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AMERICUS - The Georgia Southwestern women's basketball team was outscored 16-4 by North Georgia over the final four minutes of Wednesday evening's game in the Storm Dome, leading to a 74-60 defeat at the hands of the Lady Saints.
GSW ran up a double-digit advantage early against North Georgia, leading 24-12 nine minutes in.
The Lady Saints answered with a 9-2 run over the next four minutes and trailed 26-23 with 7:03 left in the first half.
GSW quickly pushed the margin back to seven points, capped by a Jessica Bivins three-pointer with 5:27 remaining in the period.
NGCSU whittled the Lady Hurricane lead down to two at the break, 34-32.
After Cierra Duhart opened the second half with a bucket for GSW, the Lady Saints went on a 13-2 run to open a seven-point cushion.
In a game full of momentum shifts, the Lady Hurricanes responded with 12 unanswered points to regain the lead, 50-45, with just under 10 minutes remaining.
Janyce Ealey answered for NGCSU, by scoring the first six points of an 11-0 run.
GSW battled back to pull within two with 4:08 left on the clock, but North Georgia's 16-4 burst ended the comeback.
The Lady Saints finished the game shooting 49 percent from the floor, while GSW shot 38.5 percent. NGCSU pulled down 11 more rebounds (41-30).
Bivins led the Lady Hurricanes with 17 points on 5 of 10 shooting from three-point range.
Ealey paced North Georgia (11-5, 2-3 PBC) with a game-high 22 points. Lindsey Moss added 14 and Jessica Trice scored 10. Moss grabbed a game-high nine rebounds.
Southwestern (8-7, 2-4) travels up the road on Saturday for a 1:30 p.m. contest at Columbus State.


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The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Obama is going to ask for $1.6T in new taxes when he speaks on Friday. The only way that this sized tax increase could be accomplished is if the AMT tax is indexed to inflation and hits tens of millions of of additional taxpayers.
I have warned readers about the possibility that the AMT tax is going to go mainstream in 2013 here and here. Yesterday, the IRS came out with its own warning.
In 2012, about 4m taxpayers will get stuck paying the AMT tax. As the WSJ headline suggests, that number could go to 33m in 2013. That's a massive increase; it will cause all sorts of problems. From the IRS letter to Senator Hatch re the AMT:
If there is no AMT patch enacted by the end of the year, the IRS would be forced to operate the 2013 tax filing season based on the expiration of the AMT patch. There would be serious repercussions for taxpayers.
The changes to the AMT exemption amount and the special tax credit ordering rules could affect more than 60 million taxpayers - nearly half of all individual income tax filers.
(Note: Even if you do not owe AMT, you have to fill out and file the AMT forms.)
About 28 million taxpayers would be faced with a very large,unexpected tax liability for the current tax year (2012).
(Note: The AMT patch actually expired in 2011; a one-year exemption was granted, but the exemption is not effective if not re-patched. This was a legislative "time bomb" that was included in the deal that created the fiscal-cliff (debt ceiling deal).
Okay, got that? The AMT is a disaster. It will force 60m people to confront a very complicated new set of tax forms (I know, I have paid AMT for years). It will be retroactive. It will cause 30m people fits when they realize they will have to pay out of pocket or get a much smaller refund for 2012.
But, there is another side to the AMT. It does exactly what everyone says is needed.
-It raises a ton of revenue; $1Tn over ten-years. (More than the Bush tax on the +250K folks)
-It eliminates all deductions for high-income earners. (The mortgage tax deduction is carved out however).
-It broadens the base.
-Allowing the AMT patch to elapse does not increase tax rates; it establishes a minimum tax rate (currently 28%). This would allow Republicans to claim that they successfully fought off an increase in marginal tax rates. Democrats would be able to say they increased taxes on the rich.
I think the AMT tax is a conundrum that has to be fixed. It is the most heinous aspect of the fiscal cliff. I say that because it is the only tax related to the fiscal cliff that has negative implications for 2012 (everything else is forward looking). Can Congress fix the problems with AMT? Sure they can. There are dozens of options. But Congress must act to fix the problem, they simply can't "do nothing" as has been suggest by some Democrats.
I was not aware that the AMT had retroactive tax consequences for 2012. That it does, is a game changer. If we go down the road towards no compromise, and AMT becomes a reality for all taxpayers, the consequences of the fiscal cliff will be much larger than has been discussed in the press. Taxpayers would be crushed in 2013 if there is no action. Not only would most workers face much higher taxes for 2013, they would also get hit with much higher tax liabilities when they sit down and calculate what they owe for 2012. This double whack to the incomes of tens of millions of people would cause a recession far more severe than the one that CBO thinks might happen (small drop in GDP in 1 st half 2013).
As a ten-plus year payer of the AMT, I say to all, the AMT is truly a dreaded tax. If allowed to expand, it will wreck many taxpayers' plans on how they should live and work:
-Childcare costs would no longer be deductible. (Don't have that child)
-Charitable contributions would not be deductible. (Don't give money to your Church or any other worthwhile charity)
-Real estate taxes would no longer be deductible. (Don't buy a house, it will be much cheaper to rent than buy on an after-tax basis.)
-State income taxes paid would no longer be deductible. (Move out of California, New York and Illinois as fast as you can.)
I'm one of the 4m people who has been stuck with this tax for the past decade. I'm praying for relief. I want the AMT abolished. But, for the life of me, I can't see how that can happen. If there were a compromise on the fiscal cliff that resulted in the +250K crowd getting their marginal tax rate increased from 35% to 39.5% (the Obama plan) then I would end up paying LESS taxes then if I was subject the current AMT.
(Note: I live in a high income tax state, and pay high property taxes. I would be much better off with those deductions than without, even if the marginal tax rate is increased)
So they can't do that. Guys like me can't be getting a tax break as a result of the fiscal cliff. That outcome would be a complete joke (I would love it). This argues in favor of making the AMT permanent (the 2012 look-back could be easily patched).
I say again, AMT is a heinous tax, but it looks like it is going to become a reality anyway. The IRS has said that there will be big problems if AMT is allowed to impact large numbers of taxpayers. But without a minimum tax rate, revenues would fall (me). If AMT is expanded, the 30 odd million that pay the price, will just hate the outcome. Get ready.

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So, the "mastermind" of 9/11, who never quite looks the same in two pictures cannot now face a civilian trial due to "fierce opposition".
Fortunately, Getty images have a pastel court illustration from 2008 to remind us what he looks like. HO HO HO.
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As the University of California reports, more than 233,000 are enrolled in the entire UC system, which has a staff of more than 190,000 faculty. There are over 1.7 million alumni of the UC system worldwide.
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In view of the prestige of the public education system in California, it is no surprise that California is also home to some of the most elite colleges in the nation. According to Forbes, in 2013, the number one private university in the country was Stanford University. Not incidentally, the second top most ranking school, Pomona College, is also in California. There is a considerable price tag attached to these schools as Forbes notes costs were approximately $58,846 and $57,014 respectively. Compare these costs to the UC system, which according to the University of California, for the 2013-2014 academic year were estimated at $32,400 (in-state tuition plus on campus living) and $29,200 (off campus).
Whether you are planning to attend a school within the UC system or a private college in California, you will likely need to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). California schools, both private and public, usually provide mixed financial aid packages that include the following types of aid:
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Government has notified the new ACP SCHEME for Central Government Employees as recommended by the Sixth Central Pay Commission.
The Scheme would be known as " MODIFIED ASSURED CAREER PROGRESSION SCHEME (MACPS) FOR THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES.
The Government has considered the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission for introduction of a MACPS and has accepted the same with further modification to grant three financial upgradations under the MACPS at intervals of 10, 20 and 30 years of continuous regular service.
The scheme would be operational w.e.f. 01.09.2008. In other words, financial upgradations as per the provisions of the earlier ACP Scheme ( of August, 1999) would be granted till 31.08.2008.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cyber experts urged U.S. securities regulators on Wednesday to tread carefully when requiring companies to disclose security breaches and cyber threats, saying giving too much information may leave them vulnerable to hackers or legal action.
"I don't think the commission should be going overboard," said Roberta Karmel, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, told a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cyber security panel discussion.
"I am not sure the SEC is the agency that really should be pushing companies to do more by requiring more disclosure of breaches and other kinds of information that aren't material."
