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Farnborough College of Technology wants to build a new university centre on its campus to establish itself as a provider of higher education.
The college, in Boundary Road, announced plans for its University Centre Farnborough building last week.
The 2,500sq/m building will house a learning resource centre for the college – to be used by its 5,000 students – and classroom space for the teaching of more than 40 higher education courses.
The development is set to cost £7.5 million and the college hopes to open the centre by September 2016.
College principal Christine Slaymaker said: "This new building will make an impressive entrance to the campus.
"It will establish our commitment to offering higher education degrees in first class accommodation.
"University Centre Farnborough will continue the already exceptional work we are doing in this field of education."
Farnborough College of Technology offers a range of Foundation, BA, BSc and postgraduate degrees, including accounting, business, early years education, journalism and photography, and was accorded accreditation from the University of Surrey in January 2002.
The proposal comes after planning permission was granted by Rushmoor Borough Council last month to replace the college's derelict former East End School site, in Mount Pleasant Road, Aldershot, with 14 three-bedroom houses.
The college had previously said it planned to sell the land once planning permission was in place and to cash in on the site.
A spokesman for the college said: "The sale of the East End site goes into the financial account reserve for the college so some of it will be used for the [new] building but we have ongoing projects all the time.
"We hope to get match funding from other areas if we are successful but financially we are secure, we will fund it ourselves.
"But we will be looking for match funding for support if we can get some additional help."
The proposed building will be sited on the college's front lawn, which is used currently as a car park.
The spokesman added: "The building has been designed to reflect its surroundings, along with the college's emphasis on a building of quality and cost-effectiveness.
"The college is not a stranger to this type of building project, with the Aerospace and Automotive Academy having been built in March 2009 and completed on schedule and within the budget allocation of £6.7 million."
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More travelers are using smartphones and are increasing their use of travel-related applications, according to data from the Ypartnership/Harrison Group . The survey found 20% of travelers have downloaded a travel-related application and are using the apps for things such as bookings flights or hotels.
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Psychic Detective Weekend, Abercraf, Powys, 9-11 September
Spend a couple of days on a Brecon Beacons retreat with psychic Angela McGhee, who works with the police on murder and missing-person cases. Talks and "whodunnit exercises" will help unleash your own inner psychic (if you have one) and may lead to a spiritual awakening as well. Angela "looks forward to meeting all those who are destined to be there", it says on the website, so do check if you are.
• Book the weekend through Hafan Y Coed (01639 730985, hafanycoed.com) from £170pp full-board
Weird 11, Swindon, Wiltshire, 17-18 September
"The truth is out there." We know – we just didn't expect it to be found in Swindon. For two days in September, Wiltshire is awash with conspiracy theorists, Wookies and skywatchers, as a motley band descend on the town's Meca centre for talks on extraterrestrial encounters, ancient technologies and cryptozoology at Weird 11. The ley line from nearby Stonehenge should bring more power to the attendees' inevitable light-sabres, and draw out the best for the closing fancy-dress competition – first prize, hopefully, an intergalactic voyage. If talks called "Elves, Aliens, Angels and Ayahuasca" or "Lizards and Lies" float your boat, this is for you.
• Weekend tickets to Weird 11 (weirdwiltshire.co.uk) cost £40, day tickets £25
Pagan spiritual enlightenment in Wales
Tagged as a "contemplative tour in Wales" (with a bit of Wiltshire too), this six-day trip melds stone circles, burial chambers and medieval castles with a personal spiritual journey. Guided by a pagan minister, you'll find inspiration for your contemplation from Avebury to Carmarthenshire (birthplace of Merlin) and among the woods, cliffs and beaches of the Pembrokeshire coast. But the tour comes with a warning: "If you're a cynic of any sort then no, this really isn't one for you." No fixed dates – grab some friends and set your own.
• Tourdust (020-3291 2907, tourdust.com) offers this six-night tour from £780pp B&B
Dowsing for beginners, Worcestershire, 22-23 October
Dowsing rods provide one of the more intriguing mysteries of our time – they shouldn't work, but they often do. On this weekend course, Susie Shaw from the British Society of Dowsers will teach you the basic skills. Crack this one and a more advanced course opens the door on Earth energies and environmental healing. It's not just about finding disused wells, you know.
• The British Society of Dowsers (01684 576969, britishdowsers.org) offers a two-day course in Castlemorton, not including accommodation, for £139pp
Halloween Revenge, Hind Hotel, Northamptonshire, 28-30 October
Paranormal investigation weekends don't get much more comprehensive than this. There'll be glass-moving, table-tipping, a clairvoyancy display, vigils with night-vision cameras and laser thermometers, and something called a "vortex ring".
Previous trips have reported a crying child, a poltergeist and ethereal monks. And do keep an eye out for Oliver Cromwell's ghost, which is said to pop into this suitably spooky 17th-century hotel.
• A two-night Halloween Revenge weekend at the Hind Hotel, Wellingborough, with Haunted Weekend (no phone, hauntedweekend.com) costs £155pp half-board based on two sharing (over-18s only)
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"Good Morning America" viewers may have been surprised to see someone wearing a "Fred '08" t-shirt on Wednesday's show. No, it wasn't liberal co-host Diane Sawyer or Chris Cuomo, the brother of New York's Democratic Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo.
Rather, it was John Rich, a singer/songwriter for the band "Big & Rich" and a Tennessee native. He performed on the program sporting a big grin and a shirt that promoted Fred Thompson's 2008 presidential bid. Here he can be seen standing next to Sam Champion, GMA weatherman and a supporter of Al Gore's liberal climate change policies.
