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Nokia has asked a court in Delhi to revoke a freeze on its factory in India over a tax dispute, ahead of the proposed acquisition by Microsoft of its handset business.
The Delhi High Court had earlier ordered the country's Income Tax Department to release bank accounts held by Nokia, but continued a freeze on the factory in Chennai in south India in connection with a $331 million demand from tax authorities over taxes for mobile phone software licenses.
Nokia has now asked the court to lift the freeze by Dec. 12 at the latest in view of the Microsoft acquisition, which it still expects will close in the first quarter of 2014. "Should the freeze be lifted, Nokia expects a successful transfer of its Indian factory assets to Microsoft," the company said in a statement.
"If, however, the freeze continues, Nokia must prepare for the eventuality that the Indian factory assets do not transfer to Microsoft," it added.
Microsoft said in September it plans to acquire Nokia's Devices & Services business, which includes the smartphone and mobile phones businesses, for over $7 billion. The deal was approved by Nokia's shareholders earlier this week.
The next hearing in the Delhi court is scheduled for Nov. 28.
If the court does not rule in its favor, Nokia may have to temporarily convert the Indian entity, which runs the factory and research and development in the country, into a contract manufacturer for Microsoft, while merging only its sales entity with the software giant, according to sources close to the situation.
The freezing of the immovable assets prevents them from being sold, but production continues at the factory.
Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's phone business has been cleared in India by the Competition Commission of India. The country's antitrust agency ruled that the combination of the two companies will not likely have an "appreciable adverse effect" on local competition.
Nokia said it is committed to finding a solution with the tax authorities "in accordance with all applicable laws." A number of tech companies including Vodafone have ongoing tax disputes in India, primarily over the interpretation of the country's complex laws.


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SOUTHLAKE, Texas (BP) — A group of 47 Southern Baptist pastors is inviting senior pastors to participate in A Call to Pray for Revival and Awakening Sept. 30-Oct. 1 in Southlake, Texas.
Ronnie Floyd, senior pastor of Cross Church in northwest Arkansas, announced the 24-hour event today (Aug. 14).
"On behalf of our invitation team, I am inviting you to join us in a prayer gathering of senior pastors from all sizes of churches across America, for one purpose: praying together for revival and awakening!" Floyd said in a written statement. "We will focus on praying for pastors, local churches and our nation to experience a mighty move of God that will be a catalyst for revival and awakening."
The team of pastors has committed to attend the event in its entirety, Floyd said.
"This is not a 'come and go' event or a place to 'come and be seen,'" Floyd said, "nor is it a denominational or political meeting. It is a serious spiritual experience of prayer with pastors nationally. Due to our commonality of need, we are focusing on Southern Baptist pastors."
Those not attending the event should pray nonetheless, Floyd said.
"Pray for us in that 24-hour period of time," Floyd wrote in a letter to Baptist convention state executives. "We are in [a] desperate time. All of us want to see our pastors, churches and nation experience a mighty move of God."
Floyd encourages pastors to register as early as possible due to a limited number of available rooms at the Hilton Dallas/Southlake Town Square, the site of the event. To reserve a hotel room, call the hotel at 800-445-8667 to receive the group rate. A $75 stipend is available to offset hotel cost, financed by a special gift from a supporter, whose name was not announced.
Registration is free by contacting Cross Church at 479-751-4523 or [email protected]. Information is available at http://eepurl.com/DNIFH
Joining Floyd on the invitation team are, in alphabetical order, senior pastors John Avant, First Baptist Church Concord in Knoxville, Tenn.; Bart Barber, First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas; Kie Bowman, Hyde Park Baptist Church in Austin, Texas; Mac Brunson, First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla.; Matt Carter, Austin Stone Community Church in Austin, Texas; Michael Catt, Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga.; Frank Cox, North Metro Baptist Church in Lawrenceville, Ga.;
Bill Elliff, The Summit Church in North Little Rock, Ark.; Ernest Easley, Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta, Ga.; Grant Ethridge, Liberty Baptist Church in Hampton, Va.; Jonathan Falwell, Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va.; Danny Forshee, Great Hills Baptist Church in Austin, Texas; Bruce Frank, Biltmore Baptist Church in Arden, N.C.; Steve Gaines, Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn.; David Galvan, New Life Church in Dallas; Blake Gideon, Edmond's First Baptist Church in Edmond, Okla.; Mike Hamlet, First Baptist Church North Spartanburg in Spartanburg, S.C.; Chip Henderson, Pine Lake Church in Brandon, Miss.; Alex Himaya, The Church at Battle Creek in Broken Arrow, Okla.;
Robert Jeffress, First Baptist Church in Dallas; Tony Lambert, Riverside Baptist Church in Denver; Drew Landry, First Baptist Church Spotswood in Fredericksburg, Va.; Richard Mark Lee, First Baptist Church in McKinney, Texas; Ed Litton, First Baptist Church North Mobile in Mobile, Ala.; Fred Lowery, First Baptist Church in Bossier City, La.;
Gregg Matte, First Baptist Church in Houston; Scott Maze, North Richland Hills Baptist Church in North Richland Hills, Texas; Bob McCartney, First Baptist Church in Wichita Falls, Texas; Byron McWilliams, First Baptist Church in Odessa, Texas; John Meador, First Baptist Church in Euless, Texas; James Merritt, Cross Pointe Church in Duluth, Ga.;
Bob Pearle, Birchman Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas; Vance Pittman, Hope Church in Las Vegas; Clint Pressley, Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte; Willy Rice, Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater, Fla.; Bob Roberts, Northwood Church in Keller, Texas; Jimmy Scroggins, First Baptist Church in West Palm Beach, Fla.; Josh Smith, MacArthur Boulevard Baptist Church in Irving, Texas; Glynn Stone, Mobberly Baptist Church in Longview, Texas;
Brandon Thomas, Keystone Church in Keller, Texas; Eric Thomas, First Baptist Church in Norfolk, Va.; Ted Traylor, Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla.; Terry Turner, Mesquite Friendship Baptist Church in Mesquite, Texas; A.B. Vines, New Seasons Church in Spring Valley, Calif.; Hayes Wicker, First Baptist Church in Naples, Fla.; and Don Wilton, First Baptist Church in Spartanburg, S.C.
