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Anatoly Karlin on Cliodynamics at Transhuman Visions conference (2014.02.01)
My speech on the emerging science of cliodynamics ("mathematized history") at the first Transhuman Visions conference. Also starring Aubrey de Grey, Zoltan Istvan, Apneet Jolly, Rich Lee,...
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Tom Brady and the New England Patriots opened as a two-point underdog on the odds to win Super Bowl XLIX against the Seattle Seahawks, but that line has since come down at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
That betting line now ranges between the Seahawks as one-point favorites and a pick em. The moneyline for the game, meanwhile, opened at Seahawks -143 and Patriots +129. That too has come down to Seahawks -115 and Patriots -105.
New England advanced to Super Bowl XLIX by easily covering in a 45-7 win over the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC Championship Game. The Patriots improved to 14-4 against the spreadon the season. If the current line holds up, it will mark the sixth time this season the Patriots have been a betting underdog. New England is 4-1 straight upand ATS in such games.
Seattle advanced to the Super Bowl with a 28-22 win over the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game that just missed covering the spread. The Seahawks have been favorites in both of their playoff games, and in 14 of 16 regular season games this season. They are 13-3 SU and 9-6-1 ATS in such games.
Seattle is back in the Super Bowl for the second straight season. The Seahawks defeated the Denver Broncos 43-8 in Super Bowl 48, easily covering as a betting underdog. New England returns to the Super Bowl for the first time since Super Bowl 46, where they lost 21-17 to the New York Giants. New England has been to five Super Bowls in the last 13 years. Since upsetting the St. Louis Rams as a 14-point underdog in Super Bowl 36, the Patriots are 2-2 SU but 0-4 ATS in Super Bowl appearances.
The total is set at 48.5 points on the Super Bowl XLIX betting lines. The Patriots-Colts game went UNDER, while Seahawks-Packers went OVER. Both games were dealing with inclement weather, which brought in a lot of sharp money on the UNDER. This years Super Bowl is in Glendale, Arizona, and weather will not be an issue. Even if it does rain, University of Phoenix Stadium has a retractable roof.
The point total has gone OVER in 10 of New Englands 18 games this season. It has also gone OVER in 10 of Seattles 18 games this season. The total went OVER in Seattles Super Bowl win last season, and has gone OVER in three straight Seahawks playoff games. The total has alternated between OVER and UNDER in New Englands last seven playoff games.
The OddsShark Computer predicts a tight contest, with New England winning 35-34.6; the computer views the game as essentially a pick em on the neutral field.
New England heads to the Super Bowl in fairly good health. Julian Edelman left the AFC Championship Game in the second quarter with a hip injury, but later returned. Center Bryan Stork was inactive with a knee injury, missing his first start since entering the starting lineup in Week 8. His status for the Super Bowl is to be determined.
Seattle faces question marks in its secondary. Earl Thomas left the NFC Championship Game in the first half with a shoulder injury, but returned and finished the game with a harness on the shoulder. Richard Sherman suffered an elbow injury, and appeared to play the fourth quarter with essentially one useful arm. Both players are reportedly getting MRIs to determine the extent of the injuries, but both said they would play in the Super Bowl.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. - When people heard Jimmy Fallon was going to host his show in Phoenix, tickets were gone in minutes. So this is your big change to still get in on the live show.
And if you love music, this is also your opportunity to score 2 tickets to Friday's DIRECTV Super Fan Fest at Pendergast Farm. It's a big name, musical line up you wont want to miss.
Always dreamed of hearing Snoop Dog in concert? How about rubbing elbows with Jimmy Fallon? Well you have a chance to do BOTH thanks to the city of Glendale.
Always dreamed of hearing Snoop Dog in concert? . or rubbing elbows with Jimmy Fallon? Well you have a chance to do BOTH.thanks to the city of Glendale
"We've contested in the past before, but I will tell you that these 2 contest that were running right now for the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon and for the Fan Fest are the most popular," said City of Glendale spokesperson Joe Hengemuehler.
