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Located in East Town within a short walk of BMO Harris Bradley Center, InterContinental Milwaukee is within a mile (2 km) of other popular sights such as Milwaukee Art Museum. This 221-room, 4-star hotel has a restaurant along with conveniences like a 24-hour health club and free in-room WiFi. Located in central Milwaukee, the hotel is also near Discovery World and Charles Allis Art Museum.
Enjoy a leisurely bite to eat at Kilawat, the hotel's onsite restaurant. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with room service. Cooked-to-order breakfast is offered for a fee each morning from 6:30 AM to 10:30 AM.
InterContinental Milwaukee's 221 air-conditioned rooms provide iPod docks, coffee makers, and free weekday newspapers. Guests can expect free WiFi and flat-screen TVs with cable channels and pay movies. Beds sport premium bedding and bathrooms offer hair dryers and designer toiletries. Laptop-compatible safes, phones, and ironing boards are also standard.
Property features
Guests staying at InterContinental Milwaukee enjoy a 24-hour health club, a steam room, and free WiFi in public areas. Valet parking is available for USD 33.00 per day. Multilingual staff at the front desk are standing by 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include 11 meeting rooms, a conference center, and a 24-hour business center.
- Walking distance to BMO Harris Bradley Center
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
- 24-hour health club
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Hotel Amenities
InterContinental Milwaukee features a 24-hour health club and a steam room. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of hotel's 2 bars/lounges. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 4-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 13000 square feet (1208 square meters) include a conference center. This business-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, gift shops/newsstands, and coffee/tea in a common area. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
InterContinental Milwaukee is a smoke-free property.
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Restaurant
- Conference space
- Total number of rooms - 221
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 10
- ATM/banking
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Fireplace in lobby
- Elevator/lift
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Number of bars/lounges - 2
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Wedding services
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Concierge services
- 24-hour health club
- Computer station
- Free WiFi
- Meeting rooms 11
- Luggage storage
- Conference space size (meters) - 1208
- Number of meeting rooms - 12
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 13000
- Conference center
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Steam room
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
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Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
InterContinental Milwaukee offers 221 air-conditioned accommodations with iPod docking stations and laptop-compatible safes. Beds feature premium bedding. Flat-screen televisions come with premium cable channels and pay movies. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, bathrobes, designer toiletries, and complimentary toiletries.
This Milwaukee hotel provides complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks, complimentary weekday newspapers, and phones. Additionally, rooms include coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free weekday newspaper
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
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- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- iPod docking station
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
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Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Kilawat - This restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Start your morning with a cooked-to-order breakfast, available each day from 6:30 AM to 10:30 AM for a surcharge. Room service is available during limited hours.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a 24-hour health club and a steam room.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
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Check-in time ends at midnight
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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Optional extras
- Fee for cooked-to-order breakfast: USD 9 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 28.00 per day (in/out privileges)
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Multiplicity, Overtaking and Convergence in the Lucas Two-Sector Growth Model
This paper provides the complete closed-form solution to the Lucas two-sector model of endogenous growth. We study the issues of existence, unique-ness, multiplicity, positivity, transitional dynamics and long-run growth, re-lated to the competitive equilibrium paths. We identify the parameter range where the different results hold and deduce the entire trajectories for the original variables. We revise the results on convergence and overtaking which arise from this model, and prove that the parameterization currently used as the background for an explanation of economic miracles and disasters, is not satisfactory because of its counterintuitive implications.
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- Benhabib Jess & Perli Roberto, 1994. "Uniqueness and Indeterminacy: On the Dynamics of Endogenous Growth," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 63(1), pages 113-142, June.
- James A. Schmitz, 1993. "Early progress on the "problem of economic development"," Quarterly Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, issue Spr, pages 17-35.
- Parente, Stephen L & Prescott, Edward C, 1994. "Barriers to Technology Adoption and Development," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 102(2), pages 298-321, April.
- Caballe, Jordi & Santos, Manuel S, 1993. "On Endogenous Growth with Physical and Human Capital," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 101(6), pages 1042-1067, December.
- Ortigueira, Salvador & Santos, Manuel S, 1997. "On the Speed of Convergence in Endogenous Growth Models," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 87(3), pages 383-399, June.
- J. R. Ruiz-Tamarit & M. Ventura-Marco, "undated". "The Reduction of Dimension in the Study of Economic Growth Models," Working Papers 2001-13, FEDEA.
- Lucas, Robert Jr., 1988. "On the mechanics of economic development," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 22(1), pages 3-42, July.
- Casey B. Mulligan & Xavier Sala-i-Martin, 1993. "Transitional Dynamics in Two-Sector Models of Endogenous Growth," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 108(3), pages 739-773.
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Layered Strawberry And Cheese Salad
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Prepare strawberry or cherry gelatin ac cording to package directions.
Chill until firm.
Prepare lemon gelatin in same manner.
Let stand until the consistency of jelly.
Beat until foamy.
Beat in softened cream cheese and nuts.
Spread over firm gelatin.
Chill until firm.
Cut into cubes.
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Calories 141 Calories from Fat 55
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Total Fat 6 g9.6%
Saturated Fat 2.3 g11.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 11.7 mg3.9%
Sodium 157.6 mg6.6%
Total Carbohydrates 19 g6.4%
Dietary Fiber 0.41 g1.7%
Sugars 18.8 g
Protein 3 g5.7%
Vitamin A 2.7% Vitamin C
Calcium 1.3% Iron 0.99%
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Honeydew Cantaloupe Semi Freddo
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Combine the sugar and water in a small saucepan and bring it just to a boil to dissolve the sugar crystals.
Pour the syrup into a glass jar and chill until cold.or, let it cool in the saucepan.
Separate the melon balls into cantaloupe and honeydew.
You should have about 31/2 to 4 cups of each.
Place the cantaloupe balls in a food processor fitted with a steel chopping blade with 1/2 cup of the sugar syrup and process briefly just until the melon is almost smooth, about 10 seconds.
Add the lemon juice and 1 egg white and process just until light in color and smooth, about 10 seconds.
Scrape the semi freddo into a freezer container, cover, and place in the freezer for up to 2 hours
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Calories 984 Calories from Fat 24
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Total Fat 3 g4.5%
Saturated Fat 0.73 g3.6%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 400.6 mg16.7%
Total Carbohydrates 245 g81.8%
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Skip to comments.Paris Hilton's BF Pulled Gun on Intruder (2A saves more lives)
Posted on 08/27/2010 4:45:03 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
MZ has learned ... the man who allegedly attempted to break into Paris Hilton's L.A. home this week was thwarted by Hilton's boyfriend ... who pulled a gun on the suspect before the dude could get inside.
