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Dmitri Nikolajevitsj Barsoek (Russisch: Дмитрий Николаевич Барсук) (Armavir, 20 januari 1980) is een voormalig Russisch beachvolleyballer. Hij won een zilveren medaille bij de wereldkampioenschappen en een bronzen medaille bij de Europese kampioenschappen. Daarnaast en nam hij tweemaal deel aan de Olympische Spelen.

Carrière

1995 tot en met 2006
Barsoek speelde van 1995 tot en met 2000 samen met Aleksej Tarantin. In 1999 wonnen ze de Europese titel onder 19 en in 2000 werden ze derde bij de EK onder 23. In 1999 debuteerde Barsoek verder met Vladimir Kostjoekov in Moskou in de FIVB World Tour en in 2002 deed hij met Michail Koesjnerjov en Denis Tenenbaum mee aan drie mondiale toerooien. Van 2003 tot en met 2006 vormde Barsoek een team met Roman Arkajev. Het eerste jaar namen ze deel aan zeven reguliere FIVB-toernooien met een negende plaats op Mallorca als beste resultaat. Bij de EK in Alanya eindigde het duo als vierde nadat de halve finale en wedstrijd om het brons achtereenvolgens verloren werden van de Duitsers Markus Dieckmann en Jonas Reckermann en van de Zwitsers Markus Egger en Sascha Heyer. Bij de WK in Rio de Janeiro werden ze in de zestiende finale uitgeschakeld door de Zwitserse broers Martin en Paul Laciga.

In 2004 kwamen Barsoek en Arkajev bij elf internationale toernooien tot twee zevende plaatsen in Espinho en Rio de Janeiro en een negende plaats in Stavanger. Bij de EK in Timmendorfer Strand bleven ze steken in de achtste finale tegen Dieckmann en Reckermann. Het seizoen daarop eindigden ze als negende bij de WK in Berlijn; in de vierde ronde verloren ze van de het Duitse tweetal Marvin Polte en Thorsten Schoen en in de vijfde ronde van de herkansing werden ze vervolgens uitgeshakeld door de latere wereldkampioenen Márcio Araújo en Fábio Luiz. Bij de EK in eigen land strandde het duo in de vierde herkansingswedstrijd tegen Patrick Heuscher en Stefan Kobel uit Zwitserland. Verder waren Barsoek en Arkajev actief op negen mondiale toernooien met een negende plaats in Zagreb als beste resultaat. In 2006 speelden ze negen wedstrijden in de World Tour, waarbij ze tot een zevende (Zagreb) en negende plaats (Sint-Petersburg) kwamen. Vervolgens wisselde Barsoek van partner naar Igor Kolodinski – met wie hij tot een met 2010 een team zou vormen. Het tweetal werd negende bij het Open-toernooi in Vitória en nam deel aan de EK in Den Haag, waar het na twee wedstrijden was uitgeschakeld.

2007 tot en met 2016
Het jaar daarop deden Barsoek en Kolodinski mee aan twaalf reguliere FIVB-toernooien waarbij ze op een uitzondering na enkel in de top tien eindigden. Ze behaalden onder meer een tweede (Sint-Petersburg), drie derde (Roseto degli Abruzzi, Zagreb en Marseille) en drie vierde plaatsen (Shanghai, Stavanger en Kristiansand). In Gstaad werden ze bovendien vice-wereldkampioen achter de Amerikanen Todd Rogers en Phil Dalhausser. Bij de EK in Valencia verloren ze in de vierde ronde van het Nederlandse duo Richard Schuil en Reinder Nummerdor, waarna ze in de herkansing werden uitgeschakeld door de latere winnaars Clemens Doppler en Peter Gartmayer. In 2008 speelden Barsoek en Kolodinski in aanloop naar de Spelen elf wedstrijden in de mondiale competitie. Ze boekten daarbij in Klagenfurt hun eerste overwinning en behaalden verder een tweede plaats in Barcelona en een vierde plaats in Gstaad. Bij de EK in Hamburg wonnen ze bovendien die bronzen medaille ten koste van de Duitsers Julius Brink en Christoph Dieckmann. Bij het olympisch beachvolleybaltoernooi in Peking bereikte het duo de achtste finale die verloren werd van de Brazilianen Ricardo Santos en Emanuel Rego.