This year's Friday line up for the DirectTV Super Fan Fest is also star studded. Imagine Dragons will headline with Snoop Dog, with Young and Giants and American Authors rounding out the show.
The fact of the matter is not everyone's going to get a ticket to go into see the Super Bowl and so we're trying to make sure that people capture a sense of the excitement that's wrapped around the event," he said.
Entering the contest is really easy, just pick up your mobile device or head over to your computer and visit the Twitter page for the Glendale CVB. Re-tweet the link about the contest and you're entered. You can also head on over to their Facebook page and there you'll find a link that says giveaway. Tap on that and you'll find a link to the Jimmy Fallon Show tickets. You can either Share that or "Like" it and also be entered to win the contest.
Entries must be received by Friday, January 23rd at Noon. After that they will do a random drawing for the winners.
Tickets to the DirecTV Super Fan Fest are valued at $99 each, so that prize is about a $200 value. To enter the contest, you must beat leastt 18-years-old. If you're you lucky enough to win the Fallon tickets, both guests attending must be at least 16 years old.
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Published: January 19, 2015
Sharon Nordstrom feels ashamed for participating in a $38,000 multiple sclerosis stem cell treatment inIndia that was not all it was promoted to be. Submitted photo.
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Sharon Nordstrom feels ashamed for participating in a $38,000 multiple sclerosis stem cell treatment inIndia that was not all it was promoted to be.
Im going to be a real mouthpiece now for people who think theyre toosmartto fall for stuff like this, she said.
The WinnipegFreePress this week published aninvestigationinto Winnipeg-based Regenetek Research, finding that head researcher Doug Broeska fabricated his credentials, including his PhD, and overstated the effects of the stem-cell treatment.
The newspaper also discovered that the chairman of the medical ethics committee at the Inamdar Hospital in Pune,India, told Broeska his lack of credentials and followup violatedinternational ethical standards and ordered him to step down as principal investigator of the stem-cell study.
Broeska told theFreePress he was terminated only because it was decided to have a local principal investigator stationed inIndia.
TheFreePress further reported that the University of Winnipeg has cancelled a joint stem-cell treatment project involving Broeskas company.
Nordstrom says she last heard from Broeska on June 16, when he said in an email he would expel her from the trial after she questioned the absence of a followup care plan. For months, she kept her situation quiet.
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Bhutan Journey to discover Spirituality
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WHAT is spirituality? What does it mean to people and how is it correctly practiced?
These questions occurred to me as I followed the coverage of Pope Francis five-day visit to the country in the past week. Seeing the throngs of people everywhere that Pope Francis went, and witnessing that historic mass in Tacloban even by television, has made me reconsider the dismissive even suspicious attitude I used to harbor about matters of faith.
Even the most jaded among us cannot deny the healing power of faith in the midst of so much despair that still lingers in the province of Leyte and Samar and the rest of the nation for that matter.
That the mass was celebrated amid the pouring rain and strong winds of a category 2 typhoon bringing back harrowing memories of Yolanda made it difficult to watch. But Pope Francis insistence to be there and soldiering on with the mass among our Waray brothers and sisters still reeling from the disasters effects were inspiring.
Equally admirable and uplifting were the voices of the choir and the multitude who battled it out with the howling wind with their songs. To see the conductor whip out his baton with so much passion and purpose and the choir responding with their song was a scene to behold. It was a touching testament to Filipino unity and resilience after the painful challenge of Yolanda and its after effects.
That Pope Francis is a good shepherd to his flock has been proven once again in this visit to the largest Catholic nation in Asia. But if we are to cull the most important truth that is revealed by the events of the past five days, it is that we are a nation that is broken and in dire need of healing.