Diana Chandler is Baptist Press' staff writer. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).

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Apple to merge iOS and Mac OS in 2012?
Analyst thinks so, other experts not so sure
Some analysts are suggesting that Apple will fully merge Mac OS and its mobile operating system iOS at some point in 2012.
A note to Apple investors from analyst Peter Misek suggests that Apple might use the A6 quad-core processor to unify its iOS and computer platforms.
He notes: "We believe Apple is ready to start sampling the A6 quad-core app processor and will be the first to such multi-device platform capable of PC-like strength."
All about the A6
With several iOS-like features already present in Mac OS X Lion, it's fairly obvious that Apple wants to encourage users to work and play in the same ways on an iPhone, iPad and Mac.
"Users want to be able to pick up any iPhone, iPad, or Mac (or turn on their iTV) and have content move seamlessly between them and be optimized for the user and the device currently being used," adds the analyst.
"Apple can use a 32-bit ARM architecture to address the vast majority of the OS X ecosystem's needs in 2012-13 except for high-end professional devices. When 64-bit ARM is available in 2016, we believe Apple will have a single OS and hardware architecture."
Other Mac experts are less convinced, however.
"At the 'Back to the Mac' event in October last year, Steve Jobs said quite famously that "touch surfaces don't want to be vertical", says Graham Barlow, editor-in-chief of MacFormat and Tap! The iPhone and iPad magazine.
"After a lot of ergonomic testing Apple decide that a vertical touch screen was a bit of a disaster, which is why we haven't seen a touchscreen Mac.
"And all the new gestures in Lion are done on a trackpad. For this reason I can't ever see the same OS being run on a desktop computer with a vertical screen and a keyboard and on a tablet device like an iPad - you use the two devices in fundamentally different ways."
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As science and science fiction merge, we unravel the ancient mysteries of the
human experience. If indeed entities exist beneath the surface of the planet,
they would not live in molten rock but in space ships. And as the tectonic
plates are breaking - it is either by their doing, a knowing that the
hologram that creates this reality, is ending so they no longer have to monitor
from below, or they emerge as the plates naturally break apart.
Hollow Earth Theories always propose a central sun, aliens, and mythical
subterranean cities and civilizations that some believe could link science and
pseudoscience if physically discovered. Glaciers at both the Arctic and
Antarctic regions are melting down at an accelerated rate, which will reveal the
truth behind this mystery and its metaphoric connections to other creation myths
in the story of humanity's journey on plant Earth.
According to the Hollow Earth Hypothesis, planet Earth is either wholly hollow
or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. The hypothesis has long been
contradicted by overwhelming observational evidence, as well as by the modern
understanding of planet formation; the scientific community has dismissed the
notion since at least the late 18th century.
The concept of a hollow Earth still recurs in folklore and as the premise for a
sub-genre of adventure fiction. It also features in some present-day
pseudoscientific and conspiracy theories.
Underground civilizations link with the 'Hollow Earth Theory'. There are
supposedly races that exist in subterranean cities beneath planet Earth. Very
often, these dwellers of the world beneath are more technologically advanced
than we on the surface. Some believe that UFOs are not from other planets, but
are manufactured by strange beings in the interior of the Earth.
In ancient times, the idea of subterranean realms seemed arguable, and became
intertwined with the concept of "places" such as the Greek Hades, the Nordic
svartalfheim, the Christian Hell, and the Jewish
Sheol (with details describing
inner Earth in Kabalistic literature, such as the
Zohar and Hesed L'Avraham).
Edmond Halley in 1692
put forth the idea of Earth consisting of a hollow shell about 800 km (500
miles) thick, two inner concentric shells and an innermost core, about the
diameters of the planets Venus, Mars, and Mercury. Atmospheres separate these
shells, and each shell has its own magnetic poles. The spheres rotate at
different speeds. Halley proposed this scheme in order to explain anomalous
compass readings. He envisaged the atmosphere inside as luminous (and possibly
inhabited) and speculated that escaping gas caused the Aurora Borealis.
