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Artificial hurricanes and other new Weapons of Mass Destruction
Robert Skopec 5574 Views	Jun-2018	95 Downloads	160 Likes
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Robert Skopec, Artificial hurricanes and other new Weapons of Mass Destruction(2017)SDRP Journal of Earth Sciences & Environmental Studies 2(4)
Dark matter is an exotic form of matter that can only be detected by its gravitational pull on other objects-other than this, and it is invisible. Most scientists believe that dark matter is made up of tiny, hard-to-detect particles called weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Astronomers find that dark matter is six times more abundant than normal matter in the Universe. New studies are suggesting that dark matter and Artificial Intelligence has actually affected the evolution of life on Earth and can be a source of new Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
Dark matter is an exotic form of matter that can only be detected by its gravitational pull on other objects-other than this, and it is invisible. Most scientists believe that dark matter is made up of tiny, hard-to-detect particles called weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Astronomers find that dark matter is six times more abundant than normal matter in the Universe. New studies are suggesting that dark matter has actually affected the evolution of life on Earth.
In 1980, the science world was stunned when a team of researchers at Berkeley proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurus and other fauna from the Earth 66 million years ago. Later, a giant impact crater of the same age was discovered burried under the Yucatan Penninsula. These discoveries forced scientists to consider that Earth was not isolated from its wider cosmic environment.
The demise of the dinosaurs – along with 75% of the species alive at the time – is not the only mass ectinction in the geologic record, and not even the most severe. The great Permian exctinction, 252 million years ago, destroyed up to 96% of existing species on land and in the sea. These numbers point to global environmental catastrophes as the causes of the mass extinctions, and only two geologic forces are tought to be capable of producing such global upheavals: the impact of large asteroids and comets, and episodic eruptions of massive floods of lava.
1.Dark matter as WMD
Comet and asteroid impacts have severe immediate climatic effects through global dust and aerosol clouds. Flood lava eruptions produce aerosol clouds that cause short-term climate cooling, and they release huge amounts of greenhouse gasses, creating longer term and more severe global warming.
Over the last three decades, some scientists have found a good correlation of mass extinctions with impacts and massive volcanism. Curiously they have also turned up evidence that these events occur in a cycle of about 26 to 30 million years. This attracted the interest of astrophysicists, and several astronomical theories were proposed in which cosmic cycles affected Earth and life on the planet.
My own hypothesis linked the Eathly events to the motion of the solar system as it moves through the galaxy. Now it seems that these geologic cycles may be a result of interactions of our planet with mysterious dark matter. How does dark matter affect our planet ? Most dark matter can be found as huge haloes surrounding the disc-shaped spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way. In the 2015 physicist Lisa Randall at Harvard, proposed that significant dark matter is concentrated along the central mid-plane of the galactic disk. During the cyclic movement of the sun and planets through the galaxy, we pass through the mid-plane about once every 30 million years.
At these times, the dark matter concentrated there tugs on the myriad Oort cloud comets found at the edge of the solar system. This gravitational perturbation causes some of the loosely bound comets to fall into the yone of the inner planets, where some would collide with Earth, producing roughly 30 million year cycle of impacts and associated mass extinctions. As a result, dark matter may have killed the dinosaurs.
An even more dramatic event involves Earth passing through large dense clumps of dark matter as it moves through galactic plane region. Several astrophysicists, including Nobelist Frank Wilczek, proposed that some of the dark matter can actually be captured by Earth. The build-up of dark matter particles in Earth's core leads to their eventual mutual (!) anihilation. This releases large amounts of energy – up to a thousand times the normal amount of heat in Earth's interior – periodically heating the inner Earth, and creating upward moving currents of hot, pliable rock. The ersult may be pulses of geologic activity, volcanism, plate tectonic movements, sea-level variations and climate changes – spaced about 30 million years apart.
This new hypothesis links major events in earth's history, from external comet and asteroid impacts to internal processes that create large volcanic outpourings, with our movements through the galaxy, and with interactions with invisible dark matter.
Doesthis affect the probability of oue experiencing a catastrophe in the near future ? We may be in dangerous part of the galaxy today, but is still difficult to predict individual comet or asteroid impacts and volcanic eruptions. It does mean that catastrophes are more important than previously thought – and that conditions on Earth are linked to happenings outside the planet. (Rampino, 2017)
2.Dark energy as WMD
Dark matter and dark energy are two of the greatest mysteries in the cosmos. We're fairly certain that both exist, yet their nature remains to be fully understood. Now, a team of astronomers suggests that dark energy is a dynamical field.
For several decades now, since Albert Einstein first posited his general theory of relativity, astronomers have come to understand that what we know and experience to be matter in the Universe is only a tiny fraction of what's really out there. About 25% of the Universe is made up of so called dark matter, while 68 to 75% is dark energy. Both sound like an evil villain's secret plan for galactic conquest.
The reality is, dark matter and dark energy are out there – altough their mysterious nature is proving their existence. Though, both invisible, we actually see their effects in terms of how these interact with gravity. Dark energy is thought to be a mysterious force that accelerates the expansion of the Universe is, therefore, was considered a cosmological constant according to Einstein – a vacuum energy that's represented by a constant Equation of State (EoS) of-1.
Now, a collaboration of astronomers, including those from the University of Portsmouth's (UoP) Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG), have found evidence that suggests that dark matter have a dynamic nature. Since its discovery at the end of last century, dark energy has been a riddle wrapped in an enigma, ICG director Bob Nichol said in a UoP press release. We are alldesperate to gain some greater insight into its characteristics and origin. Such work helps us make progress in solving this 21st Century mystery.
According to their study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, evidence of dark energy'sdynamic nature comes from high-precision measurements of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) – periodic fluctuations of a matter composed of protons and neutrons. These measurements were taken in 2016 by a team that included the lead author of the new study, Gong-Bo Zhao from ICG and the National Astronomical Observatories of China. Combined with a new method which Zhao developed, the astronomers found evidence of dynamical dark energy at an undeniable degree of statistical certainty.
Instead of a constant vacuum, dark energy is a form of dynamical field. Current observations are able to probe dynamics of dark energy at this level. To confirm their findings, the team is depending on future astronomical surveys to be concucted by next-generation instruments. One of these is the dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, which is slated to begin work on a 3D cosmic map in 2018. Aside from this, powerful instruments like the long-awaited james Webb Space Telescope could also help to make observations that might shed light on the mysteries of dark energy. (Zhao et al., 2017)
3.Phantoms as WMD
Dark energy with the equation of state w(z) rapidly evolving from the dustlike w≃0 at z∼1 to the phantomlike −1.2≲w≲−1 at z≃0 has been proposed as the best fit for the supernovae Ia data. Assuming that a dark energy component with an arbitrary scalar-field Lagrangian p(φ,∇μφ) dominates in the flat Friedmann universe, we analyzed the possibility of a dynamical transition from the states (φ,˙φ) with w≥−1 to those with w<−1 or vice versa. We have found that generally such transitions are physically plausible. This conclusion is confirmed by a a comparison of the analytic results with numerical solutions obtained for BAO models. (Zhao et al., 2017) With the assumption of the dark energy domination, this result holds for a certain class of dark energy Lagrangians, in particular, for Lagrangians quadratic in ∇μφ. The result is sensitive to topology of the Friedmann universe as well. (Vikman, 2005)
Subaru Legacy hit another vehicle: photo of phantoms. (TODAY, 2017)
4.Artificial hurricanes as WMD
Western climate scientists can predict hurricane strength and trajectories very well a few days out.They can anticipate hurricanes fairly well a few weeks before landfall. Sometimes they can even tell that a storm is likely to form the winter before hurricane season starts, altough the measurments are rougher and they are not able to tell if the hurricane will reach land. But big problem is, that Russian scientists probably can, yes ! (Zhirinovskij, 2003)
But when it comes to predicting what the longer-term future holds in store where hurricanes are concerned, climatologists, (this is not valid for Russians), are a little out to sea. They cannot accurately predict whether the seeming increase in severe storms will continue.
There's different ranges at which we can make different sorts of predictions, says Adam Sobel, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University. Generally speaking, the longer the timescale, the less specific we can get.