These can be seen in the manner that we, as a people, have converged around Pope Francis message of mercy and compassion. The theme resonated within the hearts of many of us because we are thirsty for mercy and compassion given the callousness and insensitivity of our own leaders after the disasters that was Sendong and Yolanda. The Popes passionate consistency in appealing for social justice and standing with the poor also captured the imagination of many who yearn for transformative change in this sad republic.
It is as if we, the Filipino people, found a champion in the person of Pope Francis for our struggles as a people. The contrast could not have been clearer in the manner that we have adored the Popes every gesture, every smile, and how we hung on to his every word versus how we scoffed at our elites attempt to hog the limelight and insert their agenda into the events. When the Pope uttered those strong words against corruption right inside the lair of our self-interested national elite, one can almost hear the celebratory applauses of the multitude from the slums of Tondo to the NPA camps in Mindanao. It was a symbolic victory, won for us by the Pope, proving that the world knows of our elites rotten ways.
All these I believe make up the lessons on spirituality that the Pope wittingly or unwittingly left us with in his recent visit. Spirituality is not just about listening to the murmur of our inner souls as we deal with our existential struggles as individuals. More importantly, it is about sharing these struggles with others who also go through the same predicament.
This Christian regard for others, the thing that makes us Catholic or universal and the same, is the wellspring of authentic mercy and compassion, which we should share with each other. It is in our collective situation of despair that a new spirituality should emerge, one that sees us moving forward, hand in hand, in the struggle for social justice and the upliftment of the poor.
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The perpetrators of the unconscionable massacre of Charlie Hebdos journalists, and the gratuitous killing of French Jews at a supermarket, were the sort of young men who might have been little more than petty criminals in another era disaffected drifters who are now susceptible to the pied-pipers of jihad. They preen in the costume of the pious for their propaganda videos, and betray easily their very modern brand of criminality. The Paris murderers claimed to be redeeming the honour of the Prophet Muhammad, but they made the most venerated figure in Islam seem like a small-time mafia boss.
Yet many commentators on the attacks have revived the very broad discourse of the clash of civilisations, which was fatefully deployed after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to justify the war on terror, and resulted in the latters catastrophic imprecisions. Once again the secular and democratic west, identified with the legacy of the Enlightenment reason, individual autonomy, freedom of speech has been called upon to subdue its perennially backward other: Islam.
Describing the murderers as soldiers in a war against freedom of thought and speech, against tolerance, pluralism, and the right to offend, the New Yorkers George Packer called for higher levels of counter-violence. Salman Rushdie claimed that religion, a medieval form of unreason, deserves our fearless disrespect. However, many other writers have rejected a binary of us-versus-them that elevates a vicious crime into a cosmic war between secular Enlightenment and religious barbarism. There is a specific context to the rise of jihadism in Europe, which involves Muslims from Europes former colonies making an arduous transition to secular modernity, and often colliding with its entrenched intellectual as well as political hierarchies: the opposition, for instance, between secularism and religion which was actually invented in Enlightenment Europe. Writers such as Hari Kunzru, Laila Lalami, and Teju Cole who have ancestral links to Europes former colonies have argued that the simplistic commentary on the attacks is another reminder that we must urgently re-examine these evidently self-sufficient notions from Europes past.
In many ways, it is this intellectual standoff rather than the terrorist attack that reveals a profound clash not between civilisations, or the left and the right, but a clash of old and new visions of the world in the space we call the west, which is increasingly diverse, unequal and volatile. It is not just secular, second-generation immigrant novelists who express unease over the unprecedented, quasi-ideological nature of the consensus glorifying Charlie Hebdos mockery of Islam and Muslims. Some Muslim schoolchildren in France refused to observe the minute-long silence for the victims of the attack on Charlie Hebdo mandated by French authorities.