De Camp and Ley have claimed (in their Lands Beyond) that
Leonhard Euler also
proposed a hollow-Earth idea, getting rid of multiple shells and postulating an
interior sun 1000 km (600 miles) across to provide light to advanced inner-Earth
civilization (but they provide no references). However in his Letters to a
German princess Euler describes a thought experiment involving a patently solid
De Camp and Ley also claim that Sir John Leslie expanded on Euler's idea,
suggesting two central suns named Pluto and Proserpine (this was unrelated to
the dwarf planet Pluto, which was discovered and named some time later). Leslie
did propose a hollow Earth in his 1829 Elements of Natural Philosophy
(pp. 449Ð453), but does not mention interior suns.
In 1818, John
Cleves Symmes, Jr. suggested that the Earth consisted of a hollow shell
about 1300 km (800 miles) thick, with openings about 2300 km (1400 miles) across
at both poles with 4 inner shells each open at the poles. Symmes became the most
famous of the early Hollow Earth proponents. He proposed making an expedition to
the North Pole hole, thanks to efforts of one of his followers, James McBride,
but the new President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, halted the attempt.
Jeremiah Reynolds
also delivered lectures on the "Hollow Earth" and argued for an expedition.
Reynolds went on an expedition to Antarctica himself but missed joining the
Great U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, even though that venture was a
result of his agitation.
Though Symmes himself never wrote a book about his ideas, several authors
published works discussing his ideas. McBride wrote Symmes' Theory of
Concentric Spheres in 1826. It appears that Reynolds has an article that
appeared as a separate booklet in 1827: Remarks of Symmes' Theory Which Appeared
in the American Quarterly Review.
In 1868, a professor W.F. Lyons published The Hollow Globe which put
forth a Symmes-like Hollow Earth hypothesis, but didn't mention Symmes. Symmes's
son Americus then published The Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres to
set the record straight.
The Thule Society, which was
well known by Adolf Hitler,reported
much about Tibetan myths of openings into the Earth. There is even a theory that
Hitler ordered a research journey for such an opening in Antarctica, based on a
speech of Admiral Donitz in front of a German submarine in 1944, when he claimed
"The German submarine fleet is proud of having built an invisible fortification
for the Fuhrer, anywhere in the world." During the Nuremberg Trials, Donitz
spoke of "an invisible fortification, in midst of the eternal ice."
According to the Hollow Earth Research Society in Ontario, Canada, they are
still there. After the war, the organization claims, the Allies discovered that
more than 2,000 scientists from Germany and Italy had vanished, along with
almost a million people, to the land beyond the South Pole. This story gets more
complicated with Nazi-designed UFOs, Nazi collaboration with the people who live
in the center of the Earth, and the possible explanation for "Aryan-looking" UFO
In 2005, Steven Currey Expeditions planned an expedition to the North Pole
region to explore for a possible opening into the inner Earth. Brooks A. Agnew
took over as leader on Currey's death in 2006, with the plan of taking 100
scientists and film makers to the supposed Arctic "opening" in 2009.
An early twentieth-century proponent of hollow Earth, William Reed, wrote
Phantom of the Poles
in 1906. He supported the idea of a hollow Earth, but without interior shells or
inner sun.
Marshall Gardner wrote A Journey to the Earth's Interior in 1913 and an expanded
edition in 1920. He placed an interior sun in the hollow Earth. He even built a
working model of the hollow Earth and patented it. Gardner made no mention of
Reed, but did take Symmes to task for his ideas. In the same time Vladimir
Obruchev wrote a fiction novel Plutonia, where the hollow Earth's interior
possessed one inner (central) sun and was inhabited by prehistoric species. The
interior was connected with the surface by a hole in the Arctic.
Other writers have proposed that
ascended masters
of esoteric wisdom inhabit subterranean caverns or a hollow Earth. Antarctica,
the North Pole, Tibet, Peru, and Mount Shasta in California, USA, have all had
their advocates as the locations of entrances to a subterranean realm referred
to as Agartha, with some even advancing the hypothesis that UFOs have their
homeland in these places.
In 1964, Raymond W. Bernard, an esotericist and leader of the Rosicrucians
published The Hollow Earth - The Greatest Geographical Discovery in History
Made by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in the Mysterious Land Beyond the Poles - The
True Origin of the Flying Saucers. Bernard tells stories about people who
have entered the inner earth and what has happened to them. It mentions a
photograph published in 1960 in the Globe and Mail in Toronto, Canada which
shows a beautiful valley with lush hills. An aviator claimed that he had taken
the picture while flying into the North Pole.
In his Letters from Nowhere, Bernard claims to have been in contact with
great mystics in secret ashrams and with Grand Lamas in Tibet. He was, in short,
another Gurdjieff. Dr. Bernard "died of pneumonia on September 10, 1965, while
searching the tunnel openings to the interior of the Earth, in South America."
Bernard seems to have accepted every legend ever associated with the hollow
Earth idea, including the notions that the Eskimos originated within the Earth
and an advanced civilization dwells within even now, revving up their UFOs for
occasional forays into thin air. Bernard even accepts without question Shaver's
claim that he learned the secret of relativity before Einstein from the Hollow
Earth people.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd of the United States Navy flew to the North Pole in 1926
and over the South Pole in 1929. he referred to Antarctica as "The Land of
Everlasting Mystery". In reference to the North Pole he wrote: "I'd like to see
that land beyond the North Pole, it is the Center of the Great Unknown."