Wheather and climate prediction is a rapidly improving area of science, according to Sobel. What we do predict well is the track and the intensity in terms of the peak wind, says Frank Marks, director of the Hurricane Research Division at the national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
In May 2017, NOAA published accurate predictions that this year's hurricane season would be above normal. Knowing Irma's general trajectory four days out was enough time for most people to decide whether they needed to evacuate. U.S. scientists won' t soon be able to tell what kinds of storms is possible to anticipate in coming years. Sobel notes that some in the insurance try to make projections of elevated risk periods of 5-10 years out, but he isn't convinced those projections are very valuable.
In the time it takes to plan a vacation to Florida, hurricane predictions could easily change – although Marks says that he wouldn't plan a cruise to the Gulf of Mexico during hurricane season, al least not without travel insurance. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't ever visit areas in the Atlantic that could be affected. Devastating hurricanes like Irma and Harvey are no longer rare because of Russian's superiority in this important field of science. Probably, they are able to trigger hurricanes ! I am convinced that projecting and triggering of hurricanes are today representing a new category of means of Weapons of Mass Destruction ! It's a big mistake of Western Powers strategists thinking that they are until today not copmpletely know these new elements in Russia's strategists and politicians...
New rain-inducing technique developed by Russian hi-tech firm
Russia's government-back tech corporation Rostec said on Friday it has developed a new technique of inducing rain and plans to begin mass production of a corresponding device in the fourth quarter of 2017.
"The technique is based on the use of silver iodide-containing substance. A cartridge charged with this substance is fired over a cloud from a plane. A rain front forms within a span of 30 minutes," Rostec said in a press release.
Meteorologists name world's deadliest cyclones, tornadoes and hailstorms
According to the corporation, the technique was successfully tested in late July 2017 to "induce precipitation in areas swept by forest fires." "Rostec's collaborator under this project is Research Institute of Applied Chemistry," it said.
Today, Rostec's companies turn out several types of such products, namely Alazan anti-hail rockets, PV-26 rain-inducing cartridges, and Nuris anti-avalanche systems.
"One cloud may have up to several dozen tonnes of water but rain not always falls where it is needed. Today, we have learnt to control this process. In terms of practical application, this technique can be used to extinguish fires - and this is only one of the spheres where our development can be utilized. We plan to expand cooperation with Russia's Federal Aerial Forest Protection Service (Avialesookhrana) and the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Rosgidromet). Rain-inducing techniques can also be used by farming companies to irrigate drylands," said Artyom Muranov, marketing director at the Research Institute of Applied Chemistry. (http://tass.com/science/960090, 2017)
Biomarker for life found in space
The European Space Agency (ESA) has some good and bad news for extraterrestrial enthusiasts. The good news is that a molecule thought to be biomarker for life has been found for the first time in abundance in a comet and around a young star. The bad news is that the find indicates that the molecule isn't the clear indicator of life that it was once believed to be.
Since we can't exactly spot microscopic lifeforms from afar, astronomers have adopted other ways to measure a particular planet's likelyhood of housing alien life. Traces of certain compounds left by organic processes, called biomarkers, can be sifted out os soil or water samples by rovers, or detected in the atmosphere by telescopes and orbiters.
Metyl chloride is fairly common here on Earth, belonging to a class of molecules known as organohalogens. These organic compounds are made up of carbon bonded to at least one halogen – fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine, are produced mostly through biological processes. In theory, that means that any celestial body where we detect an abundance of these is a good place to look for life.
Recently, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile found metyl chloride around a young binary star known as IRAS 16293-2422 about 400 light-years away in star-forming region of space called Rho Ophiuchi. This marks the first organohalogen has been spotted in space, but rather than give hope that life exists in that system, the discovery instead throws doubt on metyl chloride's reliability as a biomarker.
The presence of these organic compounds around such a young star suggests they may arise during the planet-forming phase of a system. To get a better understanding of how the molecules form, the researchers turned their attention to a comet, which acts as time capsules from the birth of a star, preserving the chemical composition of the cloud of materila stars arise from.
In this case, the team zeroed in on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which was visited by the ESA's Rosetta mission 2014 and 2016. By sifting through the data collected by the spacecraft, the team found an abundance of metyl chloride in the comet, lending further weight to the idea that the compound arises during the planet-forming phase. In particular, the signals were strongests in measurements made in May 2015, when the comet was approaching the Sun and was giving off a lot of hydrogen chloride.
They found it but very elusive, one of the chameleons of our molecule zoo, only present during short times when they observed a lot of chlorine, says Kathrin Altwegg, principal investigator of the project. The find may be disapointing for those hoping to find life in the cosmoc, but it doesn't mean the search is off: rather, it's just a little more complicated than previously thought. (ESA, 2017)
5.QEE as WMD
Only states that produce multiple informational offspring – multiple imprints on the environment – can be found out from the fragments of environment. The origin of the emergent classicality is then not just survival of the fittest states to deposit multiple records – copies of themselves – through environment. Proliferation of records allows information about system to be extracted from many fragments of the environment. Thus, environment acquires redundant records of the system. (Skopec, 2017 II., Skopec, 2017 III.)
The mutual information
is computed during the learning process learning. (See Eq in Figures below)
Quantum mutual information (QMI) is defined in terms of the von Neumann entropy =as: . Unlike classical mutual information, the QMI between system A and B is not bounded by the entropy of either system. In the presence of the entanglement, the QMI can be as large as , which reflects the existence of quantum correlations beyond the classical one.
Use of the naive Bayes classifier can be compactly represented as a Bayesian network with random variables corresponding to the class label , and the components of the input vector .... The Bayesian network reveals the primary modelling assumption present in the naive Bayes classifier: the input attributes are independent given value of the class label . A naïve Bayes classifier requires learning values for ( = ), the prior probability that the class label takes value , and ( = = , the probability that input feature takes value given the value of the class label is = .
The feature selection filter in the perception can be used the naïve Bayesian classifier based on the empirical mutual information between the class variable and each attribute variable.
The mutual information is computed during the learning process learning. (See Eq in Figures below)
Kurt Gödel has pointed out, that predictions are like a perception of the objects of set theory. Prediction is a mode of mathematical intuition, which in sense of perception induces building up theories of the future. The given underlying mathematics is closely related to the abstract elements containd in our empirical ideas. The brain seems to have internal theories about what the world is like. Between brains theories is a internal perceptual rivalry in Darwinian sense. The World as a quantum system can be described due the polar decomposition, as a whole system consisting from two subsystems, which are mutually observing one another. During this observation the global workspace is processing reentry between internal representations and influence functional of the environment, between left and right hemisphere, etc. Some authors are proposing to consider a th of elements subset (X) taken from isolated neural system X, and its complement X - X (Edelman, 1998). Interactions between the subset and the rest of the system introduce statistical dependence between the two. This is measured by their mutual information MI(X, X - X) = H((X) + H(X - X) – H(X), which captures the extent to which the entropy of X is accounted for by the entropy of X - Xand vice versa (H indicates statistical entropy).
6.Decoherence as WMD
Another problem with the Darwinian adaptation is given by Quantum Darwinism and phenomenon of decoherence. It means that any coherent superposition of the system's quantum states is continuously reduced to a mixture. A preferred basis called a "pointer basis" is singled out. An effective counterselection rule has emerged: the decoherence which prevents superpositions of the preferred basis from persisting by a lost of diagonal terms of the density matrix. Reduction to a mixture can't be interpreted as adaptation, progress, development, forward evolution of the system. It is clearly only a counterselection in Western Powers.
In this case the density matrix p(x,x')of the particle in the position representations evolves according to the master equation (See Equation in Figures below)
where H is the particle's Hamiltonian, V(x) is potential, is the relaxation rate, is the Boltzmann constant, and T is the temperature of the field. This equation naturally separates into three distinct terms, each of them responsible for a different aspect of classical behavior: the first term, the von Neumann equation is derived from the Schrὅdinger equation. The second term causes dissipation: the loss of energy and decrease of the average momentum. The third term is responsible for the fluctuations or random kicks that lead to Brownian motion. They causing the environment-induced decoherence based counterselection.
Negative selection due to decoherence is the essence of environment-induced counterselection of Darwinian adaptation. Under scrutiny of the environment, only pointer states remain unchanged. Other states decohere into mixtures of stable pointer states that can persist, and, in this sense exist: they are counterselected.