The SEC convened the cyber security event after a recent series of high-profile data breaches at companies like Target Corp and Neiman Marcus Group.
Those incidences sparked major public policy debates, including on how customers should be alerted, who should bear the cost of breaches, and how such information should be disclosed both to government and the public.
The SEC has also come under considerable political pressure to take additional steps to require public companies to disclose more information about cyber threats to investors.
It issued informal staff-level guidance in 2011 to help public companies decide when and how cyber events should be disclosed. Since then, it has written to more than 50 companies seeking clarification on cyber-related disclosures.
Some panelists said they worry going beyond the current cyber security disclosures could adversely impact companies, and it may not be possible to strike the right balance.
Companies that over share information, for instance, could become targets of shareholder suits and regulatory probes, experts said.
In some cases, federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI also tell companies they cannot reveal information about cyber attacks, putting public companies in a difficult position.
"There are circumstances where federal government agencies will show up and say ... it is classified so you can't talk about it," said Leslie Thornton, vice president and general counsel for WGL Holdings, Inc. and Washington Gas Light Company.
U.S. lawmakers have been contemplating legislation to provide clarity about how notifications should be made, but so far Congress has not been able to pass any cyber security bills.
Some experts say the SEC needs to do more, whether to issue more formal commission-level guidance or take steps to ensure companies are disclosing more material incidents to investors.
Jonas Kron, a senior vice president and director of shareholder advocacy at Trillium Asset Management LLC, told the SEC on Wednesday he felt the cyber threat disclosures he has seen since the 2011 guidance were still inadequate.
"Unfortunately, I think we are seeing a lot of boiler plate" disclosures, Kron said. "That is the honest truth of what we are seeing, and that is really unfortunate."
SEC commissioners did not offer any views on what, if anything, the SEC should do regarding cyber threat disclosures.
However, one SEC commissioner, Democrat Luis Aguilar, called for it to consider forming an interagency cyber security task force to help inform the SEC's thinking.
"The increased pervasiveness and seriousness of the cyber security threat raises questions about whether more should be done to ensure the proper functioning of the capital markets and the protection of investors," he said.
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Remember those groovy plastic window beads of the 60's? They were my inspiration for this quick and easy way to get some great new fabrics in your decorating design. Go to the moda fabric website with your own decorating colors in mind and I'm sure you'll find they have just the line you need!
One honey bun (I used Sultry by Basic Grey to go in my pink & brown bathroom )
The above picture shows how I first started trying to spray in a box (not so great) but then I made a jig with a scrap piece of wood and lots of nails. Over the course of a day and a half I'd go out in the garage and spray a coat whenever I remembered to. True sign of a craft supplies junkie: I already had six cans of paint that would coordinate with my fabric!
You can arrange the beads in an allover random effect, or in a pattern as I did. Then just trim the ends of the strips so they sit nicely on the sill. My window was just tall enough that I only trimmed about an inch off the 45″ length, but if your window is even longer, you could attach strips end to end and hide that spot inside a bead.
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Following the successful conclusion of the first GSIM Sprint, the High-Level Group for Strategic Developments in Business Architecture in Statistics authorised the release of version 0.3 of the GSIM document for public consultation.
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That which is recognized in society as "intellectualism" is a non-religious character type, and it influences a significant segment of a society of ignorance. Before proceeding with the attributes of this morality of ignorance one point deserves mention: the character of an intellectual dealt with here does not include intellectuals who deserve respect. It is of utmost importance and value to be an intellectual, to enjoy free thought and to develop ideas for the community of which an individual is a member. The character-type of an intellectual related here, however, is the one that bases its philosophy upon faithless lifestyle and rationale and makes it his goal to make it dominant in all spheres of life, and struggles to show himself as someone of great intellectual capacity despite not being a person of such caliber. But, most, especially the young, are unaware of this agenda; they want to become "intellectuals" because they think it will bring them prestige.
This milieu is usually located in the university setting. However, there is also a common notion that those lovers of the "fine arts" also fall into this category. For this reason, one who behaved quite otherwise in high school, changes as soon as he enters a university program such as Fine Arts in university. He begins to dress differently, changes his hairstyle, and assumes the air of an intellectual in his habits and tastes. The ignorant society he lives has instilled in him the idea that all successful artists act this way.
From then on, they are prepared to do everything to meet up to these expectations. They spend their days in cafes where "intellectuals" meet, in dark and dingy places filled with cigarette smoke, or in bars having "intellectual" conversations. They believe themselves to represent the enlightened and progressive segment of society, and dream up schemes to "save the world." But, most of their pretense is nothing but irrational, futile and incessant prattle. For these people, the important thing is to be "radical," and lead a life accordingly, in order that they can stand out from others. They aim to express a certain "mood" in their paintings, sculptures, books and music, however, when you look at the work they produce, you can see that, under the guise of "intellectualism," most of them express the same shallowness. They have no real understanding of high art, or of the depth of beauty and truth it can express; usually their art reveals their somber, melancholic and confused state of mind.
The films they watch, and the books they read, all must reflect this "intellectualism"; or they can't enjoy them. To look like "intellectuals," they will wander around with a book in their hands, that they have supposedly read. Though, they have not really read it; nevertheless, they try to gain prestige by repeating a few sentences that they have memorized from it.
They memorize certain phrases they have gleaned from the philosophers, using them as often as they can in their cafés. If you ask them, they will say that they have studied all philosophical movements, and even pretend to be experts on their subjects. However, they usually do not have any in-depth knowledge in any such field.
Their obsession with being "non-conformists" is the reason for which they develop strange ideas with regard to morality. They insist that family and marriage are unnecessary, and that a life lived without respect for bounds of decency is a sign of modernity and civilization.
Their confused state of mind dominates their whole lives. They enjoy dark and dingy places and disorder. Their own dwelling also reflect their errant notions; fast-food containers are scattered everywhere, books are piled on top of another, living amid filth.
But, generally speaking, they do not fully enjoy their lives. Unbelief is a delusion permitted by Allah from which man can derive no pleasure and joy. They aspire to a society where there are no rules, where all can infringe upon the rights of others, in which there is no order or limits, and in which there is an absence of the humane and moral qualities that religion brings. They only harm themselves in the end by that which they promote. Even just a brief experience of that which they desire would ultimately cause them harm.
The only thing that can bring honor and edify human beings is the true religion that Allah revealed for them to live by. It is only by living according to this religion that human beings can achieve contentment.2012-01-21 03:06:00


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Adnan Oktar: If Turkey assumes the attitude of an elder brother and takes over the situation, everything will calm down. Therefore, the Turkish-Islamic Union is a very urgent duty… Even a day's delay would leave Turkey under responsibility. An immediate action is needed. Let Turkey propose this, and if a single person opposes it, they can come and tell me. Go and propose Syria to unite with Turkey, Syria would not think for two days. Propose this to Azerbaijan, they already propose it themselves. Azerbaijan wants this. For several times they said that they should unite with Turkey. They said, we should unite as two states and one nation. For this reason, this needs to be declared officially. But for this official declaration, there needs to be a demand from the public to the government. There should be a demand saying we want something like this, but this needs to be told in a persistent way so that the government can find the strength to do it and act. This is very important. Foundations, institutions, our public, all our Muslim brothers and the entire Turkish nation; they should all give great emphasis to it.
Mersin TV, September 5-2008
Adnan Oktar: Turkey, by the will of Allah, is going to be a big country. The Turkish-Islamic Union is going to be established. TURKEY WILL EMBRACE all of the Middle East, ALL OF THE BALKANS and Asia WITH THE SPIRIT OF BEING AN ELDER BROTHER INSHA'ALLAH. And a good system will be accomplished. If you pay attention, the Caucasian Pact is being established and there is the railroad project you know. There are the oil pipeline and natural gas pipeline projects. Meetings for the Islamic Union are being held. There is work done in order to make the Turkish Union even stronger. They are all very good insha'Allah. Our Anatolian region has always been a cradle for civilizations you know. That's how Anatolia is. You know in the Ottoman period. THEY RULED ALL OF THE MIDDLE EAST, THE BALKANS AND THREE CONTINENTS FROM HERE. THAT IS HOW IT'S GOING TO BE AGAIN BUT IT WILL BE WITH LOVE, FRIENDSHIP AND SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD.