His airplane was greeted by flying machines of a type he had never seen before.
They escorted him to a safe landing area where he was graciously greeted by
emissaries from Agartha. After resting, he and his crew, were taken to meet the
king and queen of Agartha. They told him that he had been allowed to enter
Agartha because of his high moral and ethical character. They went on to say
that they worried about the safety of planet due to he bombs and other testing
done above the surface by governments. After the visit Byrd and his crew were
guided back to the surface of the planet.
Byrd stated that the North and South Poles are only two of many openings into
the center of the Earth. He also wrote about seeing a sun below the Earth.
Did Admiral Byrd Fly Over the North Pole or Not? Live Science -
April 16, 2013
Instead of saying that humans live on the outside surface of a hollow planet,
sometimes called a "convex" hollow-Earth hypothesis, some have claimed that our
universe itself lies in the interior of a hollow world, calling this a "concave"
hollow-Earth hypothesis. The surface of the Earth, according to such a view,
might resemble the interior shell of a Dyson sphere. Generally, scientists have
taken neither type of speculation seriously.
Cyrus Teed, an eccentric doctor from upstate New York, proposed such a concave
hollow Earth in 1869, calling his scheme "Cellular Cosmogony". Teed founded a
cult called the Koreshan Unity based on this notion, which he called
Koreshanity. The main colony survives as a preserved Florida state historic
site, at Estero, but all of Teed's followers have now died. Teed's followers
claimed to have experimentally verified the concavity of the Earth's curvature,
through surveys of the Florida coastline making use of "rectilineator"
Several twentieth-century German writers, including Peter Bender, Johannes Lang,
Karl Neupert, and Fritz Braun, published works advocating the hollow Earth
hypothesis, or Hohlweltlehre. It has even been reported, although apparently
without historical documentation, that Adolf Hitler was influenced by concave
hollow-Earth ideas and sent an expedition in an unsuccessful attempt to spy on
the British fleet by aiming infrared cameras up into the sky (Wagner, 1999).
The Egyptian mathematician Mostafa Abdelkader authored several scholarly papers
working out a detailed mapping of the concave Earth model. See M. Abdelkader, "A
Geocosmos: Mapping Outer Space Into a Hollow Earth," 6 Speculations in Science &
Technology 81-89 (1983). Abstracts of two of Abdelkader's papers also appeared
in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, (Oct. 1981 and Feb. 1982).
In one chapter of his book On the Wild Side (1992), Martin Gardner discusses the
hollow Earth model articulated by Abdelkader. According to Gardner, this
hypothesis posits that light rays travel in circular paths, and slow as they
approach the center of the spherical star-filled cavern. No energy can reach the
center of the cavern, which corresponds to no point a finite distance away from
Earth in the widely accepted scientific cosmology.
A drill, Gardner says, would lengthen as it traveled away from the cavern and
eventually pass through the "point at infinity" corresponding to the center of
the Earth in the widely accepted scientific cosmology. Supposedly no experiment
can distinguish between the two cosmologies. Martin Gardner notes that "most
mathematicians believe that an inside-out universe, with properly adjusted
physical laws, is empirically irrefutable". Gardner rejects the concave hollow
Earth hypothesis on the basis of
Occam's Razor.
In a trivial sense, one can always define a coordinate transformation such that
the interior of the Earth becomes "exterior" and the exterior becomes
"interior". Such transformations would require corresponding changes to the
forms of physical laws; the consensus suggests that such theories tend towards
The best scientific argument against that of a hollow Earth (or in fact any
hollow planet) is gravity. Massive objects tend to clump together
gravitationally, creating non-hollow spherical objects we call stars and
planets. The solid sphere is the best way in which to minimize the gravitational
potential energy of a physical object; having hollowness is therefore
unfavorable in the energetic sense. In addition, ordinary matter is not strong
enough to support a hollow shape of planetary size against the force of gravity.
Someone on the inside of a hollow Earth would not experience an outward pull and
could not stand on the inner surface; rather, the theory of gravity implies that
a person on the inside would be nearly weightless. This was first shown by
Newton, whose shell theorem mathematically predicts a gravitational force (from
the shell) of zero everywhere inside a spherically symmetric hollow shell of
matter, regardless of the shell's thickness.
A tiny gravitational force would arise from the fact that the Earth does not
have a perfectly symmetrical spherical shape, as well as forces from other
bodies such as the Moon. The centrifugal force from the Earth's rotation would
pull a person (on the inner surface) outwards if the person was traveling at the
same velocity as the Earth's interior and was in contact with the ground on the
interior, but even at the equator this is only 1/300 of ordinary Earth gravity.
The mass of the planet also indicates that the hollow Earth hypothesis is
unfeasible. Should the Earth be largely hollow, its mass would be much lower and
thus its gravity on the outer surface would be much lower than it currently is.