7.Inhibitory-Proliferative Adaptation as WMD
In our model the values of and are transformed through a nonlinear activation function before they inhibit each other: (See Equation in Figures below)
integration starts from , an input unit with mean activity , and independent white noise fluctuations of amplitude . These units also inhibit each other with a connection weight , denotes the decay rate of the accumulated activity with leak (entropy), means the number of alternatives. The inhibition parameter suppress the self-replicators, , - i.e. counterselect the , .
Geniality and WMD
Neurobiological correlates of value have been described in orbitofrontal (conscience), cingulated cortex (critical intellectuals) and the basal ganglia, areas of the brain traditionally associated with reward-seeking behavior.
Some neurons in orbitofrontal cortex represent value independently from evidence, choice and action. Anterior cingulate cortex is thought to represent negative (critical, non-linear) value.
There is much evidence that a number of brain regions are sensitive to expected reward (or "utility"). The most well established are dopaminergic regions such as the striatum and midbrain structures. The common ratio pattern can be reconciled by the plausible assumption that people apply nonlinear decision weights to objective probabilities, so that the ratio is much smaller than .
Neural responses to probabilities resembling the smoothly increasing function which typically fit behavior well. Paulus and Franck (2006) focused on between subjects measures and showed that activity in anterior cingulate correlated with degree of nonlinearity across subjects. We can make the assumption that neural activity is approximately a linear function of the behaviorally derived utility function. The GLM model separates the weighting function into two components: (1) component that is linear in and (2) the component that is the nonlinear deviation term (NDT) .
Specifically, we are looking for a prospect-theoretic expected value function that is nonlinear in ; that is . We assume the function is power function , where the value of is taken from the individual behavioral estimate, and , where the mean group =0.771 is used.
If the expected utility (EU) null hypothesis is an accurate approximation of valuation of risky choices, there should be no reward-related brain regions that respond to the deviation term . If the nonlinear weighting hypothesis is an accurate approximation, there should be reward-related brain regions that respond equally strongly to the linear component and to the nonlinear component .
We can test wheter cross-subject variation in the inflection of nonlinear weighting inferred from choices is consistent with cross-subject differences in neural activity. More highly nonlinear functions will be approximated by a combination of the linear term and the nonlinear term that puts more weight on the nonlinear term. A linear-weighting subject, will put no weight on nonlinear deviation .
Denote the true weighting function for subject by , and the deviation from linear weighting by . A brain region that represents will be significantly correlated with both and .
That is, the linear term and nonlinear deviation term with a higher weight on the nonlinear deviation term. (Hsu et al., 2009) Brain regions that are significantly correlated with the nonlinear term include the anterior cingulated cortex (ACC), the striatum, motor cortex, and cerebellum. Our intuition is that brain activity during valuation of risks is more likely to correspond to cognitive components of prospect-masking, than to EU, and it will be easier to construct an adaptationist account of how evolution would have shaped brains to follow prospect-masking rather than EU. The prospect-masking follows from psychophysics, while EU from normative logic.
As a biological illustration of the subject with genial NDT we can propose Nobelist John Forbes Nash. He had new genial ideas, and later it has mentioned in his Nobel autobiography, because of "deviated somewhat from the line".
More exact definition of geniality is giving Robert Sternberg. On the top of that genius requires a combination of high motivation personality factors such as openness to experience, immense amounts of learning, at least ten years immersed in one's discipline and environment that fits the potential genius like a glove. Many highly creative individuals lost a parent when they were young. This gives them an independent drive that might not have occurred otherwise.
The increased specialization required today for professional credentials makes the broad thinking of that characterizes geniuses harder to develop. I agree that the ritual culture of academia may also hamper genius. As philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn has pointed out, highly creative work (without precedent) does not fit existing formalistic academic paradigms tend to be dismissed (the counter-selection). (Skopec, 2017 I.) Many great scientists have related how their most original ideas were repeatedly rejected by their peers.
The most productive environment for the formation of new ideas, is one that encourages networks of minds operating in a non-market setting. For example, creative contributions that incrementally advance existing knowledge differ in their impact from those that redirect a field. The former are rewarded by a field's referees and editors, the latter may be accepted only grudgingly, if at all, because they challenges the conventional wisdom. Inventive people also tend to be crowd-defiers. Creative people are thus intellectually combative.
A working environment that encourages creativity must tolerate and even encourage such contrariness. It must also recognize that the more creative an idea is, the harder it will be to sell. Reviewers of grant proposals and journal articles must recognize that highly creative research may be less developed than that which only furthers established paradigms, and should make more allowances for originality.
8.Dichotomous correlations as WMD
One prevalent description of translational medicine, first introduced by the Institute of Medicine's Clinical Research Roundtable, highlights two roadblocks (i.e., distinct areas in need of improvement): the first translational block (T1) prevents basic research findings from being tested in a clinical setting; the second translational block (T2) prevents proven interventions from becoming standard practice.
An important role in the processes of adaptation and masking in humans is playing also the immune system. The innate immune system functions as an interpreter of tissue damage and provides a first line of defense, also translates the information to other repair and defense systems in the body by stimulating angiogenesis, wound repair, and activating adaptive immunity. It is appropriate to consider autophagy a means for programmed cell survival balancing and counter-regulating apoptosis. Autophagy seems to have a dichotomous role in tumorigenesis and tumor progression.
Two other attributes play a similarly paradox role. The first involves major reprogramming of cellular energy metabolism in order to support continuous cell growth and proliferation replacing the metabolic program that operates in most normal tissues. The second involves active evasion by cancer cells from attack and elimination by immune cells. This capability highlights the dichotomous correlations of an immune system that both antagonizes and enhances tumor development and progression.
Evidence began to accumulate in the late 1990s confirming that the infiltration of neoplastic tissues by cells of the immune system serves counter-intuitively to promote tumor progression.
9.Twofaced new main law of Nature as WMD
The quantum entanglement is a basis of twofaced reality in which we are living our lives. From this reality are outgoing also the science and healthcare too. Altough metastasis is important for systemic correlations expansion (as in tumors), it is a highly dichotomous process, with millions of cells being required to disseminate to allow for the selection of cells-correlates aggressive enough to survive the metastatic cascade. To quantify the dynamics of metastasis of correlations development, we need look at the incidence of metastases in terms of co-occurrence at every point of time. To quantify co-occurrence we can use the -correlation between dichotomous variables defined as:
The dichotomous correlations of the adaptation may be caused also by the Quantum Entanglement Relative Entropy as a measure of distinguishability between two quantum states in the same Hilbert space. The relative entropy of two density matricesandis defined as . When and are reduced density matrices on a spatial domain D for two states of a quantum field theory (QFT), implies that increases with the size of D. Than is the change in entanglement entropy across D as one goes between the states.
When the states under comparison are close, the positivity is saturated to leading order: .
The problem of conventional adaptation may be given by a definition of static, deterministic world. The proliferative correlations lead to the resonances between the degrees of freedom. When we increase the value of energy, we increase the regions where randomness prevails. For some critical value of energy, chaos appears: over time we observe the exponential divergence of neighboring trajectories. For fully developed chaos, the cloud of points generated by a trajectory leads to diffusion. Here we must as first formulate a new Main Natural Law: the Quantum Entanglement Entropy (QEE). (Skopec, 2015) Through above resonances of the QEE is causing a metastasis of correlations, antagonistically intertwining all types of potentially conflicting interests. (Skopec, 2017 I.)
10.Artificial carcinogenesis as WMD
For modeling cancer metastases spread there is several new methodologies. The nodes of a cancer metastasis network represents the distant sites where metastases could arise for a given tumor type. The size of each node represents its conditional incidence or hazard. The incidence hazard function is where is the number of diagnoses of metastasis met at time and is the number of patients remaining at time for primary tumor type . (Chen et al., 2009) The cummulative hazard from and met pair is
to quantify the dynamics of metastasis development, we need the incidence of metastases in terms of co-occurence at every point of time. This allows to istablish links between the primary tumor and metastasis sites, as between different metastasis sites for multiple cases.