It seems worthwhile to reflect, without recourse to the clash of civilisations discourse, on the reasons behind these striking harmonies and discords. Hannah Arendt anticipated them when she wrote that for the first time in history, all peoples on earth have a common present Every country has become the almost immediate neighbour of every other country, and every man feels the shock of events which take place at the other end of the globe. Indeed, it may be imperative to explore this negative solidarity of mankind a state of global existence in which people from different pasts find themselves thrown together in a common present. For Arendt feared, correctly as it turns out, that this inescapable unity of the world might result in a tremendous increase in mutual hatred and a somewhat universal irritability of everybody against everybody else.
Differences of opinion are particularly stark between people whose lives are marked by Europes still largely unacknowledged past of colonialism and slavery, and those who see metropolitan Europe as the apotheosis of modernity: the place that made the crucial breakthroughs in politics, science, philosophy and the arts. Such divergent experiences have long coexisted but they make for greater public discordance today. Europe no longer confidently produces, as it did for two centuries, the surplus of global history; and the people Europe once dominated now chafe against the norms produced by that history.
For many Anglophones, Paris has long evoked, from Henry Jamess The Ambassadors to a gamine Jean Seberg vending the Herald-Tribune in Godards Breathless, a dream of sensuous pleasure and intellectual freedom. But an indigent immigrant or asylum-seeker in Europe today might find himself echoing the Austrian-Jewish novelist Joseph Roth, whose encounters in the 1930s with Europes antisemitic bourgeoisie provoked him into angry generalisations about the habitual bias that governs the actions, decisions, and opinions of the average western European. Roths sense of ostracism was echoed by those who came to Europe from its colonies. Jacques Derrida, who grew up poor and Jewish in French Algeria in the 1930s, said that he was exposed at school to a history of France that was a fable and a bible, but a semipermanent indoctrination for the children of my generation: it contained not a word about Algeria. Today, many of those naturalised Europeans who originally arrived in the continent as cheap labour mostly from countries Europe once ruled or dominated still cannot recognise themselves in their host countrys self-image.
Even in 2008, it was possible for the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, to announce in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, that Africans have remained close to nature and never really entered history. Many people so excluded from the history, politics, and economy of the modern world have manufactured their own partial or distorted historical views of Europe and the west. The righteous feeling of humiliation by foreigners has grown especially potent among many Muslims since the counter-violence after 9/11, which resulted in the murder and displacement of millions of people. The denizens of Parisian banlieues and Asian and African shantytowns, the ill-adjusted graduates of technical institutes, as well as the rote-learners of the Quran at madrassas, can now nurture an exalted grudge against the world that denies them dignity.
Globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else
In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else. The sense of besiegement by foreigners with hostile values has also intensified in Europe as globalised financial markets restrict nation-states autonomy of action; globalised labour challenges dominant ideas of citizenship, national culture and tradition, and globalised terrorism provokes the curtailment of civil liberties and a draconian regime of surveillance. Economic stagnation not only stokes anti-EU sentiment; it also boosts far-right parties in Europe, some of which, such as the Front National, have repackaged their foundational antisemitism, and now feed on fears of a continent overrun by Muslims. This paranoid fantasy, novelised most recently by the French writer Michel Houellebecq, who was featured on the cover of Charlie Hebdo days before the attack, has found many German believers, who in recent weeks have held massive protests in Dresden against the Islamisation of the west. Demagogues such as the Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who has proposed expelling millions of Muslims from Europe, have gone mainstream.
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US crew aboard International Space Station are not likely to be facing health risks according to program manager Michael Suffredini after concerns were raised of a possible ammonia leak. US...
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Sarah Brightman - Sarah Brightmans Space Dream Begins
Singer Starts Training For September Flight to the International Space Station Sarah Brightman embarks on her space training in Russia #39;s Star City on Monday, in preparation for her flight...
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FILE- In this April 20, 2014, image made from a frame grabbed from NASA-TV, the SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule begins the process of being berthed on to the ISS.(AP Photo/NASA-TV, File)
Even though the ammonia leak that forced a partial evacuation of the International Space Stations U.S. section on Wednesday proved to be a false alarm, the news did raise questions on the stations durability.