Although not visually observable, the core of the Earth is observable via
vibrations (primarily from earthquakes) passing from one side of the planet to
the other. Using this method, geologists have been able to establish the
structure of mantle, outer core, and inner core known today. A hollow earth
would behave entirely differently in terms of seismic observations.
The deepest hole drilled to date is the SG-3 borehole which is 12.3 km (7.6
miles) deep, part of the Soviet Kola Superdeep Borehole project; thus, visual
knowledge of the Earth's structure extends that far.
The idea of a hollow Earth is a very common element of fiction, appearing as
early as Ludvig Holberg's 1741 novel Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum (Niels
Klim's Underground Travels), in which Nicolai Klim falls through a cave
while spelunking and spends several years living on both a smaller globe within
and the inside of the outer shell.
Other pre-20th century examples include
Giacomo Casanova's
1788 Icosameron, a 5-volume, 1,800-page story of a brother and sister who fall
into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Megamicres, a race of
multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a
"Captain Adam Seaborn" (1820) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes,
Jr. and some have claimed Symmes as the real author; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket; and George Sand's 1884
novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant
crystals could be
found in the interior of the Earth.
More recently, the idea has become a staple of science fiction, appearing in
print, in film, on television, in comics, role-playing games, and in many
animated works.
The idea as also used by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, in a
series of novels beginning with "At the Earth's Core" (1914). Using a mechanical
drill, his heroes discover a prehistoric world 500 miles below the surface. Lit
by an inner sun, this inner earth is called "Pellucidar" due to the constant
light of the unsetting inner sun. There is also an inner moon which creates a
"Land of the Dreadful Shadow" by blocking the light of the inner sun for a
portion of Pellucidar. Burroughs also makes use of the idea of openings at the
poles, and has zeppelins travel to the interior of the earth via these openings.
There are seven novels in the "Pellucidar"series.
One of the most controversial tales of inner-Earth-dwellers is the so-called
Shaver Mystery. In
1945, Amazing Stories magazine, under the editorship of Ray Palmer, ran a story
told by American writer and artist Richard Shaver, who claimed he had recently
been the guest of what remained of an giant race called the Elder Race, or
Titans, an underground civilization that lived in caverns under the earth.
Shaver contended that the Elder Superior Pre-historic Race came to this planet
from another solar system in our prehistoric past. After a time of living on the
surface, they realized our sun was causing them to age prematurely, so they
escaped underground, building huge subterranean complexes in which to live.
Eventually, they decided to seek a new home on a new planet, evacuating the
Earth and leaving behind their underground cities - a honeycomb of caves in the
Earth - populated by artificial beings: the evil Dero, detrimental robots and
the good Tero, integrated robots. Shaver claimed to have met the Tero.
According to Shaver, the Dero, live there still, using the fantastic machines
abandoned by the ancient races to torment those of us living on the surface. As
one characteristic of this torment, Shaver described "voices" that purportedly
came from no explainable source. Thousands of readers wrote to affirm that they,
too, had heard the fiendish voices from inside the Earth.
Despite the enormous popularity of the "Shaver Mystery in Amazing Stories",
Palmer milked it for all it was worth, and more. The location of the entrance to
this underground world was never divulged. Although few really believed the
story, and many suspect that Shaver may actually have been psychotic, Shaver
always averred that his story was true.
Quetzalcoatl is a
Mesoamerican God. Legend has it he flew off in a UFO for 8 days where he visited
the inner worlds beneath the sea, returning to create man, leaving messages in
the geometry of his design to be found at the end of time. This speaks of
Ancient Alien Theory
and reality as a
consciousness hologram
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Ah, thank Apple for iCloud, Find My iPhone, and open water swimming. Wait, scratch that last bit.
Redditor and triathlon competitor pnine yesterday was out for a training swim in the ocean. He left his pants on the shore when diving into the water in his wetsuit, his keys in his shoes, his wallet and iPhone in his pants.
A bit of the way out, he had a premonition that some of his stuff had been taken. Upon returning to shore, he found out that his hunch was right. His keys, shoes, and towel were still there, but no pants. Which, of course, meant no wallet and no iPhone.
Instead of panicking like many of us would, he remembered he had his laptop and a handy mobile Wi-Fi hotspot in his car. No word on whether the laptop was a Mac or not, but that's how we're envisioning it.


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Enermax Launches the Pro82+ and Modu82+by Christoph Katzer on March 25, 2008 1:00 AM EST
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The new Modu82+ series is all about cable management. Included is a very intelligent system that allows the user to be ready for any changes in the future, according to Enermax. We will find out later if this is the case. The package promises up to 88% efficiency, which is a very high goal to reach. We will also pay attention to the fan controller, as it's another new invention according to the manufacturer. Enermax also angled the metal plate at the fan to lower the acoustic noise when the air comes through.
We received the 525W and 625W models for testing. There is also a 425W version of the Modu82+ series. Both of our samples have very similar specifications. All the rails have the same rating; the only difference is the combined power of the three 12V rails. All three specify 25A on both versions, but the combined power of the 525W is 480W (40A) while on the 625W it's 600W (50A). This can only be done with different limiters on these rails. The 12V rails are the most important, but the smaller voltage rails are all rated at 24A, which is enough for today's systems.