Law enforcement sources confirm ... Hilton's BF -- Vegas nightclub kingpin Cy Waits -- told police that he and Paris heard loud banging noises coming from downstairs around 6:30 AM Tuesday ... so he grabbed his gun and went to check out the situation.
We're told Cy claims he spotted Nathan Parada peering through a window and carrying two knives -- a large kitchen knife and a buck hunting knife.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
I didn't hear this part of the story reported on any of the morning shows today.
What will drive the libs OUT of their minds is that what you say is true...look at those faces and ask yourself:
1. Which one would be a great looking girlfriend?
2. Which one of the guys would you trust with a pistol?
3. Which one would slit your throat?
It isn't complicated.
Hey. Paris Hilton's boyfriend is not a slut.
I suppose you didn't have to click on the thread if you didn't want to "hear" about her, but you did. Maybe you're self-loathing that way.
This is really important...right now they are discussing in law schools the topic "Does the Second Amendment protect even sluts?"
Ha. The perp is lucky he didn't get his fookin' kneecaps beaten into sandbags and then get strung over a cactus outside of town. That 'nightclub kingpin' title alone tells me he's no choir boy.
You noticed he's actually from Vegas? Of course there aren't any male residents of Hollywood that would have walked downstairs after slappin' some leather. The normal Hollywood male would have cowered in the bathtub and waited to be rescued.
I bet they did.
Is there any motive given?
Where the hell was her "staff"?? They'd be traditionally downstairs awaiting the 1pm brekkies call, you'd think.
Good on Cy
Robbery with an aggravating case of the crazies. The perp has a long criminal history, and he's actually out on bail from another attempted robbery just last month in different California county - San Bernadino maybe.
Leave the humor to me, kid. You just stand there and smile.
Did you ever realize that you are not forced in any way to select a particular post, that in fact, we are allowed to choose what interests us thanks to the graciousness and generosity of Jim Robinson and his wonderful "FREE REPUBLIC," Personally, I find this is an Excellent Article supporting Our Wonderful Second Amendment Rights and how they protect our safety a thousand times more than any Libtard Bereaucrat like Big Sis and Obozo's Mob of Thugs! Nuf Said! :-)
The thief needs at least 5 years more education in prison to refine his b&e technique
I'm glad the BF was armed — I don't care if it was Hilton's house or Joe Smith's house. Residents need to protect themselves. What if Hilton had been home alone and unarmed?
Celebrities are burglarized as often or more often than the average person here in L.A. They are often targeted due to their celebrity.
This story reminds me to head to the practice range — it's been awhile!
Paris Hilton is the nadir.
Of what, you ask?
[waving hands around in utter disgust] ...of absolutely everything...
Good for him. If it was me I would have shot the guy dead, inside my house or breaking in. To let a nutjob like this live only gives him a chance to do it again, and a guy like this will 100% do it again.
I realize I'm not forced to click on the post. And no one supports Mr Jim more than me. I was exercising my FIRST amendment rights. I wish these Hollywood scum sluts would disappear from this great website.
I do agree with you about Obozo's Mob of Thugs.
No matter what you may tgink of her mores, she's done nothing to deserve being sliced up for. the BF should have put two in his chest and follow ed them up with two more to the head, so that there would be bno chance that he could ever do this to Miss Hilton, or antone else in the future.
Agree completely. The hostility to Hilton is a little off-putting - not because Hilton doesn't deserve it, but because the story isn't about Paris Hilton. It's about Paris Hilton being saved from a knife-wielding known criminal by a guy who was exercising his 2A rights.
It's an especially curious story, not because of Hilton per se, but because it happened right in the middle of Liberal Capitol USA. I don't know if Hilton has had any prior comments on the 2A (probably not, as the Constitution is likely completely unknown to her), but I'M SURE MANY of her neighbors have.
I wonder how many Hollywood celebrities who don't already own a weapon for the home, are buying one this weekend. I also thought it was interesting that while this "story" was talked about on all the morning shows, not a single one mentioned this particular aspect.
Some questions:
1) Does the boyfriend have a permit to carry? If so which county issued it and what was his good cause statement?
2) If not, did he carry the gun in his car illegally, or, did he keep it unloaded in a separate locked case while transporting it to her home, and then unlocked the case and loaded the gun when he got to her house? Or
3) Is in the habit of leaving his guns in the home of a convicted felon?
Now, I am being factious about this. I 100% support his right to carry. But California is not an easy state to get a permit. This is Los Angeles county.
Is this yet another case of a VIP (a big wig nightclub owner) being able to obtain a carry permit when regular folk can't? Or does he just carry it without regard to the law?
Good questions - ones I simply don't have the answer to. From what I understand, he's not even a resident of California, but of LV. I'm not even sure if a non-resident can get a carry permit in LA, or California for that matter. But, he was a private residence, and not in the public where this occurred. I'm not at all familiar with the handgun laws in California or LA, but you may not need a permit to possess them, just to carry them. Again, I'm not sure.
To have a carry permit you have to get it from the sheriff or police chief of the county/city of your residence. There are no non-residency permits. CCW is 100% discretionary, meaning, you can claim all the good cause you want, if the top cop doesn't want to give you a permit you don't get one.
It is possible that he is a California resident. I think he was a bar owner/promoter from the L.A. area who got hired to promote/co-own clubs in Vegas. It is possible, being a club owner, that he used to carry a lot of cash (bar receipts) and that he got a CCW permit based on the fact that he carried a lot of cash.
But assume he does not have a carry permit. If he had no permit, this means he has been going through the hassle of keeping a gun in a separate locked case which he brings with him it into the house and back back to the car each and every time he goes somewhere. IMHO this is not likely to be the case.
The other possibility is that Paris, or the guy, kept a weapon at Paris' house. I think she lost her right to own a weapon for her DUI/drug conviction. I do not agree with this law but it is the law. And if the boyfriend just left a weapon at the house of his girlfriend, he broke the law. You cannot leave a weapon in the possession of a felon either.
I am just flapping my lips (fingers) in a mental exercise. 2A rights in CA are very hard to keep. Hopefully it will change soon if we win the Sykes case in circuit court and it will turn CA into a shall issue state.
In any event, now that this boyfriend has been popped for DUI, he will probably lose his right to armed self defense too. This will mean he and Paris are even more vulnerable to armed attacks like the one he successfully staved off. Our laws are very bad.
