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State law requires all shelters to wait three days before placing an animal up for adoption. That gives owners a chance to reclaim their pets before they are euthanized or put up for adoption.
In an exclusive FOX 26 investigation, we told you how several area shelters like Montgomery County and BARC would waive the three day hold for animal rescue groups.
"This is the reason we work with rescues," said BARC director David Atencio. He called an animal rescue group to take this puppy who ended up at BARC after being hit by a car. If BARC wouldn't have waived the three day hold this puppy would be dead. Instead she's alive and well and it didn't cost taxpayers one penny.
"It's the humane decision for us to provide that kind of care for our dogs and cats," Atencio said.
BARC and other area shelters quickly realized waiving the three day hold was saving tax money and more importantly saving lives.
But those in charge at Harris County Animal Control wanted no part of it, wouldn't even consider it.
Well guess what now Harris County Animal Control has to waive the three day hold for animal rescue groups thanks to a policy change by Harris County Commissioners Court.
So when's it going to happen?
"I would guess almost immediately, just as soon as possible," said Harris County Judge Ed Emmett.
The change is a victory for animal rescue group member Teri Drennan, she initiated our investigation.
"My daughter told me one person could make a difference and she was right I mean we're on the way," said Drennan.
"I feel very encouraged by the fact that they're even passing this ordinance, that we're allowed to take them out," animal rescue group member Ann Ritchie said.
But more changes still need to be made as far as some animal rescue group members are concerned.
Other area shelters who waive the three day hold for these groups do it for all dogs and cats.
But the new Harris County policy only applies to animals needing acute urgent veterinary care.
"The wording is very vague and who makes the decision as to who gets released and who makes the decision as far as this animal needs urgent care," said animal rescue group member Marcy Sabol.
So what about stray dogs and cats that don't need immediate medical help? What they need is an animal rescue group to get them out of Harris County Animal Control before the three-day hold is up and they are euthanized.
The County Judge tells us they will look into including those animals into the new policy change as well.
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Hoping that every Georgian has the right to free speech – even when it is uncomfortable to some – the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the state on behalf of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Klan is suing the state after it was denied an opportunity to participate in the Adopt-A-Highway program. The group is seeking an injunction that would allow them to participate in the program.
In June, an application to participate in the program was filed by Harley Hanson, who calls himself the exalted cyclops of the Georgia Realm of the International Keystone Knights of the KKK, and his wife.In rejecting the Klan, which has a history of violence against blacks and minority groups, DOT said the highway cleanup program was open only to "civic-minded organization in good standing."
I just don't get the ACLU. I get helping the little guy being railroaded by government rules and regulations and taking on cases involving discrimination. But do they have to also represent the most vile members of society? Can they not be even a little bit picky?


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Sessions cost $45 per hour and are by appointment only from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday; and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. There are two male and two female massage therapists
available. Each therapist has more than 700 hours of experience and is also nationally certified.
There are five types of massages available: Swedish, sports, acupressure, deep tissue and pregnancy.
The two most common massages requested are the Swedish and the sports massage, according to Dana Vlasaty, massage therapist at the Fitness Center. Swedish massages cover the full body, and are
designed to relieve tension from head to toe. Sports therapy repairs muscles and prepares them for extreme activity. Most Marines who get this massage do it before and after they run in marathons or take their
physical fitness tests, said Vlasaty.
Acupressure, or Zen touch, concentrates on certain areas of the body. It follows a holistic approach: that if a person has pain in a certain area, he is suffering from a blockage of energy, said Vlasaty, a native of
Killeen, Texas.
The pregnancy massage is similar to the Swedish massage and is done on women who are in their second and third trimester of pregnancy. This massage helps alleviate the back pain and tension associated
with pregnancy.
Deep-tissue massages are slower and more intense than the rest. They concentrate on problem areas mainly in the shoulders and back. Vlasaty said if a customer has a problem with knots, they use this kind of
massage to slowly work them out.
Sgt. Paul Daly, watch commander, Provost Marshall Office, injured his shoulder blades and neck in a motorcycle accident last year. Lifting weights would pinch the nerves in those areas, causing him pain.
Massage therapy has helped reduce that pain.
"I can complete my workout and go straight in for my massage," said Daly, native of Rockford, Ill. "It's convenient because it is here on base, and $45 is a lot better price than what I would pay in town."
