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Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
Cafe SETI: Trade stories with other SETI@home users . . . . . . a story that i have found interesting to relate to other users @ this Cafe SETI
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Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . quite an Interesting Find on the Net The Story of Syngenta & Tyrone Hayes at UC Berkeley: The Price of Research A Berkeley Scientist Says a Corporate Sponsor Tried to Bury his Unwelcome Findings and Then Buy His Silence by GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK / The Chronicle of Higher Education v.50, i.10, 31oct03
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. . . on December 14th 1960 - The New York Times wrote an Article regarding 'Discovery of Life in Space' ~ gif file ~ 'While the discovery of intelligent life in other parts of the universe is not likely in the immediate future, it could nevertheless happen at any time . . .' . . . an Excerpt: The Day After Contact: Forecasting Reactions to Extraterrestrial Life by Albert A. Harrison, Ph.D. - University of California, Davis - June, 1999
. . . wonder when we're going to begin to 'gauge the consequences to Our Society' again? BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
Hey Richard!!! This your thread...I like it!!! This is not off-topic I hope, it's about Tyrone Hayes and the big corporations in a way. I just wanted to put a plug in for this new movie I saw, "Michael Clayton" starring George Clooney. It's about these kinds of corporate hijinks and a man who fights against them. It won an Oscar for Tynda as Best Supporting Actress, too. http://michaelclayton.warnerbros.com/# "The Insider" is a good movie too, loosely based on real life hijinks in the tobacco industry, and how tough it is to blow the whistle on them. It's happening though, despite their big bucks and hijinks. The internet is doing a lot to keep the truth alive. :]] I hope this thread takes off! :]] |
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Hey Richard!!! Thanks Beets - and YES - the Lady J & i shall be looking into Clooney's Movie (Clayton) . . . Appreciate your comments Sir! 'Hopefully' . . . others shall look into the Links and Informations provided in this Thread . . . . . . this Thread is 'Offically Launched' BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
John McCallum Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 877 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8 |
Hospital bridles at horse in lift The hospital's policy is to inspect all animals brought by visitors A Hawaiian hospital has restated its rules on pets after a man took a horse up in a lift in a bid to cheer up a sick relative with his favourite steed. Man and beast were stopped by security guards only after reaching the third floor, after apparently passing through the lobby unchallenged. The patient was allowed to see them but it turned out to be the wrong horse. A hospital spokeswoman said there was a visitation policy for dogs and cats, but not for horses. "We just hope people understand this is not a place for a horse," said Lani Yukimura at Wilcox Memorial Hospital. "It's a very dangerous thing. Our greatest concern is patient care." Security managed to remove the visitor and the horse with "just a few scuff marks", she added. According to the Star Bulletin newspaper, the man had arrived after staff at the front desk went home, and called from the lobby to announce his arrival. After he and the horse were escorted out, he put the animal in a trailer in the car park and left, the paper adds. Got this from the BBC News website Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care |
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Peru tribe battles oil giant over pollution By Dan Collyns BBC News, Loreto, Peru Tomas Maynas says fish died and crops wilted It is a familiar story. Big business moves into a pristine wilderness and starts destroying the environment and by turn the livelihoods of the indigenous people who live there. But in a reversal of plot, there are now cases of people living traditional lifestyles who are now invading the territory of the big companies and taking them on at their own game. The story of the Achuar tribe living in the Amazon rainforest of north-eastern Peru is one of them. Last year, they filed a class action lawsuit against oil giant Occidental Petroleum, in Los Angeles. Now they are awaiting a judge's decision on whether the case can proceed in the US or will be sent back to Peru, where it stands little chance of coming to court. 