(Champion once famously hosted a segment about global warming that wondered if "billions" will die from global warming.) Perhaps Mr. Rich has read the MRC's recent study that found ABC has devoted double the amount of stories to 2008 Democratic candidates as they have for Republican contenders. Maybe he just wanted to even the playing field, ever so slightly? Considering that "Good Morning America" has yet to offer a "town hall" special to a Republican, but has held two for the Democrats, this might be as close as Fred Thompson will get on ABC.


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Gedion Zelalem could make Arsenal history in the FA Cup tie against Tottenham on Saturday.
The 16-year-old, born in Germany on 26 January 1997 of Ethiopian descent, will become the first player to play for the Gunners who was born after Arsene Wenger took the Arsenal job in September 1996.
The midfielder has yet to sign a professional contract with the club, and has been an unused substitute twice in the Premier League this season.
He is ready to return from injury after two months sidelined, with Wenger considering shuffling his midfield pack for north London derby at the Emirates after a hectic festive season.
Zelalem was spotted by Arsenal scout and former Gunner Danny Karbassiyoon playing in the Dallas Cup, and impressed during the club's pre-season tour.
"I don't listen to any hype or anything like that," Zelalem had said. "I just listen to my parents and the people around me who love me. They keep me grounded, so it's fine.
"I have really high expectations for myself, so, hopefully, I might be able to make a few appearances this season.
"But I'm still very young, so I have a lot of work to do. I will keep working hard and stay positive all the time."
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The current era of partisan news and name-calling is enough to make you wonder what happened to good old-fashioned objective reporting. But in this hour, BackStory asks: Where did the idea of media objectivity come from in the first place? Historian Marcus Daniel explains that the bitter rhetoric of editors in the 1790s played a key role in the birth of our democracy. Matthew Goodman tells the story of an elaborate hoax involving "lunar man-bats" in the early days of the penny press. And Michael Kinsley, founder of the online journal Slate, argues that opinion journalism can be more informative than so-called "objective" news.


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I swear, I was rolling out of my chair laughing when I read this. (Especially the Lileks spoof, although comments seemed to find Kaus the funniest). Is this guy a genius or what? Obscene, hilarious and brilliant. Of course, if you don't read InstaPuppy, Lileks or Kaus it won't mean very much…..
(Link via that anonymous Philly blogger.)
Update: I forgot, he parodies Steven DenBeste and Tacitus, too.
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For her 30th birthday, Paris Hilton received a nice little gift from boyfriend Cy Waits: a banana-yellow $375,000 Lexus LFA sports car, TMZ.com reports.
Apparently, she was being filmed as her nightclub-owner boyfriend showed it off for her, so we don't know exactly whether this is yet another gift that she'll have to return. But, hey, she'll have fun in the meantime.
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There's something about Paris that makes everyone want to give her a car. That's her receiving a pink Bentley a couple of years ago, made just for her by West Coast Customs, in the picture at right.
How hot is is the brand-new Lexus LFA? Sizzling enough that it's right there with the supermodels in the new swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated.
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I say shoot a cylinder or two for function/accuracy then no more. Buffalo bore is good stuff, but its really stout.
My father recently purchsed a Rossi 461 .357 magnum. He is planning on mostly carrying for when we are bow hunting . We have never owned a Rossi revolver before, but so far it seems like a qulity gun for what he wanted it for. My question is would it be safe to shoot the Buffalo Bore 158 grain ammo out of this gun? The specs for the ammo are Heavy 357 Magnum Ammo - 158 gr. J.H.C. (1,475fps/M.E. 763 ft. lbs.) I know this is a hotter load than normal. I can not find anything saying if this gun is capable of handling it or not. Does anyone have any info on this combination or have any answers for me. Any help is appreciated. Thanks....
I say shoot a cylinder or two for function/accuracy then no more. Buffalo bore is good stuff, but its really stout.
ALL Buffalo Bore® 357 Magnum, and 38 Special ammunition is safe for your Dad to shoot in his Rossi® Mdl 461 revolver.Originally Posted by jdhaines32
Your Dad's revolver can not only handle the ammunition, IT CAN HANDLE REPEATED AND CONTINUED USE OF IT!
I've shot a truck load of Buffalo Bore® ammunition in my Rossi® and Taurus® revolvers over the years, AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO.
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Thanks guys for the help. I will pass this information onto him. I know was planning on at least trying it to get a sense of the recoil, and just using to carry, and when we shoot at the range he will use something else. I am sure he will be glad to here this as well. Thanks again...
You may be able to shoot super hot loads in any weapon, but that doesn't mean you should. THERE IS NO REASON TO ABUSE YOUR WEAPON. Just my 0.2c
If the Buffalo Bore is within S.A.A.M.I. specs http://www.saami.org/ (and it had better be) the Rossi was designed to handle it. In a 28 oz revolver I suspect the shooters enthusiasm for the Buffalo Bore loads will wear out way before the firearm!!!
"An armed society is a polite society", R. A. Heinlein.
I'm in complete agreement. I'm in no discrediting the ability of the firearm. Just my opinion on shooting the hoittest loads all the time. Although, at around $1/shot for buffalo bore most folks bank account will wear out before the weapon will. Lol
Range ammo for range use and serious business ammo for serious business..... Practice until you get it right then shoot for fun.
"An armed society is a polite society", R. A. Heinlein.