Het daaropvolgende seizoen waren Barsoek en Kolodinski actief op negen toernooien in de World Tour. Ze behaalden daarbij onder meer een overwinning (Kristiansand), een vierde plaats (Klagenfurt) en twee vijfde plaatsen (Brasilia en Gstaad). Bij de WK in Stavanger werd het tweetal in de zestiende finale uitgeschakeld door Márcio Araújo en Fábio Luiz. Met Jaroslav Kosjkarjov werd Barsoek verder vijfde bij de EK in Sotsji nadat de kwartfinale verloren werd van het Spaanse duo Pablo Herrera en Adrián Gavira. Eind 2009 en begin 2010 speelde hij verder twee internationale wedstrijden met Konstantin Semjonov; met Kolodinski nam hij in 2010 deel aan drie toernooien en met Andrej Marisjev aan twee toernooien. Bij deze zeven wedstrijden kwam hij niet verder dan twee dertiende plaatsen. In 2011 deed hij met Aleksej Joetvalin mee aan de WK in Rome waar ze na drie nederlagen in de groepsfase strandden. Tot en met 2014 speelde hij afwisselend met Joeri Bogatov, Semjonov, Maksim Hoedjakov en Nikita Ljamin. Met laatstgenoemde behaalde Barsoek in 2014 een derde plaats in Xiamen.

In 2015 partnerde Barsoek met Kosjkarjov. Het duo behaalde een zilveren medaille bij de Europese Spelen in Bakoe achter Mārtiņš Pļaviņš en Haralds Regža uit Letland en deed mee aan de WK in Nederland waar ze na drie nederlagen in de groepsfase bleven steken. Bij de EK in Klagenfurt was de tussenronde tegen de Tsjechen Přemysl Kubala en Jan Hadrava het eindstation. Bij acht toernooien in de World Tour kwamen ze tot twee negende plaatsen (Luzern en Sotsji). Het jaar daarop vormde Barsoek een team met Ljamin. Ze waren actief op negen mondiale toernooien waarbij ze tot een vijfde (Fuzhou) en drie negende plaatsen kwamen (Kish, Maceió en Klagenfurt). Bij de EK in Biel/Bienne ging het duo als groepswinnaar door naar de achtste finale, waar ze werden uitgeschakeld door de Letten Jānis Šmēdiņš en Aleksandrs Samoilovs. In Rio eindigden Barsoek en Ljamin als vijfde bij de Olympische Spelen nadat ze de kwartinale verloren hadden van het Italiaanse duo Daniele Lupo en Paolo Nicolai. De Spelen waren bovendien het laatste optreden van Barsoek in het mondiale beachvolleybalcircuit.

Palmares
Kampioenschappen
 2005: 9e WK
 2007:  WK
 2008:  EK
 2008: 9e OS
 2015:  Europese Spelen
 2016: 5e OS

FIVB World Tour
 2007:  Roseto degli Abruzzi Open
 2007:  Zagreb Open
 2007:  Marseille Open
 2007:  Sint-Petersburg Open
 2008:  Barcelona Open
 2008:  Grand Slam Klagenfurt
 2009:  Kristiansand Open
 2014:  Xiamen Open

Externe links
  Profiel op FIVB.org
  Profiel op bvbinfo.com

Russisch beachvolleyballer
Russisch olympisch deelnemer

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UFO Contactees
Raven Dana: The Most Riveting ET Contactee Story I've Ever Heard
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Hey all...
So, if you're anything like me - which must be some sorta true judging by the fact that you're reading this - when it comes to UFOs you feel like you've heard it all. This doesn't mean I'm tired of the subject, far from it. Hearing the same stories over and over again with or without tangible evidence does two things. One, it adds to the "smoke = fire" idea. Two, the more dubious tales can serve as a nice contrasting agent to help fine tune our BS meters. While hearing the same details repeated case after case can add to the perception that there must be a real phenomenon, wholly unique cases can offer a an equally potent sense of validation.
I was introduced to Raven Dana on a podcast called Aliens & Artists. Excellent show btw - links to the interview are below. For some reason it's title instantly gave me the impression that it's host would be some naive internet educated type who just believes everything. Turns out that assumption was light years away from the truth. Anyway, she was interviewed on the show sometime last year.
Raven is a licensed forensic handwriting analyst and practicing Witch. When it comes to the astonishingly nuanced details of ET contact that she's claimed, I can truly say they're one of a kind. Beyond that - there's a grounded sense of honesty and realness that is more than tangible as she expresses herself. She gives a very elaborate breakdown of contact experiences she says she's had since childhood. She speaks of some of the most uniquely strange things I've ever heard as if they were something as mundane as a trip to the supermarket. So much content that it took two episodes. I vouch for her at the risk of coming across as a naive internet educated believe everything type myself.
Listen to it for yourself. I'm extremely discriminatory in who I lend credibility to, questioning this woman for some reason feels like questioning my mom. Whether she's the best liar in the world, or recounting real events - there's something there that spoke to me on a unconscious level - like the hero's journey or Jungian archetypes.
I'll leave the more grounded (although intimate and engrossing) stories for you to hear directly from her. Here's instead a summary of one of the more avant-garde concepts she proposed. Essentially, she states that one of the things she's become convinced of through her experiences, is the idea that for Greys, what we call everyday waking life is for them a dream state. According to her they have to exert effort to remain in our narrow band of perception. What they experience as normal waking consciousness is what we would then perceive as a dream state.