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The Universe's Biggest Double Slit ExperimentPosted by Chris Savia at 20:12, 01 Dec 2015
One of the most famous quantum physics experiments is the double-slit experiment. It's a simple experiment proving light behaves as a wave and a particle at the same time. You don't need a fancy set-up to try this at home, as Thomas Young performed a version of the double-slit experiment back in 1801. To be brief, a light source shines on a surface with two slits in front of a wall. The light creates an interference pattern of bright and dark spots since the photons are going through both openings at the same time, acting like a wave. Should one measure the light, in hopes of catching it acting like a wave, light then changes its mind acting like a particle by going through one slit at a time.
If the light "knows" when it's being measured, John Archibald Wheeler proposed it could be "fooled".
He suggested that the actual point of measurement at which you spy on the path taken by the light could be set up after the light has already passed through the slits but before it arrives at the detector—so the light could not know as it moved through the experiment whether it would be observed or not. Such experiments have since been carried out in quantum laboratories and it turns out that, even then, light could not be fooled. The observer's later choice of what measurements to make determines whether the photon took one path or two at an earlier point in the test. In other words, the observer seems to have changed what has happened in the past.
Wheeler's delayed choice thought experiment utilizing some of the biggest, and most distant, objects in space. Gravitational lensing is when a large object with a strong gravitational field bends light from an object, creating the illusion of there being two. His delayed-choice experiment would use a quasar's light bent by a galaxy's gravitational field.
Now Dr. Laurance Doyle at the SETI Institute, and a few of his colleagues, are hoping to turn Wheeler's thought experiment into reality. They're scaling it down, and making it a bit more practical. Their plan is to ping Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Europa with radar when they're at nearly the same distance from Earth on the other side of the sun. As the radar propagates the 628 million kilometers between us and Jupiter, the beam will spread like a flashlight enabling it to hit both moons at the same time. When the signal bounces back at Earth, Doyle and co. will recombine the beams to see if there's an interference pattern or not. The interesting part is our sun's gravity could warp the beams, delaying them and allowing astronomers to see the path the radar took.
What they hope to discover is the nature of time.
If you'd asked Einstein, he would have told you that time is another dimension, much like the three dimensions of space. Together they knit together to create a spacetime fabric that pervades the universe. This notion of time as a dynamic, flexible dimension forms the basis of his immensely successful general theory of relativity, which explains how gravity manifests on cosmic scales as matter warps spacetime. On the other hand, however, the equally celebrated theory of quantum mechanics, which governs the nanoscale behavior of atoms and subatomic particles, says that time is unaffected by the presence of matter, serving as an absolute background reference clock against which motion can be measured.
One fly in the ointment is how precisely the scientists can measure any time difference. They could set up the experiment so the difference is so large, there will still be an interference pattern. The next time Earth, Jupiter, and its moons are in the correct alignment is 2017. Fingers crossed they're able to pull this off!
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EmDrive Breakthrough: Show Us The Money!Posted by Chris Savia at 05:20, 05 Nov 2015
Roger Shawyer's "impossible" stardrive continues inching its way towards reality. The EmDrive is a RF resonant cavity thruster using microwaves, rather than reaction mass like liquid oxygen, to move. Keep in mind this isn't a warp engine since it doesn't bend spacetime. Yet the EmDrive has the potential to go faster than current technology, getting astronauts to Pluto in 18 months compared to New Horizons's nine year journey, opening up the cosmos to humanity.
What makes this gadget "impossible" is its apparent violation of Newton's Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Best analogy for the EmDrive's counterintuitive mechanism is a person in a car pushing the steering wheel and the vehicle moves forward. Conventionally, a driver can only move the vehicle by pushing the back bumper. Shawyer insists no physical laws are violated by the EmDrive. The thrust happens because the microwaves have a group velocity greater in one direction when Einstein's relativity is taken into account. A pretty neat trick.
But with extraordinary claims, there's extraordinary skepticism. At first, skeptics claimed the source of the thrust was thermal convection from air heated by the microwaves. Paul March at Eagleworks put the kibosh on that, testing the EmDrive in a hard vacuum and still saw thrust. More recently skeptics suggest investigators are measuring the Lorentz force, a force exerted by a magnetic field on a moving electric charge, rather than thrust from the microwaves. Lorentz interactions are the principle behind loudspeakers, railguns, and particle accelerators. On Halloween Paul posted they've tested the EmDrive again, taking those interactions into account, and the anomalous thrust signals remain. Except he can't show us 'til the peer-reviewed paper's published. He does drop a few hints about how Eagleworks compensated for this complication.
I will tell you that we first built and installed a 2nd generation, closed face magnetic damper that reduced the stray magnetic fields in the vacuum chamber by at least an order of magnitude and any Lorentz force interactions it could produce. I also changed up the torque pendulum's grounding wire scheme and single point ground location to minimize ground loop current interactions with the remaining stray magnetic fields and unbalanced dc currents from the RF amplifier when its turned on. This reduced the Lorentz force interaction to less than 2 micro-Newton (uN) for the dummy load test. Finally we rebuilt the copper frustum test article so that it is now fully integrated with the RF VCO, PLL, 100W RF amp, dual directional coupler, 3-stub tuner and connecting coax cables, then mounted this integrated test article at the opposite end of the torque pendulum, as far away as possible from the 2nd generation magnetic damper where only the required counterbalance weights now reside. Current null testing with both the 50 ohm dummy load and with the integrated test article rotated 90 degrees with respect to the TP sensitive axis now show less than one uN of Lorentz forces on the TP due to dc magnetic interactions with the local environment even when drawing the maximum RF amp dc current of 12 amps.
In the meantime there are quite a few makers building their own EmDrives at home. All one needs is a truncated cone of copper, a 2.45 Ghz magnetron from a typical microwave oven, wires and a source of electricity. Over on YouTube, iulian207 has been showing the world his adventures testing a homebrew EmDrive. By no means are his experiments happening under the same, strict conditions one could expect of NASA, but the results are provocative.
Should someone have the moxie, the cash, and the EmDrive's physics are sound, we might be on the brink of a grand diaspora. A democratization of the plutocratic exit strategy where no human's left behind. Science fiction has explored these scenarios in the past. Take Orion's Arm, a collaborative, science fiction worldbuilding project and its entry on backyarders. In the 22nd and 23rd centuries, the little people gained access to tech that used to be the domain of governments and megacorporations. They cobbled together starships, flinging themselves into the dark hoping to find fame, fortune, freedom, or just a little peace and quiet. Closer to our own timeline is Jerry Oltion's The Getaway Special. It's a fun little novel about a scientist sharing his blueprints for a hyperdrive on the internet, enabling anyone with a septic tank, oxygen, and some electrical knowhow to chill out on an alien planet for the weekend.
We are living in interesting times.