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loslhotos - Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - linkMaybe it's only my impression, but isn't the choke wire outside of the PCB hole?
Fuzzilla - Sunday, March 30, 2008 - link"...there are two main capacitors..."
And who is the Mfgr of these for the Modu82+ series? Should I assume Hitachi as stated for the Pro82+ series?
Are you sure there are three rails, what does the bottom of the main PCB look like? Photos please.
According to your diagram the Modu82+ 525W has no floppy connector, Enermax specs state otherwise.
"The solder joints in general aren't that great with Enermax,..."
Really? Photos please.
Regarding Detailed Voltage Distrubtion , Efficiency & Acoustic Comparison: What were the results for the Modu82+ 525W?
Did OCP perform correctly?
How was crossload performance?
How did you test these PSU's?
jonp - Saturday, March 29, 2008 - linkyou guys need to get out into the real world and take a break if you have been anxiously awaiting, for months, the arrival of boxes that pump electrons.
quanta - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - linkThe article misses important pictures, including Voltage Distribution and efficiency graphs.
Christoph Katzer - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - linkSo maybe you should read it more carefully...
vajm1234 - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - linkhope u do that fast as i want all corsair 4nd 5 series psu to be there...especially that 450vx with other good psus
feelingshorter - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - linkDue to marketing with higher and higher wattage PSU's, a lot of people still are clueless on how much a modern day system uses (or at least i am). So i was wondering of Anandtech can give typical systems in which would use said PSUs can be used safely and to maximize efficiency.
Such as mention that a dual core, 9600GT system using the 385? Or a 8800GT + quad core using the higher ups? Or can a 385 watt PSU (being that its enermax) handle say a 8800GT + quad core? I remember many websites in the past stating that even well to do gaming system don't need as much watts as people would expect.
nilepez - Thursday, March 27, 2008 - linkIf the vast majority of power can be served on the 12V rails, then yes.
an 8800GT less than 100W at full power. You can be fairly certain that the rest of your system pulls less than your graphics card (at least if it's core duo...havne't looked into quad cores).
When you go to PSU calculators, those figures they recommend are based on everything in your system operating at 100%. maybe it's just me, but I've never had my GPU, CPU, HD and DVD all going at 100% at the same time. At idle, you're probably pulling under 100W with an 8800GT (512mb). If you're overclocking, it can vary.
The main key is to get a good PSU, not necessarily a huge one, though I'm building one for my parents that's got a huge PSU (i've i'd seen this review 4 days ago, I would have bought the 385W enermax), because it was rated as very quiet....but these are apparently even quieter...and more efficient too.
Christoph Katzer - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - linkCorrect and we are working on that kind of article already :)
strafejumper - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - linklot of places just focus on 800 and 1000 watt psu's
i'm looking at the conclusion page and it says 350, 380, 385 !!!
i don't upgrade everytime something new comes out so these power supplies are still very usable for me and im glad they get some attention.


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The benefit of helmet legislation to reduce admissions to hospital for head injuries is "substantially uncertain," concludes a study published on bmj.com.
The authors say that, while helmets reduce head injuries and their use should be encouraged, in the context of existing safety campaigns, the impact of legislation seems to be minimal.
Cyclists are vulnerable road users and head injuries among cyclists account for 75% of cycling related deaths.
But debate exists about whether or not helmet legislation is an effective strategy to reduce serious head injuries among cyclists of all ages.
So a team of researchers based in Canada examined changes in the rate of cycling related head injuries associated with helmet legislation in young people and adults, while accounting for baseline trends in the rate of cycling injuries.
Between 1994 and 2008, there were 66,716 hospital admissions for cycling related injuries, 30% of which were head injuries.
During this time, there was a substantial and consistent fall in the rate of hospital admissions for cycling related head injuries across Canada.
Reductions were greatest in provinces with helmet legislation. However, the researchers point out that admission rates were falling before the implementation of provincial helmet legislation and, after taking baseline trends into account, did not seem to change in response to legislation.
"When baseline trends in cycling related injury rates were considered, the overall rates of head injuries were not appreciably altered by helmet legislation," they say.
They conclude: "While helmets reduce the risk of head injuries and we encourage their use, in the Canadian context of existing safety campaigns, improvements to the cycling infrastructure, and the passive uptake of helmets, the incremental contribution of provincial helmet legislation to reduce hospital admissions for head injuries seems to have been minimal."
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When we think "sunshine" we often think of a luxury SUN-cruise on the Caribbean, with stops at enchanting island retreats like Jamaica or Barbados, or we think CANCER. Why these extremes? In reality, most people can get plenty of sunshine in their own backyards! Ten or 15 minutes in noontime summer sun leads to the production of 10,000 IU (International Units) of Vitamin D, which has proven to decrease the risk for many cancers.