Just for the record, I've chronographed several different loads in different calibers. The velocity numbers they post are ACCURATE! At least in my testing.
Will Rossi/Taurus honor the warranty if things went wrong? Probably so, since this is factory ammo, no?


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They started today in Germany. British number one Leon Rattigan (-96kg) is fighting tomorrow.
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He lost in 3 periods, hit a nice shot in the 1st nearly turned the guy and won 2-0, he was up 1-0 and in the second period then was taken down in the last 12 seconds, got taken down again in the third lost 1-0.
Tough draw for Leon getting the German. I used to hate draws like that where it is someone really good but you know they won't win and you don't even get repechage. He seems to be getting closer and closer to reaching that elite level. Really good to see.
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Governor Huntsman to Scale Back Inauguration Events
Utah Governor Jon Huntsman announced today the State's inauguration events will be minimized to a ceremony in front of the State Capitol building on January 5, 2009.
"In times when budget constraints are affecting people, it is only appropriate to avoid expenses on a celebratory event," Governor Huntsman said. "Additionally, this venue will allow anyone who would like to attend the opportunity to be a part of the inauguration."
The inauguration will be the swearing in ceremony of each of the State's five constitutional officers, including Governor Jon Huntsman, Lt. Governor Gary Herbert, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, State Auditor Auston Johnson and State Treasurer Richard Ellis. Any expenses to put on the ceremony will be covered privately. Also, original plans to host a concert and celebration event in lieu of a traditional Inaugural Ball have been canceled.
"The people of Utah are both enthusiastic and pragmatic and this responsible approach is not intended to diminish the importance of the event, but to highlight the importance of government being responsive and reasonable," the Governor said. "Most critically, at this time where individuals and families may be struggling, I urge people to be mindful of all those around them and take the opportunity to serve whenever possible."
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an object falls from a plane flying horizontally at an altitude of 40,000 ft at 500 mi/h. How long will it take to hit the ground?
At 40,000 ft. air resistance becomes important, as the object will likely reach terminal velocity and greatly increases the time it takes to reach the ground. Also, the horizontal velocity comes into play as the terminal velocity caused by air resistance is actually a terminal speed, so it's the resultant that counts.
The shape of the object is not specified, so any calculation of the terminal velocity remains an estimate with assumptions.
If you have not done air-resistance and terminal velocities, read on.
Neglecting air resistance, the horizontal velocity of the plane does not count, and you can calculate the time required as if it were a free fall over short distances.
vi=initial velocity (0)
t=time in seconds,
g=acceleration due to gravity, 32.2 f/s^2
S=vertical distance travelled = 40,000 ft
40000=0*t + (1/2)*32.2*t^2
Solve for t to get:
t=50 sec. approx.
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The Concept Of Ismism (Or Scientific Discoveries A Bunny And A Seagull Could Have Told You Long Ago) - Symphonic Rock Productions
The Concept Of Ismism (Or Scientific Discoveries A Bunny And A Seagull Could Have Told You Long Ago)
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Somebody on the Atheist group asked me what my religious background was and what my beliefs were. So, in my usual fashion I thought about it and put whatever I came up with in what was, for me, a short essay.
It got no response. So I don't suppose anyone was too impressed by it.
Right about that time I decided to broaden my education by watching some documentaries on YouTube. And I recalled that I once took an internet religion test which said I was 100% Buddhist. I've never looked into Buddhism and I figured it's about time. So I found a documentary and was somewhat shocked to find that there actually is a religion out there that does indeed seem to agree 100% with everything I've figured out for myself.
The only thing is, since it does agree with everything I already believe, there's not much point in becoming a Buddhist. Buddhism doesn't offer a god to be worshipped or a heaven that you need to earn a gate pass to. It's like how I once described the fictitious religion in my stories when asked if it could be practiced by the readers.
I said, sure, the Omman religion can be practiced by anyone, but I don't see why anyone would want to, because it offers no perks. It offers no promise of eternal life, and certainly no get out of hell free cards, which would be useless because it doesn't offer a hell. It just offers you a fancy name to stick on yourself and sends you off on a quest to live a kind and compassionate life. And, according to this documentary I watched, that's Buddhism in a nutshell.
I never thought people would want to adopt the religion I invented, because, why does anybody need a fancy title to live a kind and compassionate life? If you're into that you should just do it. And that's another thing that the documentary said. If you're living that way for any reason, whether you know about Buddhism or not, you're a Buddhist. Because Buddhism isn't about what you believe or who you claim unity with, it's about what you do and how you feel.
But, even though there may be a religion out there that perfectly suits me, I don't plan to start sticking that label on myself. I just don't like labels. I don't believe in Ismism. I think Ismism is one of the most destructive things man has ever invented.
Some Atheists might come back and say, "If you won't take a religious label, then you should take our label and support us, because that's what we're all about." But I don't see it that way. The way I see it, it's not religions I object to. It's Ismism. And Atheism is still an ism.
Another interesting aspect of Buddhism is that it's one of a number of religions that doesn't offer a God, and therefore is not incompatible with Atheism. That's one of the things I don't think a lot of Atheists realize. Atheism doesn't preclude you from having a religion; it just precludes you from having a god. Which is another reason why I insist that "Atheist" and "Non-Religious" are not synonymous terms.
After the Buddhism documentary I started watching some Terry Prachett documentaries and lectures. And I found this person to be fascinating. So much so that I feel terrible about never having read any of his books. Not that I don't feel terrible in general about somehow losing my ability, or at least my will to read anything after it got to a point where I needed bifocals or special reading glasses to read an actual book. But if I can find them on audio book I plan to veraciously devour his Disc World series at the first opportunity.