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Evidence Mounts For A Real-Life MultiversePosted by Chris Savia at 04:13, 04 Nov 2015
"Are we alone?"
Quite possibly the biggest question posed by eusocial primates. The need to know encouraged our forebears to climb down from the treetops. To brave the savannahs in hopes of sighting distant forests, or making meaningful contact with other clever apes. Over the millennia humans crossed oceans to new lands in hopes of deepening their gene pool, or their pockets. Unlike Alexander the Great, we do not weep when we see the breadth of our domain, knowing there are no more worlds to conquer. Instead we turn our gaze to the stars in hopes of expanding our real estate portfolio, and perk our ears heavenward to eavesdrop on aliens.
More esoterically, cosmologists and mathematicians propose the existence of parallel universes. If it happens we are the sole inhabitants in this dimension, maybe one day we can ping nearby branes of other universes, and hear what our parallel peers have to say about the human condition. The math seems to bear out the many-worlds interpretation, but where's the evidence?
Back in 2010, Stephen Feeney and pals performed the first observational tests of eternal inflation. They combed WMAP's 7-year survey of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) for evidence of cosmic collisions. Their theory predicts our universe exists inside a single bubble within an expanding multiverse. Other universes exist within their own bubbles, sometimes 'bruising' ours. Bringing us to Roger Penrose and Vahe Gurzadyan detecting concentric circles in the CMB. These patterns could be indicative of a cyclical universe, with each incarnation ending with a big bang. The subsequent universe contains each of the previous universes, presenting a cosmological model akin to a Matryoshka doll. Feeney did note with the volume of data from WMAP, "[I]t is rather easy to find all sorts of statistically unlikely properties in a large dataset like the CMB."
More observations would be needed to support these theories. WMAP's successor, the Planck observatory, was up to the task. More sensitive than its predecessor, Planck left behind reams of data after its decomissioning in 2013. Ranga-Ram Chary took it upon himself to renew the search. His Spectral Variations of the Sky: Constraints on Alternate Universes describes bright anomalies in the CMB, possibly from our universe bumping into others. Chary's method was to subtract the CMB, dust, gas, and stars from Planck's data which should've left nothing but random noise. At the frequency of 143 GHz he found some parts of the sky were significantly brighter than others, proposing they're evidence of those bumps. With such outlandish claims, there's a high burden of proof to support them. Chary proposes two explanations outside of alternate universes. He suggests the bright spots may be carbon monoxide in the foreground interstellar medium (ISM) from stellar nurseries. Something similar happened with BICEP2's data when scientists crowed about last year's detection of gravity waves. Instead, those waves turned up being dust in the ISM. Ranga-Ram goes on to say carbon monoxide in the ISM is highly unlikely, since the lines aren't as strong as they ought to be. Therefore a multiverse is a distinct possibility. At least 'til NASA's Primordial Inflation Explorer, or PIXIE, launches in 2016 to disprove these theories.
Bringing us back to Feeney's eternal inflation model. Once inflation starts it doesn't stop, producing smaller pocket universes within the multiverse. Most of these bubbles would have their own physics and composition, some tearing themselves apart in the blink of an eye. Others would be more or less indistinguishable from our own. Some, like Edward Harrison and John Gribbin, posit this is evidence of why our universe is so stable.
[Harrison] says that there are three possible answers. First, that God designed it, though he argues that this answer precludes further rational inquiry. Second, the anthropic principle, but he finds this unsatisfactory. His third answer is that our Universe was created by life of superior intelligence existing in another physical universe. How does he arrive at that conclusion? First, he picks up on the above suggestions of black holes as the birthplaces of new universes. Second, he argues that due to the rapid evolution of intelligence (which we currently see in humanity) there is every reason to expect that a time will come when we will be able to design and create our own universes. Thus, the fine tuning of this Universe is to be explained as an engineering project of superior beings. They have created this Universe out of a black hole. He calls it a 'natural creation theory', and claims that it also explains why the Universe is intelligible to us. It is created by minds similar to our own, who designed it to be that way. cite
What if all those brief-lived universes are failed experiments? The product of graduate students pursuing their masters or doctorates, conjuring up each universe like a game of SimCity just to see what works. Or beings from another universe planning the ultimate exit strategy, abandoning their universe for another. Take Marvel's Galactus. Formerly known as Galan of Taa, his universe collapsed on itself. In the ensuing big bang, he was reborn as Galactus: Devourer of Worlds. In Stephen Baxter's novel Ring, an alien race called the Xeelee hopes to escape the heat death of the universe via the Great Attractor. It's the ultimate big dumb object, created by the Xeelee using cosmic strings as an escape hatch to other universes where physical laws aren't so familiar.
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Idle Tentacles Are The Devilfish's PlaythingsPosted by Chris Savia at 02:13, 27 Oct 2015
Living in a fishbowl isn't all it's cracked up to be. Three squares a day, moody lighting, and a never-ending parade of ugly-but-clever apes tapping on the glass. But life gets dull. There are only so many hiding spots, the gravel is only so deep, and that plastic diver isn't getting any more attractive.
Combining their mad Houdini skills with unearthly intelligence, octopodes are notorious for causing mischief. Many FOAFtales litter the internet of nightly jaunts to snack on neighbors. They use tools, care for their young, and show empathy. Take this passage from Sy Montgomery's delightful The Soul of an Octopus. Anna, a volunteer with Asperger's Syndrome at the New England Aquarium, is having a hard time coping after her best friend's suicide, and the staff encourages her to play with a wild-caught octopus named Octavia.
She was working that Wednesday in Cold Marine when Dave suggested she might want to play with Octavia. "At that point," Anna wrote me, "I had already taken her out more times than I could count, and I felt like I knew her pretty well. I think she sensed something was wrong. She was a lot gentler than she usually was, and she had her tentacles on my shoulders. It's hard to explain why I think she understood... After interacting with an animal lots of times, you get to understand what the usual behavior is and what it does in different situations.
Observations and anecdotes like these suggest there's something more going on than mere instinct and conditioning. Patrick Lee at The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco respects their intelligence, knowing happy critters mean happy visitors. He illustrates his maverick approach to engaging the strange in the video below.
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Parallel Possibilities: Are We Remembering Other Universes?Posted by Chris Savia at 01:33, 15 Oct 2015
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Quantum suicide is one of the most horrifying thought experiments proposed by Hans Moravec. To be brief, rig up a gun to a device measuring the spin value of a proton every ten seconds. The spin value randomly creates a quantum bit as 1 or 0. When the trigger's pulled and the quantum bit comes up 1, the gun fires, killing the subject. Zero? The subject survives, and will survive subsequent attempts should Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation prove correct. It's a riff on Schrödinger's cat, where kitty is in a superposition of being alive and dead at the same time.