With the fractional metod as a baseline for comparison was developed an algorithm for predicting future sites of metastases using cancer metastasis networks. These networks are entities on which the metastatic disease of individual patients evolve, and are able to incorporate temporal dynamics, and subtle relational properties.
Between anti-inflammatory receptors on macrophages of particular interest is CD200, whose by the endogenous ligand CD200L sends stop signal to macrophages suppressing production of proinflammatory mediators. CD200L expressed on activated immune cells provides a mechanism to dampen macrophage activation after initiation of the inflammatory response. Another receptor involved in negative regulation of inflammation is the recepteur d'origine nantis (RON), or stem cell-derived tyrosine kinase (STK) receptor in the mouse. The ligand for this receptor is macrophage-stimulating protein (MSP), a serum protein generated during the coagulation cascade. Even TLRs have the capacity of inducing expression of anti-inflammatory mediators, like IL-10. The signaling pathway used by TLRs to activate expression of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines diverges at the level of the TRAF3 and TRAF6 proteins, because TRAF3 is critical for induction of IL-10 expression. In its absence, expression of the TRAF6-dependent proinflammatory cytokines IL-6 and IL-12 is dramatically upregulated.
Recent experiments have shown that nutrient starvation may induce intense autophagy which is causing cancer cells to shrink and adopt a state of reversible dormancy. These cells may exit from this state and resume active growth and proliferation after changes in tissue microenvironment (access to more nutrients). Each type of disseminated cancer cell needs to develop its own set of ad hoc solutions to the problem of thriving in the microenvironment of foreign tissue.
Executioner Protein causes cancer cells to self-destruct
Researcher have discovered a way to use the executioner protein BAX to induce apoptosis in cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact. The treatment has so far been applied only to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells but may have broader uses.
NIH Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers have induced cancer cells to commit suicide with a new compound that leaves healthy cells untouched. They deployed their novel treatment approach against AML cells, which kill more than 10,000 Americans, and makes up about one-third of all new cases of leukemia, each year. Patients survive AML at a rate of only about 30%, making effective new treatments a hot commodity. Altough the team has only tested the treatment on AML, it could have the potential to succesfully attack other varieties of cancer cells.
Researchers are hopeful that the targeted compounds they're developing will prove more effective than current anti-cancer therapies by directly causing cancer cells to self-destruct, associate professor of medicine and biochemistry and senior author Evripidis Gavathiotis said in a press release. Ideally, this compounds would be combined with other treatments to kill cancer cells faster and more efficiently – and with fewer adverse effects, which are an all-too-common problem with standard chemotherapies.
The new compound fights cancer by triggering apoptosis: a natural process the body uses to get rid of maffunctioning and unwanted cells. Apoptosis also takes place during embryonic development: trimming excess tissue from the growing embryo. While certain existing chemotherapy drugs induce apoptosis indirectly by damaging the DNA in cancer cells, this new treatment directly triggers the process intentionally by activating BAX, the executioner protein.
Pro-apoptotic proteins activate BAX in cells. Once BAX molecules go to work, they find the mitochondria of target cells and drill lethal holes into them, scuttling their ability to produce energy. Cancer cells resist BAX and this process by producing large quantities of anti-apoptotic proteins that suppress BAX and even the proteins that activate it. The process discovered by the team of professor E. Gavathiotis wakes BAX again and sends it back to work against cancer cells.
Their novel compounds revives suppressed BAX molecules in cancer cells by binding with high affinity to BAX's activation site. BAX can then swing into action, killing cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unscathed.
In 2008, Dr. Gavathiotis was part of the team that first described the BAX's activation site's shape and structure. He has been searching for small molecules to activate BAX and produce sufficient activity to overpower the natural resistance cancer cells mount to apoptosis. His team screened more than one million compounds and narrowed the field to 500, many of them synthesized by the team, and then evaluated them. These results reveal the outcome of that search.
BTSA1 (BAX Trigger Site Activator 1), was the best compound against several diffrent human AML cell lines, including those found in high-risk AML patients. BTSA1 was also able to induce apoptosis in AML cells without affecting healthy stem cells. In AML mice treated with the compound, there was a significantly longer survival rate: 43% of to control group was alive and AML-free after 60 days. The BTSA1-treated mice also exhibited no signs of toxicity.
BTSA1 activates BAX and causes apoptosis in AML cells while sparing healthy cells and tissues – probably because the cancer cells are primed for apoptosis. Next the team plans to test BTAS1 on other types of cancer using animal models. (Gavathiotis et al., 2017)
11. Artificial metastatic colonization as WMD
Macroscopic metastases may erupt decades after a primary tumor was surgically removed, or pharmacologically destroyed. These metastatic growths evidently reflect dormant micrometastases that have solved, after much trial and error, the complex problem of tissue colonization. This may support our hypothesis that tumor like an organ can be seen as a UTM programmed to make decisions outgoing from the Hayflick limit and trying to solve the Entscheidungsproblem. These adaptations require hundreds of distinct colonization programs, each dictated by the type of disseminating cancer cells and the nature of the tissue microenvironment. The colonization we can model with vectors. Let be a vector of observed variables, be a vector of latent variables, and be the model parameters. Lwt be a vector of all variables in the model. If were completly observed we could apply standard maximum likelyhood estimation to obtain:
= argmaxlog (). The is unobserved, becomes a random variable and there must be apply the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. For more complex models, the free energy approach leads to more flexible model fitting. The standard EM is equivalent to performing coordinate ascent on the energy function
= + , where = .
Beyond the timing we must know where cancer cells achieve the ability to colonize foreign tissue as macroscopic tumors. It may be during primary tumor formation when these cells enter into the circulation and are fortuitously endowed with capability to colonize distant tissues. The ability to colonize may also develop in response to the selective pressure [2] on disseminated cancer cells to adapt to growth in foreign tissue microenvironment. Tissue–specific colonization programs are evident in cells within primary tumor, may originate from emigrants returned home.
The phenotypes and underlying gene expression programs of cancer cells within primary tumors may be modified by reverse migration of their distant metastatic progeny. In this self-seeding process the supportive stroma (arising in a primary tumor) contributing to acquisition of its malignant traits make possible reseeding and colonization by circulating cancer cells from metastatic lesions. The regulatory programs enabling metastatic colonization emerging in an important agenda for future research. Above metioned multitude of colonization programs are unlikely to depend only on cell-autonomous processes. The process of colonization probably encompass a large number of cell-biological programs, which are nonlinear and diverse. The numerous signaling molecules affecting cancer cells as nodes and branches of the elaborate integrated circuits which are reprogrammed derivatives of the circuits operating in normal cells.
Bacterial starvation and general stress responses also promote mutagenesis during stress.Include the stringent and competence starvation-stress responses in Bacillus subtilis, and RpoE membrane-protein stress response in E.coli. These examples illustrate the multiple evolutions of mechanisms that couple genomic instability pathways with stress responses and stress. The importance of all of these is that genetic diversity is generated preferentially when cells are maladapted to their environment: when stressed.
12.BAO as WMD
A doctor who evaluated American and Canadian diplomats working in Cuba diagnosed them with conditions as serious as mild traumatic brain injury and damage to the central nervous system, CBS News said on Wednesday, citing medical records it reviewed. The diplomats had complained of symptoms including hearing loss, nausea, headaches and balance disorders after what were described as "incidents" that began affecting them in Havana beginning in late 2016.
Officials are investigating whether the diplomats were targets of some form of sonic (acoustic) attack directed at their homes. Incidents had continued to occur on the island and some US diplomats had cut short their assignments. The state department did not immediately respond to requests for a comment on the CBS News report. The department said earlier this month that a number of Americans serving in Cuba had returned to the United States for "medical reasons" that were not life-threatening.
Heather Nauert, State Department spokeswoman, said two weeks ago the state department learned of incidents at its embassy in Havana in late 2016. She said the source or cause of the "incidents" was unknown but they "caused a variety of physical symptoms" in US government employees. Several US citizens at the embassy were evacuated to the United States over the past six months for treatment of a variety of complaints. Some subsequently received hearing aids. The United States expelled two Cuban diplomats over the incidents. Cuba said it was investigating the US allegations but insisted it would "never ... allow the Cuban territory to be used for any action against accredited diplomatic agents or their families."
