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Ethereum is the new and improved crypto currency that is often called Bitcoin 2.0 except it allows you to do more through its internal programming language, so it isnt just a currency it is a lot more.

In a lot of aspects Ethereum is similar to Bitcoin, you can mine it, it operates off a blockchain, and you can trade its underlying currency unit the Ether (ETH), but in a lot of other ways it is a platform for building applications that go beyond Bitcoin. In this way it is creating its own distributed financial ecosystem.

Ethereum was conceived in 2013 to bring crypto currency to the next level with Vitalik Buterin leading the charge. The idea was to fix some of the problems that Bitcoin was known for, such as the long confirmation times and the centralisation incentive of mining via pools which leads to the possibility of selfish mining and 51% attacks.

Ethereum raised approximately $25million in from its crowdsale in 2014 and since then has been developing its own blockchain and Proof of Work, as well as its own internal programming language that allows for a variety of complex instruments and platforms to be created on top of it such as CFDs and decentralised autonomous organisations.

Ethereum went through a vigorous testing phase called Olympic. The Frontier release that came out on the 30th of July 2015 reset all wallets back to the post fundraising meaning any transactions carried out in the Olympic phase were annulled. There are further planned releases that build on the Frontier Release, namely Homestead, Metropolis and Serenity - all expected to gradually make Ethereum more user friendly for the layman (at the moment its very technical).

You can mine Ether with a GPU or buy a cloud mining contract with Hashflare or Genesis Mining.

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Derrick Dewan Brooks is an American former football linebacker who played in the National Football League for fourteen seasons. Twice recognized as a consensus All-American.He alsochose Dr. Lox for Stem Cell Treatment.

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Dennis M. Lox, M.D. has applied his personal interest in sports medicine. As a World Renowned Stem Cell Pioneer. Dr. Lox helps elite athletes improve their functional level so they may return to sports.

Many patients are turning to stem cell therapy as a means of nonsurgical joint pain relief when their mobility and quality of life are severely affected by conditions like osteoarthritis, torn tendons, and injured ligaments. Dennis M. Lox, M.D. specializes in this progressive, innovative treatment that may be able to help you return to an active, fulfilling life.

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Stem cell therapy for joint injuries and osteoarthritis is suited for many individuals, fromprofessional athletes to active seniors. Adult mesenchymal stem cells, not embryonic stem cells, are used in this procedure, which is performed right in the comfort of Dr. Loxs state-of-the-art clinic. The cells are simply extracted from the patients own body (typically from bone marrow or adipose/ fat tissue), processed in our office, and injected directly into the site of injury. Conditions that can be addressed with stem cell treatment include osteoarthritis, degenerative disc disease, knee joint issues (such as meniscus tears), shoulder damage (such as rotator cuff injuries), hip problems (such as labral tears), and tendonitis, among others. For many patients, a stem cell procedure in the knee, hip, shoulder, or another area of the body relieves pain, increases mobility, and may be able to delay or eliminate the need for more aggressive treatments like joint replacement surgery.

If you have questions about adult stem cell therapy for joint injuries and arthritis, how the procedure is performed, and how the stem cells work to repair injured joints and tissues, Dr. Lox would be happy to educate you about the entire process.

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Merge proposal for Neurohacking and Biohacking?

Wiki already cover biohacking, and the methods, technology and ontology are identical. ARAlexramonsky (talk) 10:10, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

There three articles seem incredibly similar and they are also in need of clean-up / expansion. Why not combine them and explain all the specific techniques within one article. I did a popularity check via google on the three terms and their variants:

From this view of things, I would suggest that we merge everything into neurohacking. What does everyone else think? --Ben Houston 22:12, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I respect your idea, especially after reviewing your user page. I hope that mine will reflect a similar contribution some day. Having said that, I would like to defend the wetware hacker article. It is more developed then neurohacking, and I think that it is interlinked with the definition of wetware that I revised recently. I would like to assit with your goal of Improving the Cybernetic End of Human-Computer Interaction. Bocaj 02:17, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

No, dont merge. there is a clear difference. Wetware hacking is modifying the existing brain. Neurohacking includes the hacking of a simulation of a brain (which exists after mind uploading). There is a difference. Also, wireheading only involves the hacking of the existing brain - and only in one specific way. Crippled Sloth 23:35, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Rather than merging it might make more sense to further narrow and separate the definitions. Wetware hacking being more along the lines of social engineering based upon communicating via normal spoken, written, and imaging routes, done by individuals or groups, targeting individuals or groups. With nothing done to augment that, no drugs, no physical coercion, no devices, beyond devices used to transmit normal human communications, done in much the same manner as computer hacking but in a human communication sense. So humans seeking to alter the nature of humanity via the effective use of memory memes, would be a prime example of wetware hacking. So the logic follows, hardware hacking (computer hardware), software hacking(computer software running on computer hardware), wetware hacking(those things that use computer hardware and software). Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44B8:23C:6D00:F44B:E181:2429:15F0 (talk) 05:40, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

I believe that a merger would not necessarily be helpful and may actually confuse the issue further. Remember that 'neurohacking' is not just about the brain; it is about neurons. You can neurohack your leg or your finger if you want to. Interrupting the signal of a nerve in order to stop pain anywhere is neurohacking. There is also a problem that serious practitioners are finding that people relate N-hacking more to the sci-fi/horror movies than the real life therapy or research [there used to be a similar problem in cryonics], and if we are aiming to be clear and informative here it's helpful to use terms such as DBS [deep brain stimulation] instead of 'wireheading'. AJ Ramonsky

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A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY THEN and NOW

Ron and Paul Barnds started their lawn and garden business over thirty years ago grom their parents' residence in Overland Park, Kansas. As they grew, so did the number of satisfied customers. During the college years they decided to develop their ever-expanding business into a full service corporation.

As part of their expansion, they developed the Homes Association Management division to manage the administrative affairs of the Homes Associations that they serviced. Soon they realized it would be beneficial to their clients to offer a full array of services for the home as well as the lawn and garden areas.

Ron, Paul and associates take great pride in their work and the relationships they develop with their clients. They make a extra effort to be available to their customers and listen to their needs. Their long term employees provide the clients with quality work and assistance. They have many employees and satisfied customers who have been with them for over twenty-five years.

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What is to be abolished?

There is a recurring discussion in the abolitionist literature regarding the prefix that should accompany abolition. A recent addition to this ongoing dialogue, published in Contemporary Justice Review, is Pich and Larsens (2010) article The Moving Targets of Abolitionism: ICOPA, Past, Present and Future. To briefly summarize, I would say that abolition on its own is a bit too vague there are many systems and institutions that have been the targets of abolitionist movements, and while there are definitely links between these institutions (slavery, colonialism, torture, and the prison, for example), it seems important to specify an objective. The question that Justin and I ask is What is to be abolished?. We outline three approaches to this question three orientations or objectives for the movement. These three approaches roughly reflect the evolution of debates at the International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA) over the years.