Patronlar Dunyasi, October 13-2008
Adnan Oktar: Turkey is moving towards the Turkish-Islamic Union. Our moral values will be strengthened and we will also be more powerful in monetary terms, and become the super state of the region; then there will be no Kurd problem or no Armenian problem or no Israel problem; all will be solved right from the root insha'Allah. Iraq will be under the control of Turkey insha'Allah, Syria will be under the control of Turkey insha'Allah, Azerbaijan will be under the control of Turkey; meaning Turkey will be their spiritual elder brother insha'Allah. Turkey will be their spiritual elder brother and assume a moral responsibility. Turkey will ensure the stability, peace and security of the region completely. Being the elder brother is the attribute of Turkey, SINCE THE OTTOMAN PERIOD SHE HAS BEEN THE ELDER BROTHER OF THE REGION, SECURING PEACE AND TRUST IN THE REGION. However, this time it will be perfect, it will be very beautiful, very auspicious and very good insha'Allah.
Kordon TV, July 27-2008
Adnan Oktar: So Turkey has to use her influence and directly act as a big brother and even become the influential leader of all the Middle East and all Islamic countries. Because Turkey is a country where there are very smart, sincere people. It is a country made up of very scrupulous people, with a perfect army. It is very much scrupulous, thorough and well-educated. And wherever they go, all countries love them. For example, they go to Iraq and they are loved, they go to Bosnia and they are loved, they go to Somali and they are loved and they are respected everywhere. They are loved and respected in Afghanistan. So there is a factual situation here. THAT MEANS ALL OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD LOVES THE TURKISH ARMY AND THE TURKISH PEOPLE. THAT MEANS THEY WANT TURKEY TO ACT AS AN ELDER BROTHER. So Turkey has to come forward, or if necessary bring forward a leader, a moral leader, and act as a big brother in both Islamic and Turkish countries. So for the entire region, the immediate foundation of the Turkish Islamic Union is essential.
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The launch of Greek life at UIS began with the start of the Greek Life Petitioning Group in 2009 when a group of three students requested to bring Greek life to campus, with the help of an advisor. It took this petitioning group three years, from 2009-2012, to formally bring Greek life to campus. It couldn't have happened without the support and guidance of Chancellor Dr. Susan Koch, Dr. Timothy Barnett and Dr. Clarice Ford. With the mission of the university in mind, the first Greek Letter Organization chartered at UIS was comprised of the 5 men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Since the conception of GLO's at UIS, Greek students have prided themselves on the four values of leadership, scholarship, friendship and service.
1980 – Mu Eta Undergraduate Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. was established as a state wide chapter that was located on the campus of Sangamon State University, now known as the University of Illinois Springfield.
2009 – The Greek Life Petitioning Group comprised of three students, Ashley Marshall (President), Nicholas Bell (Vice-President), Kyle E. Palmer (Marketing Communication Chair), was first created with the help of their advisor Dr. Clarice Ford. These three students were a part of a collective unit that wanted to see positive change at UIS with the implementation of Social Greek Letter Organizations (SGLO), but they knew the campus had to be educated before their goal could be accomplished. The next year was focused on holding questionnaires, forums, and campus climate surveys.
2010/2011 – Jessica Odigie joined the petitioning group as President. Upon joining, Jessica and Kyle quickly realized they were going to need assistance from a highly skilled speaker who was familiar with Greek affairs and the UIS political structure. Both knew the next year would be focused on giving presentations, holding forums and ultimately petitioning the University. With this in mind, Robert Dixon Jr. joined the petitioning group and became Vice President. With three Students who were considered leaders by their peers within the Legal, Communication and Political colleges, Jessica, Robert and Kyle pushed forward towards their goal.
May 5th 2012 – The University of Illinois Springfield Greek Life Petitioning Group submitted the official letter of request of approval for the implementation of Social Greek Life at UIS to the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Dr. Timothy Barnett.
May 11th 2012 – Chancellor Susan Koch approved the implementation of Social Greek Letter Organizations to be a part of the campus life at the University of Illinois Springfield.
September 7th 2012 – Greek Affairs Board was established. The board consisted of Kyle Palmer (President), Robert Dixon Jr. (Vice-President), Ashley Harris (Communication Chair), Jasmine Torres-Gonzalez (Secretary), Daniel Garcia (Treasurer), Mary Strong (Parliamentarian), Jazmyn Norcross (General member), Zhe Chen Chen (General member), and Zitong Zhang (General member).
February 11th 2013 – Upsilon XI chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. performed the first probate in UIS history.
November 16th, 2013 – Mu Eta chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. is resurrected after over 30 years becoming the second fraternity established at the UIS.


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The seamless development of mathematics and computation from a few clearly stated axioms and rules of inference in pure logic as embodied in an atomic/molecular medium. A search for the nature of fundamental intelligent structures. A gateway into the era of the molecule.
Biomatic Vibrational Spaces
In mathematics, a space is a set (sometimes called a universe) with some added structure.
A space consists of selected mathematical objects that are treated as points, and selected relationships between these points.
Immediately after fertilization the major role of the DNA machinery is to divide the cell and create an adult organism. The DNA and the Histone protein with it's associated tails are programmed for this task. The path drawn by the end carbon atom of the free end of the histone tail may give significant geometric temporal clues as to the function of the DNA. The tip serves as the Y in the equation Y=f(X), where X is some multidimensional vector. At any given point in time the tip of the histone tail will be in some given location in a 3 dimensional space. This may yield significant clues as to the geometrical properties related to the genetic machinery...as demonstrated by the similarities demonstrated by the above images of the cross section of an embryo and 2 possible strings created by a simulation of a histone tail. (Perry Moncznik, 2014)
The relative rotation velocities for the 20 spinning covalent bonds which generated this structure in the above image is: 0.008,0,0.008,2,4,0,2,4,0,2,4,0.008,0,0.008,2,4,0,2,4,0
|Biomatics is a discipline that networks biology, philosophy, mathematics, informatics, and mechanics to describe all biological information structures in holistic ways. It is also a short name of Systems Bioengineering. Unlike bioinformatics which is the science of information retrieval from textual data, biomatics involves engineering, cellular and molecular biology, and hardware.
The future of Biomatics and Biology
Biology and mathematics are perhaps the closest disciplines in science | Biomatics versus Omics
Biomatics lab
Philosophical, mechanical, mathematical and informational understanding of Biome. A place to theorize,propose and work on projects in a collaborative environment.
Biomatic Strings
- Smart molecules
- Molecular Mechanics
- Development of artificial organs and appendages
- Development of human machine interfaces
- BioMaterials
- Programmable Molecules
- Molecular Mechanics
- Medical Biomatics
- BioMedical Imaging
- Protein Folding
- Molecular Codes
- The Amino Acid Code
- The Telomere Code
- Amyloid Codes
- Protein Kinases
- Retinal Epithelium Cells: A Case Study
- The Amino Acid Code
- Computational Oncology
- Computational Psychology and Psychiatry
- Biomatic Therapies
- Pharmacogenomics (Pharmacoepigenomics)
- Pharmacobiomatics
- DNA Microarray Analysis and Gene Expression Profiling
- Intervention of Aging
- Autism: A Case Study
- BioMedical Imaging
- Molecular Electronics
- Biomatic Programming Languages
- Forensic Biomatics
- Sports Biomatics
- Biomatic Political Systems
- Discovery of Mathematical Techniques and Theory
- Biomatics and Entanglement
Biological Mathematics or Principia BioMathematica
It is evident that some form of computation takes place in biological systems and indeed within single molecules. It thus follows that some form of mathematics occurs in these computations. Whether it be basic set theoretical concepts such as subsets, intersection, and union or more complex manipulations such as Fourier transforms of visual data.
The term "Biomatics" consists of a cross contraction of Biological Mathematics. The concept that is meant to be defined is the study of mathematics as it occurs in biological systems. This is in contrast to the concept of mathematical biology, which is the use of mathematics to describe or model biological systems.
A tentative definition might be: The seamless development of mathematics and computation from a few clearly stated axioms and rules of inference in pure logic as embodied in an atomic/molecular medium. Or, the study of "smart molecules".
Gottfried Leibniz considered the following thesis in the late 17th century: (Some or all of) mathematics can be reduced to formal logic.
It is often described as a two-part thesis.