I'm not sure I'm ready to reveal it to the public just yet, but I've actually have had some up close and personal experiences of my own. What I find interesting is that, as unique as Raven's proposal is - something about it rang true for me. I instantly felt as though she had described something that I already knew. Saying that about something that's so unorthodox and yet so specific is in itself extremely unusual.
Links to the episodes:
Aliens & Artists - Raven Dana Part One
Stuart interviews Raven Dana Part One Show Notes: The Liminal Muse https://theliminalmuse.com Stuart Davis Patreon https://www.patreon.com/stuartdavis Lyn Buchanan https://www.amazon.com/Lyn-Buchanan/e/B001IR3DUI%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Robert Moss, Way of the Dreamer...
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Aliens & Artists - Raven Dana Part Two
Stuart interviews Raven Dana Part Two Show Notes: The Liminal Muse https://theliminalmuse.com Stuart Davis Patreon https://www.patreon.com/stuartdavis Lyn Buchanan https://www.amazon.com/Lyn-Buchanan/e/B001IR3DUI%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Robert Moss, Way of the Dreamer...
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Golden_Vimana said:
Hey all ...
If there's stuff you think we should listen to, I suggest that you include a link in your post to make it easier. Without the link I'd have to search it out, and then can't be sure it's what you were specifically referring to, so chances are, I just won't bother, and if I feel that way, I imagine others are probably the same way. It's just the way the Internet works. If it takes more than 3 clicks to get there, you've lost virtually all your audience.
In the meantime, the idea that one being's dreams are another being's conscious perceptions is dubious at best. The closest any dream world could come to anything other than something purely subjective is if the dreamer was receiving external sensory input via some kind of ESP, in which case it wouldn't actually be a dream, but some sort of remote viewing, in which case there'd be no reason to think anyone other than the dreamer could perceive it, unless the dreamer and the perceiver were psychically linked.
It makes for some interesting conjecture that might add to a sci-fi plot line, but there are some gaping explanatory holes. For example, unless the dreamer is psychically linked at all times to some being connected to conscious perception of the external world, the world of the dreamer is entirely subjective ( without any connection to objective reality ), and in the case that the dreamer cannot verify that their perceptions correspond to objective reality, there is no way for them to know the difference.
This of course brings up a number of philosophical points about the nature of reality itself, some of which have been covered on the Consciousness and The Paranormal and Philosophy Science & The Unexplained threads. Whatever the case, it's all sounds worthy of further discussion. Post up a couple of links.
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Randall said:
(Good observation, I added direct links to each episode)
Before 1807, the general consensus amongst academia and the scientific community was that any story of a rock falling from the sky was completely fictitious. The brightest minds recognized by society at the time were 100% sure that such a thing was impossible, it simply didn't fit into their understanding of nature and celestial mechanics.
We're obviously in full acceptance now as to the reality of meteorites, and they fit in easily in the inventory of known phenomena. What's funny is since people have been observing meteorites for many thousands of years, there we're already recordings of their existence throughout history. There were people who thought that the sun was pulled across the sky by chariots, who simultaneously had a more accurate depiction of meteorites than astronomers to be born thousands of years later.
History is riddled with constant examples of us having to completely reframe our perception based on an increasingly expanding understanding of reality. And yet at times, those thought of as "primitive" actually do a better job at describing our world than us. This isn't a blanket statement, I emphasize "at times".
Rejecting this concept proposed by Raven Dana is a direct byproduct of the persistent materialist reductionist model. Quantum physicists are continually proving that reality is fundamentally different than what we perceive on the macro level, and yet many of us still address the universe in terms of "physical" and "non-physical". What you really mean though when you force reality into that binary framework is real and not real. You would then naturally categorize a dream as not real.
Strangely though, you'd accept that a dream in actuality is "real" in the sense that it would involve the firing of electrical impulses in your brain - but going any further than that would be outside the realm of a reductionist worldview. The concept Raven's proposed isn't really related to the subjective vs objective - it's more along the lines of shifting the relationship between consciousness and reality.
If you entertain the view that consciousness IS reality, you could then start entertaining the idea that differing states of consciousness would equal different states of reality. She's basically saying that there are potentially levels/types of consciousness that interact with what we label as "objective reality" in a much more fluid and direct way, where there's really no perceivable barrier.
Referring back to my mention of "primitive" civilizations getting some things right, it's long been held in almost all indigenous worldviews that the "dream world" is just that, a world. A state no less real than the chair you're sitting in right now. A simple analogy may be, is ice any less real when it shifts into a liquid state?