The main reasons many people get massages are for recovery from fatigue and from minor aches and pains, but it aids in many more ways, said Vlasaty.
Massage reduces muscle tension and affects the muscles and other soft tissues throughout the body. It loosens contracted, shortened, and hardened muscles and stimulates weak and flaccid muscles. Chronic
muscle tension reduces the circulation of the blood and movement of lymph in an area, according to the Web site holisticonline.com.
However, massage therapy solves both problems. After each massage, the oxygen capacity of the blood can increase 10 to 15% by indirectly or directly stimulating nerves that supply internal organs. Blood
vessels of these organs dilate and allow greater blood supply to them.
Increased mobility and range of motion in joints are more advantages of massage therapy, said Vlasaty. Massages provide a gentle stretching action to both the muscles and connective tissues that surround and
support the muscles and many other parts of the body, which helps keep these tissues elastic.
The nervous system is balanced by massage therapy, as it soothes or stimulates it, depending on which effect is needed by the individual at the time of the massage. Skin condition is also enhanced by improving
the function of the sebaceous and sweat glands, which keep the skin lubricated, clean, and cool.
Vlasaty also said that massages aid in digestion and intestinal function by increasing the body's secretions and excretions. It increases the production of gastric juices, saliva, and urine as well as increased
excretion of nitrogen, inorganic phosphorus, and salt. As a result, the metabolic rate increases.
Today, many people, as well as large companies and organizations such as the Marine Corps, are reaping the benefits of massage therapy, said Vlasaty. For example, current research shows that people who
receive massage treatments regularly experience fewer stress-related physical and mental problems. Also, she said many employers have found that offering massage therapy to employees increases productivity
and morale.
"I would definitely recommend this service to everyone from the depot," said Daly. "They provide a comfortable environment, work around busy military schedules and are knowledgeable about what they are doing. I
am so satisfied with my results that I plan on going back every other week."
Adding massage therapy to the depot's health promotion program shows the Marine Corps' commitment to health and wellness for all members here, said Vlasaty. She said massage is a holistic therapy that can
cause many positive effects on both the body and mind.


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We're converting from rectangular form to trigonometric form. Here I have the complex number z equals root 3 plus i. Now, if I would have graphed this, root 3 is bigger than 1. Here the b value is 1, and so my number would look something like this.
So what I need to do is find r, it's the modulus of the numbers. So distance from the origin of the number, and theta, which is the argument of the number; the angle it makes with the positive real axis. So let me find r first.
I've got the formula r equals the square root of a², plus b². A is root 3. So it's root 3 squared, and b is 1, 1² is 1. So I'm going to get 3 plus 1, root 4 which is 2.
Next I have to find theta. Theta is the argument of the complex number. I get theta using the fact that cosine of theta equals a over r. Now a is root 3, r is 2, and sine theta equals b over r. B is 1, and r is 2. So what angle has a cosine of root 3 over 2 and a sine of 1/2? That's pi over 6. So my trigonometric form for this complex number is z equals 2 times the quantity, cosine of pi over 6 plus i sine pi over 6, and that's my answer.
Now, notice we didn't really have to worry too much about the requirement, that theta is between 0 and 2 pi. Remember the way the trig functions work, they're periodic with period 2 pi. So this number could just as easily be represented by an argument of pi over 6, plus 2 pi. But that means that they are infinitely many ways to represent this number in trig form.
So your teacher is probably going to do something like this. They'll say, give me an argument between 0 and 2 pi. So that there will be only answer. You always want to give r positive, because r is this square root of the sum of two squares. It's going to end up being positive. Anyway, this is our final answer.


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THREE DECADES AGO, fledgling scientists and teenage technophiles began losing themselves in a novel by the late great science fiction icon Arthur C. Clarke. When they finally put the book down, they were dazzled by a vision of ordinary people rising into space. Many of them still think longingly of Clarke's book when they peer at the stars.
The Fountains of Paradise is the story of a maverick 22nd-century engineer who proposes building a 'space elevator' that would ascend more than 32,000 km. The ground floor of this elevator would be at the top of an equatorial mountain in the mythical country of Taprobane. The engineer has to battle a host of sceptics as well as wage a philosophical war with the monks who own the mountain.
Funnily enough, the first person to develop a detailed plan for a space elevator hadn't read Clarke's book. Nine years ago, Brad Edwards, a physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, was a little bored with the limitations of working at a huge government bureaucracy.
