Super Cyborg Gameplay Part 1 - AKA Mondo Ultra Dejavu Solider
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Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) is warning owners to keep their dogs away from the Hutt River and Wellington Harbour beaches until officers have checked these areas for toxic possum carcasses. These carcasses may contain 1080 poison following a possum control operation undertaken on 30 September 2014 in the Kaitoke Regional Park and Hutt River Catchment. The carcasses may have washed downstream following heavy rain overnight.
GWRC officers are checking beaches from Petone to Eastbourne and out to Pencarrow. Once the level of the Hutt River has gone down, staff will be checking both sides for possum carcasses from Te Marua to Petone. The checks are expected to take two to three days. Officers have begun placing warning signs at river and beach access points where possible.
Greater Wellington Regional Council Biosecurity Manager Davor Bejakovich said that possum carcasses werent a threat to people but would still be poisonous to dogs. "While people arent at risk from these poisoned carcasses, we take the threat to dogs very seriously. Were putting up warning signs along beaches at Petone and the eastern side of the harbour today and along the Hutt River as soon as the water level has dropped."
"We urge dog owners to avoid all eastern harbour beaches from Petone to Pencarrow, and the Hutt Riverbed. Anyone walking their dog near the harbour beaches and Hutt Riverbed should keep their animals close on a lead and not allow them to scavenge, until warning signs have been taken down."
Warning signs could be in place for up to four months depending on how long it takes for the possum carcasses to breakdown. GWRC staff will continue to monitor the breakdown of possum carcasses in the Kaitoke Park and Hutt River Catchment.
If dogs should come into contact with possum carcasses believed to be toxic owners should attempt to make their dog vomit and take it to a vet immediately. Some advice is contained in this leaflet online: http://www.gw.govt.nz/assets/Parks-and-Recreation/Kaitoke/Kaitoke-Hutt-Water-Catchment-Possum-Control-brochure-Web_2.pdf
Members of the public should call 04 5264133 if they find a possum carcass or have any questions relating to the monitoring or clearance of possum carcasses.
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A total of 20 sharks were caught in nets off Illawarra beaches between September 2013 and April 2014.
A totalof 20 sharks were caught in nets off Illawarra beaches between September 2013 and April 2014, including three great whites and eight hammerheads.
This is up from the 15 sharks that were netted in 2012-13.
Data from the Department Of Primary Industries' monthly catch summaries during the 2013-14 meshing season show 30 marine creatures, including sharks, stingrays and tuna, were found trapped in nets off Illawarra beaches.
Of that number, 12 were classed as "target species" for the net program, a list of sharks including dusky whalers, blacktips, makos, bronze whalers, great whites and tiger sharks.
The other 18 were southern eagle rays, smooth hammerheads, a stingray and a longtail tuna.
White sharks were found off Thirroul, Coledale and Austinmer beaches, while four hammerheads were found off South Wollongong beach.
Most creatures were found dead in netting, but one white shark and a stingray were released alive in September 2013.
A 1.9-metre great white was found at Austinmer in January, while a whopping 3.4-metre dusky whaler was discovered in Coledale nets in February.
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Partial Solar Eclipse Sunset Live - 10/23/14
Live webcast of the partial solar eclipse as the sun is setting from Florida. At 25:47 there is an unidentified flying object in front of the sun.
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Astronomy - Ch. 6: Telescopes (5 of 21) How the Refracting Telescope is Built
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USA: "AI like summoning a demon, probably our biggest threat" warns Musk
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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, pictured here on October 09, 2014, said he fears the dangerous potential of artificial intelligence. Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images
Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla founder, expressed grave concerns about artificial intelligence, deeming it a threat to humanity, in a recent appearance at MIT.
"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon," Musk said in an interview during last week's centennial celebration of the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. "You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he's like... yeah, he's sure he can control the demon, [but] it doesn't work out."
This is not the first time Musk has made such comments about artificial intelligence, also known as A.I. In June he stated that he invests in companies that work on developing A.I., not for profit, but because he wants to keep an eye on the technology, and in August he tweeted that A.I. is "potentially more dangerous than nukes."
In the recent MIT interview, Musk suggested that it might be a good idea for the government to get involved in efforts to prevent A.I.-related dangers.
"If I were to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that," he said, referring to artificial intelligence. "I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish."
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Just as Tony Stark warns of the dangers of high-tech weaponry in the wrong hands, Elon Musk the Tesla and SpaceX founder who is regularly compared to Iron Man's not-so-secret identity is raising the alarm about advances in artificial intelligence.