But who wants to risk their lives despite the prospect of quantum immortality? Isn't there a safer way to test this?
Enter Daniel Filan and Joseph Hope, two of the Australian National University's brightest, addressing the question, "What would it have looked like if it looked like I were in a superposition?" Their theory has nothing to do with conspiracy theories, disinformation, nor dodgy memories but remembering events from parallel universes, harkening to Fiona Broome's Mandela Effect.
In case you've been living under a rock, the most popular example of this theory is the Berenstain Bears controversy. Rap duo Run The Jewels, and many others, insist the children's book series was originally spelled "Berenstein".
Filian and Hope discover it's impossible to find definitive proof, but their paper describes how to detect if a person was in a state of superposition. It's a non-lethal take on quantum suicide. The experimenter enters a machine with pen and paper to record the state of an electron as "yes" or "no". After noting their observation, they exit the machine, leaving the data on a table. After, say, 100 tries, the data is reviewed. Should the compiled results be roughly 50/50, then the person wasn't in superposition. If all the results are the same, the experimenter was in superposition.
"We also note that this test relies crucially on both the 'memory loss' experienced by the experimenter, and the knowledge of the phase of the initial superposition. The full quantum state of the experimenter, including their memories, is being generated by the machine. This means that it is possible for them to have any memories at all, but we have shown that they must be identical across multiple branches of the superposition, and therefore cannot be correlated with the actual relevant measurement results."
What if these memories only appear identical, and the differences are so insignificant where realities are indistinguishable from another? For example, the differences between a pair of realities might be an atom resonating at a lower energy than its parallel doppelgänger. Over these iterations, based upon the experimenter's measurements, a universe with a significant difference like Berenstain/Berenstein could crop up and conflict with "reality".
The possibilities are endless, like our infinite universes.
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UPDATED: Pluto is Alive... With Blue Skies & Red Ice!Posted by Rick MG at 09:02, 08 Oct 2015
The new New Horizons images are out and they reveal Pluto has blue skies and red water ice! The blue is caused by a mysterious mix of particles scattering blue light when sun light reaches them, and the layers of haze extend to 100 miles above Pluto's surface. And on the surface? Red-coloured water ice. This might not be exciting to some, but it raises very big questions in the search for Earth-like planets. Pluto was expected to be as barren as our own moon, but everything New Horizons has beamed back to Earth has blown the minds of the NASA scientists studying the data. Dr Stern and his colleagues have every right to hype this up, 2015 is absolutely a year for the science text books. And the quality of the images... this was the stuff of dreams when I was a kid. Just look at that!
This world is alive. It has weather, it has hazes in the atmosphere, active geology. Every week I am floored. Nasa won't let me tell you what we're going to tell you on Thursday. It's amazing.
This is what Dr Alan Stern, one of NASA's lead researchers, told a packed lecture hall at the University of Alberta in Canada on Monday. Pluto, once a planet and then demoted to an insignificant dwarf rock at the edge of our Solar System, is proving to be as interesting as Mars. Only 10 percent of the data captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has been downloaded, so what has NASA seen that has Dr Stern giddy as a schoolboy?
We'll find out today, when NASA releases new images and data from the New Horizons spacecraft. Or will the news be about Pluto's moon, Charon? After the huge announcement of flowing salt water on Mars, what could have NASA even more excited about a little planet & its moon at the edge of our solar system? Will Matt Damon gear up for The Plutonian?
Beautiful image of Pluto & Charon below from NASA's New Horizons page.
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The Secrets of Cetacean Communication RevealedPosted by Chris Savia at 14:09, 06 Oct 2015
In 1966 military sound engineer Frank Watlington heard something weird while recording underwater explosions.
Whale song.
Frank passed the recordings off to biologist Roger Payne. After a few listenings, he discovered these weren't random sounds but complex vocalizations by creatures possibly as smart as humans. Recordings weren't the only data Payne shared with the world, He printed out sonograms of whale song, illustrating their structure as units, phrases, and themes.
Ever since Payne's discovery of whale song's properties, humans fascination with whales has flourished. If it wasn't for his discovery, these great beasts could've become a fond memory, hunted to extinction. Fortunately whales still swim among us, singing to each other, tantalizing us with the prospect of interspecies communication.
Eerily, the sonograms resembled the sheet music for Gregorian chants. These neumes evolved into today's musical notes. Now David Rothenberg and Mike Deal have standardized whale song notation for human consumption.
The top row contains individual examples of each unit. The colored glyphs below were created by tracing the "averaged" shapes that resulted from overlaying the many occurrences of the same unit across Knapp's recording.
Because standard musical notation is, in essence, made of timelines of note symbols plotted against a vertical axis of pitch frequencies, we can match the whale sounds to their corresponding frequencies on the musical staves. Hopefully this gives the whale sound shapes a more familiar context.
This isn't humanity's first attempt to put whale song into an anthropomorphic context. Marc Fischer uses wavelets, a mathematical function used in signal processing, to visualize sound. Over at Aguasonic Acoustics, he's imaged whale and dolphin song into gorgeous mandalas like the one below. Best thing about them, they still show "rhymes" and the units of speech that excited Payne.
Going a step further into the fringe, look at the soundwaves in the blue whale song video. If you squint, you can make out a face in parts of the sonogram. This might be a clue to the method of communication between whales. Whales use sound not only to communicate, but also to hunt and navigate with active sonar. Sonar is the use of sound waves and listening for the echo to "see" the world. Sonar's pretty sensitive, as dolphins can differentiate fish with their clicks and whistles.
But what if these vocalizations aren't language as we know it, but images or sonic holograms.
Each moan, groan, click, and whistle, adjusted for pitch, rhythm and tempo, could generate an image or animation. Instead of saying "A pod of orca killed ol' Humphrey", the witnesses would create the scene in a song. As the song propagates through pods, variation does occur.This might be evidence of whales collaborating, embellishing, or entropy akin to a game of Telephone. That's a huge leap of logic, but how could one test the hypothesis of whale song as an image?
Putting whale song back into a human context, consider each unit of whale song as a pixel. With enough pixels, an image will form, but only if one knows the correct pattern for the raster. Take the Arecibo message as an example. It's 73 rows by 23 columns, making up 1679 pixels. If earthlings didn't give those dimensions to aliens, they might screw up the image as below.
In this case, the correct dimensions are just transposed rendering the message as gibberish. If audio engineers play with the whale song, tuning it to whale-specific frequencies, an image might emerge. In short, humans need to think like a whale rather than a human brain in a whale's body. If we are able to communicate with cetaceans, this'd be a huge step for SETI should we ever intercept their communications.