One day he read an article that declared it would be 300 years – if ever – before anyone had the materials or the capability to build a space elevator. Edwards had a bit of a track record for proving naysayers wrong, so this piqued his interest.
"My first thought was, 'Why can't it be built?'" says Edwards, now president of a Seattle, Washington, start-up company called Black Line Ascension, which conducts space elevator research and development. "I looked into it and threw out some of the concepts, like capturing an asteroid, that we don't have the technology to do. After that, I never found a good reason why it couldn't be done."
Edwards put together some calculations. Finally, he took a rough proposal for a space elevator to the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a division that encouraged people outside the U.S. space agency to explore bizarre yet scientifically sound concepts that might be useful decades in the future. In 1999 NIAC awarded Edwards a phase-one grant of US$75,000 (A$80,017) over six months.
Impressed with the paper from his phase-one study in 2000, NIAC then gave him a two year grant of US$500,000 to continue working on the project. Edwards quit his job and devoted himself to the space elevator full time. He polished off his phase-two term with a co-authored book, The Space Elevator: A Revolutionary Earth-to-Space Transportation System. It was a less poetic title than Clarke's, but it still caught the attention of the world's technology community.
Soon organisations such as the International Astronautical Congress and the American Society of Civil Engineers were holding sessions to discuss Edwards' plan. Space elevator conferences began attracting serious scientists.
The Spaceward Foundation was formed in 2004 to popularise the space elevator concept and accelerate research in its core technologies. A year later, a NASA program called Centennial Challenges offered large cash awards for the Space Elevator Games, in which competing teams build prototypes of space elevator components.
"The space elevator was viewed as science fiction until Brad's work," says Robert Cassanova, former director of NIAC, which closed due to budget cuts in 2007. "There are still lots of details to work out, but there are no major problems with the physics behind the idea. The physics tells us that if you can put this thing out there, it will work."
Now, hundreds of scientists around the world – from established researchers to students in graduate school – devote at least some of their time to working on the major components of Edwards' plan. They hope for construction to begin in 2010 and have their fingers crossed that by then all the technical, financial, political, regulatory, legal and other issues should be worked out. If all goes as smoothly as they envision, the first of many space elevators will be completed by 2020 at a cost of around US$10 billion.
Most people without a science or technology background are startled by the idea. They can't imagine what a space elevator would look like or why anyone would want to build one. Don't we already have rockets? How can there be an elevator to space when most of it is empty? Unless the plan is to attach this thing to the Moon, what will hold it in space?
Here's the concept, from the bottom up: Edwards' plan is to build the space elevator over a floating platform, similar to an oil-drilling rig, in the ocean about 4,000 km south of California. Specifically, the platform would be located in the belt of warm air and low surface winds along the equator known as the doldrums. The lack of wind there makes sailors fret, but the relative calm would cause the least meteorological distress to the space elevator once it is in operation.
From the platform, a flat, narrow tether would extend 100,000 km into space, where it would connect with a counterweight weighing approximately 600 tonnes (more than twice the current weight of the International Space Station). Earth's rotation would swing the tether and counterweight through space, and the tension in the tether would provide the centripetal force to keep the counterweight moving in a circle. The elevator would always extend in a straight line over the same point near the equator.
The elevator car, or 'climber', would hang below a mechanism that grips the tether between rollers. Powered by a laser beam on Earth, the car would move up and down at a speed of about 190 km/h. In one artist's renditions, the elevator car looks like a large, slightly flattened yellow bus. The first space elevator would carry 20 tonnes of cargo; it's envisaged that larger models would eventually be able to carry 200 tonnes and move faster, so that people could travel more comfortably.
OVER THE DECADES as scientists attempted to figure out how to make a working space elevator, it was the tether that stymied them. No one knew of a material that was strong and durable enough to withstand the pressure of stretching that far into space with such heavy loads.
"We had to talk about using a material that no-one had, what we called 'unobtanium'," says Jerome Pearson, an aerospace engineer and former branch chief for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, who was the first to publish a concept for a space elevator in an international paper in the journal Acta Astronautica in 1975. Clarke consulted Pearson during the writing of The Fountains of Paradise.