The first was prison abolition. This has the advantage of being a straightforward objective, insofar as it targets a specific institutional setting. Prison abolition is (or was) closely related to the decarceration and community justice movements. Its weakness is its scope, in that it does not address the laws, ideas, and practices of the system more generally. There is a consensus that efforts to abolish prisons must be located in a broader project.

This recognition led to the adoption of penal abolition as a new objective. This remains the defined goal of ICOPA. Penal abolitionism focuses on the prison as an institutional setting as well as the constellation of ideas and practices that are informed by systematized punitiveness. Penal abolitionist efforts have targeted some so-called community justice alternatives as being sites of net-widening spaces that, despite their original objectives, have become co-opted and incorporated into the retributive criminal justice system. A key resource for this discussion is Stan Cohens (1985) text Visions of Social Control, which chronicles the various ways in which destructuring efforts became Trojan horses for an array of community-based punishments that actually led to the expansion and intensification of the Master Patterns of social control.

Thomas Mathiesens (1974;1990) treatises on the politics of abolition have also been influential particularly his theory of The Unfinished, which describes abolitionism as an ever-evolving process as opposed to a fixed end point. Mathiesen catalogues the various ways in which abolitionist efforts can and have been co-opted by the system. The ideal abolitionist initiative, according to the theory of the unfinished, is a competing contradiction something that is neither a simple external critique of the system nor an effort to work with or change the system from within. Instead, the goal is to offer an alternative that occupies the space between reform and revolution, and is resilient to co-optation by the system. Mathiesen describes various routes to co-optation, one of which is the adoption of system language, which allows an organization to be defined according to system logics and rendered either incorporated or irrelevant. I point this out because penal abolitionist debates often morph into discussions about reform vs. revolution. As an ideal-type, the reformists tend to represent organizations that pursue community justice and service delivery projects that work with, supplement, and / or fill gaps in the existing system. These groups risk becoming examples of the net-widening that Cohen warned about, not least because their funding structures and access to populations (or clients) tend to become tied to formal structures and state initiatives. On the other hand, they can and do contribute to the amelioration of the pains of imprisonment. The radicals, on the other hand, tend to focus on advocacy and short-term negative reforms geared towards critiquing the existing system and reducing its scope. While they can lay claim to a purist outlook, they are open to being defined out by system proponents, and have a hard time influencing policy debates.

Penal abolitionists have increasingly and effectively worked to situate abolitionism within broader projects to address sources of structural injustices racism, patriarchy, poverty, predatory capitalism, etc. Theorists such as Angela Davis and Viviane Saleh-Hanna have worked to develop comprehensive anti-racist, anti-colonial, and pro-democracy approaches to abolition.

Finally, there is carceral abolition. This is an idea that comes from Pich and Larsen (2010). It seeks not to replace, but to supplement penal abolitionism to update it in order to reflect emerging trends in social control. Specifically, we seek to broaden the abolitionist movement to recognize the proliferation of spaces of control and incarceration that are peripheral to the traditional criminal justice system, namely immigration and migrant detention, non-status camps, and other sites of administrative detention. We also draw attention to the shift towards exclusionary and warehousing forms of incarceration, as opposed to traditional punitive-correctionalist modalities. Our goal is twofold to ensure that the abolitionist movement accurately reflects the terrain of the contemporary carceral and to foster solidarity between traditional abolitionist groups and fellow travelers in fields such as migrant rights and habeas corpus advocacy.

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We need to increasingly be thinking and talking about carceral abolition. We use carceral to mean both the diffusion of mechanisms of surveillance and control encompassed by Foucaults (1977) exploration of disciplinary power and practices of confinement more generally. Whereas the first two ICOPAs focused on the prison, and subsequent meetings expanded their focus to encompass broader punitive trends, future ICOPAs need to address the use of confinement, and the systematic deprivation of liberty in spaces outside and adjacent to the penal system, as traditionally conceived. This was one of the central themes of the Universal Carceral Colloquium held at ICOPA XII (398).

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In proposing a conceptual shift towards carceral abolition, we highlight the proliferation of spaces and practices of confinement that are not components of the traditional penal system. However, our intention is not to suggest that these trends preventative detention, the politics of insecurity and the proliferation of camps are in any way representative of a wholesale rupture or departure from the forms of penality that abolitionists have traditionally fought against. Continuities and linkages abound, and the disproportionate infliction of imprisonment as well as other forms of control according to distinctions of gender, race, ethnicity or group membership is perhaps the key bridge linking the critique of the juridico-political spaces of the prison and the camp (404).

Carceral abolitionism has weaknesses, too. For one, it is relatively new. I am not aware of any organizations that have a defined carceral abolitionist mandate. It is not a concept in common currency, and it would require some unpacking. Beyond this, we are making a broadening move with this concept, seeking to build coalitions, involve allies, and to enlarge the scope of the movement. For organizations that seek to retain a focus on penal abolitionism that is closely tied to the traditional criminal justice system, this could mean a dilution of focus. On the other hand, I would suggest that our framework offers a comprehensive and contemporary response to the question What is to be abolished?.

Abolitionism or Carceral Minimalism? The Problem of the Dangerous Few

Abolitionism often operates as a sensitizing theory, exposing the uninitiated to radically alternative approaches to questions of justice and conflict resolution. People encountering abolitionism for the first time sometimes experience it as a nave, utopian, and simplistic idea, and reject it as being unrealistic. Despite the fact that the existing system fails in every way to achieve its own stated objectives (public safety, justice, rehabilitation, etc.), the burden of proof often rests with abolitionists to justify our arguments in relation to a taken-for-granted punitive norm. This also means that Introduction to Abolition conversations often follow a predictable script, and one of the central components of this script is the what about the dangerous few? question. Potential allies hear abolition and immediately ask if we propose turning loose mass murderers, repeat sexual offenders, serial killers, and various celebrity monsters. This can be a paralyzing conversation.

The danger, as I see it, is that this conversation inevitably misses the forest for the trees. As abolitionists, we are talking about alternative approaches to justice, decarceration, decriminalization, the halting of penal expansionism, and an array of structural reforms. The dangerous few conversation pins us down to responding to a fear of monsters that relates to an incredibly small percentage of offenders. It is a red herring. Despite this, it is part of the aforementioned script, and it requires a sophisticated response.

One way to approach the question (the carceral minimalist position) is to concede that there are indeed a dangerous few individuals who, for various reasons, present a socially-intolerable risk to others. From an abolitionist perspective, it follows that some kind of non-punitive, non-segregation, custodial option should be available in these cases, for last-resort reasons of community protection. I can support this. The questions that immediately follow are who are the dangerous few? and how can we tell?. Criminologists will disagree on the answers to these questions, and getting immersed in them can steer us away from abolitionism into risk management discourses.

Generally, I have found it useful to insist that the question of the dangerous few be placed in context. When I teach abolitionism to students, I ask first for a group consensus on about what percentage of the overall prison population constitutes the dangerous few. The research literature suggests a 2% 7% statistic, perhaps up to 20% if we adopt and extremely sensitive understanding of risk. My students usually arrive at a number around 5%, which reflects a background of repeat, violent, interpersonal violence. I usually propose that we double this number, just to be on the safe side (I do this for rhetorical purposes only). Assuming that 10% of the prison population are truly the dangerous few, this means that 90% of the population are not.