1. All mathematical truths can be translated into logical truths.
2. All mathematical proofs can be recast as logical proofs.
In other words, that all mathematical truths and proofs can be restated in the vocabulary of logic.
By the late 1800s Karl Weierstrass, Richard Dedekind and Georg Cantor had all developed methods for defining the irrationals in terms of the rationals. Giuseppe Peano had also gone on to develop a theory of the rationals based on his now famous axioms for the natural numbers. Thus, by Gottlob Frege's (predicate calculus) day (1848-1925) it was generally recognized that a large portion of mathematics could be derived from a relatively small set of primitive notions
In 1910, Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead collaborated on Principia Mathematica, an attempt at a detailed deduction of mathematics from logic, which proved to be greatly influential yet controversial.
In Bertrand Russell's words, it is the logicist's goal "to show that all pure mathematics follows from purely logical premises and uses only concepts definable in logical terms".
As a result, the question of whether mathematics can be reduced to logic, or whether it can be reduced only to set theory, remains open. However, in light of modern theories of evolution, fractal geometry, physics, chemistry and computer science, some concepts are now self-evident. Given that biological systems perform some sort of mathematics, and acceptance of evolution, it follows that these mathematical systems have evolved and therefore must have started from some initial state. Biomatics further raises at least the possibility that all of mathematics may be based on elemental algebraic structures as embodied in such molecules as the amino acids.
Intramolecular Computation
Consider an algebraic system embodied in a molecule consisting of N atoms. In the case where N = 3 we find the cube group (in terms of abstract algebra). (Note that N = 1 and N = 2 can represent groups as well).
Group theory (abstract algebra) is a well-developed branch of mathematics that provides many theorems and definitions. The key concept is that it describes, formally, a small (fundamental?) mathematical system consisting of a set and an operation on the members of that set. Could this then be nature's way of evolving a system of mathematics and computation from a set of primitive notions? It seems it must inevitably be so, for ultimately what separates the different species, from viruses to man, is the complexity of the molecules that carry the blueprint for the ontogeny of the species.
As computer scientists, we seek and think in terms of information storage and processing. We seek to compare and contrast biological manifestations of computer science paradigms including:
Data structures
Computer Architecture
Switching elements (gates)
Finite State Machines
We apply our knowledge and linguistics to analyzing, describing, and comparing natural phenomena to artificial processing. For example, image processing, graphics, Artificial Intelligence, are well-developed bodies of scientific endeavors, with many potential candidate concepts.
See Also
External Links
Biomatics Inc. Japan: Bioinformatics company in Japan. It is nothing much to do with Biomatics.org
SystemsBiology Institute
Biomatics Inc.: Digital Imaging analysis company.
Biomatics Germany: Web development for life science.
Self organization FAQ
Wim Hordijk's home page
VCU complexity research group
Artificial Life links
SOS bib
Measures of Complexity
Self-org measures
SOS on the Web
What is complexity ?
The Avida Group
Santa Fe Institute
Biology's Gift to a Complex World (The Scientist, 9/2008)
Machine Nature (New Scientist, 28/9/2002)
Computer Design Meets Darwin (Science, 26/9/1997)
Bioism.org | Funktopia | Biolicense | Bioreligion.org | Omics.org | Matics.org | Biocompany.net


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I also love how the tech-savvy community preserves the past so well. DOSBox, ZSNES, ScummVM, WINE, etc. grant us access to history and the great game creations of the past. So, even as platforms change, people build bridges to old platforms.
I recently completed The Curse of Monkey Island on my Galaxy S3.
Why stop there? I think your analogy is spot on with one minor change. You ALREADY, successfully, LEGALLY purchased stuff from Costco. Those door guards show up at your HOUSE, and THEN beat you to a pulp until you produce a receipt proving you purchased the stuff in your house.
After all, the world is ready.
Information wants to be free!
Why on EARTH are the results presented as a line graph?
I'll never understand this concept. If anyone deserves royalties/patents on the matter, it is whoever invented the original physical shopping cart. The concept is very simple: a container that queues items up for purchase all at once at a future time. It is very obvious to take that concept and apply it to online purchases. How were these patents granted in the first place? Because it was done "on the Internet"? The concept is still the same. From what I gather, the patents simply cover a particular style of implementation.
This is why patents are stupid.
I like how politicians pretend to care about Internet freedoms. Government and big businesses are the reasons Internet freedoms were in danger in the first place. You want to help Internet freedom? Cease your own involvement. Back off. Let it govern itself.
I like how Howard lists a bunch of services like Netflix, but it's those very services we're complaining about: delayed release windows, restricted viewings, etc.
Didn't it turn 30 years? Or is my math off?
And yes, I agree. All those years of QuickBASIC 4.5 WASTED! How am I to cope in a world devoid of people willing to pay for software written in QuickBASIC 4.5? I demand payment for my cultural output!
You know what else cheapens IP? Making it inaccessible. IP has far less value to me if I am unable to even obtain it. I have $60 games I stopped playing ages ago, and I have $10 games I still play all the time. Heck, I'm a huge League of Legends fan. Is its IP worth nothing because the game is free?
Honestly, EA, welcome to the world of economics.
Hate to be pedantic, but actually, mixing an acid and base is probably the most peaceful thing you can do. XD
Annnnnd the metal in my truck fender is the same metal in terrorist weaponry...?
I'm a game developer who uses Lua in my game engine. Guess I'll have to remove it in order to be able to market to Fox News viewers.
I was literally about to post this. If absolutely no one pirated certain content, I question the content more than the protection.
I'm surprised even at the people who would pay $1 per month. Facebook is far from a necessity in my life. I love using it. I love seeing friends' updates. It's how I stay in touch with lots of friends and family, but I use precisely because it costs nothing. There is no guilt in using it ever (maybe my electric bill...?). The threshold between $0.00 and $0.01 is huge. The very requirement of money in any amount is deal breaker for such non-essentials. Going from $0.01 to $0.02 is a lot easier because it's a mere value proposition: we're offering more services, so we need to charge a bit more.
Since when is it a right to know who is behind an anonymous internet posting? If we're taken to TRIAL, yeah, you probably have some right to know who your accuser is... but an anonymous Internet posting? Sorry. That is not a right.
Why convince people to keep games when we can just legislate to force them? :]
What are DISTRUBITION rights?
I find myself in an interesting position. I am a Christian husband and father. Given my religious background, I certainly oppose such vile literature. One could argue that I see this as a 'win' for me and my beliefs. However, this is exactly the wrong way to go about it. If I wanted to eliminate such literature, I'd seek to garner support from people in the community. I'd want the world to WANT to rid itself of such literature. Paypal should strive to be as neutral as possible as it is a tool for moving money around. What people do with their money is their own business.
Paypal, why stop at dirty books? Why not cut off funds to presidential campaigns (for candidates you do not like)? Why not cut off funds for anyone who refuses to detail what the transaction was for? Do you plan on reinstating Smashwords for transactions not involving dirty books?
It's such a slippery slope that this really is a victory for no one. It's just one more reason for me to move my assets away from Paypal.
Disliking does not *excuse* infringement. A more appropriate analogy would be that every time you go to pay for your nachos at the concession stand, the cashier slaps you after handing you your receipt. People want the nachos and want to support the people selling them, but if every purchase is accompanied by pain, people will start saying, "What's that over there?" *runs*
Seconded'd. I intend to check out their games very soon.
Is this guy seriously complaining about the variety of Android hardware? Has this guy never written a big application for the PC? There is so much more hardware variance on the desktop than in the phone market. The mark of a good engineer is his ability to write flexible, adaptable code that conforms to its environment. Frankly, if a team is coding an app and stopping the instant it runs smoothly on one device, I question the quality of code underneath: no effort to optimize, streamline, harden, etc.
It's really not THAT hard to support many Android devices.


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Reading a text about liars and their behaviour, I encountered the following sentences:
It is hard to prove there was a harsh tone or angry expression. The accuser can be put on the defensive. "You have heard it that way. There was no anger in my voice".
I failed to find what "put on" could be in this context. The only meaning that would make a little sense would be "to pretend". Also, I think it is a passive voice; but I may be wrong, put has the same form for present, past and past participle.
I think it could mean: The liar can try or pretend) to be defensive to the accuser.
And I have an additional question: As mentioned in the text, "You heard it that way". Is this more like "You heard it with your own ears, there was no anger" or "It is just you who heard it THAT way, there was no anger"?