Anyway, I eventually ended up on a video called something like "Terry Prachett On God," which of course took me into the Atheist neighborhood of YouTube. And since I found little to disagree with in Terry's video or any of the others I clicked on afterward, the question popped up in the back of my mind again, "Why am I so repulsed by this Atheist label? If it's good enough for someone I admire like Terry Prachett, is it not good enough for me?"
But then I started running into videos with titles like, "An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election." And I said to myself, that's it. That's Ismism – people telling other people how to think, and people looking to other people to be told how to think.
If I stick a label like Atheist on myself, all they have to do is get someone I already have a slightly irrational fan type respect for, like Terry Prachett, to start me down the road of Ismism, and the next thing I know I'll be buying everything that is spewed in the name of Atheism, whether it makes any real sense or not.
This is the same logical trap one falls into when joining a fandom. Though usually with a fandom it's not harmful if you subscribe to illusions like everybody in my fandom is nice, or everybody in my fandom is exactly like me, or my fandom is so wonderful it can save the world.
The root word of fandom is fanatic. Fandoms are a form of fanaticism. And just like when you stick a religious or political label on yourself, when you stick a fandom label on yourself you are saying you are so fanatical about this subject that you can't be expected to view that subject logically.
When you take an ism on yourself, that ism becomes an obsession that takes up most if not all of the scope of your vision. You can't see over it, under it, and certainly not through it. Thus, it becomes extremely difficult for any logic, other than the one the stars of your ism are spouting, to penetrate your perception. So even a normally open minded person will become closed minded where their ism is concerned.
Even today, with all the experience I've had with taking on the isms of various fandoms and the disillusionment that follows, I still occasionally catch myself writing things like "All Furries are nice." Then I just have to slap myself and say "You know that's not true."
Still, it seems to be true, because I only surround myself with nice Furries. And what I surround myself with takes up the whole of my perception. Likewise, if you only surround yourself with what you regard to be nice Atheists, nice Republicans, nice Catholics, or even nice Neo-Nazis, your subconscious can absorb the idea that it's all good, even if your logic center should know better.
I found a video by someone on YouTube who was basically defining Ismism the same as I am, but he harps on another danger of Ismism – that of molding the square pegs of society into round holes that can be compartmentalized, more easily controlled and kept in line through constant conflict. By making sure everyone is dropped into an ism, questions of universal concern can never be considered.
I don't know how many times I've been in a discussion of matters that should be of universal importance to everyone on the planet, and had every word I said dismissed by someone trying to paste a leftist label on me.
To which I will tend to reply with something like, "If someone just told you your house was on fire, would you ignore them if you thought they were a leftist?" But, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if they did. That's the power of Ismism. Ismism suspends logic the way fantasy suspends disbelief. It's an entirely different mode of thinking apart from rationality. I'm surprised universities don't give lectures on it.
But I suppose some people might ask, isn't Ismism essential to human existence? Doesn't everybody have to have an ism? Or, if one rejects Ismism, isn't that Anti-Ismism?
It can be Anti-Ismism, if you join a group for it or in any way look to others to tell you how to do it. And then Anti-Ismism would become just as bad as any other Ism.
The way to break the cycle is to not make it Anti-Ismism. You just free yourself from the need to have the approval of any group, listen to everybody and learn to think for yourself.
Some might ask, isn't that risky? Not everyone has confidence in their own ability to think for themselves. But it's actually less risky than belonging to an ism.
If you belong to an ism, you are guaranteed to be wrong on some level. The very fact that they all claim to be right insures that they are all wrong. But when your mind is free of all isms, you actually run a ghost of a chance of being right. Your vision is not limited. You can listen to everyone and judge what they say without bias. Then you might be able to lead them all down that middle road none of them can see to a place where they can all be happy together.
And what a relief it is to realize that, yes, everybody else can indeed be wrong. And that shadow of an idea in the back of your mind, that solution that seems so simple that it couldn't possibly be the answer to everything it seems to be, might just be the very thing the world has been waiting for all these years. And then, what a letdown to realize that no one with an ism will ever take it seriously, let alone give it a try.
What a pointless thing it is to be right in this world. But I think Buddhism addresses that. Buddhism basically says take the world as it is and make the most of it. Don't worry about how imperfect things seem. Just be one with your world and the people around you, loving everyone, regardless of how wrong they may be, because they're still the ones you share this world with, the ones who make life beautiful, in spite of the harm they do in their wrongness.
What a pity that also is an ism, and therefore one becoming a Buddhist will likely encounter some wrongness in the religion. But how nice to have come to those conclusions myself, and therefore I don't have to subject myself to any wrongnesses the religion may have attached to the basic ideas over the centuries.
From there all I have to do is what I'd be doing anyway, living a moderate and compassionate existence, enjoying my time on Earth as if it was the only time I was going to have, just in case it is.
Continuing my YouTube exploration, I next discovered a YouTube channel called "Big Think." There they have commentaries by various scientists, writers and other notorious big thinkers.
It was here I began to get a glimpse into quantum physics. And here were these prominent scientists saying there is now scientific proof that all life we perceive is not solid as it appears to be, but rather a projection of our perception that is directly responsive to our state of thinking.
They were suggesting that the fact that I employ a very different perception of reality and put it out on the internet to share with the world creates a fractal effect which in a small way changes the whole course of human thinking, and thereby brings about a change in the world. Actually, they say it changes the entire universe.