CBS News said one doctor who reviewed the medical records warned about the health risks of future exposures. An American doctor also visited Havana to assess US Embassy workers, the source said. (CBS, 2017)
The closest analogy to a sophisticated electromagnetic pulse (EP) anti-personnel weapons is provided by powerful chemical weapons, such as nerve gases having rapid, fatal effects at extremely low concentration. In the latter case, the effect is mediated by molecules which enter nerve synapses and other critical areas and disrupt normal functions without massive destruction of tissue. The poison acts on the higher levels of organization of living process. It should be understood that molecules themselves are nothing but electromagnetic configurations. That is, the molecules (like the nerve gas) act via electromagnetic fields, by exchange of the electromagnetic energy with other molecules. It should hardly be surprising to discover that the same effects can be induced by electromagnetic radiation alone – without the presence of the molecules. In principle it suffices to identify the precise geometrical characteristics of the electromagnetic action associated with the given substance, and then just mimic molecular action by a carefully tailored signal. The brain is a key target of EP weapons.
Purported victims of psychological warfare have written to the paper. From Voronezh, Russia comes this letter: "They controlled my laughter, my thoughts, and caused pain in various parts of my body. It all started in October 1985, after I had openly critized the first secretary of the City Comitte of the CP. Sometimes voices can be heard from the effect of microwave pulse radiation which causes acoustic oscillations in the brain," explained Gennady Schelkunov, a radio electronics researcher from the Istok Association. Numerous sufferers from this alleged manipulation have set up a public movement."
A flat Friedmann–Robertson–Walker universe dominated by a cosmological constant (Λ) and cold dark matter (CDM) has been the working model preferred by cosmologists since the discovery of cosmic acceleration. However, tensions of various degrees of significance are known to be present among existing datasets within the ΛCDM framework. In particular, the Lyman-α forest measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey3 prefers a smaller value of the matter density fraction ΩM than that preferred by cosmic microwave background (CMB). Also, the recently measured value of the Hubble constant, H0 = 73.24 ± 1.74 km s−1 Mpc−1, is 3.4σ higher than the 66.93 ± 0.62 km s−1 Mpc−1 inferred from the Planck CMB data. In this work, we investigate whether these tensions can be interpreted as evidence for a non-constant dynamical dark energy. Using the Kullback–Leibler divergence to quantify the tension between datasets, we find that the tensions are relieved by an evolving dark energy, with the dynamical dark energy model preferred at a 3.5σ significance level based on the improvement in the fit alone. While, at present, the Bayesian evidence for the dynamical dark energy is insufficient to favour it over ΛCDM, we show that, if the current best-fit dark energy happened to be the true model, it would be decisively detected by the upcoming Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument survey. (Zhao et al., 2017)
Out of Vernadsky's program came the Soviet military slogan: "He who controls the entire electromagnetic spectrum will dominate the world." It was Vernadsky who coined the now-common term "biosphere", emphasizing the fact that the totality of living matter on the Earth forms a coherent process in powerful mutual interaction with the climate and geophysical conditions of the planet. This work was the basis of the concept of "planetary war" advocated by marshal Ogarkov, according to which all available scientific knowledge concerning the biosphere is to be mobilized in war in order to crush the enemy. This includes development of means of weather modification, manipulation of the ionosphere and other layers of the atmosphere, large-scale biological warfare, triggering of natural disasters, as well as the global electromagnetic warfare.
It can be critically adressed to a major stumbling-block of Western biophysical research: the absurd, but stubborn insistence on the part of the Western research establishment, that electromagnetic radiation could have "no other effect on a living organism than to increase its temperature" (i. e. in Koldayev's words, the termal conception). As a result of this blind spot, mane Western specialists still refuse to accept the existence of precisely those kinds of effects upon which the most lethal Russian EP weapons function. (Tennenbaum, 2000)
13. Artificial Intelligence is key to future geopolitical power
Cloud computing has already permeated every facet of online activity. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and the increasing sophistication of programmers, presages a a new age of cloud computing.
Every tech guru knows about the potential of cloud technology and how it has already affected how business and individuals store data and existing workloads. But beacause thecloud is a new technology, companies have to think about how it will continue to evolve over time. Trends like the rise of mobile inplace of computers and the Internet of Things have made small changes to cloud technology. But now the big dream is how artificial intelligence could improve cloud technology, just as cloud technology has improved AI development.
IBM, one of the biggest cloud companies out there, states that the fusion of AI and cloud computing promises to be both a source of innovation and a means to accelerate change. The cloud can help provide Ais with the information which they need to learn, while the AI can provide data which can give a cloud more data. This symbiotic relationship can transform development of AI, and the efforts of cloud companies like IBM to delve into AI research shows these are not empty words.
One of the biggest transformation in AI development has been how tech companies can create AI which can finally learn. One well-known example of this new machine learning occurred earlier this year when an AI defeated the world's best Go player. Instead of brute-forcing the best moves like Deep Blue did in chess about 20 years ago, The AI learned by playing millions of games with itself (self-learning !) and figuring out strategies which even Go players had not considered.
Machine learning has far more useful practical purposes than playing games. One of the biggest fields is the field of conversation, where voice-responsive AI systems can respond to human commands.
While we already have personal assistants like Cortana which can respond to voice commands, technology companies are interested in developing AI systems which can learn new words and how to respond differently. The goal is to construct an AI which can comminicate like a normal human.
Cloud computing could help immensely with this goal. The many, disparate servers which are part of cloud technology hold the data which an AI can access and use to make decisions and learn things like how to hold a conversation. But as the AI learns this, it can impart this new data back to the cloud, which can thus help other Ais learn as wll.
The potentials of the AI and the cloud means that companies which specialize in one of those two are puting more work into getting involved with both. Many of these cloud AI technologies take on two forms. They are cloud machine learning platforms like Google Cloud Machine Learning which combinemachine learning with the cloud but do not have deap learning frameworks, or they are AI cloud services like IBM Watson.
The later in particular is interesting because of the numerous applications throgh which business can use AI cloud services. For example, how organizations are relying on IBM Watson to help fight cybercrime. This is not as simple as plugging Watson into USB and letting it go work. Researcher have to teach Watson various parts of how to deal with hackers and criminals, where it becomes steadily more effective as it stores information through the network.
What is incredible about this learning process is that while Watson knows so much there is still an important role for humans to play. Watson could read far more reports than a human could, but he still makes basic, fundamental mistakes like thinking that ransomware indicates a place. The researchers help Watson and guide the data so that he learns to think correctly.
In every step of the way, the AI, the cloud technology and humans are all needed. The AI is needed to learn, the cloud technology is needed so that the AI can access more data about cybercrime than could be stored on a server, and humans help the AI when it makes mistakes. This sort of cooperation and technological development can apply to almost field which we can think of today, as well as some which we may not even conceive of now.
Combining AI, machine learning, and the data stored with technology means that both AI and humans can analyze and gather more data than ever before. Tech experts have indicated that 2017 could be the year when AI becomes a ubiquitous part of our daily lives, and AI capabilities will only be inproved with the development of cloud technology. So pay attention to companies like Google and IBM as they work on combining the two. The result will be a world which transforms how we view both AI and the cloud. (CIO, 2017)
Artificial Intelligence is the future
Russian President Vladimir Putin adressed 16, 000 schools in his country with the statement: "Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia but for all humankind," he said, via live video beamed to students of the selected schools. "Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the World."
There is a intensifying race among Russia, China, and the US to accumulate military power based on artificial intelligence. All three countries have proclaimed intelligent machines as vital to the future of their national security. Technologies such as software that can sift intelligence material or autonomous drones and ground vehicles are seen as ways to magnify the power of human soldiers.
Researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have demonstrated significant technical progress over the past five years, much faster than was previously anticipated. Most of this progress is due to advances in the AI sub-field of machine learning. Most experts believe this rapid progress will continue and even accelerate.
Existing capabilities in AI have significant potential for national security. Existing machine learning technology could enable high degrees of automation inlabor-sensitive activities such as satelite imagery analysis and cyber defense. Future progress in AI has the potential to be a transformative national security technology, on a par with nuclear weapons, aircraft, computers, and biotech. Each of these technologies led to significant changes in the strategy, organization, priorities, and allocated resources of the national security community. We argue future progress in AI will be at least equally impactful.