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That doesn't seem likely at the moment, but there would be some real justice in this story. After all, the deficit hawks have used the deep pockets of their backers and their connections with prominent politicians and media figures to completely misrepresent the reality about the deficit.
The story of near-term deficit, as every real budget wonk knows, is the story of a collapsed economy. When the economy weakens, tax collections fall and payments for programs like unemployment insurance and food stamps rise. In addition, we also had explicit counter-cyclical policies, like the stimulus and the payroll tax cut, that were designed to boost the economy but also added to the deficit.
Source: Congressional Budget Office.
As can be seen, the deficit in 2007 was a modest 1.2 percent of GDP. An amount that can be sustained literally forever. Deficits were projected to remain low, until the scheduled ending of the Bush tax cuts in 2011 pushed the budget into surplus in fiscal 2012.
The reason that we didn't follow this path was the economic plunge that followed the collapse of the housing bubble. There were no big new permanent government programs or tax cuts pushing up the deficit in the last four years. It was the economic collapse pure and simple. The implication of this graph is that if we fix the economy we fix the deficit, end of story.
While this is fairly straightforward, our deficit hawk friends have their long-term deficit story hidden up their sleeve. This is the line that if we don't do something about Social Security and Medicare, then we will soon have an unbearable debt burden.
This one is misleading since it really is a story about rising health care costs making Medicare, Medicaid and other public sector health care programs unaffordable. The story here should be to focus on fixing the health care system, not running around yelling about soaring deficits.
But there is potentially bad news for the deficit hawks here also. Health care costs have moderated sharply in the last few years. While this undoubtedly is partly due to the impact of the recession, the moderation has continued long enough that it is difficult to believe that we are not already on a slower health care cost growth path. Certainly costs are coming in well below thhe projections of a few years ago.
Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis.
If this is true then the deficit hawks are in a desperate race. At some point the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will have to adjust its cost growth projections downward to correspond to a lower trend in health care cost growth.
When CBO does make this adjustment, the projections of long-term deficits will shrink by tens of trillions of dollars and the budget hawks' horror stories will vanish. They will no longer be able to tell us how we have to be responsible by gutting our childrens' Social Security and Medicare to save them from the burden of a crushing debt.
In this context it is easy to see the urgency around the message of the Campaign to Fix the Debt and the other organizations pushing for the overhaul of Social Security and Medicare. If they are not able to pull off their scam now, they may lose the opportunity forever. For them, that is a crisis.


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Map of Ukraine [February 2009]
Russian Jews.Ā Film 1.Ā Before the Revolution / English titles [December 2018]
Medieval Ukrainian lands were a loosely knit group of principalities. By the late 1300s, most Ukrainian lands were controlled by either the Grand Duchy of Lithuania or the Mongolian-Tatar Golden Horde. In 1569, the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania became the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Poland controlled Western Ukrainian lands while eastern Ukrainian was controlled by the Ottoman Empire. In 1772, Russia, Prussia, and Austria partitioned the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at which time several Ukrainian areas became part of Galicia, a province of Austria. By 1795, Austria controlled western Ukraine and Russia controlled eastern Ukraine. During the 1930s, all of western Ukraine was governed by either Poland and/or Czechoslovakia. By the end of WWI, Ukrainian territory was divided into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania. In 1939 the Jewish population of Ukraine was 1.5 million (1,532,776) or 3% of the total population of Ukraine. One half to two thirds of the total Jewish population of Ukraine were evacuated, killed or exiled to Siberia. Ukraine lost more population per capita than any other country in the world in WW II. After WWII, the borders of the Ukrainian SSR expanded west, including those Ukrainian areas of Galicia. At the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Ukraine became an independent state. JewishGen's ShtetlSeeker references border changes of a given town with more information at JewishGen ShtetLinks for Ukrainian towns. [February 2009]
Ukraine SIG facilitates research of former Russian Empire Guberniyas now in Ukraine; Podolia, Volhynia, Kiev, Poltava, Chernigov, Kharkov, Kherson, Taurida and Yekaterinoslav. [February 2009]
Wikipedia article: "History of the Jews of Ukraine" and The Virtual Jewish History Library- Ukraine [February 2009]
Historical Research Center for Western Ukrainian communities in all countries: "ZIKARON"
Jewish Cemeteries in Ukraine Report, Winter 1997-98
Ukraine's sovereignty passed between Poland, Russia and other nations. One Crimean tribe converted to Judaism in the eighth century. The first shtetls were built by Jews working for Polish aristocrats (18th century),Ā The Germans murderedSome 1500 Jewish heritage sites published by the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad (2005)
Western Ukraine, Only a small remnant of its former Jewish population remains with L'viv and Chernivtsi each with about 6,000 Jews.Ā The majority of Jews in present-day Ukraine are native Russian/Ukrainian speakers, and only some of the elderly speak Yiddish as their mother tongue (in 1926, 76.1% claimed Yiddish as their mother tongue). The average age is close to 45. To find where records can be found, right click Archives Database, then Search Database. Activate Soundex and type in your ancestral town names.
Jewish Agricultural Colonies in the Ukraine: Chaim Freedman links to other interesting sites
Ukrainian Language, Culture and Travel withĀ photos of synagogues and memorials along with articles about Jewish cultureĀ
[UPDATE] Ukraine-Israel Community Information/Pictures of Cemteries and more [October 2017]
Click the words "Burial Location" below to sort the page names alphabetically.
The names will be sorted from Z to A.Ā Click a second time to see them listed from A to Z.ĀĀ Our apologies for the unsorted condition of this list.Ā We hope to have the list appear in A to Z sort very soon.
--IAJGS Jewish Cemetery Project Technical Staff.


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iMessage is an Apple service that sends messages over Wi-Fi or cellular connections to other iOS devices (with iOS 5 or later), Mac computers (with OS X 10.8 or later), and Apple Watches. These messages don't count against your messaging plan. Messages sent via iMessage can include photos, videos, and other info.
FaceTime is an Apple service that makes video or audio calls to someone who's also using an iOS device or a Mac, or audio calls using an Apple Watch. These calls don't count against your cellular minutes.
We designed iMessage and FaceTime to use end-to-end encryption, so there's no way for Apple to decrypt the content of your conversations when they are in transit between devices. When a passcode or password is set on your iOS or watchOS device, stored messages are encrypted on your device so that they can't be accessed unless the device has been unlocked.
You can choose to automatically delete your iMessages from your device after 30 days or a year, or to keep them on your device forever. For your convenience, iMessages are backed up in iCloud and encrypted if you have either iCloud Backup or Messages in iCloud enabled. You can turn off both iCloud Backup and Messages in iCloud whenever you want. On iOS, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud. On macOS, open Messages, choose Messages > Preferences, select iMessage, and turn off "Enable Messages in iCloud." We never store the content of FaceTime calls.
You can sign into iMessage and FaceTime using your Apple ID, or just your phone number. If you sign in with your Apple ID on your device, you will be signed in to iMessage and FaceTime automatically. Your Apple ID or phone numbers will be shown to the people you contact, and people can reach you using your Apple ID, and email addresses or phone numbers on your account. You can select which phone numbers or email addresses you'd like to start new conversations from, and which phone numbers or email addresses you can receive messages and reply from, in iMessage and FaceTime settings. You can add and verify additional "Reachable At" information from your Apple ID account page.
Apple may record and store some information related to your use of iMessage and FaceTime to operate and improve Apple's products and services:
- When you use iMessage and FaceTime, Apple may store information about your use of the services in a way that doesn't identify you.
- iMessages that can't be delivered may be held by Apple for up to 30 days for redelivery.
- Apple may record and store information about FaceTime calls, such as who was invited to a call, and your device's network configurations, and store this information for up to 30 days. Apple doesn't log whether your call was answered, and can't access the content of your calls.
- Some apps on your device (including Messages and FaceTime) may communicate with Apple's servers to determine if other people can be reached by iMessage or FaceTime. When this happens, Apple may store these phone numbers and email addresses associated with your account, for up to 30 days.
By using these features, you agree and consent to Apple's and its subsidiaries' and agents' transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of this information as described above.
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Everyone who`s a regular here knows my style , and I dont mean martial art , Im very direct with my beleifs , abrupt perhaps , but mostly ... and I dont know if it comes across as such i`m, passionate .....