'No credible data The Achuar people, who have lived for thousands of years in the rainforest, allege that the company contaminated their territory during more than 30 years of oil drilling, making their people sick, even causing some to die, and damaging their land and livelihoods beyond repair. Occidental Petroleum, which pulled out of Peru eight years ago, denies liability in the case. Oil spills are still found, the Achuar say It has responded, saying: "We are aware of no credible data of negative community health impacts resulting from Occidental's operations in Peru." The oil bonanza began in Peru almost 40 years ago when many foreign companies were given an open invitation by successive governments to test and drill in the Amazon. What they did not consider was the devastating impact it would have on the native people, principally the Achuar - their land, their livelihood and their health. The Achuar's spiritual leader, Tomas Maynas, wears a bright red headdress made of toucan feathers, and has red war paint streaked on his face. He is the plaintiff in the suit against the company. He remembers how everything changed when the oil companies arrived. He says the animals ran away, the fish died and their crops started to wilt. A whole generation had their health damaged. How can we keep quiet as our parents did Petronila Chumpi "The Peruvian state just wants to extract as much oil as they can from our land. They've made millions of dollars but we haven't seen it here. "We know there's wealth here and there'll be more drilling so the state will keep on killing us. But sometimes, when there is pressure, the state gives in." The lawsuit alleges Occidental Petroleum ignored industry standards and employed out-of-date practices, dumping around 9bn barrels of toxic waste water into streams and rivers over 30 years. After Occidental left, its operations were taken over by Pluspetrol. Pluspetrol agreed to change practices in late 2006 when the Achuar, after repeated attempts to negotiate, took direct action. Shotguns and spears Many of the older Achuar men once fought in tribal wars with their neighbours, now they finally had the chance to hit their elusive new enemies where it hurt - in their pockets. Peacefully, yet armed with shotguns and spears, they occupied and held the Amazon oil wells in October 2006. The ecosystem is the genetic bank of the Amazon...that is our capital, the genetic bank that we have to preserve for humanity, and for the world Ivan Vasquez Loreto regional president The government and the company, losing millions of dollars a day, were forced to come to the negotiating table. The Achuar came away with a commitment from Pluspetrol to reduce contamination and to pay millions of dollars to clean up and establish a 10-year health plan. It was thanks to help from outside but also a new generation of indigenous leaders who are learning how to protect their rights in the modern world. "A whole generation had their health damaged. How can we keep quiet as our parents did?" asks 29-year-old Petronila Chumpi. "We can't allow this, we're a new generation, we know how to read and write and we have to help our people because they didn't have the knowledge to defend themselves against the oil companies. But now we do." Improvement Even on a fast motorboat, Trompeteros is a long day's journey up three rain-swollen rivers from Loreto's regional capital, Iquitos. A hamlet of some 3,000 people, it is situated right opposite Block Eight, one of the main oil wells. The Achuar have lived in the region for thousands of years Local people say there is still contamination and oil spills, but now the Achuar have GPS transceivers to log the problems where they find them. Little by little there are signs of improvement. But there is frustration on the part of Pluspetrol, which has pledged to pay millions of dollars, that the government is not playing a bigger role. "This oil industry should be of benefit for everybody - maybe today it's not of benefit to indigenous people and the government should find the best way to solve that problem," says Roberto Ramallo, general manager of Pluspetrol Norte. But the problem is that the Achuar and other tribes live on top of potentially enormous reserves of crude oil. Thanks to an intense drive to auction it off, almost three-quarters of the Peruvian Amazon is leased for oil exploration and extraction. High global demand and the price of oil is also making companies look at the Peruvian Amazon as an attractive prospect, but is it sustainable? "All of this petroleum exploration in the Amazon is a grand experiment," says Bill Powers of E-Tech, a not-for-profit engineering firm. "It's just coming into the jungle, developing the resource, getting the economic benefit and historically it's been whatever happens to whoever was there before, happens. "There's no plan, there's no effort made to ensure that they maintain their cultural integrity or that they have something to do once the rivers and the forest don't provide what they used to provide." Future plans Carbon trading schemes have yet to reach this part of the Amazon and the oil boom is not the only threat. President Alan Garcia has proposed privatising large areas of the rainforest, but local officials say the government in Lima does not understand the impact this would have. Pluspetrol Norte says oil should benefit everyone The regional president of Loreto, Ivan Vasquez, says the Amazon needs to preserve its diversity at all costs. "The ecosystem is the genetic bank of the Amazon, as it brings together genetic matrices which don't exist anywhere else - thousands of interconnected genetic bases. "That is our capital, the genetic bank that we have to preserve for humanity, and for the world." The Achuar have so far rejected new oil exploration on their territory. Their story is an emblematic case of resistance for indigenous Amazonians and is unprecedented in Peru. But the Peruvian rainforest, the biggest stretch of Amazon outside Brazil, is still the focus of the relentless global hunt to find new sources of fossil fuels. Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