The solution came in 1991, when physicist Sumio Iijima of the NEC Corporation in Tsukuba, Japan, discovered a new type of material called single-walled carbon nanotubes. (Russian scientists had observed multi-walled carbon nanotubes more than 40 years earlier). Carbon nanotubes are created when carbon atoms form very strong cylindrical bonds; the result is a material that is 10 times lighter than steel, but 50 times stronger. A strand of carbon nanotubes the size of a human hair is theoretically strong enough to support the weight of a car.
Edwards' design calls for a paper-thin tether made of many strands of carbon nanotubes. The tubes would be bound together in a flat ribbon, 30 cm-wide at the ground and 90 cm-wide and twice as thick when it disappears from sight into Earth's atmosphere. Viewed from the ground, the tether would look dark and shiny. Higher up, the tether would appear silvery because of a coating designed to protect it from the ravages of lone oxygen atoms floating around in low Earth orbit.
The problem with carbon nanotubes is that no one is manufacturing them in the quantity needed for a small bridge – let alone for a cable 100,000 kilometres long! Space elevator enthusiasts remain undaunted, however, as the materials science community is agog with all the potential applications for carbon nanotubes.
"Long before the space elevator will climb into the sky, you'll see bridges built in new ways, cars and boats built in new ways, all stronger and lighter because of carbon nanotubes," says Michael Laine, a former U.S. Marine with a background in finance who formed LiftPort, a Seattle-based company that works on various space-elevator related technologies. "I think they'll be the building block of the next 100 years. Remember when that guy in The Graduate pulled the kid aside and told him about plastics? It's like that."
The other space-elevator technology that's still not ready for deployment is the laser beam that powers the car up and down the tether. The laser is similar to the tiny light source in a DVD player that reads data – only millions of times stronger. From the ground, this laser beam would be directed at photovoltaic panels on the underside of the climber, providing power to an electric motor that would pull the car up the tether.
Most of the work being done on a laser of this sophistication and power has military applications. "Those are like little blowtorches that you can project hundreds of miles," says engineer Ben Shelef, co-founder and chief executive of the Spaceward Foundation "Ours will be a wider beam that projects thousands of miles. We presented our space elevator talk to the Directed Energy Professional Society [in 2006], and they'd like to find a use for this technology other than ways to kill people."
IN OCTOBER 2007, the third annual Space Elevator Games were held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Teams from around the world arrived with their contraptions, vying for a US$500,000 purse in both the Climber (Power Beaming) Competition and the Tether Strength Competition.
The showiest contest was the former, in which teams tried to shimmy their contraptions up a tether at almost two metres per second using only light energy directed at photovoltaic cells. In the past, teams have resorted to a variety of light sources, including multiple spotlights and huge mirrors that bounced sunlight on the climber.
Last year, two teams used lasers but neither they nor their fellow challengers managed a winning performance. Another team excited the crowd by using a tether fashioned from actual carbon nanotubes in the strength competition, but again, nobody won. The games are scheduled again for September 2008 at an as-yet unchosen location in the USA, with total cash awards from NASA of US$2 million. Corporate sponsors have also stepped forward to provide funding and technology.
"It's not 'girls gone wild', it's climbers gone wild! Engineers gone wild!" says Ken Davidian, who was until recently program manager for NASA's Centennial Challenges in Washington DC, and former director of operations for the X-Prize Foundation, which in 2004 awarded a US$10 million prize to the first team to build and fly a private spacecraft to an altitude of 100 km and repeat the feat in two weeks. "You're entering this semi fringe technical world, and that's kind of cool."
Beyond the love of gadgets, people are drawn to this project because they believe it will fundamentally change humanity's interaction with the rest of the universe. In the past, this interaction has been limited by the inherent flaws of rocket propulsion: enormously expensive to build and send into space, and the fuel needed to propel them into space leaves hardly any room for cargo.
"Most people don't realise how difficult it is to send an object into space," says Barbara Thompson, a NASA scientist who studies solar physics and space weather in Maryland, USA. "The rocket equations are a real eye-opener to [new] engineers. It adds up to high costs to send even small amounts of mass into orbit."
Even sending 500 g of cargo into space using rockets costs about US$10,000. A space elevator would reduce this cost dramatically. "It will take shipments almost down to a FedEx price," quips Edwards. "Sending a package into space will cost about as much as sending one from Seattle to South Africa."
With this ability to move massive amounts of material and equipment into space, the possibilities for innovation become limitless. We could assemble and deploy huge solar panels to absorb the Sun's energy, without interference from our atmosphere, and then beam it back to Earth for an infinite supply of clean energy.