I like everything tested and proven ... I scoffed as a beginner after Id learnt not to trip over myself , so much seemed nonsensical , but I loved martial ats anyway , I learn from surrounding a subject , gathering ideas , feelings , testing , then letting it all intuitively fall into place , It`s an emotional kind of science , contradiction ... yes ? , I think it`s the animal in us to grow this way .... anyway to my point .
Im finally getting to a point where I know how I learn , how i react , knowing myself , I find that the logic and the reason aren`t so important anymore , effective still is and always will be , but the spirit craves ritual , a loose flow of acceptance and easing of everyday things .
I`m not sure if any of you will understand , the connection of physical and everyday realitys ....and change , the integration of these things through ritual , the moment to connect the now to the metaphysical , to the spirit , that little thing is your own , that links the two worlds , wether its a thought , an act , a kata ? , the grounding and connecting , of ritual , the key to lock mind body and spirit when it`s needed in this turbulent world ..
hard thing to express but I thought I`d try .
I love to hear any others thoughts on this ?
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Getting the best out of something usually means taking something else out of the equation to get it; a little give and take, if you will. For instance, in order to get a small-block to create big-block-like grunt would require a camshaft spec so big, it would be nearly impossible to drive on a daily basis. Adding steeper rearend gears will help accelerate your car harder at the lights, but it wouldn't make for an ideal cruiser during sustained freeway hauls. Traditionally, the same adage went with automatic transmissions too; they were either great at the track or on the street, but never both.
Automatic transmissions, namely the GM TH700-R4, were widely used and often found in LT-1powered Corvettes to work trucks. Unfortunately, these were never known for their strength and would tend to self destruct with any significant amount of horsepower. On the other hand, their First and Second gear (3.06:1, 1.63:1) ratios are lower than the gears found in the more common TH350 and TH400. This made First and Second gear shifts much quicker, ultimately helping to accelerate the vehicle. Added features included lighter internal components, which created less drag on the engine, and add in the overdriven Fourth gear with a 0.70:1 ratio and the 700-R4 had the great potential for increased fuel economy.
If you're looking to install one for yourself, but worried about its inherent weaknesses you'll be happy to know that Monster Transmissions has the solution. These days, it's possible to have a smooth, durable, and strong four-speed transmission that can handle the added power, all the while providing lightning quick and positive shifts at the track. To do this, Monster Transmissions packs some serious gear when it comes to retrofitting these four-speeds. Monster's Monster-In-a-Box kit came with everything we needed to rebuild our 700, including the five-pin front and rear planetary gear sets, a Corvette Second gear servo, Teflon pump bushings, superior shift reprogramming kit, heavy-duty sprag, and a chrome pan. It even came with all the incidentals like the gaskets, seal, and O-rings. Should you need a converter, Monster can supply that too. In our case, we added a 2,600-2,800 stall torque converter.
To get it all done correctly, we headed over to Reb's Specialites in Reseda, California, where Brian Kardell tore the transmission down to the case, cleaned all the reusable components and installed the entire Monster kit.
Master Overhaul Kit
The SS Mega Monster rebuild kit includes:
-Rear heavy-duty five-pinion planetary
-Front heavy-duty five-pinion planetary
- Chrome transmission pan with drain plug
-Lip seals
-Sealing rings
-700-R4 Corvette Second gear servo
-700-R4 billet servo Fourth gear and cover
-0.500 boost valve
-Alto Kolene steel kit
-Alto Red Eagle clutch kit
-700-R4 filter
-700-R4 Alto wide high-performance band
-Teflon pump bushing
-Delco front seal retainer clip
-700-R4 Superior shift reprogramming kit
-Hardened pump rings
-700-R4 10 Vane rotor gear
-700-R4 10 Vane rotor guide
-700-R4 high-rev Vanes
-700-R4 heavy-duty throttle valvespring
-Heavy-duty Beast sun shell
-Heavy-duty 28 element Sprag
Five-pin Front & Rear Planetary Gear
Both the front and rear planetary gears are substantially larger and stronger than the factory 700-R4 units from GM. While the factory units only had four pinions, the Monster units have five. The additional pinion allows for a greater load capacity and increases its strength.
Monster Servo
In the transmission, servos serve as a direct link between increasing pressure to hold power and to reduce slippage. Monster supplies two servos, one for Second gear and another for Fourth, and they both apply the band onto the direct drum. Both supplied servos have larger piston diameters than the factory, which allow for more clamping force for the band to the drum.


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Leafs' Ashton suspended two games for boardingNHL.com @NHLdotcom
NEW YORK – Toronto Maple Leafs forward Carter Ashton has been suspended for two games, without pay, for boarding Calgary Flames forward Derek Smith during NHL Game No. 185 in Calgary on Wednesday, October 30, the National Hockey League's Department of Player Safety announced today.
Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and, based on his average annual salary, Ashton will forfeit $8,615.38. The money goes to the Players' Emergency Assistance Fund.
The incident occurred at 16:56 of the second period. A minor penalty for boarding was assessed on the play.
For a full explanation of the Department of Player Safety's decision, complete with video, please click on the following link: http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=60&id=473609&lang=en


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'Living' Buildings Could Inhale City Carbon Emissions/
From CNNLondon (CNN) -- What if buildings had lungs that could absorb carbon emissions from the city and convert them into something useful? What if they had skin that could control their temperature without the need for radiators or air-conditioning? What if buildings could come "alive?"
Science fiction?
"Not as such," claims Dr Rachel Armstrong, senior TED fellow and co-director of Avatar, a research group exploring the potential of advanced technologies in architecture. "Over the next 40 years, 'living' buildings -- biologically programmed to extract carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere -- could fill our cities."
Armstrong works on the cutting edge of "synthetic biology," a relatively new science devoted to the manufacture of life-like matter from synthesized chemicals, and is something of an evangelist for the discipline.
The chemicals Armstrong works with, concocted in the lab, are engineered to behave like organic microorganisms -- with the added benefit that they can be manipulated to do things nature can't. Armstrong refers to them as "protocells."
"For instance, a protocell could be mixed with wall paint and programmed to produce limestone when exposed to carbon (dioxide) on the surface of a building," she said. "Then you've got a paint that can actually eat carbon and change it into a shell-like substance."
So, just as iron rusts when it comes into contact with oxygen and water, protocells can produce simple chemical reactions when they come into contact with carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules, turning the CO2 into calcium carbonate, or limestone, which stops the greenhouse gas from rising up into the ozone layer.
As a by-product of this process, the British scientist says that limestone produced by protocells could naturally "heal" micro-fractures in walls, channeling through tiny breaks, helping to extend the life of any structure it was painted on to.
"And not only that," added Armstrong. "The thickness of the limestone will grow over time, creating insulation and allowing your building to retain more heat or indeed sheltering it from heating up underneath the sun."
The layer of limestone could take anywhere between a year and a decade to form depending on the concentration of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air. However Armstrong says that "eventually we will see protocell technology become self-repleting (able to replenish itself) and (it) will be considered alive."
Dick Kitney is professor of bio-engineering at Imperial College London and co-director of the Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation. He says that, while the concept is sound, moving it into industrial production is a different story.
"It's a question of scalability," he said. "Getting the process to work in the lab is one thing, but after that you need to work very closely with major industrial manufacturers to understand if it is at all possible to produce on a mass scale. Sometimes it's just not possible."
Kitney says that nobody has yet managed to get any synthetic biological product to the manufacturing stage: "The science is being taken very seriously -- particularly in the UK and U.S. ... but it's still early days."
While Armstrong says the science has been proven in the lab, she too acknowledges that commercial applications are still some years down the road.
"This is bulk chemical manufacturing we're talking about, so the process is slow," she said. "If it were pharmaceuticals it would be much quicker."
But Armstrong's work is gaining interest from the industrial sector. "There's a traditional paint manufacturer here in the UK that is looking into it, but we're all under non-disclosure agreements," she said.
Armstrong admits that, at present, the paint would be capable of absorbing only a tiny fraction of the carbon dioxide emitted in a city like London, which spewed out around 42 million tons in 2009, according to government figures.
"The primitive paints we are developing are not very efficient yet, " she added.
Armstrong doesn't think the paint will be ready for market much before 2014 and, at this stage, she cannot comment on how much it will cost to produce commercially. Despite this, she says a major Australian property developer has already placed a future order for it.