. . . always found Tesla of Interest: Communicating with Mars: The Experiments of Tesla & Hodowanec by Robert A. Nelson Copyright 1998
Tesla elaborated on the subject of "Talking with the Planets" in Collier's Weekly (March 1901): more . . . < Searching Tesla's Room after His Death . . . FBI NYC Director- VEST - FBI File January 12, 1943 . . . NIKOLA TESLA BIBLIOGRAPHY > "A partial list of scientific papers and articles by Nikola Tesla and others about Tesla's work in the field of electrical engineering" < Index of United States Patents . . . Tesla (pdf files) < TSSP: Tesla Secondary Simulation Project . . . "An Internet collaboration exploring the physics of Tesla resonators" < TSSP: Tesla Coil Gallery . . . "A collection of graphs, animations, and sounds, for Tesla coils at various tunings and couplings" < Tesla Coil Sites & Resources . . . Copyright - Bart Anderson @ C L A S S I C T E S L A BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
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thorin belvrog Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 |
If I were to decide anything in that matter, I would force all oil companies (and those exploiting other subterranean ressources) to leave all rain-forests and other sensitive parts of nature asap, and to re-build the already spoiled parts as good as possible and refund the people whom they caused damage by the drilling or digging, without the allowance to increase the prizes for these ressources to buffer that. But unfortunately I don't have a say in that subject... :,( Peru tribe battles oil giant over pollution Account frozen... |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
Copyright 2008 'Back Study IV c' Leonardo Studios Production . . . an Interest - in the NeuroSciences - i became professionally involved in 2005 (started with a car accident back in 1999) @ Present i am facilitating the use of a Clinical sEMG Device - for the Re-Habilitation of my Neurophysiological System . . . Electromyography, or EMG, is used to diagnose nerve and muscle dysfunction and spinal cord disease . . . A Computer in Your Head? by Dr. Eric H. Chudler "Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is a series of events held around the world to increase public awareness about the brain." more . . . Public Education & Outreach . . . National Capital Area Brain Bee . . . 'Brain Awareness Week Proclamation - Washington DC' - pdf Page Copyright © 2006 Society for Neuroscience @ Thorin - Thank You for your Posting Sir . . . BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
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. . . Concerning Dialogue Date of Issue - October 09, 2001 In November 1998, the General Assembly of the United Nations in a unanimous resolution proclaimed 2001 as the "United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations". In doing so the assembly rejected the concept of a "Clash of Civilizations" which is based on the notion that inter-civilizational understanding is impossible. The General Assembly expressed its firm determination to facilitate just such a dialogue, which is aimed at increasing mutual understanding and tolerance among peoples of different cultural backgrounds, through an active exchange of ideas, visions and aspirations . . . Dialogue Among Civilizations . . . International Child Art Foundation . . . United Nations year of Dialogue among civilizations in the year - 2001 . . . . . . lest i forget: Thank You John McCallum for Your Posting Sir! BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
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Mafia king on the straight and narrow By Heather Alexander BBC News, New York Hill can now revisit old stomping grounds without fear of retribution GoodFellas was the definitive mafia film - and it is the story of one man, Henry Hill, one of the only survivors of a ruthless gang of robbers and killers. Hill walked the streets of New York as a king - an associate of the Lucchese crime family. He stole big, he spent big and took vast quantities of drugs. Then he got caught and spent 30 years in the witness protection programme, telling the police all they needed to know to put his mafia bosses behind bars. "I couldn't walk around this neighbourhood ten years ago," he says standing, smoking outside Junior's diner in Long Island City. "There'd be bullets flying all over the place." His morning started with fried calamari washed down with a glass of wine and a shot of whiskey. But it was not the Dutch courage that meant he dared to visit his old haunting grounds on this murky spring day. "I'm old enough to die, just as long as they do it quickly," he says, pointing to his forehead. If you can't love two people at once, there's something wrong with you Hill is a very different looking man from the one shown on the big screen. He is short, grey-haired, with lines on his face. A cigarette barely leaves his hand. The