twice a day. But, alas, I cannot dispute the vet's scale, and the bottom line is...the Moo Man is on a diet...I mean "lifestyle change".
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While I know he still adores me, I see in his hungry chocolate brown eyes that he is searching for answers to why. Why are we doing more laps around the pond on our walks? Why are you offering me canned green beans and calling it a "treat"? Why is that food scoop coming out of the dog food bad half full? Why are you throwing a toy and then expecting me to go get it? (He's always been too cerebral for fetch.)
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