Advances in AI will affect national security by driving change in three areas: military superiority, information superiority, and economic superiority.
For military superiority, progress in AI will both enable new capabilities and make existing capabilities affordable to a broader range of actors. Commercially available, AI-enabled technology (such as long-range drone package delivery) may give weak states and non-state actors access to a type of long-range precision strike capability.
In the cyber domain, activities that currently require lots of high-skill labor, as Advanced Persistent Threat operations, may in the future be largely automated and easily available on the black market.
For information superiority, AI will dramatically enhance capabilities for the collection and analysis of data, and also the creation of data.
In intelligence operations, this will mean that there are more sources than ever from which to discern the truth. However, it will also be much isier to lie persuasively.
AI-enhanced forgery of audio and video media is rapidly improving in quality and decreasing in cost. In the future, AI-generated forgeries will challenge the basis of trust across many institutions.
For economic superiority, we find that advances in AI could result in a new industrial revolution.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has predicted that advances in AI and other related technologies will lead to dramatic decline in demand for labor such as USA may have a third of men (between the ages of 25 to 54) not working by the end of this half century.
In July, China's State Council released a detailed strategy designed to make the country "the front-runner and global innovation center in AI" by 2030. It includes pledges to invest in R&D that will "through AI elevate national defense strength and assure and protect national security." (Allen & Chan, 2017)
The author gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Dr.Marta Ballova, Ing. Konrad Balla, Livuska Ballova, and Ing. Jozef Balla.
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"Aadi" is a very special and auspicious month in Tamil calendar, when special poojas are done for Amman. Special neivedhanams are done for Amman like sweet pongal and beautiful decorations done and special poojas conducted throughout the month. During the month of Aadi, the tradition of making Kezhvaragu Koozh for Amman and distributing to everybody is very famous in Tamil Nadu. Since my parents are from Thanjavore, the tradition goes by making rice kanji, paanagam, neer mor, maavilakku, drumstick leaves poriyal and offering special prayers to Amman and then distributing them to everybody.
But in my MIL's house the tradition goes by making Kezhvaragu Koozh, pidi kozhukattai, mochai kottai kara kuzhambu with karuvadu, drumstick leaves poriyal, thullu maavu and offered to Amman as neivedhyam. Usually the Kezhvaragu Koozh and rice kanji are all prepared in large scale and distributed to atleast 30 to 50 people or even more.


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Together, Tracy and Christopher reviewed the advantages of unifying student support services online, on-premise, and through blended learning models to increase student access to vital support systems, professional development of staff and faculty, and also increase student retention.
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The ConexED platform was developed after Tracy Gorham witnessed the need for improved student support throughout her own education at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Pursuing a project-based degree program while working full-time, she and many of her classmates had difficulty connecting with professors outside of limited office hours. Bridging her background in telecommunications, engineering, and UI/UX web design, Tracy created the embeddable ConexED card that connects students with the complete student support directory of individuals and resources vital to student success.
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Murder of Gauri Lankesh : An Attack On Media or Ideology ?
in India — by Vidya Bhushan Rawat — 08/09/2017
The Press Club of India did not have space to even stand yesterday. The outpouring of grief and anger in the street as well as on the social media on the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh compelled many veterans to join hand and speak up against the culture of intimidation and violence against those who differ with the current dispensation and their politics of Hindu nationalism. There were political leaders of the left, though, Rahul Gandhi and leaders of other political parties too had condemned the murder elsewhere, who participated and spoke against the violent assault on the freedom of expression. All of them wanted us to stand united and fight against it. In Kolkata, Mamta Banerjee too joined the protest.
Immediately after speaking on the forum, Ms Barkha Dutt and Rajdeep Sardesai said that the journalists should not allow politicians to 'capture' the space and that we should not become such helpless to get the political support. Of course, immediately after Burkha Dutt, another activist journalist countered her and said that it was a war in which we know who are the people involved and we need to name them. While we know political parties have not much love with the ideas and journalism, one just wonder, whether both of them could have said things if there were BJP leaders or Sangh leaders on the board. Why is this effort to look 'non-political' when we know who might have been the killer of Gauri Lankesh and why was she killed? It is again very pertinent to check weather Gauri Lankesh was killed for being a 'journalist' or an ideologue which was critical of Hindutva ?
Gauri Lankesh came from a well-established family. Her father P.Lankesh was the editor of Lankesh Patrike and her sibling Indrajit was into film making as well as became owner of the Lankesh Patrike after the demise of their father. Gauri and Indrajit has developed sharp ideological differences which compelled her to start her own Gauri Lankesh Patrike in Kannada. Her father was said to be influenced with Gandhian idealism but Gauri it look was more into rationalism. A moving tribute by her former husband Chidananda Rajghatta, Foreign Affairs Editor, Times of India, said how both of them became friend reading Abraham Covoor. So, it was clear that Gauri was a thorough rationalist and a constitutionalist as she believed in rights of minorities, Dalits and Adivasis. There is more to the story too. She has been speaking at various platforms by the human rights groups including Amnesty International and has been persistent in her criticism to brahmanical Hindutva.
We should not forget the events which will further grow tensions in Karnataka as far as the Hindutva project is concern. On August 22nd 2017, there was a huge rally in Belagavi in which seers and political leaders of the Lingayat Community had participated and demanded in absolutely unambiguous terms that their community was not a part of brahmanical Hinduism and that they should be declared a separate Lingayat dharma. Now this demand is not old because political philosophers like M.M.Kalburgi as well as Prof Bhagwan have spoken about it in details. Prof Kalburgi was brutally murdered at his home and Prof Bhagwan live in the shadow of police protection for his 'alleged' blasphemy of the brahmanical gods. The Hindu covered the rally and reported that all the seers and political leaders warned RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to desist in interfering in their community affairs. One of them, Jayabasava Mrutyunjay Swami said: "I want to tell Mr. Bhagwat that we believe in Ambedkar's Constitution and not that by Manuwadis. We live according to modern principles of democracy and not vedic ideologies. We will ask leaders who are trying to divide us to give up the Lingayat faith.' There is little doubt that Gauri Lankesh has been supportive of this view that Lingayat was a different faith than the Hindus.
In an article reproduced by The Wire on September 5th she says, 'Let's be clear about a couple of things at the outset. Though many people believed for a long time that Lingayats and Veerashaivas were one and the same, and that the words were interchangeable, they are very different. Lingayats are followers of Basavanna, the 12th-century social reformer who rebelled against Hindu society and established a new dharma. Veerashaivism, as the name suggests, is an order of Shaiva faith, which in turn is one of the two major Vedic faiths – the other one being the Vaishnava faith. Both Shaiva and Vaishnava followers constitute the sanatana dharma. The essential difference between the Lingayata dharma and the Veerashaiva is that the latter accepts the Vedic texts and practices like caste and gender discrimination, while Basavanna not only protested these, he offered an alternative that is an anti-thesis of sanatana dharma. This debate assumes a larger significance these days, when Hinduism is being equated exclusively with sanatana dharma, in contradiction to the origin of the word `Hindu', which included Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs. Shaivites, like Vaishnavites, are a part of the Hindu system of faith. And therein lies the difference. (Making sense of Lingayat verses Vairashaiva debate: The Wire (https://thewire.in/167389/karnataka-lingayat-veerashaive-debate/).
Karnataka is top on the radar of BJP as it is their entry point for South. Lingayat community constitute over 17% of the total population in Karnataka and with its biggest leader Yeddyurappa, BJP and its top brass had been quite sure about their return but the event unfolding there have made things a bit more difficult. Yaddyurappa remained a mascot of Hindutva in the state but the religious leadership of the Lingayat are now open and categorical to clearly chart their own path and delink themselves from the brahmanical Hinduism which certainly is not a positive signal for the community just before the election. It seems the party has realized the huge loss of goodwill in the community in the aftermath of Gauri Lankesh's death which seems to have antagonize the 'liberals' who were supportive of it particularly after the attempt to justify the murder. As usual, the paid media gang has been brought to start the vilification campaign in multiple way but in a careful way. The Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad, condemned those who were 'celebrating' her death, the trolls continue to vilify her through whisper campaign on twitter as well as on whatsapp platforms while the Mughals of the media vampire would create more confusion and bring new 'angles' to the issue. And what else could you expect than bringing a brother who she had dissociated long back and had openly in defiance of his family's political thoughts now wished to join the BJP.