All that Water on Mars is Off LimitsPosted by red pill junkie at 21:15, 02 Oct 2015
With the discovery of flowing water on the surface of Mars, it's fair to say it's been quite a week for Science and astronomers all over the world --particularly so for armchair researcher Efrain Palermo with this vindication of his 14-year-old findings, as I reported last Tuesday.
"Great!" all those space enthusiasts may be thinking; "now NASA will know where *exactly* to send future drone missions to look for signs of life on Mars."
Well, here's the thing: Legally they can't.
NASA, as a government agency, is bound to obey the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which is part of the international agreements intended to govern the conduct of member nations of the United States with regards to activities and/or exploitation of outer space, the Moon and other celestial bodies.
The Outer Space Treaty was opened for signature in the United States, the United Kingdom and the former Soviet Union on January of 1967 --while the Space Race was in full swing, and there was a serious concern that the Cold War could extend beyond the surface of our planet-- and entered into force on October of 1967. As of 2013, 103 countries are parties of it.
The treaty (which you can download here) binds all signature parties to conduct space exploration solely for peaceful scientific purposes; it forbids the national appropriation of the Moon or other planets (asteroids included) or the placing of either weapons or military bases in any of them, nor on orbit around the Earth.
Article IX states:
[...]State Parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination [emphasis mine] and also adverse changes in the environment of the Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter and, where necessary, shall adopt appropriate measures for this purpose.
Ever wondered why Curiosity and the rest of its rover siblings always seemed to be sent to the most BORING parts of Mars, where there was little chance they could actually find a living Martian microbe? Well, now you know why.
As Bec Crew explains on his article for Science Alert, NASA's current sterelization methods for the equipment they send out to outer space or other planets are not 100% reliable, hence there's still a tiny risk of contaminating the surface of these other worlds with alien life --i.e. Earthling microbes.
Not that NASA couldn't sterilise the crap out of its rovers if it wanted to. As UNSW astrobiologist Malcolm Walter told The Sydney Morning Herald, they could blast Curiosity with crazy amounts of heat and radiation that would wipe out anything and everything that managed to survive the journey from Earth without a shadow of a doubt, but then they'd be wiping out the rover's internal electronics in the process. Not exactly practical.
"In order to be completely sterile, they'd have to use really powerful ionising radiation or heat, both of which would damage the electronics," says Walter. "So they go as far as they dare."
The treaty sure throws a bucket of cold, briny water not only to our hopes of finally finding extraterrestrial life within our lifetime, but also on the possibility of fulfilling a manned mission to Mars. Deposits of H2O on the world you want to visit is a great asset, because it means you can use the water not only for consumption, but also to extract breathable oxygen and event convert it into rocket fuel, which you could use for the trip back home.
Oh, and that awesome trip to Europa concocted by real-life Tony Stark? Fuhgeddaboutit! Unless he becomes a citizen of Guatemala, or other non-party state of the Outer Space Treaty --although with his dough he could probably buy one of those in the future...
Of course, back in 1967 there were a lot of things we didn't know about the resilience of extremophiles, which are now been found to resist the harshest environments imaginable, like the core of nuclear reactors or even on the windows of the space station (apparently); which is why Akshat Rathi of Quartz concludes there's no guarantee NASA's or other space agency's missions hadn't already contaminated Mars forever --Beagle 2 anyone?
Should we worry that much, though? We know Earth and Mars have been exchanging meteorites for millions of years, so sending up more microbes hitching a ride on our equipment or astronatus could be seen as a continuation of a natural panspermic process.
We could always revise the treaty, making it more lenient with regards to the 'harmful contamination' of the Moon and othe celestial bodies, or maybe even abolish it entirely due to its impracticality --after all, seems to me the Air Force has been bending the rules somewhat with that secretive X-37B space plane which can orbit the Earth for months doing god-knows-what!
But of course, if the treaty goes, so too the assurance that we won't have nuclear warheads zipping over our heads like an orbital Damocles sword...
But hey, if everything fails to prevent the safe and unpolluting exploration of outer space, just remember: There's always remote viewing.
Water on Mars: Score One for Amateur ResearchPosted by red pill junkie at 19:02, 29 Sep 2015
Unless you were captured by the Mole people and just recently released --I heard Molemaids are hot, bro!-- you've probably read the news from NASA announcing the discovery of liquid water on the south pole of Mars; something which *exponentially* increases our chances of finding extraterrestrial life on our sibling planet in the near future.
Director Ridley Scott, who is about to release his newest film 'The Martian', claims he knew about the flowing water on Mars "about two months ago", when the head of NASA showed him the photographs that were released yesterday to the rest of the world.
But there was someone who knew the dark stains streaking across the Martian landscape was evidence of liquid water more than 14 years ago. That person was amateur astronomer Efrain Palermo.
Efrain, who resides in Portland, is what NASA scientists would call an 'armchair researcher.' He holds no degrees in Physics, Astronomy or Geology; but nonetheless has a passion for Science and Space. And like many other civilians, he likes to go through the thousands of publicly-released images taken by NASA's probes orbiting the Red Planet for almost 2 decades.
It was in one of those archival images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor --which has been charting the planet's surface since September of 1997-- in 2000-2001, when Efrain came across an image showing black streaks, which at that time were interpreted as 'dust slides' by NASA. However, Efrain became convinced by casual observation the streaks were water-related.
After gleaning through thousands of images, I had collected over 400 that had streaks in them. [Software engineer] Jill England joined me, and wrote a program to look for duplicate images taken at different times of the year, and she found images which showed flow activity in present time.
Richard Hoagland suggested plotting the images, and when we did so it became evident that the streaks were all in the equatorial zone of Mars, which is the warmest part of Mars and therefore likely candidates for liquid water.
Efrain and Jill partnered with Harry Moore --a geologist for the Society for Planetary SETI Research(SPSR) , Blaine, Tennessee-- who also had an interest in water on Mars, and brought sound geology to the table. Together they wrote a short paper --which you can read here-- and presented it at the 4th International Mars Society Convention, at Stanford University, in August 2001.
Robert Zubrin, founder of the Mars Society, had this to say about Palermo et al and yesterday's anouncement on his Facebook page:
This is remarkable, Moore, England, and Palermo are amateur astronomers who went over the MGS data on their own to make the discovery, 14 years before NASA's announcement today.