Since the stations inception in 1998, the habitable satellite has endured a multitude of maintenance issues, from pump failures to damaged panels. Weve had other, what have turned out to be more serious, problems on the space station, NASA spokeswoman Stephanie Schierholz told FoxNews.com. For example, there was an actual ammonia pump failure [in 2010], and so it had to be replaced and required space walks. The actions we took [Wednesday] were for a worst-case scenario like that.
The now 17 year-old International Space Station (ISS) has been occupied for 5,187 days and circled the Earth 92,357 times, so a little wear-and-tear would seem unavoidable. While the station has been in orbit since 1998, it actually wasnt completed until recently.
The first piece of the space station was put in orbit [in 1998], but the assembly actually took quite a bit of time, and wasnt completed until 2011, Schierholz said. We were using the space shuttle to complete the building of the ISS, because we would bring pieces of the station up in the space shuttle, so every time we brought up a new piece itd change the configuration. So the building of the space station took quite a bit of time.
The road to the stations assembly saw more than its fair share of bumps along the way. Following the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, there was a two-and-a-half year suspension of the U.S. shuttle program, leading to a large waste accumulation aboard the ISS that held up operations in 2004. A computer failure in 2007 left the station temporarily without thrusters and oxygen generation, followed by a torn solar panel that same year which required astronaut Scott Parazynski to make a daring impromptu spacewalk on the end of the space shuttles OBSS inspection arm. In 2010 there was the aforementioned ammonia pump failure, which, according to Schierholz, would be the top [maintenance issue that has come up] from an unexpected work/volume of work-required [standpoint]. The interesting thing about all these [problems] is that theyre anticipated failures -- we train the astronauts for them. We do plan space walks to replace parts that we expect or are at the end of their life cycle. This failed sooner than we expected it to.
The following year saw the station almost collide with what is becoming a rapidly rising threat: orbital debris. With more and more dead satellites in orbit, the possibility of one of them hitting the ISS is a growing one. These satellites sometimes slam into one another, the ensuing blast creating thousands of pieces of orbital debris.
They are an issue, Schierholz said, because if something were to hit the space station - the ISS is traveling at 17,500 mph, a piece of debris could be travelling at the same speed, and theres going to be some damage thats caused as a result of that. The U.S. Air Force tracks any piece of debris thats bigger than a golf ball, and theres a certain amount of protection from micrometeroid debris, which is natural stuff in the universe that is too small to cause any real problems. But any debris that was put there as a result of an accident is a concern to us, especially because we have people on board. To avoid disaster, thrusters are fired to adjust the stations orbit out of harms way.
So after 17 years of dodging space junk and enduring technical problems, the question remains: how much longer can the ISS stay operational? According to NASA, for as long as the U.S. and its international partners pay to maintain it.
The space station is certified for a particular lifetime, Schierholz said. So thats how we assess the future lifespan of the space station."
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Astronauts at the International Space Station were treated to some Earthly pleasures this weekend when they cracked open their care packages from home.
The SpaceX Dragon arrived at the ISS last week bearing belated holiday presents and groceries for the astronauts, who have been cooped up in the station in low-earth orbit for months.
U.S. astronaut Terry Virts smiled with Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti as they posed with fresh apples floating in the zero-gravity environment.
"A real treat to have fresh fruit!" he tweeted.
Cmdr. Butch Wilmore looked pleased with his gifts, which included a back-scratcher and a few bottles of mustard to spice up his space cuisine.
Also on the SpaceX Dragon were parts for the space station and science experiments, marking the private company's fifth resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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British singer Sarah Brightman has arrived in Russia to start preparing for her journey to the International Space Station.
"Brightman has returned to Moscow and has started preparations for the space flight," the head of Russia's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Yury Lonchakov, said on Monday.