If you think about quantum physics while reading Spectral Shadows, one might get the impression that I've known this all along. But, in a practical sense, I have never known or believed anything. I just had some fanciful theories which were adapted from the Christian Science training I received as a child. And also some interesting parallels I drew from computers and playing Second Life.
Thus I have always set forward in Spectral Shadows that the only separation between magic and science was the lack of understanding of how the science of magic works. And suddenly there is a suggestion that a good many of my science fiction concepts are going to be proved right.
Apparently I am a middle stage in a continuous fractal shift in human thinking, a bridge between the now outdated theories of Christian Science and the future of quantum physics.
Egad! What an ego trip!
But what this really points out to me is the pointlessness of religion and science being at odds with each other. This is a perfect example of Ismism slowing man's progress. We who did not feel bound by either the religious side or the science side to reject anything that came out of the other were glimpsing this stuff back in the 70's. But science would not even consider it until they could feel like it was their idea.
Well, it wasn't their idea. It was the idea of Furries like myself and Richard Bach, and various other sci-fi/fantasy writers, building mainly on a foundation of new age Christian philosophies. We who were operating in The Realm Of Fantasy where there is no need for Ismism, we who were free to take and combine any ideas from both science and religion without prejudice, created the fractal shift which is now becoming visible in quantum physics. And that fits so logically with both the concepts of creation and evolution. But if you deny the existence of any piece of this puzzle because of Ismism, quantum physics will be viewed as illogical magic. And we all know what human beings do when confronted by something they regard as illogical magic, don't we?
Sadly, though, science as well still has some hang ups that seem blatantly obvious to me. There are videos on YouTube with scientists crying the blues because Einstein's calculations end up with a zero at the bottom of a black hole. And a zero equates to an infinity. And the way they've been trained to think an infinity must be recognized as nonsense or an error. They're literally thinking of tossing Einstein over this one thing, even though every other calculation in his theory has been proven right.
But, to my way of thinking, you don't just toss out a successful path of logic because the final calculation is beyond your understanding. Actually, infinity is exactly what I expect to find at the bottom of a black hole.
You compact an intense amount of weight into a point so small that it's almost impossible to perceive. It warps space and time until it creates a hole. Then it continues to compact until it can compact no more. Then it explodes out the other side creating a new infinity, a new universe – all that compressed weight shooting outward in a new big bang.
This new universe would then exist separate to our own, yet still connected to it, like the cells of a larger organism. And that's what I think the universe is – a cell in a larger organism. That would also explain parallel universes and worm holes.
It's so sad. I mean, I have no education to speak of. More than that, I'm terrible at working with numbers. Equations, forget it. And yet, scientists are crying the blues because the answers are right within their reach, but denied to them because they're in a place where they've trained their minds not to go. And yet, someone like me can just look at that equation and say, "No, you don't have to throw the whole of physics in the garbage can. You just have to accept that this infinity is not nonsense. It means something. Stop crying the blues and allow your imaginations the freedom to bridge the gap."
Of course, the solution will probably have been written in innumerable science fiction novels before they start taking it seriously. But apparently that's how things work. Science doesn't seem to get anywhere at all until fiction writers open a door of perception for it.
2013-04-12 06:13 am (UTC)
It's great sharing thoughts! I'm sure many appreciated it, but one is best not to expect too many responses from the 2 big no-no topics, Religion and Politics, because it is renowned that going beyond simply stating things... and into dialogue... rarely does anything to change anyone's standpoint. Rest assured the ones who agree are probably silent but happy for the reading, and those who don't agree it would probably just be troubling to read those thoughts anyway. Unless you are looking to change others or change yourself, then essay expositions as such will simply be seen more exhibition and sharing than requests for dialogue... that is, unless one explicitly asks for comments.
2013-04-12 08:46 am (UTC)
I think my goal in writing and publishing these little thought journeys is mainly just to document them for my own reference, and to make them available to anyone else they might be of some use or amusement to.
Particularly with this one, I am out to the very edge of my own perception and understanding, which is way farther out than most people ever go - perhaps farther than anyone really needs to go. So I don't expect anyone will have a lot to add to it, or that a great number of people will even be able to follow it.
Thus I'd be pleasantly surprised if I got a lot of comments from people saying they've thought of these things themselves or that their perspectives had been instantly changed by it. But maybe it will linger in the back of the minds of a few people, opening a door that may someday enable them to get a bit farther out in their own thought journeys.
Just the off chance of that makes it worth writing this stuff down for me.
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Posted by tom - dinsdag 2 juli 2013, 16:35Dear Mr Boon,
good to hear out eastern Brothern is treating you well. Sounds like a nice place.
Good joke about the Austrians if you had included the word 'but': the first time I read it, I read it, I like this ...."It looked like Austria to me but the most striking difference was the overwhelming friendliness of the people."
Hope you are making miles.
Are you going to make Egypt in time for the peace gathering....
It looks like Egypt might need one....
good luck!!
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This document is written for product managers in technology companies who are chartered with writing product requirements and the Market Requirements Document (MRD).
Writing requirements is not a mysterious black art although it may sometimes seem that way. Requirements convey details of a customer's problem to the reader (usually a designer or developer). A requirement reveals the information necessary to create an innovative solution to the problem, perhaps in ways not anticipated by either the requirement's writer or the associated end-user. Understanding the market is the first step in creating innovative products. The collection of market requirements is the body of what's often called a "Market Requirements Document."