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... History is riddled with constant examples of us having to completely reframe our perception based on an increasingly expanding understanding of reality. And yet at times, those thought of as "primitive" actually do a better job at describing our world than us. This isn't a blanket statement, I emphasize "at times".
Although the above is a valid observation, we can just as easily ( in fact even more easily ) turn the whole argument around and look at witchcraft, wizardry, and mediumship as being the long outmoded methods of analysis and investigation that have since been replaced by the far more accurate modes of critical thinking and the scientific method. It also doesn't logically follow that all contentious examples in the present suffer from the same sorts of misinterpretations as those in the past. We are much better educated these days and less likely to make the same mistakes.
Quantum mechanics has nothing to do with the two types of reality we're dealing with here. With the exception of things like virtual particles, quantum objects are as objectively real as macro objects ( but that's a whole other discussion ). Subjective reality is a whole other type that is generated by the mind. This gets philosophical. Ultimately, if you are a subjective idealist, then there is no distinction. I'm not. Neither position can be proven to be true with 100% certainty.
The relationship between consciousness and external reality is the relationship between the subjective and the objective.
Consciousness is a type of subjective reality.
Those examples need some refining. Ice and water can both be subjective or objective realities. To express it in more precise terms: Subjective realities may or may not correspond to objective realities, and objective realities may or may not correspond to subjective realities.
Therefore, simply because one is having a subjective experience e.g. a dream, in no way means that the content of that experience has anything to do with the external ( objective ) world.
The only way to verify that it does, is to be able to establish a direct correlation between the subjective experience and the objective world. But even then it could be sheer coincidence. The phenomenon would need to be consistently reproducible under controlled conditions before it can be safely assumed to be the situation, in which case everything I said in my first response would still apply.
Notice here that I haven't written-off the phenomenon. I've simply identified some of the issues that surround it. It's interesting to contemplate. I'll post some more after listening to the episodes.
Yea I get where you're coming from. There's obviously infinite directions that a conversation like this could go. But here's what's on my mind at the moment.
Objectivity and subjectivity aren't necessarily at odds with each other. If the only reason you can't see a cow on the other side of a hill is because of said hill that's blocking your field of vision - it obviously in no way shape or form makes the cow any less real. Might seem like an oversimplification - but stick with me. What if the only reason we experience a sense of "objective" and "subjective" reality is simply because of our tendency to operate within the parameters of filters that obstruct our awareness? The hill between us and that cow. In that sense, objective reality is really just a bird's eye view. Perspective. But according to your "subjective" viewpoint, from the other side of that hill, that cow doesn't exist. It's existence isn't something you deny, it's something you have no way of comprehending in the fist place simply because of that damn hill. So - remove the hill, or even easier yet, scale it - and voila. Something that was previously relegated to the "objective" is now all of a sudden subjectively available because of a shift in perspective. Or because of the removal of an obstruction, however you want to frame it. The point is - the distinction we naturally make between the objective and subjective may just be an illusion. A forced narrowing of stimulus that's just a result of evolutionary programming - and (primarily Western) societal norms.
It can all really be summed up in one term. Non-locality. The results from the God Helmet experiment and the Ivy League studies on the effects of intention on random number generators are pretty good expressions of this idea. Specifically with the God Helmet experiment, one subject was put into a faraday cage, and another outside of it. They were instructed to focus on one another. Light was flashed into the eyes of the subject who was outside of the faraday cage. Their brain activity was being monitored - and although below his awareness, there were spikes in brain activity in the one subject whenever light was flashed into the eyes of the other. What's funny is that - Newtonian materialist reductionism would automatically posit that maybe some yet undiscovered signal was being sent from one to the other. Well the faraday cage rules that out. Non-locality. And don't even get me started on quantum entanglement.
One of the now pseudo cliche observations about the universe that we hear tossed around is: what was there before The Big Bang. Well if "consciousness" for lack of a better word is fundamental to reality, and everything else emerges from it, that may just answer the question.
I mentioned the connection between Western society and our proclivity to contextualize things in terms of separateness. Eastern metaphysics jives with the idea of non-locality far better than Abrahamic belief systems. Notice that certain faiths position God as "above" and outside of you. Whatever the creative force behind the universe is, some systems label it as being as separate from you as you are from your refrigerator. Two distinct "things". I've actually heard the idea put forth that much of religion exists not to connect us to the transcendent, but to protect us from it. Anyway, you go thumb through the tenets of Buddhism and you see that one of the core ideas is that this plane of separateness is an illusion. From a Buddhist perspective, by improving myself I'm in turn improving the world - because there is literally no difference. I'm not a Buddhist. Im only saying they may have just happened to get at least a B+ on that quiz.