Some scientists believe this would end our reliance on fossil fuels – for electricity, at least. The space elevator could also open the door for mining valuable minerals on the Moon and on asteroids. And it could enable us to send out sophisticated weather-monitoring satellites to study the physics and chemistry of our atmosphere much more cheaply and frequently.
Perhaps most significantly, the technology could change the way we launch rockets. The space elevator could transport them into space and then simply let them go. The rockets could use the fuel they no longer need for the launch to travel deeper into space.
"THE PATH TO SOLVING many of the Earth's problems is through space," enthuses David Livingston, host and producer of The Space Show, a U.S. radio program focussed on space commerce and tourism, which is heard in 50 countries. "Space is not only of great commercial value, but that's where mankind has always performed [at] its best."
Space elevator advocates claim that there are likely to be many more benefits which we can't even imagine until we begin serious exploration of space. As the late Arthur C. Clarke once said, "The analogy I often use is this: if you had intelligent fish arguing about why they should go out on dry land, some bright young fish might have thought of many things, but they would never have thought of fire, and I think that in space we will find things as useful as fire."
The space elevator would also make large-scale colonisation of space possible, something that can never be achieved by rockets or shuttles. Imagine the possibilities for developers dreaming of space resorts! And one television network has already called Edwards to ask about the feasibility of doing a Survivor-type show on Mars.
Many scientists, including renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, worry that Earth and much of what lives on it could be wiped out by a disaster such as a rogue virus or severe global warming. They believe the future of the human race depends on moving into space.
"The Earth has been hit by a huge asteroid before," says Ted Semon, a retired software engineer who lives near Chicago, USA, and moderates the official Space Elevator Games blog. "If something big comes, there's nothing we can do about it. As the U.S. science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein said, "The Earth is too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.'"
NASA's Centennial Challenges program supports the Space Elevator Games with prize money because it's interested in power beaming and strong tethers for its own missions, but its involvement isn't a stamp of approval for the space elevator concept itself.
Still, Centennial Challenges' former program manager Ken Davidian says NASA wants to encourage private initiatives to explore and commercialise space. "Space [exploration] is not an inherently governmental function," he says. "Right now, the government is the only one buying services to space. If the industry is going to grow, we can't be the only customers."
Davidian, now at NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, estimates that the vast majority of the technology community thinks the space-elevator concept is possible, although not necessarily in the time frame that Edwards and his colleagues hope for.
"But the last person you want to ask about this is the experts," he says. "Number one, no one is good at predicting the future. And number two, if you're trying to base this on what's been done in past, then it's going to seem ridiculous. But I tend to be an optimist. Yes, it's possible. All it takes is money."


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Astronaut versus Cave Man (157 comments)
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Re:Sorry but (179 comments)
Playing devil's advocate...
2001 had music over top of space scenes. You can't hear music in space, never mind Dolby surround sound, so this was wrong. I think there was also music playing on ancient Earth, which is before music was invented.
I've also seen subtitled versions of 2001 (and lots of movies praised for their realism). This is wrong. When people speak in real life, glowing words don't magically appear beneath them.
One can argue that these are cinematic conventions that improve people's enjoyment. The music has emotional impact, and the subtitles make it easier to understand what is happening (especially with foreign languages). But then why can't things like space sound effects (which add impact) and visible lasers (which make it easier to see what is happening) also be considered cinematic conventions? It all seems a bit arbitrary to me.
Re:Distance and Radiation make it a moot point.... (112 comments)
Then send the follow-up mission in the first ship, and then send the colony ship in the faster ship second. The faster colony ship gets there first, and the follow-up ship arrives second.
If your objective is to get as many ships to as many stars as quickly as possible, then there is simply no benefit to waiting for faster ships to be invented.
Re:Distance and Radiation make it a moot point.... (112 comments)
Sure, and in every sci fi book, the next generation drive beat them there. Sometimes spending more time on the colony than the travelers spent getting there.
I've seen that argument many times including in at least one physics journal. I believe it is one of the stupidest arguments ever put forward by scientists.
There are billions of stars in the heavens. So why would you ever send a next generation ship to a star that you've already sent a ship to?! Send your next generation ship to a different star. There are plenty to chose from.