Asked for a comment, Efrain showed diplomacy albeit tainted with justified frustration, because his work wasn't given its due recognition in yesterday's landslide of Mars-related articles:
The recent news announcement was validating; even though we did not have access to spectroscopic tools ,and we're working with the much lower resolution of the Mars Orbital Camera, we still arrived at the same conclusions 14 years ago. The information has been on my website since 2001, and I presented my seeps paper at the 2001 Mars Society Convention at Stanford U. While it has been gratifying to have NASA validate that work, it is also frustrating that no credit was given to the paper and its authors.
Frustrating, indeed. On the one hand NASA and the US government are always trying to keep the public interested in space exploration --after all, that's how they gain the necessary funding for future missions-- and yet when a group of amateurs make a substantial contribution to Science, they get silently swept under the rug without even a kudos.
Is it because they lacked the 'right' kind of credentials, and this is the typical reaction an 'outsider' receives when it comes knocking at the doors of Academia's ivory tower? Or maybe because they are guilty of associating themselves with someone like Richard Hoagland, who is by now synonymous with kooky claims about Martian civilizations who left the surface of their planet littered with all sorts of pareidolic artifacts?
With regards to the former, you'd think Astronomy would be more welcoming with amateurs, since they have been credited with all sorts of discoveries --e.g. the Shoemaker-Levy comet.
As for the latter, well… there's no getting around the fact that there arepeople in this field who stared at the Void far longer than they should have, and that for every Palermo or Hancock making astounding claims which are still not outside the realm of possibility, there are also folks finding Bigfoot on Mars, or selling Lemurian headbands...
Either an honest mistake or a blatant omission, NASA should do well in crediting people like Efrain Palermo*. Because he's an example that when it comes to space exploration (as with several other fields) it is amateurs --i.e. people not directly associated with government space agencies or academic institutions-- the ones who are now pushing the envelope and helping us expand our horizons.
And it will be amateurs like himself, Zubrin and Elon Musk, the ones which will probably determine our future as a space-faring civilization in the years to come.
(*) Efrain also happens to be the discoverer of Phobos' monolith; you know, the one Buzz Aldrin was so excited about?
To further know more about Efrain's work on Mars, listen to his interview on The Grimerica Show.
Efrain and Jill England also discussed the recent NASA news last night (Sept. 28) on Richard Hoagland's radio show The Other Side of Midnight.
UPDATE: In an interview for CNN to discuss NASA's anouncement, Robert Zubrin sets the record straight on the (not-so-recent) discovery of flowing water on Mars, and mentions Palermo et al's work.
Schrödinger's Bacterium: Researchers Plan to Put a Living Organism in Two Places at OncePosted by Greg at 04:37, 20 Sep 2015
Eighty years ago Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger put forward a now-famous thought experiment demonstrating the 'absurdity' of quantum physics. He (theoretically) placed a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detected the radioactivity from a single atom decaying, the poison would be released into the box, killing the cat. But in the weird world of quantum mechanics (or at least the 'Copenhagen Interpretation') the cat would supposedly remain in a state of 'superposition', both alive and dead, until an observation or measurement was made by an external observer opening the box, collapsing the wavefunction.
Schrödinger did not see his thought experiment as a serious possibility - instead, it was meant to show the problems with the Copenhagen interpretation. But eight decades on two researchers have put forward a serious suggestion to place a living organism - albeit a tiny bacterium, rather than a cat - in a state of superposition, effectively making it exist in two places at the same time. The proposed experiment builds on a 2013 paper in which the successful superposition of a macroscopic aluminium membrane was detailed.
According to the researchers, they propose...
...to create quantum superposition and entangled states of a living microorganism by putting a small bacterium on top of an electromechanical oscillator, such as a membrane embedded in a superconducting microwave resonant circuit. Our proposal also works for viruses. Since many biologists do not consider viruses as living organisms, we focus on small bacteria in this paper. [M]ost microorganisms can survive in the cryogenic environment that is required to achieve ground state cooling of an electromechanical oscillator. Although microorganisms are frozen in a cryogenic environment, they can be still living and become active after thawing. Cryopreservation is a mature technology that has been used clinically worldwide. Most microorganisms can be preserved for many years in cryogenic environments.
...This will be remarkably similar to Schrödinger initial thought experiment of entangling the state of an entire organism ('alive' or 'dead' state of a cat) with the state of a microscopic particle (a
radioactive atom).
In an interview with The Guardian, Tongcang Li of Purdue University noted that "in many fairy tales, a fairy could be at two different locations or change locations instantly. This will be similar to that. Although it will be a microbe instead of a fairy."
"It will be the first experiment to put an organism into a quantum superposition state," he added.


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Some details may remain unknown about crash that killed three horses
Original post made on Jan 1, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, December 31, 2012, 4:31 PM
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jan 1, 2013 at 4:21 pm
Horse droppings may be a clue to the route. From my experience (very little) of horses on streets, it is unlikely that 4 horses would leave no droppings while wandering down a street, grazing fresh grass, or doing whatever horses may be doing on a roadway.
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 2, 2013 at 9:32 am
I hope that the two drivers are okay. I know that it can be difficult to know that you hit and killed an animal. Several years ago, my husband back up and killed a stray cat while attending grad school. It happened shortly after we were married. He had a very difficult time sleeping after the experience.
I also feel for the owners of the horses too. It must be difficult losing them (regardless of the circumstances).
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 2, 2013 at 9:33 am
* While my husband was attending grad school -- not the cat.
a resident of Barron Park
on Jan 2, 2013 at 11:20 am
Nayeli -- Yes, in this town of high achievers it is important to be clear on who, precisely, was attending grad school. :) Thanks for a lighter moment in this sad story.
a resident of Los Altos
on Jan 2, 2013 at 2:53 pm
I guess the clues on the route were obliterated by other hoof prints and horse scat so those cannot be used as clues (though I would have though that initially the fresh hoof prints would have made it easy). I find it interesting that it is the wild mustang that survived. Probably coincidental though he probably led the way and the whacked out thoroughbreds were deer in the headlights (they frequently have trouble in the great outdoors as they are generally 'ring horses). The quarter horse would have survived if he had remembered to run with traffic, not against it. Yes, I love horses and used to ride a whacked out thoroughbred.
a resident of Los Altos Hills
on Jan 2, 2013 at 7:44 pm
Seriously??? Whacked out Throughbreds? Made that way by people . .the same people that profess to love horses . . . .what a tragedy.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jan 2, 2013 at 11:47 pm
Anywhere but Palo Alto, this chain of evidence would lead us to suspect that we might have some horse wranglers afoot and a-thieven in the area.
Horses going up toward the sound of traffic and away from food... unlikely. More likely that a truck was waiting up there and they got spooked off by the arrival of other vehicles or something.
Word to the other people with horses along the road, padlock your pastures until it is cleared up.