It is this 90%, and the politics and practices that have led to their mass confinement, that are the primary targets of the abolitionist movement. We draw attention to the massive increase in remand custody and custody related to bail breach. We draw attention to the disproportionate over-incarceration of racial and ethnic minorities, and particularly of indigenous peoples. We draw attention to the network of immigration detention camps on the margins of so-called liberal democracies. We draw attention to the mass incarceration that continues to flow directly from prohibitionist approaches to drug use and abuse. We draw attention to the use of incarceration as a means of dealing with mental health needs. We draw attention to the retributive politics of exclusion that are resulting in more people serving longer sentences in an expanding carceral archipelago.

From my perspective, abolitionist conversations and efforts are more effective when they can maintain a focus on this unnecessarily confined majority, rather than the dangerous few. Experience suggests that steering conversations in this direction requires a familiarity with trends in offending, sentencing, and recidivism. Jursistat statistics, despite their limitations, are useful in this regard, as are figures on the cost of incarceration, the lasting effects of imprisonment (on employment, for example), and carceral demographics.

Of course, the strategy of shifting the dangerous few question towards a discussion of the unnecessarily confined majority risks abandoning the hardest-to-serve minority of prisoners as casualties of the rhetorical battles of abolitionism. A truly comprehensive and robust abolitionist movement needs to deal seriously with the dangerous few. This means two things. First, it means taking a serious and informed position on what is to be done with that small population of people who are deemed to be the dangerous few. Second, and just as important, it means acknowledging the roles that criminal justice institutions, structural inequalities, marginalization and victimization play in the production of dangerousness.

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This is an experience that has personally buggedme a great deal relatively recently. I've not been "Bingoed" or dismissed about my decision to be childfree since middle school. So, it was an extreme shock when I was suddenly bingoed at university by someone who was supposed to be my friend. After I mentioned I would Continue reading Dont Tell Me Im Going To Change MyMind

Just a few rules to remember when approaching a strange dog. Whilst these rules are targeted at parents with young children, many of the advice here should be remembered and used by people of all ages and lifestyles. There's also some advice aimed at dog owners too.

Though it might be a touchy subject for some people, there's usuallynot much of a problem with asking a person if they are interested in having kids in the future. If you're getting to know someone, or maybe notice that they haven't talked about their future plans in the same way that others have, naturally Continue reading Stop Asking Us When Were Going To HaveKids.

Quite simply put, someone who is childfree is a person who doesn't ever want children. This cansometimesbe confused with someone who is childless; which is a person who wants children and either doesn't have anyyet or can't have them. We're often seen as careless, selfish, child-hating, crazy cat people, and whilst there's probably at least Continue reading What Does It Mean To BeChildfree?

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The 2018 main event will be held in Frankfurt, Germany at the "Kunstverein Familie Montez" on April 7th, 2018, 15:00 - 20:00 CET.

The 2018 symposium will address the growing severity of emerging social destabilization, war, income inequality, slavery, dramatic environmental failures and, in short, overall public health and societal crises playing out on the Earth's stage today.

This five-hour event will feature speakers such as Peter Joseph, Colin Turner (The Free World Cha...rta), Anna Brodskaya, Michael Kubler, Bert Zimpel, Serf Doesborgh and many more who will be covering a range of topics, from The Zeitgeist Movement's train of thought, observations and proposals; to effective activism, transitional possibilities, technological developments, the importance of independent journalism, non-violent communication, the role of humor in activism, dealing with opposition and much more.

Speakers List:

Peter Joseph (TZM US)Anna Brodskaya (TZM Ireland)Michael Kubler (TZM Australia)Serf Doesborgh (TZM Netherland)Bert Zimpel (TZM Germany)Arjang Jameh (TZM US)Abby Martin (Journalist/Artist)Lee Camp (Comedian)Colin Turner (The Free World Charta)Rowena Bernardo (Blogger/Innovation Engineer)Timm Wille (Open Source Ecology Germany)Markus Kollotzek (GreenNet-Project)

Hosted by: Franky Mller (TZM Germany)

Tickets: buytickets.at/zdayglobal

ABOUT Zeitgeist Day:

Zeitgeist Day, or Z-Day for short, is a global annual event day which occurs in the middle of March each year. The goal is to increase public awareness of The Zeitgeist Movement. The first official Z-Day took place in 2009. These events were well-documented by news agencies across the world, including the New York Times in America. An archive list of those events can be found on the zdayglobal.org site. The 2010 Z-Day had 330 sympathetic events occur in over 70 countries worldwide. These events were also well-documented by news agencies across the world, including the Huffington Post in America.

ABOUT The Zeitgeist Movement:

The Zeitgeist Movement is a global sustainability activist movement presenting the case for the needed transition out of our current unsustainable economic model and into a new sustainable socio-economic paradigm based on using the best that science and technology have to offer to maximize human, animal and environmental well being in accordance with the natural world.

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Starting a new business? Here's how

All food business operators must be registered or approved by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. This also applies for importers of food from other EU Member States or third countries and producers/importers of food contact materials (FCM).

You will find more information about starting a new food business in Denmark here.

Marketing of food supplements in Denmark

If you change the composition of a food supplement, the product must be registered once again as if it were a new product. An exception to this rule concerns a change in the amount of technological additives. This will not need to be registered.

Fee for product safety checks

Companies that have registered one or more food supplements in Denmark and that have an annual turnover exceeding 50,000 DKK must pay an annual fee of 9,321 DKK as well as an annual fee of746 DKK per registered food supplement.

These fees are used to cover the expenses in relation to product safety checks. The payment is charged for companies and products registered as of September 1that year.

When your food supplement is no longer marketed

Unregistered supplements are not allowed to be marketed neither from the wholesale company, websites, nor retail stores.

Which products can be marketed as food supplements?

The most common food supplements consist of vitamins and/or minerals. However, they can also consist of dietary fibers, essential fatty acids, animal ingredients (e.g. fish oil), or plant ingredients (e.g. extracts of garlic). Food supplements must contain the ingredients in quantities that are able to exert an effect on the body.

Moreover, it is required that food supplements are sold in smaller quantities (e.g. as pills, fluids, or powder) and that they are labelled with information about the recommended daily dose.

Regulations on the composition of food supplements

The guidance on food supplements contains an overview of the amounts of vitamins and minerals that the DVFA recommend for food supplementsnot tosurpass.If a company wishes to exceed these levels, they must be responsible for documenting the safety of the food supplement.The DVFA typically considers a level above the Tolerable Upper Intake Level(UL) set by EFSA as a potential health risk.

General principles and requirements of food law

It is required that the labelling contains a list of ingredients, the name of the food as well as the name of the company producing it.

In addition to the general requirements mentioned above, food supplements should also be labelled with the following:

Information stating that the product is a food supplement.

Information about which vitamins, minerals, or other ingredients the product contains.

Information about the amount of vitamins, minerals, or other ingredients in the product.