Successful organizations use five steps for developing innovative products:
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In many organizations, the product management function is ill-defined. Ideally, a product manager finds problems in the marketplace and conveys them to a Development or Engineering organization. When product managers (sometimes called product owners) are also competent in development areas, they're often recruited to assist in other areas of product development. Since many come from a technical background, they have a natural tendency to work on activities they enjoy and where they have skills, even though these activities are not product management responsibilities. As a result, product managers are often overwhelmed with tactical, technical activities that tie them to their desks; activities that prevent them from spending time in the market. For more on the role, see The Strategic Role of Product Management e-book.
A product manager owns the first step in creating innovative products: finding market problems. These are communicated to Development in the form of requirements—the problems to be solved. The remaining steps of innovation are owned by the Development or Engineering departments. A product architect or designer controls the middle steps (analysis and high-level design) with a team lead in charge of the detailed design, coding and testing. If there is no designer, then analysis and design falls to the Development team. Another critical role is QA. The quality assurance lead is responsible for both internal and external testing. That's why QA should head up the alpha and beta testing projects. The QA lead validates that the specifications (written by Development) address the problems articulated in the requirements (written by product management) and then tests the result to ensure the requirement is met; this verification role is more effective than merely attempting to "break the code" in clever ways.
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Nowadays, we see personas and problems increasingly used as the primary method of defining complex projects, with an associated reduction in the old "reqs and specs" approach. An emphasis on personas and their problems focuses the team on the final result, rather than the tedious implementation of individual features. This approach requires more analysis and design by Development, making it more attractive to competent development organizations.
At Pragmatic Marketing, we have long been advocates of personas, both for the users of the product as well as for buyers. Buyers have one set of requirements; users have another. And for most technology products, the buyers and users are different people in the organization. A buyer persona is involved in the purchase of the product; a user persona actually uses the product. The buyer persona is concerned with value while a user persona is more concerned with capabilities. A persona defines an archetype of the buyer or user of your product with a biography that includes context to guide the team. For example, knowing a typical customer—a user persona—is adept at spreadsheets suggests we don't need a report writer but can implement an export capability instead.
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One of the downsides to being a journalist is that on a fairly regular basis, you are obliged to sit in a room and listen to very dry PowerPoint presentations on the product roadmaps of large companies. If this has to be the case though, there are worse places to be than in a luxurious hotel set high in the mountains of Austria. Lucky then that this was the location NEC Display Solutions (NDS) had chosen for its annual spring press event, held earlier this week. We were also taken Go-Karting and I'm sure you'll be delighted to know that the team I was in came second and as a prize we were all given a rather nice towel. Being presented with a towel by Germans is an irony that will stay with me forever.
Interestingly, from the figures presented to us by NEC, if you've bought a regular 17in or 19in display in the past year or so, that chances are that it hasn't been NEC. At those screen sizes its volume share in Q4 of 2005 was only 12th and 10th respectively. In fact, it was a pleasant change not to hear a company spin figures to make itself No. 1 or nearly No. 1 in everything for a change. NEC is a specialist at larger screen sizes and tends to do better in that market, where margins are greater anyway. Sure enough, for screens with a 20 inch diagonal it was 7th on the list.
Instead of obsession with chart positions, the emphasis was on the quality and service that NEC Display Solutions provides. As a company that only produces LCD displays and nothing else it has an advantage over its competitors for whom displays are often but one of many products. Of course, NEC Corporation makes many diverse products, but NEC Display Solutions is an entirely separate division, with its European headquarters in Munich. NEC's Plasma and projectors divisions are also entirely separate at this juncture.
Of the many statistics presented to us, one that piqued my interest was how different regions of Europe compare with regard to screen sizes. While the Nordics and German speaking countries have a preference for 19in displays, in the UK 17in is more popular. While in most places 15in displays are dying a death, they are very popular in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia as due to their affordability. Amazingly though the UK actually has the highest percentage of rubbish old 15in display. Doesn't it make you proud.
In case you're not completely au fait with NECs line up, let me pass on what I learnt. NEC Displays is split up into four core sections.
- Commercial desktops
- Professional Desktops
- Public displays
- Medical
The commercial desktops are made up of the entry-level AccuSync line, the new 5 series, the corporate aimed 70 series and the GX line for gamers. The professional desktops consists of the current 80 series and the forthcoming 90 series and is aimed primarily at the financial and scientific markets. You also have the SpectraView range for markets where colour accuracy is critical.
NEC essentially created the LCD based Public Display (PD) segment. It's aimed at putting LCDs in places such as airports and train stations and lobbies of posh companies. The buzz word here was 'Digital Signage'. It's a simple category at the moment with one range consisting of different screen sizes.
However, to keep things from getting stale NEC has introduced an entirely new category within the PD segment - the Multi Functional Monitor, which I'll describe in a bit more detail later.
Finally, there are Medical displays, which as you might expect is a highly specialised area. The displays here are called the MDview series.


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There's a meaty rock song in here begging to be heard.Read more on Lostprophets Listen to Lostprophets on Spotify
The two beacons of Wales' alternative rock scene - Funeral For A Friend and Lostprophets - have both been flickering recently, lingering largely outwith of the mainstream's fickle consciousness. Lostprophets indeed enjoyed superstar status in years gone by, but much like the valleyed landscape of their homeland, their activity and output has peaked and troughed, but going by 'It's Not The End Of The World, But I Can See It From Here', they're back on the up again.