According a report published in The New Indian Express on July 10th, 2017, Indrajit Lankesh said that , 'After 25 years of journalism and being in the film industry, I have earned a lot of love and affection from people," says Indrajit, adding, "This (politics) is a another place, I want to know if I can fit in. As of now I am just known to be aligned to BJP's ideology, of course, Yeddyurappa and Narendra Modi's leadership has inspired me to join politics. It is just a thought now, and it is too early to give any kind of confirmation. But films will go on, and I will be announcing my next project details very shortly.'
The media has shamelessly tried to deviate from the issue and brought the issue of her differences with her brother as well as possible 'Naxal' connection on the issue. Two rabid Sanghi channels The Republic TV and Times Now have brought her brother Indrajit on the show suggesting that there could be a Naxal angle into the case. Timesnow went on to suggest that she had just put CCTV cameras at her residence a fortnight ago which means that she might have felt threatened. The problem in this case is that she had her own difference with her brother who as we place on record is willing to join BJP, shown his appreciation for Narendra Modi's leadership. Even when the entire Lingayat community today stands together in their attempt to get a separate identity than the brahmanical Hinduism her brother want to go back to them. There are other things which are visible on social media and need to be seriously looked into. It need to be elaborated as who were rejoicing at her killings ? Who said that she was a 'commee' as if being a communist is a crime. Who are those who said that 'the lefties are crying on the death of a bitch? When nothing work then they say, we keep quiet on the deaths of so many RSS cadres in Kerala and Karnataka. There is no doubt that many states have witnessed the political violence whether it is Kerala, Bengal, Karnataka where cadres of the parties indulge in violence but why to ignore the violence against common people by the Hindutva sponsored goons in the state where they are in power. How can you ignore the violence against Dalits, minorities and adivasis in the name of their food habits as well as cow protection? Secondly, the pattern of violence against Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, M M Kalburgi and now Gauri Lankesh provide the same clue.
If anybody has doubt then one can also read the statement by sitting BJP MLA and a former Minister from Karnataka Mr Jeevraj who said that, 'Her vitriolic writings against Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in her tabloid, Gauri Lankesh Patrike, might have cost journalist an and activist Gauri Lankesh her life, Mr Jeevraj says that Gauri Lankesh had written a report headlined, "Chaddigala Marana Homa" (the slaughter of RSS). "If only she had refrained from such writings, she would probably have survived. Gauri Lankesh was like my sister and she might have written against us which is acceptable in a democracy," he says (Asian Age : http://www.asianage.com/india/all-india/070917/writing-against-rss-cost-gauri-lankesh-her-life-bjp-minister.html
While police and investigating agencies would do their work, there is a lot for the media to introspect on this. Today, each one of them want to 'own' Gauri for her 'courageous' and principled stand against the 'rightwing' but most of them remained at high position when the newrooms and editorial board rooms of the media became suffocating gas chambers for those like Gauri Lankesh. Frankly, speaking, people like me were unaware of her writing and I am not sure how popular was she with common middle class people in Karnataka. If she were a much sought after columnist who worked with various newspapers it is because of her privileged background. She was more into social movements and against the politics of Hindutva's hateful ideology. So was she killed for being a 'journalist' or was she 'killed' for pursuing an agenda which the Hindutva forces felt that would be an obstacle in their way.
Does it not look surprising that with 90% TV channels reporting according to the wishes of Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, a few of them attempting to balance things and in the name of 'dissent' most of them can't go beyond Congress party or a few mainstream left. The print is showing some dissent but the dissenters there are the core group of privileged journalists or academics of their own 'biradari' many of who may be socio-culturally 'secular' but economically rightwing. How many of them had the 'courage' to publish her article or keep her as a regular columnist in their dailies? The Hindutva is not afraid of media because it has almost made it virtually redundant. It is not even crawling at the moment as Advani famously said during the Emergency for our media. It is now completely spineless and working as the Public Relation Agency of the ruling party but its role does not end here. It is not merely reporting news but 'cooking' it also in their editorial offices. That is more dangerous. If a news anchor can celebrate the death or other bring 'new' revelation on her death making her story similar to any other 'crime' news then it reflect how much have we lost in these three years. In the coming years, they can go further to dilute the entire issue and make it a crime sex story so that the killers who tried to silence the opponents continue to do so looking for the other preys.
One is surprised that despite overwhelming percentage of electronic media and print media writing stories as per the whims and fancies of ruling party, its leader still want to control all forms of voices and are very disturbed with those who can unmake their agenda. This shows the power of dissent. The megalomaniac leaders habitual of prostrating public relation officers always fear the dissenters even if they have limited reach and that is why smaller publications based on sound convictions of freedom, social justice and socialist are far superior and influential than those who claim to represent all yet have been merely converted to providing us information. Gauri Lankesh and others like her are not in the profession to be a public relation officer or supply information being generated in the newsrooms but they are among those very few who give us food for thought. It is these ideas of democratic dissent which believe in human rights of all and speak against all forms of discrimination i.e. racial, religious, caste, gender, region and physical appearance, which the dominant narratives in most of our societies consider as obstacle in their 'progress' that has kept the hope of all the oppressed people. Countering and challenging the carefully built and sangh Parivar influenced narrative of victimization among the powerful and dominant castes in India to suit their political goals that keep the oppressed and marginalized on the toes and divide them further on their caste lines, is essential for a healthy secular socialist republican democracy.
Yes, to be candid, Gauri Lankesh died for a secular democratic cause. She became victim of hatred. She did not die because she was a journalist but because she fought against the Hindutva hatred in India. There are journalist are killed for exposing the mafias, taking on the political establishment but none spoke for them. Therefore it is important for us to understand that it is not the issue of Gauri Lankesh being a media person but belonging to a particular ideology that threatens the Hindutva and Sangh Parivar. The fact is that the rightwing is not afraid of media but of a counter ideology and they grew because of the political vacuum created by the centrist parties functioning just to 'govern' without any emphasis on ideological perspective on issues that confront us today. The legacy of Dr Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and M M Kalburgi and now Gauri Lankesh is clearly humanism, reasoning, human rights and standing head on against the forces of hatred and divisiveness.
Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a social and human rights activist. He blogs at www.manukhsi.blogspot.com twitter @freetohumanity Email: vbrawat@gmail.com
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K SHESHU BABU says:
Right wing extremism has no logic. It cares neither ideology nor purpose. It's only goal is ' hate ' ! This vicious trend is increasing alarmingly and inflicting lot of casualties hampering communal harmony


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Posted on July 8, 2012	by davidsberry
Many column inches have been expended in pursuit of 'nasty nats'—those Scots impatient to live in a normal, independent Scotland but whose impatience provokes them into rash statements and personal attacks on those who stand in their way. I have found few of the nasty kind. Most are quiet, dedicated and, if passionate or articulate, neither hostile in expression nor personal in attack.
Most of us are also on record as fans of the English, admirers of their culture and champions of what our two countries achieved together. But, sometimes, a blithe England-as-centre-of-the-universe insouciance exasperates even its fans to the point of anger. This happened again just this morning when I sprayed coffee all across an article in SoS that a statue of the Duke of Cumberland was again to be placed on the empty plinth in Cavendish Square in London.
Westminster Council (second only to the CofE as "The Tory Party at Prayer") has commissioned Korean artist Meekyoung Shin to sculpt another life-size likeness of William, the Marquess of Berkhamstead in the County of Hertford, Earl of Kennington in the County of Surrey, Viscount of Trematon in the County of Cornwall, and Baron of the Isle of Alderney—better known as the Duke of Cumberland, second surviving son of George II—to replace one removed in 1868 in deference to Scottish sensibilities.
Replacing it now may not be a unionist ploy to piss off the Scots—but it's hard to imagine a more tasteless one that would tread on our sensibilities in any more clodhopping fashion.