The Danish and Latin name of any herbal ingredients.

The recommended daily dose.

A warning not to consume more than the recommended daily dose.

Information to the consumer stating that food supplements should not replace a healthy and varied diet.

A warning to keep the product out of reach of children.

Information about the amount of nutrients or other substances expressed as a percentage of the recommended daily dose.

The content of vitamins and minerals should be expressed as a percentage of the reference values set out in Annex XIII, Part A, Point 1 in Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers.

Nutrition and health claims on food supplements

Products claimed to be able to prevent or cure diseases are considered to be medicinal products and are therefore controlled by the Danish Medicines Agency. Follow this link to view their homepage.

If your company sells and/or produces food products, you must have a plan that shows how you regularly ensure that your business complies with the rules. This is called self-regulation and such a plan is called a self-regulation program.

The self-regulation program deals with foodstuffs as well as with cleaning, machinery, and premises.

The program must be plainly written to ensure that all employees can understand it and have no doubt as to what needs to be done.

Additional food regulations

In addition to the above-mentioned rules and regulations there are more specific rules for some types of food products:

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Yes, were back at CPAC, and, as always, with a panel that addresses one of the most urgent issues of the day:

Suppression of Conservative Views on Social Media: A First Amendment Issue

Major social media platforms such as Google, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube have created the new town square, having become the primary portals through which Americans receive news today. On these platform, the Left has a monopoly. The social media giants are moving actively to erase and hide any viewpoint or person that does not conform to the progressive values for which they stand.

This has resulted in massive losses of readership and revenue for conservative sites, and endangers the very freedom of our Republic by allowing only one point of view to be aired. The social media corporations today hold more power over the public discourse than any totalitarian regime ever held. They do not just target voices with whom they disagree, but they make sure that those voices are unable to sustain themselves.

This panel will discuss the magnitude of this phenomenon, and discuss ways that the power of these Leftist social media outlets can be limited, such that voices that dissent from the hard-Left agenda can again be freely heard.

February 23, 2018, 3:00 pm Chesapeake B-C

Panelists will include:

James Damore, Google whistleblower

Harmeet K. Dhillon, renowned free speech attorney

Dan Gainor, Vice President for Business and Culture, Media Research Center

Pamela Geller, Editor and Publisher, Geller Report, President, American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and author of Fatwa: Hunted in America

Jim Hoft, Editor-in-Chief, Gateway Pundit

James OKeefe, Project Veritas

Marlene Jaeckel, Tech entrepreneur

America, the worlds first government based on individual rights and personal liberty, should be on the forefront of the defense of freedom of speech across the world, the light among nations, the shining city on a hill. Instead, social media giants, run by uniformly leftwing corporate managers, have become the new totalitarians. This evokes the worst totalitarian regimes in the history of the world. Never in modern history has such immense power been in the hands of so few.

Panelist James OKeefe added: Social media giants in Silicon Valley have quickly become the worlds most powerful media gatekeepers, even more powerful than the mainstream media.We exposed Twitter forsilencing and shadow banning people they do not agree with, and propagated their preferred views for political and financial purposes.

Panelist Dan Gainor said: Tech/social media companies are vastly more powerful than their old media predecessors in print and TV ever were. Weve already seen some of the dangers of what happens when that power is abused. This isnt just a panel discussion about what might happen. This is a wake-up call for the entire conservative movement.

Another panelist, Jim Hoft, observed: 2016 was the first election where conservatives fled the liberal mainstream media. After decades of smears and abuse they found the truth in conservative media online. Today there are forces working to make sure this does not happen again. Its time to stand up before its too late.

This groundbreaking panel discussion follows on the heels of Cant We Talk About This? The Islamic Jihad Against Free Speech, our shocking new film detailing the concerted effort by international organizations to compel the U.S. and other Western countries to curtail the freedom of speech and criminalize criticism of Islam.

This issue the suppression of the freedom of speech on social media affects all of us on the right. In fact, it is the most critical issue of the day: if we are stripped of the means to communicate with one another, its all over. It was free people speaking freely on social media, outside of the reach of the media establishment, that got Donald Trump elected President of the United States. When the left lost the election, they lost their mind.

We must not allow the left to strip us of the weapons we used to win that victory. Thats what well be fighting for at CPAC.

Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of The Geller Report and author of the bestselling book, FATWA: Hunted in America, as well asThe Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administrations War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Follow her on TwitterorFacebook.

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Below are nearly 100 stories of spiritual enlightenment. please look past any religious overtones and appreciate the spiritual meaning of each story.

Story #1A martial arts student went to his teacher and said earnestly,I am devoted to studying your martial system. How long will it take me to master it?

The teachers reply was casual,Ten years.

Impatiently, the student answered,But I want to master it faster than that. I will work very hard. I will practice every day, ten or more hours a day if I have to. How long will it take then?

The teacher thought for a moment,20 years.Story #2Two traveling Zen monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across. One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other bank. She thanked him and departed.

As the monks continued on their way, the one was brooding and preoccupied. Unable to hold his silence, he spoke out.Brother, our spiritual training teaches us to avoid any contact with women, but you picked that one up on your shoulders and carried her!

Brother, the second monk replied,I set her down on the other side, while you are still carrying her.

Story #3When the Zen spiritual teacher and his disciples began their evening meditation, the cat who lived in the monastery made such noise that it distracted them. So the teacher ordered that the cat be tied up during the evening practice. Years later, when the teacher died, the cat continued to be tied up during the meditation session. And when the cat eventually died, another cat was brought to the monastery and tied up.

Centuries later, learned descendants of the spiritual teacher wrote scholarly treatises about the religious significance of tying up a cat for meditation practice.

Story #4A Japanese warrior was captured by his enemies and thrown into prison. That night he was unable to sleep because he feared that the next day he would be interrogated, tortured, and executed. Then the words of his Zen master came to him,Tomorrow is not real. It is an illusion. The only reality is now.

Heeding these words, the warrior became peaceful and fell asleep.

Story #5During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived everyone except the Zen master.

Curious about this old fellow, the general went to the temple to see for himself what kind of man this master was. When he wasnt treated with the deference and submissiveness to which he was accustomed, the general burst into anger.

You fool, he shouted as he reached for his sword,Dont you realize you are standing before a man who could run you through without blinking an eye!

But despite the threat, the master seemed unmoved.

And do you realize, the master replied calmly, that you are standing before a man who can be run through without blinking an eye?Story #6Four Zen monks decided to meditate silently without speaking for two weeks. By nightfall on the first day, the candle began to flicker and then went out.

The first monk said, Oh, no! The candle is out.

The second monk said, Arent we not suppose to talk?

The third monk said, Why must you two break the silence?

The fourth monk laughed and said, Ha! Im the only one who didnt speak.

Story #7A beautiful girl in the village was pregnant. Her angry parents demanded to know who was the father. At first resistant to confess, the anxious and embarrassed girl finally pointed to Hakuin, the Zen master whom everyone previously revered for living such a pure life. When the outraged parents confronted Hakuin with their daughters accusation, he simply replied Is that so?