It's pretty typical Lostprophets - big riffs, and an even bigger chorus. The guitar motifs merge the gothic leads of Avenged Sevenfold and the spike of Billy Talent before settling into a plunging whirlpool of a chorus that makes for the song's highest peak. Ian Watkins does however croon the words 'baby' and 'darling' within the space of mere seconds, diminishing any sense of lyrical credibility, but ignore those two cringes and there's a meaty rock song in here begging to be heard.


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Ross William Ulbricht may have been a bad person. He alledgedly commited some horrific crimes. He ran one of the largest drug markets in existance. He was one of the richest Bitcoin users ever. His money, is being held by The FBI. In a Bitcoin wallet, away from everyone else. If the charges are correct, he does not deserve that money. But the Bitcoin community does. If the FBI just holds those Bitcoins, that is just as good as minting them. They will never be circulated ever again. The community could use those. The US government has already stated that they have no interest at all in Bitcoins. Why should they keep them away from everyone else if they don't even want them? I understand that they need them as evidence during the trial, but what will they do after that?
I support the idea that the FBI should set up a Bitcoin faucet to give these back to the community slowly. It would help them go back into circluation, where the community needs them. A Bitcoin faucet, if you do not know what that is, is a website where Bitcoins are given out in miniscule amounts. This would help ensure that everyboday that wants some of the Bitcoin stash could have some, and there would be enough for everyone.
The Government has all of this Bitcoin, and is not even going to use it! They need to do something with it. For real.
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The Liberty softball team slugged three homers, earning a split on Sunday with a 5-2 victory over IUPUI to close out the KSU Classic at Twin Creeks Park in Woodstock, Ga.
The Lady Flames now hold a 1-3 overall record after their first weekend of the 2013 season, while IUPUI is now 3-6 on the campaign.
Liberty pounded out a season-high 13 hits, its most since recording 17 hits in a 13-5 win over North Carolina A&T on April 10, 2012.
Katie Zavodny went 3-for-4 with a career-high three stolen bases on the afternoon. Blair Lawrence, Grace Nordan, Kelby Allen and Hanna Nichols all had two hits apiece. Nichols homered and drove in a career-high three runs, while Nordan and Sammi Shivock both hit home runs.
Annah Jo Brittingham (1-1) recorded her first collegiate win, going the distance while yielding two runs on five hits.
Lindsey Richards went 2-for-3 for IUPUI, while Kelsey Rupert and Ali Mosier both had one RBI. Emili Escamilla (1-2) drew the loss, giving up three runs on 10 hits in six innings of relief pitching. Jocelyn Oppenhuis allowed two runs in one inning pitched as the starter.
Shivock got Liberty on the scoreboard with a two-out homer in the top of the first inning.
Nordan boosted the Lady Flames' lead to 2-0 when she belted a solo shot during the top of the second.
After Escamilla quelled a Liberty rally in the third frame, the Jaguars came back to tie the score in the bottom half of the inning. IUPUI recorded three straight singles to open the inning, with a Rupert single plating Alyssa Neff. A Mosier sacrifice fly evened the score at 2-2.
Liberty regained the lead in the top of the fourth on an RBI single by Nichols. Nordan and Allen reached base as the first two batters of the inning before Nichols' single made it 3-2.
The Lady Flames added two insurance runs during the sixth stanza. Allen singled as the leadoff batter, and Nichols slugged a two-run homer, good for a 5-2 Liberty advantage.
The 5-2 edge stood throughout the rest of the game, but IUPUI threatened with a rally in the bottom of the seventh. Leadoff batter Jessica Lam reached base on an error, and stole second. Lam later was erased at the plate following a wild pitch. With runners on the corners, Nikki Thomas grounded out to short to end the contest.
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The Fellowship of the Ring (board game)
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- Designer(s): Bruce Neidlinger, Coleman Charlton
- Publication: 1983 by Iron Crown Enterprises
- Art By: Charles Peale, Gail McIntosh (cover image), Leonard Cook, Rick Britton, Terry Amthor
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Based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien
As Sauron you control the Forces of Darkness including Balrogs, Dragons, Nazgul, bands of orcs, and other evil servants. You must seek and destroy the naive dupes of the Valar in their attempt to keep THE RING from its rightful master. As the Fellowship player you must elude and misdirect the minions of Sauron as you bear the heavy burden of THE RING towards its destruction in the land of swelling darkness. Struggle for the control of the greatest focus of power in Middle-earth, THE ONE TRUE RING.


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try running sh or bash right when you gain root
I'm trying to use netcat to create a bind+reverse shell.
Everything is going well, but i would like to get the user@host prefix on the `attacker` netcat session.
iv'e tried using pipe, and searching for a fitting switch, but without any luck..
Have any idea?
try running sh or bash right when you gain root
If you have a nc backdoor, far easier to setup ssh to operate in the same way - if you need you can install ssh keys with no password to use purely for tunneling (reverse [ -R ] or otherwise [ -L ]), and then login via the usual method. This will give you a shell, secures your communications, and is an easier way to track the audit log for your report as SSH automatically logs successful logins.
Still not underestimating the power...
There is no such thing as bad information - There is truth in the data, so you sift it all, even the crap stuff.
Look at something like "-c /bin/bash -i" to see if that's what you're looking for.
socat can for sure do this, and ive done it but for the life of me i cant remember the syntax. You can even setup a history file so you can scroll back through your commands .. like so.