The Space X founder called artificial intelligence "our biggest existential threat," at an MIT symposium, comparing it to "summoning the demon."
Musk opined that governments need to begin regulating artificial intelligence development, saying that HAL 9000 the sentient computer antagonist in the Space Odyssey series would be "like a puppy dog" in comparison to what is possible.
This isn't the first time he's gone public with this fear.
Musk has apparently done some heavy reading of late Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxfords Future of Humanity Institute raises the questions, "What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us?"
Musk took to Twitter in August to encourage others to read the book, adding, "We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes." Musk also suggested James Barrat's "Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era," which argues such intelligence could threaten human existence.
He then continued to muse on the impending doom of robots undermining human intelligence:
In June, Musk drew references to "The Terminator," telling CNBC he invests in companies working on artificial intelligence to keep an eye on developments.
Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners co-founder, was quick to disagree.
"In a world where we have the NSA looking at everything that we do, where the government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on fighter planes that can't fly, and where we're starting wars in countries we can't possibly win in, it seems to me that worrying about AI is irrelevant," he told CNBC.
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Tesla boss Elon Musk has warned that artificial intelligence - such as self-aware robots - is probably the biggest threat to the human race.
"With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon," the founder of SpaceX said during a speech.
"In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like yeah he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out."
Mr Musk was addressing the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics department's Centennial Symposium when he discussed oversight to "make sure we don't do something very foolish".
Major technology companies including Google and Facebook are exploring the potential of artificial intelligence, which uses computers for tasks which usually require human intelligence.
Mr Musk hinted that some form of global oversight of artificial intelligence is needed to keep technology in check.
"Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish."
Mr Musk has previously tweeted dark warnings that the results of artificial intelligence could be "more dangerous that nukes".
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Recently, Metro Times, our sister paper in Detroit, unveiled a new column called Letters to Satan. Readers are invited to submit questions about Satanism to be answered by Doug Mesner, a spokesman for the Satanic Temple. Since the Satanic Temple has been so active in Florida in the past couple of years (they rallied for Gov. Rick Scott last year, and more recently, theyve been saying that theyll be handing out literature at Orange County Public Schools), we figured wed run some of the letters, too. Heres the next installment. Let us know what you think in the comments below.
You describe The Satanic Temple as atheistic Satanism. Is there any place for occultism and magick?
One of our tenets holds that, Beliefs should conform to our best scientific understanding of the world, and, we should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit our beliefs. We dont feel it is our or anybodys place to dogmatically dictate metaphysical interpretations regarding the nature of the universe to our membership, much less the rest of the world. The Satanic Temple specifically fights for a secular environment in which all people who adhere to our basic values can express their beliefs as they wish. If some of our membership subscribe to ideas of ethereal forces, we dont feel we have anything to say about that so long as it doesnt conflict with ones ability to consider the best available scientific and empirical evidence regarding any given subject. Such beliefs, like all beliefs, should be approached with reasonable agnosticism, but one should not pretend that a failure to know anything with 100% certainty means that equal probability can be assigned to every proposition. This usually results in some form of God of the gaps argument where admitted holes in scientific knowledge are filled with speculative and admittedly improbable and often supernatural assertions. Gravitating towards the anomalous a rules obscure exceptions can be an interesting intellectual exercise so long as ones thinking remains open to the possibility of correction. It shouldnt be entirely serious, but it shouldnt be taken as a mere joke. I would prefer to refer to our Satanic occultism as Satanic pataphysics, in the tradition of the French pataphysicians of the 19th century.
Lucien Greaves is the pen name for Satanic Temple spokesperson Doug Mesner.
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A plan to save the cows and make milk in the lab could ease the environmental footprint of the dairy industry.(Reuters)
If the plans of a vegan duo materialise, cow's milk will soon be made minus the cow.
Genetically engineered yeast will churn out milk proteins in a liquid that tastes and feels like cow's milk.
Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi who founded Muufri, a synthetic dairy start-up in San Francisco, started lab trials early this year and hope to have their synthetic cow's milkready by early 2017.
The duo want to save cows from the harrowing trials of modern-day industrial farms that feed them growth hormones, artificially inseminate them and take away the calves to make the milk available for humans, they told National Geographic.
They plan to insert DNA sequences from cattle into yeast cells, grow the cultures at a controlled temperature and harvest milk proteins.
While the proteins will come from yeast, the fat will be extracted from vegetables. Minerals, like calcium and potassium, and sugars available in the market will be added to the brew.
They intend to use healthier fat than found in natural milk and a sugar more suited to people who are lactose intolerant.