When the child was born, the parents brought it to the Hakuin, who now was viewed as a pariah by the whole village. They demanded that he take care of the child since it was his responsibility. Is that so? Hakuin said calmly as he accepted the child.

For many months he took very good care of the child until the daughter could no longer withstand the lie she had told. She confessed that the real father was a young man in the village whom she had tried to protect. The parents immediately went to Hakuin to see if he would return the baby.

With profuse apologies they explained what had happened. Is that so? Hakuin said as he handed them the child.

Story #8A student went to his meditation teacher and said, My meditation is horrible! I feel so distracted, or my legs ache, or Im constantly falling asleep. Its just horrible!

It will pass, the teacher said matter-of-factly. A week later, the student came back to his teacher.

My meditation is wonderful! I feel so aware, so peaceful, so alive! Its just wonderful!

It will pass, the teacher replied matter-of-factly.

Story #9A Zen Master lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening, while he was away, a thief sneaked into the hut only to find there was nothing in it to steal. The Zen Master returned and found him.

You have come a long way to visit me, he told the prowler, and you should not return empty handed. Please take my clothes as a gift.

The thief was bewildered, but he took the clothes and ran away. The Master sat naked, watching the moon.

Poor fellow, he mused, I wish I could give him this beautiful moon.

Story #10A disciple who loved and admired his Zen teacher decided to observe his behavior minutely, believing that if he did everything that his teacher did, then he would also acquire his teachers wisdom. The teacher always wore white, and so his disciple did the same. The teacher was a vegetarian, and so his disciple stopped eating meat and replaced it with a diet of vegetables and herbs. The teacher was an austere man, and so the disciple decided to devote himself to self-sacrifice and started sleeping on a straw mattress.After some time, the teacher noticed these changes in his disciples behavior and asked him why.

I am climbing the steps of initiation, came the reply.

The white of my clothes shows the simplicity of my search, the vegetarian food purifies my body, and the lack of comfort makes me think only of spiritual things.

Smiling, the teacher took him to a field where a horse was grazing.

You have spent all this time looking outside yourself, which is what matters least, he said. Do you see that creature there? He has white skin, eats only grass and sleeps in a stable on a straw bed. Do you think he has the face of a saint or will one day become a real teacher?.

Story #11A famous Zen spiritual teacher came to the front door of the Kings palace. None of the guards tried to stop him as he entered and made his way to where the King himself was sitting on his throne.

What do you want? asked the King, immediately recognizing the visitor.

I would like a place to sleep in this inn, replied the teacher.

But this is not an inn, said the King, It is my palace.

May I ask who owned this palace before you?

My father. He is dead.

And who owned it before him?

My grandfather. He too is dead.

And this place where people live for a short time and then move on did I hear you say that it is NOT an inn?

Story #12There once lived a great warrior well versed in Zen. Though quite old, he still was able to defeat any challenger. His reputation extended far and wide throughout the land and many students gathered to study under him. One day an infamous young warrior arrived at the village. He was determined to be the first man to defeat the great master. Along with his strength, he had an uncanny ability to spot and exploit any weakness in an opponent. He would wait for his opponent to make the first move, thus revealing a weakness, and then would strike with merciless force and lightning speed. No one had ever lasted with him in a match beyond the first move. Much against the advice of his concerned students, the old master gladly accepted the young warriors challenge. As the two squared off for battle, the young warrior began to hurl insults at the old master. He threw dirt and spit in his face. For hours he verbally assaulted him with every curse and insult known to mankind. But the old warrior merely stood there motionless and calm. Finally, the young warrior exhausted himself. Knowing he was defeated, he left feeling shamed.

Somewhat disappointed that he did not fight the insolent youth, the students gathered around the old master and questioned him.

How could you endure such an indignity? How did you drive him away?

If someone comes to give you a gift and you do not receive it, the master replied, to whom does the gift belong?

Story #13Two people are lost in the desert. They are dying from hunger and thirst. Finally, they come to a high wall. On the other side they can hear the sound of a waterfall and birds singing. Above, they can see the branches of a lush tree extending over the top of the wall. Its fruit look delicious. One of them manages to climb over the wall and disappears down the other side. The other, instead, returns to the desert to help other lost travelers find their way to the oasis.

Story #14Once there was a well known philosopher and scholar who devoted himself to the study of Zen for many years. On the day that he finally attained enlightenment, he took all of his books out into the yard, and burned them all.Story #15One disciple is bragging about his master to the disciple of another master. He claims that his teacher is capable of all sorts of magical acts, like writing in the air with a brush, and having the characters appear on a piece of paper hundreds of feet away.

And what can YOUR master do? he asks the other disciple.

My master can also perform amazing feats, the other student replies. When hes tired, he sleeps. When hungry, he eats.

Story #16A novice once went to Abbot Macario to ask his advice on how best to please the Lord. Go to the cemetery and insult the dead, said Macario.

The brother did as he was told. The following day, he went back to Macario. Did they respond? asked the Abbot.

No, said the novice.

Then go and praise them instead.

The novice obeyed. That same afternoon, he went back to the Abbot, who again asked if the dead had responded.

No, they didnt, said the novice.

In order to please the Lord, do exactly as they did, Macario told him.

Take no notice of mens scorn or of their praise; in that way, you will be able to build your own path.

Story #17A rabbi spent his whole life teaching that all the answers to our questions are in ourselves, but his congregation insisted on consulting him about everything they did.

One day, the rabbi had an idea. He placed a notice on the door of his house, saying: ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 100 MOEDAS PER ANSWER.

A shopkeeper decided to pay the one hundred moedas. He gave the rabbi the money and said: Dont you think thats rather a lot to charge for a question?

Yes, I do, said the rabbi. And I have just answered your question. If you want to know anything else, youll have to pay another one hundred moedas, or else look for the answer inside yourself, which is far cheaper and much more efficient.

From then on, no one bothered him.

Story #18A young man said to the abbot of a monastery: I would really like to become a monk, but I have learned nothing of importance in my life. My father only taught me how to play chess, and that does not lead to enlightenment. And besides, I was told that all games are sinful.

They can be sinful, but they can also be a diversion, and perhaps this monastery needs a little of both, came the reply.

The abbot called for a chessboard and summoned a monk to play with the young man. However, before the game began, he added:We may need diversion, but we cannot have everyone playing chess all the time. We will have only the best players here. If our monk loses, he will leave the monastery, thus creating an opening for you.

The abbot was deadly serious. The young man played an aggressive game, but then he noticed the saintly look in the monks eyes, and from then on, he began to play deliberately badly. He decided that he would rather lose because he felt that the monk could prove far more useful to the world than him.

Suddenly, the abbot overturned the chessboard onto the floor. You learned far more than you were taught, he said.You have the powers of concentration necessary to win and you are capable of fighting for what you want, but you also have compassion and the ability to sacrifice yourself for a noble cause. You have shown yourself capable of balancing discipline and mercy; welcome to our monastery!