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Le Reveillon: Families celebrated until dawn
December 22. 2012 10:03PM
Robert Perreault of Manchester holds a photograph of a Franco-American Christmas scene from Manchester in 1905. The period photo, from Perreault's personal collection, was taken by Ulric Bourgeois, a noted Manchester photographer during the early 20th century. (DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER)
Born in the town of Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Qu�bec, Leclerc moved to Manchester with her family at the age of 14 in 1909. Perreault interviewed her in 1983, two years before her death.
Her Christmas recollections, from "Franco-American Life and Culture in Manchester":
"I remember the beautiful red sleigh my father built. Each year, after midnight Mass, someone dressed as le P�re No�l would arrive at our house in that sleigh. He always carried a huge bag full of gifts for our Christmas stockings: apples, oranges, candy, dolls and a few pennies, all for the girls; for the boys, there would be an assortment of wooden toys all built by my father. After opening our gifts, we'd have a r�veillon (midnight supper) with tourti�res and cretons (meat pies and meat spread), head cheese, sausages, all sorts of cheeses, pies, cakes, wine for the women, eau-de-vie (hard liquor) for the men. My grandfather was quite a fiddler. He danced like a marionette. There was music, singing and dancing 'til dawn."
Perreault has is own fond memories of midnight Mass and r�veillon in Manchester. Now 61, he says his family is too widely dispersed and he gets too tired for r�veillon. But he will attend at midnight mass at St. Anselm this week, and at some point - either on Christmas Eve or Christmas day - he will enjoy some traditional pork pie.
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1 - front left section of my hair has a few curls that are much less curly than the rest, barely wavy.... always trying to make that part curl more. when it doesn't, i try to tuck it behind my ear, hiding it under other curlier hair
2 - frizz, though not TOO bad. mostly a little bit of canopy frizz that i've learned to accept, but i often get some separation frizz too that really bugs me. it's only really noticeable up close though, from a safe distance (like in the mirror) it pretty much looks fine.
My biggest issue is probably that I can't get 2nd day hair. I have to wet it every day or put it up in a pony tail.
Skinny curls, like a stack of very thin, bent twigs that sometimes float if I don't weigh them down. I'm always looking for more clumping. Conditioner in the summer makes my hair look greasy, so I'm still looking for that magic gel!
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The likelihood of Donald Trump becoming the Republican party's 2016 presidential nominee – a prospect the GOP's establishment and millions of liberal-minded Americans regard with something approaching dread – firmed considerably on Tuesday. With 11 states and just on a quarter of Republican delegates in play, Mr Trump won all but Texas, Oklahoma and Minnesota. Ted Cruz, considered another GOP outsider by virtue of his ideologically conservative background, won his home state of Texas and neighbouring Oklahoma. In the only result likely to have pleased mainstream Republicans, Florida's Marco Rubio won in Minnesota.
The Democrats' Super Tuesday results were less contentious insofar as Hillary Clinton did as expected, winning solidly in delegate-rich states like Texas, Georgia and Massachusetts. Bernie Sanders won in Colorado, Oklahoma, Minnesota and his home state of Vermont, and though the plucky New Englander has vowed to fight on to convention day in Philadelphia, Ms Clinton appears to have the nomination all but locked up. It's not a prospect that pleases all Democratic party supporters – Ms Clinton's campaigning and rhetoric has been leaden and uninspiring, she is regarded as uncomfortably beholden to corporate and establishment interests, and she's seen as carrying more baggage than a travelling potentate.
Mr Trump's momentum is now such that it's hard to conceive of any of his opponents paring back his lead. Some commentators suggest Senator Rubio is best placed to deny the New Yorker the nomination, but that this would only occur if Republican wheelers and dealers brokered a deal at the national convention in July, an undemocratic outcome that hasn't occurred in decades.
If fact, more and more Republican leaders appear to be resigning themselves to a Trump nomination, if reluctantly. Before Tuesday's results were posted, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and House speaker Paul Ryan said they would back Mr Trump as the GOP's nominee, even though they criticised him for not distancing himself from former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
Mr Trump's ability to win and hold public support while offering little in the way of constructive policies – and while demonstrating a penchant for bigotry and crude populism on the stump – has been the talk of this presidential race. That he's cannily exploited the resentments and frustrations of less well-educated and privileged Americans is certainly true. But Mr Trump's victories in the liberal New England strongholds of Massachusetts and Vermont suggest his appeal is broader than most of his critics may have previously allowed.
American political history is replete with crude populists, though none has actually ever become president, probably because (as Abraham Lincoln said), "you cannot fool all the people all the time". That the party of Lincoln might yet nominate Mr Trump as its presidential nominee is indeed ironic.
If Mr Trump were to became president (and this seems highly improbable given the far safer option represented by Ms Clinton) America's very effective system of checks would probably save him from himself. But if he wins the nomination and fails dismally against Ms Clinton, nothing may save the Republican party.


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Up for bid is the 1995 uncirculated, baseball half dollar. This half has a mintage of 164,605. Set is mint condition. Nice set for that special little leaguer or coach. Set comes complete with coin, coa, box, and outer sleeve. Postage includes delivery conformation. Please visit my other auctions for more nice coins.


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The Church of St. John in the Wilderness (Episcopal) is in Copake Falls, New York, on the Harlem Valley Rail Trail and adjacent to Taconic State Park. The Rev John P. Thompson is Rector. The church building, built in 1852, was designed by Richard Upjohn, architect of Trinity Church Wall Street, New York. The church has around 70 members and serves the Roe Jan area of eastern Columbia County.
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