Water makes up almost 87% of milk. Casein protein, whey proteins, fat, lactose (the milk carbohydrate), glucose and some trace elements make up the rest.
Not everyone is enthused by the idea or believes it will work.
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Q73. Why do health care providers need to know the CD4 cell counts and viral load tests?
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Anti-aging Medicine: Wave of the Future, or Wrong Turn?
Anti-aging medicine is out of our general area of expertise, but it relates to one of our main interests: aging well. Hormone replacement therapy for men is nothing new. Years ago, I remember my father, a medical doctor, talking about the benefits experienced by some of his aging male patients after receiving testosterone injections. More recently, Ive received emails from older readers telling me how much better they feel and how much better their training is going after their doctor prescribed testosterone supplementation. One particularly enthusiastic 61-year-old man told me shortly after he started taking a testosterone pill under his tongue -- his testosterone had been found to be "low normal," and he had experienced a lack of muscle tone and a tendency to shift fat to his waistline, even though he was keeping his body weight stable and training regularly with weights -- that he was experiencing "a vast increase in energy." A month later, he reported that his doctor had switched him to a testosterone patch which "provides the same level of rise and fall of the testosterone level as is normal in young men." He said he was making "phenomenal" gains in body weight and strength. "I have not experienced anything like it since I was 20 years old," he wrote.
This man understood that the long-term effects of testosterone replacement are largely unknown, but assured me that he was being carefully monitored by his doctor for negative side effects. "The physical effects are too good to do without," he added. I still receive positive reports from him from time to time. He is now almost 65 and tells me hes still slowly getting stronger.
But it was not until doctor David Chauvin, an emergency room physician from Ohio, visited with us earlier this year that I realized that anti-aging medicine is a fast-emerging specialty. Immediately before coming to Albuquerque, Dave was in Las Vegas, Nevada, talking with the doctors at the Cenegenics Medical Institute. With close to 600 patients, Cenegenics is probably the countrys largest "age management medicine" practice. Dr. Barry Sears, who developed "The Zone Diet," is a high-profile patient, and three-time Mr. Olympia Frank Zane (58) wrote in the summer 2000 issue of his Building the Body newsletter (www.frankzane.com) that he is taking supplemental thyroid, human growth hormone and testosterone prescribed by Cenegenics Dr. David Leonardi.
[We received an email dated 11/19/2008, from Ann Castro, Director of Public Relations, submitting a letter from Cenegenics CEO Kristy N. Berry. The letter says Cenegenics Medical Institute is the world's largest age management medicine practice, with over 15,000 patients worldwide. In addition, Berry states that Cenegenics is not part of the anti-aging movement. "Unlike our 'anti-aging' counterparts, Cenegenics is pro-aging--regarding aging as a natural process (not a disease) that can be managed," Berry writes. "Furthermore, we do not claim to affect aging at the cellular level, claim to increase longevity or use pseudo-science." For more details, please visit their website: http://www.cenegenics.com ]
Dave Chauvin brought me a packet of material on anti-aging medicine. One of the things I learned was that the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) now has 8500 physician members and, according to A4M president Ronald Klatz, MD, DO, the membership is doubling every year. Clearly, this is a trend worth watching.
The article which follows is an outgrowth of my discussions with Dave Chauvin. I asked Dave to give our readers an overview of anti-aging medicine, with special attention to its most controversial therapy, multi-hormone optimization. Many traditional physicians question the wisdom of restoring hormones to the levels of youth; they believe thats too aggressive, at least until we have a better understanding of the long-term consequences. Some physicians, such as well-known alternative medicine proponent Andrew Weil, MD, dont believe in anti-aging medicine; they believe the aging process should be accepted and adapted to with conservative and healthful tactics, not fought. In a recent issue of Modern Maturity magazine, Dr. Weil said, "Healthy aging is having the physical faculties, mental faculties, and energy to do what you want as you move through life and being comfortable with the aging process."
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BREAKING NEWS - Hubble Telescope Discovers UFO
A short film for Adv. Digital Media class. We had to base the story around two Google "I #39;m Feeling Lucky" searches, which came up as The Hubble Telescope and...
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SACEUR: NATO Stands With Turkey
2014 - Supreme Allied Commander-Europe Gen Phillip Breedlove says NATO will stand with Turkey if the situation on it #39;s border with Syria deteriorates. http:...
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ISIS can #39;t crack Jordan. But can Jordan crack ISIS? (NATO Review)
In this video NATO Review looks at how Jordan has managed to stay so calm in the face of not just ISIS #39; murderous threats to the country, but also the other security challenges it is trying...
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