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The Camel In The Room

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:59:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: His former imam from the Falls Church, Virginia mosque where he once worshipped has said so, and indeed has said that, as a Muslim, Major Hasan could do nothing else other than what he did.

Note this phrase from the title: “US Terrorist Army Base.” Major Hasan is a psychiatrist, so he should know that projection–literally, “throwing off on the other person”–is one of the most common defenses that people employ when they think, or especially do, things of which they should, at the very least, be ashamed.

But the most damning piece of evidence was Hasan’s infamous “Grand Rounds” that he delivered back in 2007 while at Walter Reed Hospital, titled “The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military.” In that presentation, which any reader can view in its entirety at the above link, Hasan repeatedly cited and often quoted surah and ayah (i.e., chapter and verse) from the Koran to justify some very forthright, even brazen commentary on the relationships

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President Obama spoke at that event, as he could hardly have failed to do. But neither he nor anyone else present seemed to want to discuss the camel in the room, which is terrorism.

It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy. But this much we do know: no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor. For what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice–in this world, and the next.

Obama did say one correct thing in the above paragraph: that no just and loving God looks with favor on acts of this kind. A careful read of the Koran and the Hadiths shows that the Allah of Islam is anything but loving, and that Allah’s idea of justice is simple: Follow My law, or My servants will make sure that you die slowly and painfully.

This statement, however, is incorrect: that no faith justifies such acts. Wrong, Mr. President. Classical Islam not only justifies such acts; it commands them.

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Rome Sightseeing: a day trip to Rome

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:26:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Rome

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Rome Sightseeing: a day trip to Rome

by Erica Firpo, author of "Little Black Book Rome"

So you’ve just arrived in Rome for the day as one of many stops on your cruise around the Mediterranean or before you start a two-week wine tasting vacation in Tuscany.

What to do?

As a private tour guide, I have often been faced with this question. “Where do we go? What do we see? We don’t have much time but want to see everything. Is that all there is?” To really visit and know Rome takes more than a few hours, days, months or even years. I stand to sound cliché but Rome truly wasn’t built in one day. In fact, it’s several eras of history sandwiched together, and every day I find something I haven’t seen before or knew existed. It’s impossible to see even a fraction. But what is feasible is to immerse yourself in Roman culture, classical to modern, so that you come out soaked with history. And hopefully, some of it will be retained…

New quantum algorithm helpes solving big problems.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:02:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “Large-scale linear systems of equations exist in many fields, such as weather prediction, engineering, and computer vision”, says Harrow. “Quantum computers could supply serious improvements for these and many other problems. For example, a trillion-variable problem would take a classical computer at least a hundred trillion steps to solve, but using the new algorithm, a quantum computer could solve the problem in just a few hundred steps”.

The solution could also be applied to other complex processes such as image and video processing, genetic analyses and even Internet traffic control.

Sounds pretty good to me!

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One of the most basic problems in maths is solving very large linear equations. There's nothing mysterious about them, they simply take time and the more variables there are, the longer it takes. Even a supercomputer would struggle to solve a system of equations that has a trillion variables.

Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster than conventional computers can.

To understand how the quantum algorithm works, think of a digital equaliser in a stereo CD player. The equaliser needs to amplify some components of the signal and attenuate others. Ordinary equalisers employ classical computer algorithms that treat each component of the sound one at a time.

By contrast, a quantum equaliser could employ a quantum algorithm that treats all components together at once (a trick called 'quantum parallelism'). The result is a huge reduction in the difficulty of signal processing.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra Tickets Salt Lake City

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:41:01 GMT

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra Salt Lake City

Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, UT

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The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is not your typical classical symphony orchestra. Commonly known as TSO, it is a rock orchestra which combines driving rhythms and sounds from heavy metal with classical favorites. In New York, TSO has become an annual holiday tradition and tickets to see this show are hard to get. This is now your chance to see TSO play right in your hometown! Grab your Trans-Siberian Orchestra tickets – Salt Lake City now and enjoy the holiday season with good music from this famous orchestra.

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Illusion of time

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:17:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Our brain crates the perception of time from a succession of neuron firings, with a frequency that depends on the group of neurons considered. However, in stressful situations, more neurons fire and time seems to slow down. Now the purpose is to get the most attention from our brains, more neuron firings and a slower time perception, without burning our brains out.

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Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

The continuity of our perception is an illusion

there is not a single "film roll" in the brain, but many separate streams, each recording a separate piece of information

Richer memories seem to last longer, he says, because you assume you would have needed more time to record so many details

Wearden exposed his subjects to 10 seconds of fast clicks (about 5 per second)

After exposing them to the clicks, he measured how quickly they could accomplish three different tasks: basic arithmetic, memorising words or hitting a specific key on a computer keyboard

the clicks accelerated the subjects' performance in all three tasks by 10 to 20 per cent

Mozart effect

researchers observed that students' performances improved if they listened to classical music before taking a test

studies showed that many sounds, including traffic noise or speech, can provide the same benefit

rhythmic sounds can entrain gamma brain waves

faster oscillations

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Tags: cognitive, time

Multiverses - Multiplying Universes?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:59:02 GMT

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HOW many universes are there? Cosmologists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin at Stanford University in California calculate that the number dwarfs the 10⁵⁰⁰ universes postulated in string theory, and raise the provocative notion that the answer may depend on the human brain.

This concept of a "multiverse" could explain a puzzling mystery - why dark energy, the furtive force that is accelerating the expansion of space, appears improbably fine-tuned for life. With a large number of universes, there is bound to be one that has a dark energy value like ours.