Oceans Eleven (298 comments)
Their plan is to come in at night and steal the real Nimitz, leaving the duplicate in its place
Re:Surely the US knows where the plane is (227 comments)
And yes I know, "don't call me Shirley"
Surely the US knows where the plane is (227 comments)
The NSA and other US intelligence agencies have gone to insanely extreme lengths to avoid another 9/11 - like monitoring the majority of the world's electronic communications. 9/11 was done using commercial jets as weapons, so surely one of the highest priorities would be tracking every commercial jet that could be used to attack the US or its various military installations, embassies, factories, etc around the globe. Just imagine the shit storm there would be in the halls of power if terrorists pulled off the same trick AGAIN. Nobody in intel would risk that.
So if they are going to all the trouble of monitoring everybody's texts and gmail, surely they know what happened to MH370. It would be utter incompetence for them not to.
So why aren't they saying?
So in other words... (61 comments)
NASA are saying it is not a man-made object or the result of natural phenomena, but rather that it was put there by a probe from another planet!
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Re:A little misleading (87 comments)
Yes and no. By tuning the particles to very specific frequencies they can make the material more transparent than something that scatters light in general.
Screens that scatter general light already exist - a fairly well-known example is a DILAD screen, which uses microscopic bubbles. MIT's screen looks to be significantly more transparent than a DILAD screen. DILADs work best with rear-projection, while MIT's seems geared for front-projection. DILADs are used for advertising displays, trade shows, and - most famously - Hatsune Miku concerts.
Re:Please REPEAT (628 comments)
This is a nerd site, not a tech site. Non-human intelligence, sentience, and the rights of those possessing it seems like a reasonably nerdy subject to me. Plenty of sci-fi books and shows have examined those themes.
Re:So instead of diving for hours with an air tank (375 comments)
Instead of a battery, perhaps they could power it using a tank of compressed air
Edge Case (306 comments)
The really funny thing is that 00000000 is a potential edge case. There could have been a bug in the system where 00000000 is rejected because it's misinterpreted as a null value. Out of a billion possibilities, they chose the one that might not actually have worked.
Easy (640 comments)
Technological civilisation rises,
which eventually causes climate change,
which eventually causes technological civilisation to crumble,
which eventually allows the climate to recover,
which eventually allows technological civilisation to rise again,
There's your cycle. Study that.
Not convinced (247 comments)
How do we know Snowden wasn't a CIA plant? that the leak wasn't a CIA effort to try and rein in NSA operations, freeing up budgetary funds to go to CIA operations instead. And that this is the CIA working to disavow their man?
Clearly the CIA and NSA need to spend more time spying on each other and their own employees, and leave the rest of us alone.
Re:NBD, it seems (159 comments)
The CME was the Sun's defense mechanism when it saw the comet coming right at it. It ejected in self-defense.
Re:Wrong question... (183 comments)
I think you are conflating different ideas. Here is how I break it down:
well known - play the music for many people; how many have heard it before determines how well know it is
likable - play the music for many people; how many like it determines how likable it is
popular - both well known and well liked
good - find a bunch of outspoken pretentious assholes who care far more about being recognised as music authorities than would any normal person; what they say they like is considered "good"
Re:really? (267 comments)
"got 2 grams for $40" - the story is really about the US adopting the metric system
Re:power level of a detectable signal at 1200 ly ? (79 comments)
Or, they could use a star itself and modulate the light coming from it, like stellar semaphore.
One method that has been proposed http://www.iterate.com.au/SETI/SETI.htm uses a swarm of self-replicating robots. Given raw materials to work with it could in time create a large enough structure or cloud in front of the star so as to be able to send a signal to a large percentage of the heavens. This would be detectable over much greater distances than 1200 ly.
Re:Pro tip (219 comments)
Let's say I have the genuine ability to tell if the number of grains in an unoponed sugar packet is even or odd, 60% of the time. How is it trivial for me to demonstrate this ability? I wager that wouldn't even get past Randi's application process as it would be deemed unfeasable to test. I've read their case files, that is how the process works - if they don't think their amateur investigators with limited resources and budget can test your ability, then you get rejected right off the bat.
Discovering new science is hard. Most of the stuff that is trivial to demonstrate was discovered long ago. That's why we build thing like multi-billion dollar supercolliders, because Higgs Bosons just don't fall into our laps. It takes effort to detect them. It's why we have scientists.