We definitely seem to have far better instrumentation now than throughout history. There's a lot of variables to this though that should be considered. The expansion of our understanding of the world isn't exactly linear. The common thinking is obviously that somewhere around 7-10,000 years ago, agriculture began and that started a domino effect that eventually produced iPhones and Nike Sneakers. Prior to that, we toiled as hunter gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years. A lot of people never really stop to acknowledge the fact that - hunter gatherers never went anywhere. The aboriginal lineage amongst others is unbroken from prehistory. The world around the indigenous ungulates in its ability to manipulate the physical world. And yet, they continue on. A true linear progression would preclude their demise, to then give rise to a "more advanced" civilization. But they're just chillin. A technological plateau that spans countless thousands of years. It's not a straight line, it's moving in every direction simultaneously. I'm constantly seeing evidence of us getting better than we've ever been and worse than we've ever been and different than we've ever been - at the same exact time. And in some cases there's no change at all. There are definitely things we understand now, that people of the past knew nothing of. And conversely, I'm certain that there are aspects of the universe that in the distant past were in a way easier (for some) to perceive.
Annnnnd back to aliens..
Here were are, going back & forth on the mysteries of the universe. Meanwhile, there are likely beings out there who not only know the answers to all this but somehow figured out how to leverage it as technology.
The wealth of 1st world countries could put an end to the suffering of countless people on Earth if the priorities of some were replaced by empathy. In that same sense - what does it say about "them" that they choose to just hover around and watch? Could it be though that their perception is so different than ours that they exist outside of what we typically sense - and we're just seeing a vestige of their existence? I know it seems like I'm all over the place, but I'm saying all this for a reason. For a second, assume consciousness = reality, and our sense of separation is solely due to blockages in our awareness. If the universe is as teaming with life as we think it is, statistically there'd be at least a few races who have less "blockages" than us, or none at all. Biology then being an end result of consciousness and not the other way around would then have to tie in with what we perceive as death. Body or not, the awareness would be uninterrupted. It could possibly even be thought of as if the human body itself was the only thing standing between you and the universe. This is a very Whitley Strieber kind of idea - but maybe at least some of the non-human beings visiting Earth perceive reality in such an expansive way that they're here while simultaneously experiencing whatever plane of existence our awareness shifts to when our illusory shell gives up. And, I know, big if, but, if that's the case - there's no reason for them to, say, save human lives from something like Covid - because death isn't what we perceive it to be in the first place. Maybe it's nothing more than a shift in perspective.
Ok I'm done.
Objectivity and subjectivity aren't necessarily at odds with each other. If the only reason you can't see a cow on the other side of a hill is because of said hill that's blocking your field of vision - it obviously in no way shape or form makes the cow any less real. Might seem like an oversimplification - but stick with me. What if the only reason we experience a sense of "objective" and "subjective" reality is simply because of our tendency to operate within the parameters of filters that obstruct our awareness? The hill between us and that cow. In that sense, objective reality is really just a bird's eye view. Perspective.
Things are getting a little fuzzy there. If we're in the camp that believes there are such things as the subjective and the objective, then we don't ever "experience" the objective. We only experience the subjective ( This goes back to Plato's Cave ). So a "bird's eye view" is always subjective.
But according to your "subjective" viewpoint, from the other side of that hill, that cow doesn't exist. It's existence isn't something you deny, it's something you have no way of comprehending in the fist place simply because of that damn hill. So - remove the hill, or even easier yet, scale it - and voila. Something that was previously relegated to the "objective" is now all of a sudden subjectively available because of a shift in perspective. Or because of the removal of an obstruction, however you want to frame it. The point is - the distinction we naturally make between the objective and subjective may just be an illusion. A forced narrowing of stimulus that's just a result of evolutionary programming - and (primarily Western) societal norms.
That view would fall into one of the subjective idealist camps. There's no way to prove that there's anything objective. It's a belief based on what seems reasonable given the evidence. But ultimately all of that could simply be something conjured up as well. When then do I choose to stay in the camp of believers in the objective?
Maybe you're right and it's just Western norms. But not simply social norms. For me it's more the norms of Western science and logic. For example, according to that paradigm, the universe is far older than humans are, so how could we have dreamed up a universe before we existed? One might argue that all the evidence for that has also been cooked-up in our imagination, and we can't prove it's not. But is it really reasonable to think it is? And that's only one example.
I think Persinger was onto something for sure. I've tried to contact some of his colleagues following his death, but they're hard to reach, and seem to want to stick to themselves. I should try again.
Like I was saying above, if there was a consciousness around before the Big Bang, all evidence suggests that it could not have been human, because we evolved much, much, much, much, later. Even if we assume there's such a thing as reincarnation, the very first human to attain a consciousness that could be reincarnated didn't come along for billions of years.