Award-winning British architect Richard Hyams, who worked for 12 years under internationally renowned architect Norman Foster before setting up his own practice, is also an advocate of self-regulating building materials.
But, he says, attitudes will have to change before this technology makes it into the mainstream.
"As with any significant step-change, it's slow to take off," said Hyams. "From developers, to agents, to buyers themselves, people generally don't want to be the first to risk investment in a relatively untested industry when the costs are high."
In addition, says Hyams, legislation is slow, "slicing off the worst building practices from the bottom, rather than advancing the best ideas at the top."
However, Armstrong and Hyams agree that, as the burden on cities to reduce their vast carbon footprints intensifies, the market will look to more radical solutions.
"We're also currently experimenting with the process of bioluminescence," said Hyams. "The idea is that carbon is absorbed by a building to create light. Can you imagine a whole city lit by the walls of its own buildings?"
Whatever the future has in store, our relationship with cities' megastructures and the carbon they produce will likely change. Armstrong concludes with a sobering thought:
"At present, buildings are big machines that take our resources and turn them into poison. In effect, we are living in their waste like we were living in the effluent of animals during the Agrarian revolution."


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CALGARY - Alberta's political leaders are entering the second week of the election campaign aiming to attract a huge block of undecided voters.
There have been a number of polls come out during the first week of the Alberta election campaign so far and although the results may differ, the one thing they all have in common is the high percentage of undecided voters.
That's a major change on the Alberta political scene where traditionally a huge Conservative majority is inevitable.
"I think there's a lot of people that are undecided and what I find interesting about that is they're prepared to say they're undecided which tells me that they're quite engaged," said Premier Alison Redford, at a campaign stop in Calgary Sunday.
"They're just not sure who they want to vote for and that's a good thing because I think that is a change in the electorate. Four years ago we had only 40 per cent turnout at the polls and I think we're going to see a higher turnout this time," she said.
"People are thinking about what their options are. They're thinking about what they want the future to be and they are genuinely considering what their choices are."
University of Lethbridge political scientist Peter McCormick says this is an election campaign like no other in Alberta because the outcome isn't preordained.
"Obviously in Alberta nobody can remember a time Conservatives weren't running the provincial government," said McCormick.
"It's who do you want to run the province going forward. Who best reflects the interests of Alberta as you understand it."
Danielle Smith, the leader of the rival Wildrose party, said Albertans have a chance to finally make a difference this election and hopes her message will reach those who are undecided.
"It is an historic election. We have four very competitive political parties. There's a lot of ideas on the table, a lot to discuss. We want to choose a direction for our province and I hope we can all get to looking at the issues," said Smith.
Smith will spend the early part of the week in Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie and promises a number of new announcements. Redford said she will unveil new policies on health care and seniors.
The level of undecided voters has some political pundits speculating that the Alberta Liberal party could see its base further erode with some shifting to the New Democrats while others fearing a Wildrose win would move over to Redford's Tories.
Liberal leader Raj Sherman doesn't expect that to be the case.
He said the vote splitting between Conservative and Wildrose voters should be an advantage for the Liberals.
"We're glad that they're (Wildrose) there," Sherman said.
"We're going to capitalize on the vote splits and our internal polling shows that we're going to contest in a lot of ridings we previously didn't have a chance in because the Wildrose is going to steal half the conservative vote and I see the Liberals picking up a lot of seats in the election."
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No team, or storm (as witnessed last week in the team's 20-13 stunner over Stanford) can stop the 6-0 N0.5-ranked Notre Dame this season. The BYU Cougars (4-3) will try their best this weekend to be the first team to do so this Saturday, September 20th in South Bend at 3:30 pm The game will be broadcast on NBC.
The schools are no strangers. The Cougars in 1994 21-14 triumph over the then No.17-ranked Lou Holz-led Fighting Irish is considered one of the greatest in its history. It was the Utah team's last and only victory in South Bend in a series that the Fighting Irish lead 4-2.
Here's a preview of The Notre Dame vs. BYU Action:
Notre Dame Offense
QB Everett Golson has been practicing since Wednesday but still has not been cleared to play this week after suffering a concussion from a nasty blow in last week's victory over Stanford.
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly will monitor this situation very closely as a starter at this hour has not been named.
''I don't think there's a cookie cutter approach to concussions,'' Kelly said Thursday night. ''You want to see how they handle exertion. You want to see how they handle all the things leading up, film study, watching, and then getting back on the field. So I want to take the 48 hours that I have before I make that decision.''
The job may land on Irish QB Tommy Rees who took the team by the reins after Golson's untimely exit, leading them on two straight scoring drives and the eventual overtime victory. He finished the day perfect going 4-for-4 and one touchdown.
The Offense hopes to get continued production out of WR TJ Jones (52 yds., 1 TD) and All-American TE Tyler Eifert (57 yds., 1 TD) who both trail WR Theo Riddick in receptions with 20.
The Triple Threat of Theo Riddick (308 yds, 3 TDs), George Atkinson III (290 yds., 3 TDs), and Cierre Wood (279 yds., 2 TDs) can be counted on for 189 ypg (the hightest Notre Dame Average in 11 years).
Notre Dame Defense
What has not been written about Manti T'eo and company that has not yet been written? The Hawaiian's myth grows larger yet larger last week as he stopped the Cardinal in OT at the Notre Dame goal line and that team's perpetual dominance over the blue and green. He captains the nation's second most proficient scoring defense as well as the best in red zone defense.
CB Bennet Jackson and his four interceptions (ties for fourth in the nation) has emerged as an unlikely defensive star of an Irish secondary that has only allowed 173.5 yards a game.
BYU Offense
QB Riley Nelson is nicked up and returned from an injury last week. He looked rusty in a loss to Oregon State. On the year he has an above average statline: 1,059 yards, 6 TDs, 8 INTs, 115.5 %.
Wily freshman RB Jamaal Williams (345 yds., 5 TDs) leads the Cougars rushing attack.
BYU Defense
The Cougars' answer to Manti T'eo is LB Kyle Van Noy. The defensive standout has racked up 7.5 sacks, 11.5 tackles for a loss, and 26 tackles overall. His havoc on offenses has produced 5 pass breakups and three forced fumbles as well. He could give Golson another headache if he starts.
He leads a unit that ranks a formidable seventh in scoring defense and fourth against the rush.
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CRI: In Memory of Leslie Cheung
A large number of fans from across the world come to offer flowers at the Hong Kong Mandarin Hotel; the location where Leslie Cheung, the famous Hong Kong film actor and musician, committed suicide 9 years ago on April 1.
Japanese fans (Sina-slideshow)
Routine crime drama squanders good leads on a poor script with only average direction.
Engaging fable on greed and loss of values in HK society is good but not great.
CF: The Absurd Comedy "Design of Death"
Based on the novel of the same name, the movie tells the story of a group of villagers who try to design the death of a well-known local hooligan.
CF: "Tokyo Newcomer" Gets Extra Screening Slots
The film tells the story of a Chinese superstar, portrayed by Chung, who abandons her career in China and marries a Japanese man. One of her loyal fans, played by Miao, follows her to Japan where he accidentally becomes involved in a spate of serial murders in a family-owned hotel where the owners are killed one by one.
Based on the life story of entrepreneur and motivational speaker Rocky Liang, the film recreates how Liang became successful.
Stills from Derek Yee/Law Chi-Leung's "The Bullet Vanishes" released at a Beijing press conference (Sina-gallery) yesterday
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Liu Kai-Chi, according to the caption
Zhang Jingchu and Li Bingbing are rumoured to be in contention for the femal lead role in the Hollywood production of Edward Zwick's "The Great Wall"
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Zhang Jingchu is currently in Las Vegas
Read the tale and circumstances behind how fellow blogger and ex-pat Glenn got these picture of Cherie Chung, Vivian Chow and Annie Liu, and some swag too, link below.
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He has now set his sights on Edmonton, where his sister has migrated to. Lau is also believed to own properties there.
MSN: Was Joey Yung showbiz boss Albert Yeung's mistress?
MSN: Video of Jay Chou's scuffle with the paparazzi circulated online
The video clip that documented Jay's actions had shown him instructing his friends to form a human barricade to block the three reporters present. Jay had whipped out his mobile phone and filmed the reporters. He referred to them as "Number One, ninja dog", "Number Two, horse face" and "Number three, monkey with glasses".