"The preparations are in line with the schedule," he told TASS.
Last week, sources in the aerospace field reported that Brightman, who plans to fly to ISS later this year, had postponed her trip to Russia, initially scheduled for January 15, for personal reasons.
Earlier, a spokesman for Russia's space agency Roscosmos said Brightman had left Moscow and flown to Britain to visit her ill mother.
Preparations should last six months, forcing the singer to live permanently at the Cosmonaut Training Centre, which would mean a temporary break from her musical career.
If all preparations develop as planned, Brightman would be the eighth tourist to visit the ISS, and the first since 2009, when Canadian businessman Guy Laliberte visited in a US$50 million flight.
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UK singer Sarah Brightman has started preparing for her journey to the International Space Station.
British singer Sarah Brightman has arrived in Russia to start preparing for her journey to the International Space Station.
"Brightman has returned to Moscow and has started preparations for the space flight," the head of Russia's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Yury Lonchakov, said on Monday.
"The preparations are in line with the schedule," he told TASS.
Last week, sources in the aerospace field reported that Brightman, who plans to fly to ISS later this year, had postponed her trip to Russia, initially scheduled for January 15, for personal reasons.
Earlier, a spokesman for Russia's space agency Roscosmos said Brightman had left Moscow and flown to Britain to visit her ill mother.
Preparations should last six months, forcing the singer to live permanently at the Cosmonaut Training Centre, which would mean a temporary break from her musical career.
If all preparations develop as planned, Brightman would be the eighth tourist to visit the ISS, and the first since 2009, when Canadian businessman Guy Laliberte visited in a $US50 million flight.
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Even with two weeks to process New York's decision to part ways with the club's head coach, the firing continues to leave people throughout MLS puzzled.
Why in the world did they fire Mike Petke?
It was a question not only being uttered by furious Red Bulls fans, but by players, coaches and owners throughout the league. The consensus reaction showed just how shocking the news was, and how unfathomable the decision appeared to even the most seasoned veterans of the league.
So why exactly did the Red Bulls dump Petke? It wasnt about a new leader stepping in and choosing to hire his own person. As much as new Red Bulls sporting director Ali Curtis wants to convince people it was his decision, the reality is Curtis was hired and given orders to handle the dirty work of disposing the most popular coach in the history of the club.
And why exactly? Ultimately, Red Bull upper management never took a shine to Petke. Were talking upper-level management based in Austria, home of the energy drink company. Tucked away in Europe, the braintrust of Red Bull global never saw Petke as some untouchable coach or outstanding leader. He never could shake the label of caretaker coach to a leadership that was oblivious to the things he had done with the club over the past two seasons.
Red Bull has spent a decade waiting for an MLS Cup, coming closest in 2008, so after two years of handing Petke a high-priced squad led by a superstar in Thierry Henry, Red Bull decided he hadnt impressed enough to be worth keeping around as the Red Bulls transition to life after Henry.
It mattered little that the Red Bulls compiled a 30-19-19 record under Petke, or that he led them to the 2013 Supporters Shield, the clubs first legitimate piece of silverware. Or that he helped deliver the clubs first home playoff win, and first playoff series victory against archrival D.C. United. All these things that made him a beloved figure among Red Bulls fans went largely unnoticed by an upper management that had essentially put an MLS Cup or bust expiration date on his tenure.
Red Bulls leadership has tried very hard to explain the decision without coming right out and bashing Petke, but it isnt tough to read between the lines. Based on comments made by Curtis, you can surmise that there was a belief Petke wasnt tactically astute, organized, forward-thinking, or all that well-equipped to lead the team through a transition period without Henry (and without Jamison Olave and most likely Tim Cahill).
That chance didnt come because, ultimately, foreign-based leadership oblivious to his accomplishments made a judgment call without have a good sense for how well Petke had established himself in the league, and to fans who admired his commitment and emotional attachment to the club he once played for.
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