Story #19A certain rabbi was adored by everyone in his community, who were all enchanted with everything he said. Apart from Isaac, that is, who never missed an opportunity to contradict the rabbis interpretations and point out errors in his teaching. The others were disgusted by Isaacs behaviour, but could do nothing about it.

One day, Isaac died. During the funeral, the community noticed that the rabbi was looking very sad. Why so sad? asked someone. He found fault with everything you did!

Im not sad for my friend, who is now in heaven, replied the rabbi. I am sad for myself. While you all revered me, he challenged me, and so I was forced to improve. Now that hes gone, Im afraid I might stop growing.Story #20An emperor said to the Rabbi Yeoschoua ben Hanania: I would very much like to see your God.

That is impossible said the Rabbi.

Impossible? Then how can I entrust my life to someone whom I cannot see?

Show me the pocket in which you have placed the love of your wife, and let me weigh it in order to see how large her love is.Dont be silly; no one can keep someones love in their pocket.

The sun is only one of the works which the Lord placed in the universe and yet you cannot look at it directly. You cannot see love either, but you know you are capable of falling in love with a woman and entrusting your life to her. Is it not clear then that there are certain things in which we trust even though we cannot see them?;

Story #21When the great Rabbi Yitzhak Meir was studying the traditions of his people, one of his friends said to him jokingly: Ill give you a florin if you can tell me where God lives.

Ill give you two florins if you can tell me where he doesnt live, replied Meir.

Story #22One of the monks of Sceta said to Abbot Mateus: My tongue is always causing me problems. When I am amongst the faithful, I just cant control myself and I end up condemning their wrong actions.

The old abbot said to the distraught monk: If you really dont think you are capable of controlling yourself, then leave teaching and go back to the desert. But dont delude yourself: choosing solitude as an escape from a problem is always a proof of weakness.

What should I do then?Admit that you have some faults in order to avoid any pernicious feelings of superiority. And do your best to get things right when you can.

Story #23An orthodox Jew approached Rabbi Wolf and said: The bars are full to bursting and the people sit there into the small hours enjoying themselves!

The Rabbi said nothing.

The bars are full to bursting, people spend all night playing cards, and you say nothing?

Its a good thing that the bars are full, said Wolf. Everyone, since the beginning of Creation, has always wanted to serve God. The problem is that not everyone knows the best way to do so. Try to think of what you judge to be a sin as a virtue. These people who spend the night awake are learning alertness and persistence. When they have perfected these qualities, then all they will have to do is turn their eyes to God. And what excellent servants they will make!

Youre obviously an optimist, said the man.

It has nothing to do with optimism, replied Wolf. It is merely a matter of understanding that whatever we do, however absurd it might seem, can lead us to the Path. Its all just a question of time.Story #24An American tourist went to Cairo to visit the famous Polish rabbi Hafez Ayim. The tourist was surprised to see that the rabbi lived in a simple, book-lined room, in which the only pieces of furniture were a table and a bench.

Rabbi, wheres all your furniture? asked the tourist.

Why, wheres yours? retorted Hafez.

Mine? But Im just passing through.

So am I, said the rabbi.Story #25A believer approached Rabbi Moche of Kobryn and asked: How should I best use my days so that God will be contented with my actions?

There is only one possible option: to live with love, replied the Rabbi.

Minutes later, another follower approached him and asked the same question.

There is only one possible option: try to live with joy.

The first follower was taken aback. But the advice you gave me was different!

Not at all, said the rabbi. It was exactly the same.

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Paul Krugman joined The New York Times in 1999 as an Op-Ed columnist. He is distinguished professor in the Graduate Center Economics Ph.D. program and distinguished scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study Center at the City University of New York. In addition, he is professor emeritus of Princeton Universitys Woodrow Wilson School.

In 2008, Mr. Krugman was the sole recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on international trade theory.

Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1977. He has taught at Yale, M.I.T. and Stanford. At M.I.T. he became the Ford International Professor of Economics.

Mr. Krugman is the author or editor of 27 books and more than 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes. His professional reputation rests largely on work in international trade and finance; he is one of the founders of the new trade theory, a major rethinking of the theory of international trade. In recognition of that work, in 1991 the American Economic Association awarded him its John Bates Clark medal. Mr. Krugmans current academic research is focused on economic and currency crises.

At the same time, Mr. Krugman has written extensively for a broader public audience. Some of his articles on economic issues, originally published in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American and other journals, are reprinted in Pop Internationalism and The Accidental Theorist.

His column appears every Tuesday and Friday. Read his blog, The Conscience of a Liberal, and follow him on Twitter.

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Best Supplements For Your Brain: 4 Nootropics That Work …

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What a fun-looking word: nootropics. It refers to any type of compound or food that has the ability to improve your mental abilities, including your memory, ability to focus, motivation, or even mood. While the general category most definitely includes smart drugs, neuro-enhancing supplements fit the bill as well. Daily, neuroscientists are acquiring a more nuanced understanding of the brain, the result being many new pharmaceutical drugs which target exact regions of the brain are in the works. The very same knowledge, though, might reveal how particular supplements might do an equally good job of improving brain function over the long haul.

Why go for prescription-strength when you can get the same by shopping the vitamin aisle?

In that spirit, heres a list of dietary supplements you could investigate for their potential use as a nootropic. Remember: Do your research and ask a doctors advice before popping any pill, natural or not. More importantly, not all dietary supplements are created equal, with some brands including additives you may not want (or are allergic to), so its important to vet any unfamiliar manufacturers.

Creatine is an old favorite among gym rats, who use it to enhance their sports performance, but over the past decade or so, the supplements neuro-enhancing abilities have been demonstrated as well. In one placebo-controlled study, researchers tested the hypothesis that 5 grams a day for a six-week period would enhance intelligence test scores while also improving memory. They enlisted the help of 45 young adult, vegetarian subjects and found the supplement had a significant positive effect on both working memory and intelligence, particularly with regard to tasks that require speed of processing. Though they tested vegetarians, the researchers would expect to see a beneficial effect of creatine supplementation on brain performance in most omnivores apart from those who consume very high amounts of meat.

Theanine (or more commonly L-theanine) is found in green tea and mushrooms and also sold as a dietary supplement in the United States. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration has granted it GRAS status (generally recognized as safe). According to various scientific studies, theanine has been found to affect the levels of some neurotransmitters, to prevent beta-amyloid-induced brain dysfunction, and to protect against stroke. L-theanine is even said to improve sleep quality in boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In terms of potential nootropic uses, several small studies indicate a combination of L-theanine and caffeine can improve cognitive performance, particular in the areas of focus and alertness. Apparently, though, the effects may not be long-lasting.

Passionflower is derived from the above ground parts of the plant. Primarily, people take it for its anti-anxiety effects, which have been proven in smaller scientific studies though not yet confirmed in large scale studies. Some other people use it to treat insomnia as well as neuralgia and withdrawal symptoms while coming off opiates or benzodiazepines. In patients undergoing surgery as well as those about to be treated by a dentist, passionflower has been effectively used to reduce apprehension.

DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid found in fish and seaweed, can improve your memory while protecting against certain psychiatric disorders. Various surveys of people with major depression indicate they have depleted levels of omega-3 fatty acids and one large study found depressive symptoms were significantly higher among infrequent fish consumers. However, no study has ever proven omega-3 fatty acid supplementation effective in relieving major, moderate, or even mild depression. That said, some data suggest it is a safe preventive measure and may reduce the risk of progression of certain psychiatric disorders. While one review of scientific studies found that DHA supplements significantly improves cognitive development in infants though does not improve cognitive performance in children, adults, or the elderly another review shows it can protect against mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and the risk and progression of Alzheimer's disease in the elderly.

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Seasteading: living in international waters indefinitely

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Joe Quirk's new book is out: "Seasteading: How Ocean Cities Will Change The World"

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TSI Floating City Project Report shows that there exists a market for seasteading now, that seasteads can be built within the price point of this market, and that host nations are likely to offer significant political autonomy.

Read the TSI|Delta-Sync "Seasteading Implementation Plan: Final Concept Report" detailing how a model seastead community could be built, structured, and rolled out.

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DeltaSyncs Design & Feasibility Report. TSI determined that DeltaSyncs concept is better adapted for the strategy of the Floating City Project, which encourages early seasteads to form within protected waters.

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Euroscicon – Nanotech & Nanobiotechnology

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About Conference

The EuroSciCon will be holding conference onNanotech & Nanobiotechnology 2018 which is scheduled duringJuly 12-13, 2018atParis, France. The theme of the conference isChallenges and Innovations in next generation Nanoscience".

The Nanobiotech 2018 aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Nanomedicine in Healthcare. It also provides the premier interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, practical challenges encountered, and the solutions adopted in the field of Nanomedicine. The conference program will cover a wide variety of topics relevant to the Nanomedicine, including: Nanomedicine in drug discover and delivery, Nano diagnostics, theragnostic, applications of Nanomedicine in healthcare applications and disease treatments.

What's New

Nanotech & Nanobiotechnology 2018 includes international attendee workshops, lectures and symposia, including a designated registration area, a refreshment break and gala lunch. Nanotechnology educators can join the EuroSciCon as an international member to receive discounts on registration. So, come and join leading experts and allied professionals from July 12-13, 2018 in Paris, France to keep up with the rapidly accelerating pace of change that is already having an impact on the field of Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine & Nanobiotechnology and will continue to in the future. The field ofNanotechnologyhave not only helped the development in different fields in science and technology but also contributed towards the improvement of the quality of human life to a great extent. All this has become possible with the different discoveries and inventions leading to the development of various applications. The core aim of Nanotech & Nanobiotechnology 2018conference is to provide an opportunity for the delegates to meet, interact and exchange new ideas in the various areas of Nanotechnology andBiotechnology.

About Paris, France

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. The city is both acommuneanddepartmentand forms the Centre and headquarters of theFrance, or Paris Region. By the 17th century, Paris was one of Europe's major centers of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts, and it retains that position still today. The Paris Region had aGDPof 624 billion (US $687 billion) in 2012, accounting for 30.0 percent of the GDP of France. Paris is often referred to as "The City of Light" (La Ville Lumire), both because of its leading role during the Age of Enlightenment , and more literally because Paris was one of the first European cities to adopt gasstreet lighting. In the 1860s, the boulevards and streets of Paris were illuminated by 56,000 gas lamps. Since the late 19th century, Paris has also been known asPan-am.

Paris has many important cultural institutions: itsLouvremuseum is the most visited in the world; itsMuse d'Orsayis noted for its collection of FrenchImpressionistart, and its Pompidou-centerMuse National d'Art Modernehas the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe. The central area of the city along the Seine River is classified as aUNESCO Heritage Siteand includes many notable monuments, includingNotre Dame Cathedral, theSainte-Chapelle, the formerUniversal ExpositionGrand Palais,Petit PalaisandEiffel Tower, and theBasilica of Sacr-CurinMontmartre. In 2015, Paris received 22.2 million visitors, making it one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Nanomedicine:

ToxicologyNanomedicineis a field of medical science whose applications are increasing more and more thanks tonanorobotsandbiological machines, which constitute a very useful tool to develop this area of knowledge. In the past years, researchers have done many improvements in the different devices and systems required to develop nanorobots. This supposes a new way of treating and dealing with diseases such as cancer; thanks to nanorobots, side effects of chemotherapy have been controlled, reduced and even eliminated, so some years from now, cancer patients will be offered an alternative to treat this disease instead of chemotherapy, which causes secondary effects such as hair loss, fatigue or nausea killing not only cancerous cells but also the healthy ones.

Nanoelectronics:

Nanoelectronics are based on the application of nanotechnology in the field of electronics and electronic components. Although the term Nanoelectronics may generally mean all the electronic components, special attention is given in the case of transistors. These transistors have a size lesser than 100 nanometers. Visibly, they are very small that separate studies must be made for knowing the quantum mechanical properties and inter-atomic design. As a result, though the transistors appear in the nanometer range, they are designed through nanotechnology. Their design is also very much different from the traditional transistors and usually falls in the category of one dimensional nanotubes/nanowires, hybrid molecular electronics, or advanced molecular electronics. This technology is said to be the next future, but its practicality is near to impossible even now that they may be difficult to emerge soon.

Nano architectonics:

The time for a major paradigm shift from nanotechnology to Nano architectonics has come. Scientists in nanoscience and nanotechnology have been creating fine nanomaterials and Nano systems using advanced physical techniques and apparatus, mainly as separate processes. These involve the fabrication of small objects and the observation of their behaviors. However, we are now must construct fine systems from these nanocomponents like the way that carpenters architect house and buildings. Technological efforts at the nanoscale must be organized and converted into the new concept of Nano architectonics

Nanophysics:

Nanotechnology is all about designing, fabricating and controlling materials and components with dimensions on the nanoscale, i.e. from 1 to 100 nm. During the Master's programme in Nanomaterials and Nanophysics you will learn how nanotechnology can be used in order to develop new optic and electronic components and new materials for use in communications technology, sensor technology or catalysis.

Nano mechanics:

The Nano mechanics investigates mechanical properties of engineered and biological materials at the Nano to macro-scale using experimental, analytical, and computational techniques. MEMS/NEMS (Microelectromechanical system/ Nanoelectromechanical system) devices are sensitive to a wide range of stimuli such as temperature, mass, pressure and are thus extensively used as sensors in cars and mobile phones. The biggest promise of MEMS and NEMS technology is the development of extremely small sensor systems that can be used virtually everywhere and thus can impart intelligence to almost all man-made things.

Nanorobotics:

A nanorobotics is a machine that can build and manipulate things precisely at an atomic level. Imaging a robot that can pluck, pick and place atoms like a kid plays with LEGO bricks, able to build anything from basic atomic building blocks. While some people dismiss the future of nanorobots as science fiction, you should realize that each of us is alive today because of countless nanobots operating within each of our trillions of cells. We give them biological names like a ribosome, but they are essentially machines programmed with a function like read messenger RNA to create a specific protein.