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Well I have had a busy couple of weeks in the virtual and physical world talking about virtual worlds (VWs)! I was extremely honoured to have been able to visit The Freedom Project run by The University of Western Australia and the Virtual Ability group in Second life. This project saw wonderful creations from people with an 'Invisible illness' create a piece of art, film or machinima to show what Second Life means to them. Words can't describe the amazing work best to go visit yourself before it disappears.
This project is of interested to me as a nurse but also as a health researcher and there are some similarities in my own PHD research. Last week I presented my first study findings in the physical world at the Royal College of Nursings Research Conference in Glasgow. My research focused on the Health Literacy skills of people in VWs and physical world health behaviour which I presented in Second Life late last year
Thanks to Liz Dorland for the picture.
However The Freedom Project is closer to my second study which investigates how being in social VW communities influences people's ability to live with their long term health condition in the physical world. Interesting and very honest findings so far but only half way thorough so more on that later.
I have also been teaching in Sl and our cyberpsychology students have been visiting Virtual Ability Island
Last night I was on an invited panel at the Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education conference with my VWER colleagues, Beth O'Connell and Dr Shailey Minocha
Which was really enjoyable and it was great to see so many of the VWER community there as well as many others.
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WASHINGTON, June 11, 2008--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is reopening the comment period on the proposed rule to eliminate Anastrepha spp. fruit fly trapping requirements for Hass avocados imported from Mexico. This rule also would allow Hass avocados to move interstate, under certain conditions, from areas in the United States that are quarantined for Mexican and sapote fruit flies.
APHIS is proposing this action as recently completed research found that unharvested Hass avocados are not a natural host to various species in the Anastrepha genus, which include Mexican and sapote fruit flies.
Based on these findings, APHIS proposes to remove the current trapping and bait spray requirements for Hass avocados from Mexico, because the restrictions are no longer necessary to safely import these products into the United States. However, APHIS still would require Mexican Hass avocados to meet post-harvest safeguarding and other existing import requirements prior to entry into the United States.
Under the proposed rule, U.S.-grown Hass avocados would be eligible to move interstate from areas quarantined for the Mexican fruit fly or sapote fruit fly provided certain conditions are met. The avocados would have to be harvested and protected from fruit fly infestations during movement from the orchard to the packinghouse. The avocados also would have to be accompanied by a field record indicating the location of the orchard where the fruit originated. These measures, among others, would protect uninfested areas of the United States from introductions of the Mexican or sapote fruit fly.
This proposal would harmonize the domestic and foreign requirements for moving Hass avocados and would relieve unnecessary restrictions for avocado producers. In addition, it would provide an alternative for Hass avocados to be moved interstate if they originate in a Mexican fruit fly or sapote fruit fly quarantined area of the United States.
This action will be published in the June 12 Federal Register.
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Bradley Cooper, star of "The Hangover 3," may be Hollywood's most well-adjusted mama's boy.
As he has explained at length before, the 38-year-old Cooper moved in with his widowed mother after the death of his father a few years ago. And, in a move that made women across the country swoon, the actor even brought her as his date to this year's Oscars ceremony, where he was nominated for "Silver Linings Playbook."
On "The Tonight Show" on Monday, Cooper opened up about their unusually close relationship, telling host Jay Leno that while she still does his laundry once in a while, she doesn't get in the way of his romantic life.
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"You're a single guy. Does that cramp your style?" Leno asked, joking that Cooper's home was like the Bates Motel.
"Don't go to the top floor! Just don't go to the top floor!" Cooper replied, playing along with the "Psycho" theme (but getting his Hitchcock a little wrong: Norman kept his mother in the basement. Even the Sexiest Man Alive 2011 should know that!).
Leno pressed on. "Is it weird? Do girls think that's weird that you still live with your mom?"
The obvious answer to this question is, "Duh, quite the opposite," but the star patiently explained his rationale for living with dear old mom.
"Where I'm from it's like there's no choice. I don't think it's weird," he said. "You know my dad died, and I come from an Italian neighborhood, and I couldn't do it any other way. I wouldn't even think of it."
Elsewhere in the appearance, Cooper vented about Internet haters and the absurdity of posing for sexy photos in glossy magazines and even got some impromptu yodeling lessons from Heidi Klum.
Just another day at the office, right?
Carol Burnett to receive Mark Train Prize for American Humor
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
2010 books, #46-50
Saturday, July 03, 2010
2010 books, #41-45
A book group book, and another very good reason for joining a book group. Actually, I got a recommendation for this one from someone at the library whose opinion I respect, but I had way too many books out at the time, and had forgotten both the author and the title until it turned up on the "possibles" list.
I wasn't entirely sure about this one at first - it dots about between historical documents, a contemporary narrative, a historical narrative and back again, and has a myriad unreliable narrators. After a hundred pages or so though, it settles down, or maybe you just get used to it... It's set in both the heady early days of the Mormon church, and the contemporary world of the Firsts (those members of the church who still live in polygamy in isolated pockets). There's a murder in the present-day story - the resolution of this is weak, but it's almost irrelevant by the time you get to it; and both of the stories involve a 19th wife (in the 19th century, a wife of Brigham Young and in the present day, a wife of a modern-day First). Harriet Beecher Stowe is invoked (and apparently, writes a foreword), and the 19th century narrative certainly brings back the polemical writing style of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
I think what I liked most about this book was that despite the horror both contemporary and historical voices have for polygamy, there's little condemnation of faith in general and a great deal of compassion; as an example, while one character has been expelled because of his sexuality, he gets onto the Internet and finds a new church which will accept him (described by the very cynical modern narrator Jordan as "the Vegas LGBT-friendly ex-Mormon church two miles off the strip [try saying that real fast]").
The more uncomfortable aspects, as a Catholic, were twofold. The first is that polygamy in the Mormon church seems to me to be a parallel to the paedophilia which seemed (possibly still seems) to be institutional in pockets of the church, to the extent that serious investigation is really only beginning to happen. The second is the idea that a church can evolve away from believers and force them to accept things they find repugnant in the context of their faith; in the case of The 19th wife, this is the revelation of polygamy and the impact on existing marriages; in my own life, papal encyclicals have contradicted so many of the things I was brought up to believe.
It made for a really interesting discussion. Most of us had some form of religious belief or heritage, and I hope none of us managed to tread too badly on other people's sensibilities... Given that the book is about both sex and religion, I don't think we did too badly.
A fountain filled with blood, by Julia Spencer-Fleming. New York: St Martin's, 2003.
The second of the Reverend Clare Fergusson mysteries. I enjoyed this possibly even more than the previous one; another book you basically just inhale rather than reading. Clare and Russ are great characters, and we also get Russ's quite extraordinary mother. This one includes gay-bashing, environmental pollution, greed and an absolutely hair-raising helicopter sequence. There's some sympathetic treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, and UST between an Episcopalian priest and a married police chief.
The Janus stone, by Elly Griffiths. London: Quercus, 2010.
Another excellent book by Elly Griffiths; definitely one to read after her The crossing places though! Archaeology and detection in North Norfolk, with some genuinely scary bits thrown in. Unfortunately I'm reading these much faster than she's writing them, and have now caught up! I'm waiting for the next one now...
The devil's punchbowl, by Greg Iles [audiobook]. Read by Jeff Harding. Oxford: Isis, 2010.
One of Iles's Penn Cage novels; set in the world of riverboat gambling and dogfighting. There are some pretty gory moments in this one, and some really quite frightening episodes; it's pretty tightly plotted and contains a cast of characters you genuinely care about, with the city of Natchez almost appearing as an additional character.
Transfer of power, by Vince Flynn. London: Simon and Schuster, 2000.
This is almost a period piece - a terrorist drama written before 9/11 with Iranians as the villains. However, it's a gripping piece of work. The President and a hundred other hostages are trapped in the White House, while the Vice President and his staff are thinking more about their political image and future than the fate of the hostages. There's a lot of the military=good, politicians=bad stuff that there was in the last of Flynn's books I read, but not all the politicians are venal in this one, and some of the military are also taking the political angle. There's also a lot of technology in this one, but it doesn't overwhelm the plot. One criticism though - the ending is surprisingly weak because something we've understood to be catastrophic throughout turns out not to be so...