same goes for a bottle of beer. After Junior's, it was on to his mistress's house. She was called Janice Rossi in the film, Linda in real life, and Hill confirms the famous scene where his wife, Karen, is madly pressing apartment buzzers and screaming that Janice is a "whore". But he says in reality he was in the apartment too and had to climb down the drainpipe to get out and reach home before Karen returned. Hill says: "If you can't love two people at once, there's something wrong with you." Hill has no idea how many millions of dollars he stole or spent I point out that his wife probably did not see it that way. "Obviously she didn't," says Hill. After a short interlude where he tries to persuade a traffic warden not to give us a ticket - "Sistergirl, please," he says - we are off to Robert's Lounge. The club was owned by Jimmy Burke (Robert de Niro's character in the film) and was the scene of Spider's (played by Michael Imperioli) death. "Spider was killed in the basement," Hill says. He describes the dark room filling up with smoke and the deafening echo of bullets in the tiny space. He says Spider was buried in the basement along with several others killed there or nearby over the years. With a grim look he says: "This is a graveyard." 'Bust some heads' GoodFellas contained several scenes of visceral, shocking violence and it was not an exaggeration. Joe Coffee became a policeman because the mafia shot his dad. It happened when he was eight and they did it right in front of him. "GoodFellas is probably the best mafia movie as far as showing them for what they really are," he says today. "The Godfather, Casino, they show them as sort of folk heroes. GoodFellas pins them down to exactly what they are - street thugs." We stole anything we could sell Hill says he never killed anyone although he did ''bust some heads", and he admits he does not know whether his victims lived or died. He smiles as he talks of how much he stole, though. "We stole anything we could sell," he says, as we pass a Bulova watch factory. He claims they used to stake out the trucks as they brought shipments in and then hold up and pay off the drivers. The watches could then be sold on the black market. His most famous crime was the Lufthansa robbery of 1978 when a reported $5m (£2.5m) was taken from a vault at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport. Pasta sauce Hill says the police told him more than $100m (£50m) had gone through his hands, although he himself has no idea how much he stole and spent. He knows where it went though: "Slow horses, drugs and rock and roll." Now he makes his money selling his story. He is promoting a new Sky Movies mafia season, and has written several books (including a cookbook - real spaghetti and marinara sauce, not egg noodles and ketchup). He adds that he made half a million dollars advising on GoodFellas. I ask him how he thought the victims of his crimes would feel knowing about that. He takes a drag of his cigarette and replies: "Do you know something? I don't give a heck what those people think, I'm doing the right thing now." Henry Hill was speaking to Heather Alexander for BBC News 24's E24 programme. Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care |
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. . . regarding an Issue i have paid strict attention to: The Respect Women Webring . . .
Real Men Respect Women's Equality . . .
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. . . "The less shared awareness, the more likely a breakdown will occur" ~ John M. Carroll - Penn State ~ Engagement Theory: A framework for technology-based teaching and learning . . . ~ by Greg Kearsley & Ben Shneiderman ~ also Author of Leonardo's Laptop
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SETI Social Club + Cafe SETI (The Experiment) - The Interplanetary Internet . . . requiring detailed cooperation between the space communications community and the groups that set standards for Internet communications JPL's Interplanetary Internet . . . 23 August 1999 What the new JPL project is trying to do is to take the technologies that are emerging for wireless and satellite communications on Earth . . . and here's MRO. . . the first link in a communications bridge back to Earth -- an "interplanetary Internet" that can be used by spacecraft in coming years - 12 May 2006 > in conclusion 'a Start' the Actual Wiring up the solar system certainly seems like the next big challenge . . . < nEXt . . . ? ? ? BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
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. . . a reason for being 'Part of the SETI Project' . . . VIDEO: Watch the MRO Travel to Mars MRO Trajectory - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s trajectory upon first insertion to Mars > one might also want to see this Image Gallery . . . BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
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'The Graphic View shows a graphical representation of the current work in progress. Each project implements and shows its own unique graphics' . . . You All might want to see this: Android - An Open Handset Alliance Project
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