If 99.99% of people with claims of the paranormal are frauds or deluded, then you need very careful and propper procedure to identify the 0.01%. Any moron can claim to debunk psychics, and they'd be right almost all the time, even if their methods are hopelessly flawed. A brick with the words "debunked" painted on it could do the job and be right 99.99% of the time. But it would never find the 0.01%.
Kudos to Randi. He's parlayed his little dog and pony show into a nice little livelihood, making money off the arrogance of skeptics through appearance fees and books. You'd think skeptics might be more skeptical of a man who spent decades perfecting the art of deception and manipulation, but apparently not.
Re:Pro tip (219 comments)
I don't. The point is that a professional magician is specifically trained in deception and trickery. When a magician offers you a chance to win some of their money, it is safe to assume that the game is hopelessly rigged in their favour. That is what magicians do.


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Posterior Simulators in Econometrics
AbstractEconomics is the discipline of using data to revise beliefs about economic issues. In Bayesian econometrics, the revision is conducted in accordance with the laws of probability, conditional on what has been observed. The normative appeal of Bayesian econometrics is the same as that of expected utility maximization and Bayesian learning, the dominant paradigms in economic theory. The questions that econometrics ultimately addresses are similar to those faced by economic agents in models, as well. Given the observed data, what decisions should be made? After bringing data to bear on two alternative models, how is their relative plausibility changed? Any survey of the introductory and concluding sections of papers in the academic literature should provide more examples and illustrate the process of formally or informally updating beliefs. Until quite recently, applied Bayesian econometrics was undertaken largely by those primarily concerned with contributing to the theory, and the proportion of applied work that was formally Bayesian was rather small. There are several reasons for this. First, Bayesian econometrics demands both a likelihood function and a prior distribution, whereas non-Bayesian methods do not. Second, the subjective prior distribution has to be defended, and if the reader (or worse, the editor) does not agree, then the work may be ignored. Third, most posterior moments can't be obtained anyway because the requisite integrals can't be evaluated.
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Officially part of Wulingyuan Scenic Area which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Zhangjiajie Forest is China's first national forest park. Its unique pillars have been the backdrop of Chinese art for centuries. The pillars formed by erosion of expanding and melting ice also are covered in dense foliage because of the year round moist temperature. Although the park is relatively unknown as well as unpronounceable outside of China and Asia, it has become more popular since the release of the movie Avatar because the floating mountains from the movie are said to be based off of Zhangjiajie forest. This place is definitely on my list of places to see!
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Howard is in the second season of a two-year, $4.5 million deal. Detroit drafted him in the second round of the 2003 NHL draft and he'll probably be under contract for the rest of this decade with the storied franchise.
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The 29-year-old Howard is the first goalie in franchise history to win at least 35 games in each of his first three full seasons.
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AbstractThis paper investigates the effects of local regulatory effort on ground level ozone air quality and on industrial location. Local regulatory effort varies by annual air quality attainment status and by state attitudes towards the environment. A switch from attainment to non-attainment status induces greater regulatory effort in a county, leading to an improvement in air quality. Air quality readings for ground level ozone improve by 3-8% depending on the exact air quality measure, following a switch to non-attainment status. Pro-environment states, which ceteris paribus, spend relatively more on pollution abatement also have cleaner air. A 1% increase in typical annual state pollution abatement expenditures leads to about a .04% improvement in local ozone readings. Heavily polluting industries show a tendency to move to counties with a record of clean air, where they are less likely to be hassled. A county switching to having a three-year record of attainment experiences a 7-9% growth in the number of heavily polluting establishments. This implies polluting industries are spreading out geographically moving from non- attainment (polluted) areas to attainment (initially less polluted) areas. Finally, for ozone, localities may improve the annual hourly extreme value reading used to measure officially local air quality, without improving measures (mean, medians, medians of daily maximum) of more typical ozone conditions. This occurs by spreading out economic activity over the day to dampen peaks of ozone inducing activity and subsequent daily ozone peaks.
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When I was young nearly every family had a goldfish in a bowl, often won at a fair and carried home in a plastic bag. Even as a child I felt sorry for it and demanded toys and plastic plants to make it's life more interesting. Eventually we got two and a slightly bigger bowl, they were called Max and Harry after a double act on working mans clubs that used to lodge with us.
This came up because I am just watching a TV programme (What Remains) that has a solitary goldfish in a very empty small bowl swimming around aimlessly in a little goldfish bowl on the desk.
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