I mentioned the connection between Western society and our proclivity to contextualize things in terms of separateness. Eastern metaphysics jives with the idea of non-locality far better than Abrahamic belief systems. Notice that certain faiths position God as "above" and outside of you. Whatever the creative force behind the universe is, some systems label it as being as separate from you as you are from your refrigerator. Two distinct "things". Then you go thumb through the tenets of Buddhism and you see that one of the core ideas is that this plane of separateness is an illusion. From a Buddhist perspective, by improving myself I'm in turn improving the world - because there is literally no difference. I'm not a Buddhist. Im only saying they may have just happened to get at least a B+ on that quiz.
I like the concepts in there, but we need to be careful not to conflate cause with effect. For example, if you improve yourself and in turn improve the world, there are still two distinct things in the equation, "you" and "the world". If there were no differentiating you from the world, then there would be no cause and effect and it would make no difference if you suddenly vanished from existence. But that's not how it works. If you suddenly vanished, the world would suddenly missing something completely unique ( you ! ).
We definitely seem to have far better instrumentation now than throughout history. There's a lot of variables to this though that should be considered. The expansion of our understanding of the world isn't exactly linear. The common thinking is obviously that somewhere around 7-10,000 years ago, agriculture began and that started a domino effect that eventually produced iPhones and Nike Sneakers. Prior to that, we toiled as hunter gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years. A lot of people never really stop to acknowledge the fact that - hunter gatherers never went anywhere. The aboriginal lineage amongst others is unbroken from prehistory.
The world around the indigenous ungulates in its ability to manipulate the physical world. And yet, they continue on. A true linear progression would preclude their demise, to then give rise to a "more advanced" civilization. But they're just chillin. A technological plateau that spans countless thousands of years. It's not a straight line, it's moving in every direction simultaneously.
I'm constantly seeing evidence of us getting better than we've ever been and worse than we've ever been and different than we've ever been - at the same exact time. And in some cases there's no change at all. There are definitely things we understand better now, that people of the past knew nothing of. And conversely, I'm certain that there are aspects of the universe that in the distant past were in a way easier (for some) to perceive.
Very good observations.
The wealth of 1st world countries could put an end to the suffering of countless people on Earth if the priorities of some was replaced by empathy. In that same sense - what does it say about "them" that they choose to just hover there and watch? Or maybe their perception is so different than ours that they exist outside of what we typically sense and we're just seeing a vestige of their existence. I know it seems like I'm all over the place, but I'm saying all this for a reason. For a second, assume consciousness = reality, and our sense of separation is solely due to blockages in our awareness.
I already assume conscious = reality ( subjective reality ). Whatever is actually going on out there in objective reality is anybody's guess, but whatever it is, it's a whole lot bigger than we are.
If the universe is as teaming with life as we think it is, statistically there'd be at least a few races who have less "blockages" than us, or none at all. Biology being an end result of consciousness and not the other way around would then have to tie in with what we perceive as death. Body or not, the awareness is uninterrupted. This is a very Whitley Strieber kind of idea - but maybe at least some of the non-human beings visiting Earth perceive reality in such an expansive way that they're here while simultaneously experiencing whatever plane of existence our awareness shifts to when our illusory shell gives up. And, I know, big if, but, if that's the case - there's no reason for them to, say, save human lives from something like Covid - because death isn't what we perceive it to be in the first place. Maybe it's nothing more than a shift in perspective.
Death being a "shift in perspective" sounds nice on the surface, but someplace in here I'm pretty sure I wrote an article on why afterlives are impossible. It's a bit much to get into in a couple of short sentences, but no matter how you distill it down, anything that seems like it's someone who has attained existence in some sort of afterlife, can at best, only be a copy of their original selves. There is only one "you". And there will never be another one when you're gone. You are ( we all are ) unique and irreplaceable.
This observation is born out of a misunderstanding of what I mean when I say consciousness is probably fundamental to the universe. Also, it infers the opposite, it infers that consciousness is proprietary to biology instead of the other way around. The simplest way to describe it would be - underlying literally everything, and outside of time, all there is - is a conscious field of awareness. At our core that's what we are - but we wear human suits for 70-80 years, and then shed it like a snake sheds it's skin.
Thanks for placing your comment about consciousness into perspective. We've been discussing this same idea off and on over on the Consciousness thread for literally years now, but I'm fine reviewing some of it here.
The main problems are ( in no particular order ) coming to consensus on:
What is meant by "fundamental".
Can something be both fundamental and emergent?
Is consciousness the same as subjective experience?
If so, what is required in order to have a subjective experience. For example:
Can something with no eyes have a visual experience?
If not, can something without sensory data gathering systems have any sensory experiences at all?
If you believe so, what reasoning can you offer to support that position?
By reflecting on the above, you'll soon find yourself down the same path I always end-up on, which is that the universal consciousness theory lacks coherence. It's a nice New Agey feel good sort of notion, but it just doesn't hold together. It's more complex than that. But by all mean feel free to discuss. Here's a re-post of a popular David Chalmers talk on the subject.