Displaying physical courage at an early age, William became his parents' favourite and rose quickly in the Army to command the Foot Guards and then England's eternal tussle with the French. He was victorious, if wounded, at Dettingen (1743) but fluffed his chance at Fontenoy (1745). By this time, Charlie's wild Highlanders were on the march towards Derby and, in the ensuing panic, he was recalled from Flanders as a popular general who would deal with this worst of these recurring Jacobite rebellions.
Credited with pulling together and training a badly rattled British army to face the apparently unstoppable energy of a Highlander charge, William chose his ground well at Culloden Moor. His men scythed down the clans where they stood with grapeshot from artillery, flanked them with musket fire as they charged in frustration and defended with a new, simple close quarter tactic—bayoneting the enemy to their right beneath his targe.
Thus far, history shows him a capable, if unremarkable, general who got done the key job of clearing the threat of invasion from the rear. But, such was the fear the Highlanders had induced that he went much further, ordering his men to advance after the wild charge had been broken to bayonet enemy wounded found on the field. For his 52 casualties, he left 1,200 Jacobite dead on and beyond the moor, taking only 550 prisoners (mostly French, the only ones he recognised as legitimate combatants).
With the tacit support of the King, government and much of Lowland Scotland (Glasgow even awarded him an honorary degree), he then set about systematically dismantling the gaelic-speaking Highlanders' way of life. Although 'government' clans like the Campbells were spared, Jacobite clans (almost all Catholics) had suspected rebels murdered complicit settlements burned and rapacious soldiers billeted on them. But, most ruinous of all, the herds of cattle by which clans measured their wealth were driven off and auctioned to part-pay for the campaign (and end up in some officers' purses).
It was systematic destruction of a way of life, a genocide before that word had been coined. Quite apart from the hundreds killed or died of starvation, proud clan chiefs were ruined along with their clansmen. And many, defying Highland custom of holding land in trust for the whole clan, became English-style landlords, turning clan lands into businesses, replacing subsistence farming with sheep, thereby throwing thousands into homelessness and starting the Clearances. Though only there a year, Cumberland's harsh influence still echoes through empty glens or lies mute under rickles of stones that were once homes.
Ironically, to survive many clansmen joined the very army destroying their heritage. The famous Highland regiments were formed from them. Each earned praise from officers up to Wellington for resolute toughness, courage in adversity and a fearsome effect upon Britain's enemies around the globe. It was only when the Clearances had long done their baneful work that the British Army found any regret—that it could no longer raise fierce Highland battalions for the Crimean War as it had done for the Napoleonic.
Cumberland returned to Flanders where his undistinguished generalship lost the Battle of Lauffeld and ended the war for a while. The relieved British establishment had meanwhile lauded him as 'Sweet William' after the common ragwort dianthus barbatus. But his epithet among Scots is they call this plant 'Stinking Billy'.
As his post-Culloden predations became better known, his political ambitions were frustrated. Even a return to military action in the Seven Years War did him little good. While Britain was generally victorious, Cumberland lost Hanover to the French. On his return, George II's dry comment was: "Here is my son who has ruined me and disgraced himself". He failed even to secure the regency over his nephew, George III, when his elder brother died.
Cumberland spent his last days advising his nephew. It is not known if he was complicit in forming George III's intransigence that lost Britain its American colonies. He died in 1765 and an equestrian statue in lead was cast in 1770 for a plinth, originally intended for a statue of Queen Anne. That it stayed almost 100 years before being removed speaks volumes for English chauvinism and insensitivity. That another is being erected does little to dispel the feeling that either has moderated in the meantime.
The only good news is that it is being sculpted in aromatic soap so that Stinking Billy can slip away from us, albeit more slowly this second time.
Hanoverian Hygiene—Soap on a Dope
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PARIS: From New York's Fifth Avenue to Paris' Place Vendome, Louis Vuitton sells its handbags at some of the world's swankiest locations: but the brand is increasingly betting on "pop-ups" in off-beat spots as one way to keep shoppers hooked.
At Vuitton, recent "pop-ups" include one in London's exclusive Mayfair neighborhood to highlight its menswear line, with a Wizard of Oz themed space featuring a yellow brick road staircase, and which shoppers had to book tickets to attend.
With revenues of over 10 billion euros (US$11.27 billion), Louis Vuitton is the world's biggest luxury brand by sales, with privately-owned Chanel clipping at its heels, and Kering's star brand Gucci on a mission to overtake it.


Carlyle J. Densmoor, 72, 5644 Wood St., Port Orange, died Sunday. Born in Williamsport, W.Va., he moved to Port Orange from Dayton, Ohio, in 1978. He was a retired police chief of Dayton and a veteran of World War II. Survivors: wife, Jo; sons, James, Cleveland, Ga., Curt, Orlando; daughters, Karrie Begley, Orlando, Ann Callahan, Saratoga, Calif., Donna Daniel, Jackie Densmoor, both of Dayton; 17 grandchildren; one great-granchild. Cardwell Funeral Home, Port Orange.


There would hardly be a traveler unfamiliar with the significance of museums when it comes to Paris. Despite an overwhelming number of art galleries and museums in the city, when forced to pick a couple, most tourists easily settle on the Louvre and the Orsay. At the latter, you can see permanent mind-blowing art collections on display year-round. Most of these exhibits are impressionist and modern masterpieces by veteran artists of old, like Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and others. Other than the main collection, this globally renowned museum showcases many other breathtaking temporary artworks, and also hosts stunning events on special occasions.
A lot of visitors to Paris typically include Orsay museum tours in their itineraries. However, exploring the place can be a bit daunting for first-timers, just like any other high-end attraction tour would be in the French capital. It is advisable to consider a guided tour in order to get a clear idea about all the artworks shown at this museum. Note that audio guides too are available in multiple languages, and capable of serving as your own personal tour guide. To help out further, below is a look at some of the best ways you can explore the museum like a pro.
Since the Orsay museum is one of the most celebrated attractions in Paris, you can expect almost complete tourist pandemonium here. As a result, you would normally have to wait long stretches in tiring lines just to buy entry tickets. You can tackle this issue easily by purchasing your museum tickets beforehand. Note that you can get these on the official website of the museum. That also has the added advantage of getting you attractive discounts every once in a while. For your information, there is no need to buy entrance tickets if you are less than 18 years in age.
If you already have your tickets, it is best to enter the museum through Gate C, as this one would be less crowded when compared to the others. In case you do not have tickets, and the main entrance is crammed with tourists, skip your Orsay visit for the day and go to the Musee d'Orangerie, which is located in the spectacular Tuileries garden. This museum is placed to the front of the Orsay, and usually has much thinner crowds for you to navigate. At the Orangerie museum, you can even purchase special tickets grant access to both the Orangerie and the Orsay.
The Orsay museum may not be as big as the Louvre, but the permanent collection here actually spans over four floors. The collection here is categorized on the basis of periods ranging from the impressionism to the post-impressionist, covering decorative arts, photography, and sculptures. In addition, you can expect a decent number of people in front of each artwork. That also means it would not be practical to try and mull over each and every exhibit at the museum if you only plan on visiting a single day.
In order to get the best out of your visit, it is best to focus on either of two popular wings. Pulling this off well requires a clear idea regarding how exhibits are displayed here, the popular artists and their masterpieces, popular periods, etc. If you do not have all that much time to spare, it is recommended that you go directly to the fifth floor, which houses the main impressionist paintings by Monet, Degas, Manet, Renoir, etc. If you do have the time, get a clear inside view of the architecture after that, pay a visit to the rooms exhibiting 19th and early 20th century furniture pieces, look through the giant clock to get a stunning view of the Louvre museum and the Tuileries garden, etc. This would surely cover all the best artworks one needs to see on their Orsay museum tours.
According to many studies conducted in the field, the number of visitors arriving at the Orsay museum per year numbers more than three million. That is a lot of people; get past that problem by showing up at the right time, and for that, plan your other visits wisely. This would let you contemplate your favorite artworks in relative peace. Some of the times when tourist numbers tend to thin at the Orsay museum, are listed below.
As mentioned earlier, there are skip-the-line tickets available online, with which you can beat the crowd and enter the museum quickly. You can save precious time by choosing the right line as well. Note that entry lines to the Orsay museum are different for individuals, groups, and professionals. Too many people waste time standing in the wrong line; make sure you do not.


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