The myth is busted! Sunshine protects against a very deadly form of skin cancer called melanoma. A new study published in the March 2011 European Journal of Cancer discovered that those people who spent four to five hours in the sun each day over weekends were less likely to develop melanoma than those who did not. This is exciting for those who love the sun. (A word of caution here: those who burn easily were at higher risk regardless of the amount of time spent in the sun. So avoid sunburn.) Another piece of good news for sun lovers is that women with high sun exposure had half the risk of developing advanced breast cancer. Also, reduced risk of other cancers by sunshine include prostate, colon, lung, ovary, bladder, uterus, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney, multiple myeloma, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Sunlight Increases Immunity
Immunity is increased by exposure to sunlight and your body's resistance to infection is strengthened. White blood cells are increased. Antibodies are increased too. These effects can last up to three weeks. Even 10 minutes of sun twice a week can greatly reduce the incidence of colds.
Sunlight Strengthens Bones
Bones are strengthened by sunlight. It allows the body to make Vitamin D, which helps calcium absorption from the intestines and calcium deposit in building healthy bones. Sunlight prevents rickets and helps prevent and reverse osteoporosis. There is also a connection with lowered incidence of dental cavities.
Sunlight Promotes Sense of Well-being
Sense of well-being is promoted by sunlight and the mood is elevated. Daily exposure to natural sunlight will boost melatonin output, which also improves sleep. For most people, sunlight is an important therapy, especially if combined with exercise, in preventing and treating acute and chronic depression. Sunlight helps produce serotonin to lift the mood.
Other Benefits of Sunlight
Other benefits of sunshine include alleviating pain from swollen arthritic joints and even relieving some symptoms of pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS). It also helps ward off heart disease, hypertension, and autoimmune diseases like Crohn's, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Juvenile Diabetes, MS, as well as obesity.
Remember – it's not all that bad. Enjoy the sun moderately and it will increase your vitality and good health.


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Image Sensors World Go to the original article...TED interview with Elon Musk has a couple of interesting notes about Tesla autonomous car plans:
"Tesla Model 3 is coming in July, Musk says, and it'll have a special feature: autopilot. Using only passive optical cameras and GPS, no LIDAR, the Model 3 will be capable of autonomous driving. "Once you solve cameras for vision, autonomy is solved; if you don't solve vision, it's not solved … You can absolutely be superhuman with just cameras."
Musk says that Tesla is on track for completing a fully autonomous, cross-country LA to New York trip by the end of 2017. "November or December of this year, we should be able to go from a parking lot in California to a parking lot in New York, no controls touched at any point during the entire journey," Musk says."


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Because there's no way for me to do this that isn't personal, I may as well go all out.
Spider-man means a lot to me. Like, a lot a lot. As a gangly, nerdy kid often on the wrong side of juvenile taunting, Peter Parker's experience wasn't a stand-in for my life; he was living it. I mean, other than the whole super powers and inexplicably hot girlfriends part.
Because of Spider-man, I developed a passion for reading and discovered the boundless creative expression that is writing. Because of Spider-man, I found a hidden community of friends I still cherish to this day. Because of Spider-man, I learned how to be a good person. For real! It came down to one sentence: "With great power comes great responsibility." If you learn only that in life, you'll be okay.
That line does not appear in director Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-man. The single most defining set of fictional words in my life and the most definitive words for this particular character are omitted. Instead, they are jumbled up, awkwardly reworded and given a "new spin" that does not stick to the psyche like a certain boy bitten by a spider sticks to wall. They may contain some of the same sentiment, but these new words are forgettable and uninspired. I can't think of a better metaphor for this film.
The first 45 minutes retells Spider-man's origins…again, as though the world is unaware. We can't find Iraq on a map but we all know how Spidey got his powers. Andrew Garfield is just fine as the new Peter, now with 100% more parental angst and skateboard riding. The moronic decision to make Peter's parents a focal point destroys the integrity of his relationship with Aunt May (Sally Field) and Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen). Basically, his weepy-eyed longing for his daddy makes Uncle Ben seem second rate.
Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), however, is not second rate. The gorgeous, genius blonde has an affinity for Peter well before he starts dressing in tights, despite the objections of her cop father (Dennis Leary). But the young couple's courtship is cut short when Dr. Curt Conners (Rhys Ifans) injects himself with nebulous "genetic material" and becomes a huge lizard. Then CGI Spider-man fights CGI lizard three or four times, and the film calls it a day.
Some things work. Gwen and Peter's relationship is spot-on, likely thanks to the talent of Garfield and Stone. Small character beats like Peter defending a bullied kid are nice and all. But the spirit is gone; the soul is missing. If you're rooting for this sad-sack Spidey, you're doing so because you're supposed to, not because he earned it. Webb, making only his second major film, fails to rein in Garfield's overly twitchy performance and seems in over his head. Not with the fighting, like some expected the director of (500) Days of Summer to struggle with, but with the heart. Basically, Spider-man doesn't feel like Spider-man.
Early on, I thought maybe it would go away, maybe I was being unfair to this Robert Pattinson-esque version of Peter who does Footloose style flips to test his powers. After all, doesn't this generation deserve its own incarnation? Nope. Not if it's this teary-eyed, whiney sap. He's a character who should inspire us with his wit and spirit and thrill us with adventure. If Batman is all dark nights, Spider-man is bright days. He shouldn't act like he's a werewolf away from a perfect love triangle.
I will remain hopeful that this eventual franchise straightens out, that they remember what made this character special. I know that's a big responsibility, but I once knew a guy who was up to the task.