David Chalmers On Consciousness
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We don't know what we're dealing with as a race. People like Raven are convincing but deceived. I know this unfortunately well because I was too. Read this to understand more what is going on: alliesofhumanity.org
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HKUST Syncs With Moscow School
by: Andrea Carter on June 28, 2018 | 0 Comments 145 Views
The business school at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Photo courtesy of HKUST
In the market for a global Executive MBA experience? A new program is set to kickoff this winter for managers and entrepreneurs who aspire to lead in the European and Asian regions of the world. The EMBA for Eurasia is a new joint degree offered by the business school at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, a private Russian business school that launched in 2006.
Classes for the part-time, 16-month program will take place in seven different countries around the world and they are especially designed for managers who aim to run businesses within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. Announced last year by the government of China, this initiative is an infrastructure-focused effort to increase connectivity between dozens of countries across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa.
TWENTY COURSES, SEVEN DIFFERENT BUSINESS SCHOOLS
The HKUST-SKOLKOVO Executive MBA Program for Eurasia, as the program is officially called, includes 20 courses taught in seven leading business schools. Each stop along the way, students will learn and acquire skills related to the setting in which they study. During the module at HKUST, for instance, they'll seek to understand the business systems and economies of China and the Far East. With Silicon Valley as a backdrop, the module at the University of California-Berkeley's Haas School of Business in the U.S. will hone in on innovation and entrepreneurship. At Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, students will be uniquely situated at the core of Eurasia where the Belt and Road Initiative was launched five years ago. Each module will last between four and eleven days, officials told Poets&Quants for Execs.
"The students will gain 'cultural' knowledge of Eurasian countries and how to do business there, gain an understanding of the latest regional trends in various industries, and learn to implement leadership and team building skills," explained a written statement from the joint program's press office.
In all, the curriculum covers the standard management fundamentals such as corporate finance, accounting, and negotiations in addition to several topics specific to the Eurasian region such as doing business in Russia and CIS, doing business in China and Asia, and cultural intelligence for business. The teaching staff features professors who hail from IMD, INSEAD, Cambridge University, University of Berkeley, and more.
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HKUST is no stranger to the EMBA space and delivering top-notch programs. Another joint program by the school, in partnership with the Kellogg School of Management, has topped the Financial Times ranking of the world's best EMBA options on eight different occasions. In contrast, the Moscow School of Management — formed just a little more than a decade ago — launched its MBA and Executive MBA offerings for the first time in 2009. According to a press release, HKUST's business school entered a strategic partnership agreement with SKOLKOVO last year, offering academic support for the global development of the school. EMBA for Eurasia is the first formal offering.
Associate Dean of HKUST Business School, Steven DeKrey, who is also chairman of the International Academic Council at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, said in the release, "The program will leverage on the strengths and experience of HKUST by placing students at the cutting-edge of knowledge, underpinned by Eurasia, Innovation and Leadership, to prepare them to undertake a transformational journey."
Tuition for the new Eurasia EMBA is $130,000 and includes the program's 14 modules in Russia, Hong Kong/China, U.S., Israel, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, and Armenia, accommodations in Russia and Hong Kong, plus a complete set of study materials and mentorship for students' capstone project. Sessions will be taught in English and to get in, applicants must have a bachelor's degree from a recognized school, at least six years of managerial experience, and proof of proficiency in English. At the completion of the program, students receive two degrees from HKUST Business School and the Moscow School of Management. The first incoming class begins this November.
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from django.views.decorators.gzip import gzip_page
from phonebook.models import Phonebook, Category
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Sealed Off
By Barbara Ross
Read by Dara Rosenberg
Barbara Ross Tantor Audio 9781496717955
The Maine Clambake Mysteries
Early October is "winding down" time in Busman's Harbor, Maine, but there's nothing relaxing about it for Julia Snowden. Between busloads of weekend leaf peepers at the Snowden Family Clambake and a gut renovation of the old mansion on Morrow Island, she's keeping it all together with a potentially volatile skeleton crew—until one of them turns up dead under the firewood. When the Russian demo team clearing out the mansion discovers a room that's been sealed off for decades, Julia's baffled as to its purpose and what secrets it might have held. Tensions are already simmering with the crew, but when one of the workers is found murdered, things come to a boil. With the discovery of another body—and a mysterious diary with Cyrillic text in the hidden room—the pressure's on Julia to dig up a real killer fast. But she'll have to sort through a pile of suspects, including ex-spouses, a spurned lover, and a recently released prisoner, to fish out one clammed-up killer.
Early October is "winding down" time in Busman's Harbor, Maine, but there's nothing relaxing about it for Julia Snowden. Between busloads of weekend leaf peepers at the Snowden Family Clambake and a gut renovation of the old mansion on Morrow Island, she's keeping it all together with a potentially volatile skeleton crew—until one of them turns up dead under the firewood.