Nano chemistry:

Nano chemistry, described the field as "an emerging subdiscipline of solid-state chemistry that emphasizes the synthesis rather than the engineering aspects of preparing little pieces of matter with nanometer sizes in one, two or three dimensions. The Nano chemist can be considered to work towards this goal from the atom 'up', whereas the nanophysics tends to operate from the bulk 'down'." Today, Nano chemists work in biomedical chemistry, polymer chemistry, product synthesis, and a host of other areas. They use a wide variety of methods to prepare and assemble "little pieces of matter" with novel electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical, and mechanical behaviors that can be attributed to their nanometer-scale size.

Nanomaterials:

Nanotechnologies make use of very small objects or artifacts. Nanomaterials are an increasingly important product of nanotechnologies. They contain nanoparticles, smaller than 100 nanometers in at least one dimension. Nanomaterials are coming into use in healthcare, electronics, cosmetics and other areas. Their physical and chemical properties often they differ from those of bulk materials, so they call for specialized risk assessment. This needs to cover health risks to workers and consumers, and potential risks to the environment.

Cellular and subcellular Nanotechnology:

Cell biology today is on the verge of a nanotechnology-driven research era, one in which the availability of sophisticated new experimental techniques and tools of nanotechnology is set not only to emulate more complex,in vivolike extracellular environments, but also monitor dynamic complex biological processes in real time at the single cell level. Ultimately, the goal is to establish a fully integrated knowledge of how the building blocks of humans cells work at the molecular level. It is only by a detailed knowledge of how cells work, independently and together, in healthy and diseased states that one will be able to understand and anticipate the onset and effects of disease and create an appropriate and effective means to prevent and treat disease. The unravelling of cellular and molecular mechanisms that could be used to reprogram or instruct cells would enable unprecedented advances in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Major Challenges in Nanobiotechnology:

Nanotechnology supporters believe that it has the potential to transform our lives dramatically, while opponents of nanotechnology fear that self-replicating "nanobots" could escape from laboratories and reduce all life on earth. Some ethical discussions have been focused on the field of molecular nanotechnology. The lack of meritorious ethics research proposals may be related to the difficulty in identifying or anticipating ethical issues that are unique to nanobiotechnology, particularly its near-term applications.

Advancement in Nanotechnology:

Advanced Nanotechnology was founded by industry visionaries to revolutionize systems and delivers a quantum improvement in performance, dramatically reduce power consumption and deliver extreme security. They use patented hardware and proprietary state-of-the-art algorithms to dramatically increases defense against hacking. We leverage the power of 3D & nanotechnology to break the semiconductor interconnect bottleneck and eliminate the gridlock that limits performance and waste power.

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United States Bankruptcy Court – District of New Jersey – Official Site

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TIME CHANGE ON JUDGE FERGUSON'S CHAPTER 11 & 7 MOTIONS AND INFORMATION NOTICESANNOUNCEMENT - TIME CHANGE ON JUDGE FERGUSON'S CHAPTER 11 & 7 MOTIONS AND INFORMATION NOTICESSTARTING JANUARY 2018, HEARINGS BEFORE JUDGE FERGUSON ON CHAPTER 11 & 7 MOTIONS AND INFORMATION NOTICES WILL BE AT 10:00 A.M. MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT WILL BE AT 11:00 A.M.2017 Proposed Amendments Published for Public CommentThe Judicial Conference Advisory Committees on Appellate, Bankruptcy, Criminal and Evidence Rules have proposed amendments to the following rules and forms and have asked that they be circulated to thebar and public for comment.

Appellate Rules: 3, 13, 26.1, 28, and 32Bankruptcy Rules: 2002, 4001, 6007, 9036, 9037, and Official Form 410Criminal Rules: New Criminal Rule 16.1, Rule 5 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, and Rule 5 of the Rules Governing Section 2255 ProceedingsRules of Evidence: 807

The proposed amendments and the advisory committees reports explaining the proposed changes are posted on the Judiciarys website at:http://www.uscourts.gov/rules-policies/proposed-amendments-published-public-comment.The information is posted in a printable format for those who prefer hard copies.The public comment period closes on February 15, 2018.

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Ascension Coffee Locations

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Hours of Operation:

HOURS:Mon (7am-10pm)Tues (7am-10pm)Wed (7am-10pm)Thurs (7am-10pm)Fri (7am-10pm+)Sat (7am-10pm+)Sun (7am-7pm)

Parking lot with Valet Parking or park behind adjacent apartments in spaces marked "Retail Parking".

Hours of Operation:

HOURS:Mon (7am-9pm)Tues (7am-10pm)Wed (7am-10pm)Thurs (7am-10pm)Fri (7am-10pm)Sat (8am-10pm)Sun (8am-6pm)

Complimentary Valet with validation out front in courtyard or at Moxies (not Hotel Crescent Court Valet).

Two hours free parking underneath with Validation. Enter off Maple or Cedar Springs where you see the sign "SELF PARK". Follow the "Ascension" signs and take the 200 building elevator to Lobby, there you will see signs to take you the next few steps to Ascension.

Hours of Operation:

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Litecoin Price Forecast: Will LTC Price Rout After LitePay Launch?

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We identify a pattern developing in crypto prices as crypto markets recover on Friday after a two-day slump. Prices seem to be following a routine here, whereby prices drop around mid-week and then begin to reverse their fall toward the end of the week. Later, a splendid rally follows on the weekends.

This is how far we have managed to predict prices in this space because, let's be honest, cryptos are otherwise acutely capricious investments sporting high volatility and nearly absolute unpredictability. This is because.

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Ethereum Price Forecast: ETH Looks Credible Beside Venezuelan Petro

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Venezuela’s attempt to create a state-backed cryptocurrency is one of the weirdest experiments in blockchain, but apparently, Turkey finds it alluring.

I think it makes Ethereum look more feasible.

Of course, it’s not exactly clear what Venezuela accomplished with its national token. Details are few and far between. All we really know is the cryptocurrency raised $735.0 million in its initial offering. And even that is suspect.
Ethereum Price Chart.

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Ripple Price Prediction: Interest Rates Playing Havoc with Capital Markets

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Frequent readers of Profit Confidential might wonder why I glossed over Ripple’s addition of five new partners.

The announcement came earlier this week to little fanfare and I have barely mentioned it till now. (Source: “RippleNet Strengthens Emerging Markets Access into India, Brazil and China,” Ripple, February 21, 2018.)

It’s because Ripple does this all the time. It’s boring.

Yes, Brazil’s largest.

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Bitcoin Price Forecast: BTC Transaction Fees Hit Four-Month Lows

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Bitcoin users have long been facing a Catch-22 situation. Here’s what it looks like: When too many people begin using Bitcoin, transaction fees shoot up, making it expensive to use. Rising fees discourage users. As they begin to exit, fees begin to drop. Declining fees, in turn, attract more users. And the cycle goes on and on.

But Bitcoin may have finally found a way out of this vicious cycle. Before we get to it, here’s a brief market overview for today.

On Friday, Bitcoin prices are shifting sideways as the crypto.

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