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The eggplant is actually in a container along with some other annuals,
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It's planted, with some light lavender petunias, a Blackie sweet potato,
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We first wrote about runway newcomer Tali Lennox (rocker Annie's daughter) in December after she talked to The Cut about her favorite modeling memory so far:
Speeding through Milan on a motorcycle in heels and a minidress, trying to get from the Missoni show to the Versus show, being over four hours late. I rushed in and had four people doing my hair, two people doing my makeup, and another two on nails and toes all at the same time. I heard an Italian woman repeatedly calling "Tali, Tali! Where is Tali?" I finally make it to the backstage line where all the other girls are already lined up and see that the woman calling for me is Donatella Versace! The show set was like a playground, and I felt like the naughty girl at fashion school!
Since then, the 17-year-old has bagged a bunch of campaigns -- Club Monaco, Julien Macdonald and the lookbook for Acne's Pre-Fall 2011 Collection, which is kind of a big deal.
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Goth/Industrial Night City of Madness to Launch at Club 24
For the pasty-faced, pleather-clad members of the Valley's goth and industrial scene, 2013 already has been a year of tumult and turmoil.
First, longtime venue Sanctum, which hosted freaky-deaky fetishistic adventures during numerous nights like TekNOIR and Black Mass for years, decided to kill off its dance events in late January. Its proprietors pulled a 180, however, and began hosting dance nights again before ultimately pulling the plug for good a couple of weeks later.
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It's a frustrating situation to say the least, and has caused Peskin to be absolutely certain that Club 24, the home for his new night City of Madness, will stick around for the foreseeable future. After all, he really digs the CenPho LGBT dance joint.
"I really like the venue, the mirrors on the walls [surrounding] the dance floor, and a nice lighting system," Peskin says. "It's a small club but doesn't feel cramped or cheap."
It's the perfect home for dark shenanigans, he says, that's already hosting the similarly themed Killing Jar dance party on Friday nights. Best of all, Club 24 will indeed be open for business on Saturday, February 23, when he and DJ Angel Toxin debut their orgy of old and new school industrial, EBM, goth, and synthpop.
Each week, the pair will host various guest stars (such as venerated Tranzylvania vet Noiz.Fkr, who will visit during the debut) and put on a variety of themed parties, like Apollynon's ongoing Reform School fetish events, that will each run into the after-hours.
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newcomers of mine, I made a cross today on 5W8 (the chartreuse and
blue one that I misidentified as 05W211 in the earlier post) by With
Castenets, which is rounder-petaled and ruffled. I was pleased that the
camera captured the very delicate infusion of red-violet in the blue veining
of the falls. I still haven't been able to take consistently sharp
flower photos with it, even though when held at arm's length and aimed at
myself it picks up all the pores in my face and even the odd bristle missed in
my shaving. Very frustrating. In the seedling bed, I have
several crosses involving Lumalite, and it's interesting to see the
intensity of color in many of them. None with its particular pizazz
yet, though. I'm looking for several more to bloom tomorrow, with a
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Tuesday, we'll announce our selection for Defensive Player of the Year, but to whet your appetite we give you a quick look at the Defensive Player of the Month selection for September.
Royals left fielder Alex Gordon beat out Mariners shortstop Brendan Ryan, Red Sox shortstop Jose Iglesias and Orioles first baseman Mark Reynolds (yes, an unlikely nominee) for the month's top defensive honors, based on consultation with the folks at Baseball Info Solutions.
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Huckabee Hosts 4 GOP Candidates At Film Premiere
In 2008, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was running for the GOP presidential nomination, and won the Iowa caucuses. Wednesday night in Des Moines, he hosted four current GOP contenders at a premiere for an anti-abortion film in which he appears. There was no endorsement from Huckabee, but there was a lot of talk about the need for abortion and other social issues to play a role in selecting a nominee.
The last winner of the Iowa caucuses on the Republican side in 2008 was Mike Huckabee, and he's back. Last night in Des Moines, he hosted four of this year's contenders at a premier of an anti-abortion film in which Huckabee appears. There was no endorsement from Huckabee. But there was a lot of talk about the need for abortion and other social issues to play a role in selecting a nominee - that in a year when polls show that even evangelical voters are most concerned about jobs and the economy. NPR national political correspondent Don Gonyea was there.
DON GONYEA, BYLINE: Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and now a Fox News personality, decided last spring he would not be a candidate this year. But he still got a hero's welcome in the state that gave him victory in its caucuses four years ago. All of the candidates for this year's GOP nomination were invited to attend this film screening. Here's Huckabee.
MIKE HUCKABEE: There were four candidates who cleared their schedules and made this a priority event. You know, this event is not here to endorse a candidate, but I think it is significant that all four of the candidates who are present tonight have endorsed life.
GONYEA: Those candidates were Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Senator Rick Santorum. Each has been courting the Iowa GOP's large contingent of evangelicals and Christian conservatives. Each was on topic last night.
REPRESENTATIVE MICHELE BACHMANN: I'm here to tell you tonight, as president of the United States, pro-lifers will never again be sent to stand against the wall. We will advance the cause of life in my administration.
NEWT GINGRICH: Legislation on that first day will go up to the Congress, asking it to defund Planned Parenthood and put all of the money into adoption services to give young women to give the choice of life rather than the choice of death.
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GONYEA: Four years ago, Huckabee won the caucuses because these voters rallied behind him. This time around, the votes of conservative Christians are not just going to one candidate. Take this couple at last night's screening, Charles and Wilda Albrecht. He's 70, she's 66. His choice...
CHARLES ALBRECHT: Almost 100 percent, it's Rick Santorum. I just think he is consistent. He's a conservative.
GONYEA: And hers...
WILDA ALBRECHT: I like Michele Bachmann. And...
GONYEA: Tell me why.
WANDA ALBRECHT: Because I believe she tells it like it is.
GONYEA: As to whether it would be better if there were a consensus candidate among Christian conservatives...
ALBRECHT: We all have a right to vote how we want.
GONYEA: A recent CBS News/New York Times poll shows Newt Gingrich leading among white evangelicals in Iowa, getting 34 percent. Also in double digits are, in order of support, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney. That fragmentation makes it less likely that evangelicals will be able to take credit for picking Iowa's winner as they could with Huckabee in '08. Each of the candidates speaking last night would love Huckabee's endorsement. I asked him about that as he headed to a waiting SUV.
HUCKABEE: No, I don't plan to endorse. Because I really think that at this point if I walked into the voting booth, I'm not sure who I would vote for tonight.
GONYEA: But he predicted that whoever wins the nomination will be supported by Christian conservatives. Don Gonyea, NPR News, Des Moines.
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