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After examining a 3,700-year-old clay tablet with instructions on how to build an ark, the expert who translated it says he doubts Noah's Ark ever existed.
The ark instructions call for construction of a huge circular coracle, 3,600 square meters large and made like a giant rope basket strengthened with wooden ribs, waterproofed with bitumen inside and out. What's described is a giant version of a craft the Babylonians knew very well, in daily use up to the late 20th century to transport people and animals across rivers, according to British Museum expert Irving Finkel.
According to the Guardian: "I am 107% convinced the ark never existed," Finkel said. The tablet gives a version of the ark story far older than the biblical accounts, and Finkel believes the explanation of how "holy writ appears on this piece of Weetabix," is that the writers of the Bible drew on ancient accounts encountered by Hebrew scholars during the Babylonian exile.
Texts about a great flood and the order by God to the one just man to build a boat and save himself, his family, and all the animals, clearly older than the Bible story, were first found in the Middle East in the 19th century. They caused both consternation and wild excitement, including an expedition to find the broken part of one tablet in a mountain of shattered clay fragments.
The tablet was brought to Finkel on a museum open day by Douglas Simmons, whose father, Leonard, brought it back to England in a tea-chest full of curios, after wartime service in the Middle East with the RAF.


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|Similar to the two transistor solid state Tesla Coil already on this site, this solid state Tesla Coil design uses a normal flyback transformer to generate it's high voltage output. Unlike the other circuit, this one does not use two huge power transistors and high wattage resistors. Instead it uses a 555 timer to more efficiently drive a single MOSFET. It's waveform has adjustable off and on time, making for an efficient circuit with little waste heat. It can be adjusted to drive most commonly found flyback transformers and can operate from a 12V to 18V supply. HV output can reach 60KV or more depending on the transformer and supply voltage.
These can be found in a small metal box generally in the corner of the TV case, complete with a very handy voltage multiplier unit and usually a nice heatsink.
You will need to either look up the datasheet for the transformer you have, or probe it with an ohmmeter to identify the coil connections. Most flybacks have a load of taps on the HV side to provide focusing, horizontal and vertical signals. These taps are generally of no use to you. To find the primary (coil B-A on the schematic) you need to find the two lowest resistance connections that are not also connected to the HV secondary wiring. Alternately, if your flyback has an open frame like the one in the picture, you can wind on 5 or so turns of 16 gauge magnet wire as a primary. You will need to experiment with the number of turns to get maximum output. The HV ground lead (connection C on the schematic) is generally easy to locate. It will come from the HV secondary and be tied to the frame of the transformer or chassis ground.
If by some miracle you were able to locate the Penn-Tran transformer, then connection B is the red dot on the transformer, A corresponds to the black dot, and C matches the orange dot.
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Litigation Release No. 19871 / October 16, 2006
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SEC v. Gregory A. Brady, et al., Civil Action No. 3:05-CV-1416-D, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division
SEC Settles Charges Against Former i2 Technologies CFO William M. Beecher
On October 12, 2006, the Commission settled civil charges against William M. Beecher, the former chief financial officer of Dallas-based i2 Technologies, Inc. and a defendant in the Commission's July 2005 enforcement action against three former i2 officers arising from an alleged scheme to overstate i2's revenues. Without admitting or denying the Commission's allegations, Beecher has consented to the entry of a final judgment enjoining him from violating or aiding and abetting violations of the antifraud, record-keeping, reporting, internal-controls and false-statements-to-auditors provisions of the federal securities laws. Beecher also has consented to an order barring him from serving as a public company officer or director for a period of five years, and to pay a civil penalty and disgorgement, with prejudgment interest. The settlement is subject to approval by United States District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater.
The Commission's Complaint alleges that, over the four years ended December 31, 2001 and the first three quarters of 2002, i2 misstated approximately $1 billion of software license revenue, including over $125 million of revenue it never should have recognized. The Complaint further alleges that Beecher participated and assisted others in a fraudulent revenue-recognition scheme by, among other things, signing i2's public filings containing the misstated financial statements and approving earnings releases and participating in public conference calls at which materially false and misleading financial information was provided. The Commission's complaint also alleges that Beecher profited by trading i2 securities on the basis of material nonpublic information.
The proposed Judgment to which Beecher has consented, without admitting or denying the Commission's allegations, enjoins him from violating or aiding and abetting violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 10(b), 13(a), 13(b)(2)(A), 13(b)(2)(B) and 13(b)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rules 10b-5, 12b-20, 13a-1, 13a-13, 13a-14, 13b2-1 and 13b2-2 thereunder. The proposed Judgment also prohibits Beecher from serving as an officer or director of a public company for five years, and orders him to pay disgorgement and prejudgment interest of $1,929,336 and a third-tier civil penalty of $250,000. The Commission intends ultimately to move the Court to establish a Fair Fund under Section 308 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2001, to hold the civil penalty, disgorgement and accrued interest, for ultimate distribution to injured i2 investors.
For further information about the Commission's action against the former i2 executives, see Litigation Releases Nos. 19306 (July 18, 2005) and 19624 (March 28, 2006), and Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases Nos. 2279 (July 18, 2005) and 2400 (March 28, 2006).