It might be, however, that this number is irrelevant, and that in a world ruled by quantum physics what matters is how many universes a single observer can distinguish. "Before quantum mechanics," says Linde, "we thought that 'reality' was a well-defined word." In classical physics, observers are irrelevant - we simply want to know how many universes exist.

Chanel Reissue 2.55 Chain Red Bag with Rectangular Shape Mademoiselle Lock 36015

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:14 GMT

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swing u swing university: digging-a listener's guide to jazz- classical music poet amiri baraka

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:35:14 GMT

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Swing U Swing University: Digging - A Listener's Guide to Jazz - America's Classical Music with poet Amiri Baraka

Tue & Wed, Dec 1, 2, 8, 9
6:30pm-8:30pm
Irene Diamond Education Center

DIGGING: A Listener's Guide To Jazz – America's Classical Music with poet Amiri Baraka

The Jazz side of this grand man of letters has guided the ears of listeners from even before his landmark "Blues People" appeared in 1963. Baraka's latest book, "DIGGING: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music" – to be published this spring by University of California Press – contains a blueprint to the music and the course's point of view.

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Tags: amiri baraka, jazz, african-american classical music

The life of Albert Einstein -

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:40:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

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The life of Albert Einstein - part 1

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Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity, which extended the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion, creating a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence, classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which laid the foundation for the photon theory), a theory of radiation including stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics.

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The life of Albert Einstein - part 2

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The life of Albert Einstein - part 3

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The life of Albert Einstein - part 4

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The life of Albert Einstein - part 5

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:34:03 GMT

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Free Market Mojo - An Interview with Steven G. Horowitz

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:53:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Blog/Mention

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An Interview with Steven G. Horwitz

He has also done public policy research for the Mercatus Center, Heartland Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, and the Cato Institute. His current project is a book tentatively titled Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of the Modern Family. Horwitz currently serves as the book review editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and as an academic advisor for the Heartland Institute and a contributing editor to Critical Review and Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines.

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Substance P, Analogs and Fragments

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:04:39 GMT

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Substance P, Analogs and Fragments

Definition

Substance P (SP) an undecapeptide, is abundant both in the periphery and in the CNS, where it is usually co-localised with one of the classical neurotransmitters, most commonly serotonin (5- HT)

Related Peptides

SP belongs to a family of neuropeptides known as tachykinins that share the common C-terminal sequence: Phe-X-Gly-Leu-Met-NH2. The three most common tachykinins are SP, neurokinin A (NKA), and neurokinin B (NKB); their biologic actions are mediated through specific cell-surface receptors designated NK1, NK2, and NK3, with SP the preferred agonist for NK1 receptors, NKA for NK2 receptors, and NKB for NK3 receptors

Discovery

SP was originally discovered in 1931 by von Euler and Gaddum as a tissue extract that caused intestinal contraction in vitro; its biologic actions and tissue distribution were further investigated over subsequent decades

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Pan

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:42:11 GMT

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Photos: Imagining Greek gods as geeks

Forget the lyre or flute. "Pan," at least in Adam Reeder's version of the mythological figure, dances to the iPod.

Reeder, who recently graduated with a masters in sculpture from San Francisco's Academy of Art University, is also a big tech enthusiast. He has attempted to wed classical sculpture with modern themes.

"Technology has changed the context but not the nature of humans or art," says Reeder. "Classical sculpture is typically very serious and everyday people come in and they're kind of ready to be bored. Then, they see this and say 'Dude, this is great.' That is because this is going right from me to people who like technology. Instead of art buffs, I want it to be geek to geek. This is our world."

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"The Ultimate Guide To Classical Halloween Costumes"

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:09:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: eople across the world come together once per year in a tradition that dates back as early as the mid 1800’s in Ireland. Americans, as they’re known to do, have taken the ball and run with it. Below is a list of some of the most famous, classic symbols that represent the holiday known as Halloween.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula vs. Sparkling Tween Vampires : The Halloween Paradox

Witches:

extremely recognizable Halloween symbol is that of the witch, a practicioner of evil magic called ‘witchcraft.’ Witches come with several recognizable visual attributes, one being the ability to fly on a broomstick using their dark magic and wearing a pointy, black hat. While witches are portrayed as a ficticious symbol of evil, real witch hunts took place in Salem, Mass., in the late 1600’s. Women accused of practicing witchcraft were hunted and imprisoned, or even worse, killed. This is part of what led to the evil stigma surrounding the witch, which can be seen floating around neighborhoods in abundance on Halloween collecting candy, as it is a very popular and very easily-created costume.

Jack-O-Lantern:

Vampires:

Werewolves:

Tags: halloween, halloween costumes, witches, ghosts, vampires

Travel: 36 hours in Sacramento

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:47:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Too long to clip – click through for the rest, including shopping, dining, wine tasting, at least one bar that serves absinthe, farmers' markets, and bicycling.

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Sacramento has no deficit of quirky cultural offerings. Situated at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers, this capital city has a gentle, small-town charm, with a strong theater tradition, delightful new restaurants and a vibrant art scene. It also has a wealth of greenery — residents proudly claim more trees per capita than any city in the world besides Paris.

Riding the Jedediah Smith Memorial Bike Trail.

Where to Stay

Where to Eat

What to Do

the California State Capitol

a neo-Classical confection of Corinthian and other classic columns, parget plasterwork and mosaic floors

Sacramento has a vibrant theater scene

Get to the Tower Cafe

early, and you’ll have a better chance of snagging an outdoor table under the shady mimosa tree

The Crocker Art Museum

compact yet diverse, including works from prehistoric to modern times

Old Sacramento