When the Russian demo team clearing out the mansion discovers a room that's been sealed off for decades, Julia's baffled as to its purpose and what secrets it might have held. Tensions are already simmering with the crew, but when one of the workers is found murdered, things come to a boil. With the discovery of another body—and a mysterious diary with Cyrillic text in the hidden room—the pressure's on Julia to dig up a real killer fast. But she'll have to sort through a pile of suspects, including ex-spouses, a spurned lover, and a recently released prisoner, to fish out one clammed-up killer.
Author Bio: Barbara Ross
Barbara Ross is the author of three series of novels. The first book in the Maine Clambake Mysteries, Clammed Up, was a finalist for the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction and was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel and the RT Book Reviews Reviewer's Choice Best Book Award for Amateur Sleuth.


On this date in 2006, Red Sox ace Curt Schilling gave up ten extra-base hits to the Royals, tying an American League record. The nine doubles and one homer surrendered put Schilling in a tie with Dale Gear and Luis Tiant for the unfortunate mark. Here's this week's look around the baseball blogosphere..
Camden Depot says Caleb Joseph is a future All-Star.
Inside The Zona wonders if Chase Anderson's hot start is sustainable.
Beisbol's breaks down Clay Buchholz.
Wahoo's On First looks back at the Indians' deadline.
Nats GM spoke with Baseball Prospectus' Joe Hamrahi.
Your Van C's runs down the Blue Jays' top prospects.
Rays Colored Glasses looks at Willy Adames.
Royals Blue talks about Sung Woo Lee and his story.
Grading On The Curve fears Jose Ramirez won't reach his potential with the Indians.
Nobody needs to break down Clay Buchholz. He does that in public every fifth game.
Last season a couple BOS fans kept arguing with me that if LAD and BOS ever met in the WS, Kershaw and Buchholz would cancel each other out because they believed he was almost as good as Kersh.
Man that went south fast for Buch. He had a good season last year when healthy. Wonder what happened.
Yeah, they didn't know what they were talking about. Verlander or King Felix don't cancel out Kershaw. The man is Hall destined.
At this point I'm hoping it's a health issue with Buch.
Although when it comes to postseason track records, Jon Lester had Kershaw beaten by a mile.
Caleb Joseph is a CURRENT all star. His defensive stats are amazing and his bat is heating up.
The key thing here is determining whether or not Joseph's bat is really THAT good or not.


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Optimize shopping campaigns with n-grams.
Mobile continues to fuel growth in click share and spend, and Shopping remains steady growth vehicle for retail spend.
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Published: 10.06.2015 | Author: Inge Aarseth
PlaceLandscapeLarge landforms
Svartediket with Vidden in the background. Hardbakkadalen Valley; in the middle of the picture under Vidden is a hanging valley with a fine "U"-shaped form, and with a characteristic cirque. (Helge Sunde)
The valley on the inside of the Svartediks dam, a five minutes' bus ride from Bergen centre, is often referred to by Bergen folk as Isdalen ("Ice Valley") - justifiably, since the area could have been described in textbooks for its ice-carved land forms. The glacier's polishing over ca. 40 ice ages has created a magnificient landscape. The original ice valley climbs up behind Ulriken at the end of Svartediket.
It is believed that, before the ice ages, the mainland extended all the way out to Marsteinen. From Vidden the rivers ran through narrow, "V-shaped" valleys that carved down through an old, weakly undulating landscape. When the climate got colder, and the ice ages began, the first glaciers formed at the top of the valleys. Snow that blew down from Vidden accumulated in depressions in the terrain. The thickness of these snow layers eventually grew so big that those at the bottom were transformed into ice. The ice then began to move slowly but surely down the valley and over time carved trough-shaped depressions, known as "cirques". The ice disappeared and came back again, over and over again. Especially in the beginning of each ice age, the cirques were carved out deeper and deeper. Lake Tarlebøvatnet in the uppermost Våkendalen Valley, Hardbakkadalen and Isdalen valleys up under Ulriken, are areas where the local glaciers carved out cirques.
But, it was not only at the beginning of the individual ice ages that the carving took place. As the ice ages after a time became more extensive, the smaller glaciers merged together. The bigger glacier was stronger than the smaller local glaciers on their own. In this way, a bigger main valley was carved, that was deeper than the side-valleys. Svartediket lies in the main valley. The side valleys became so-called "hanging valleys", with waterfalls and streams down toward the main valley.
Creation of the landscape in the Isdal-region. (a) 2 million years ago.
Creation of the landscape in the Isdal-region. (b) Approx. 100 000 years ago.
Creation of the landscape in the Isdal-region (c) Today.
Ahlman, H. W. 1919. Geomorphological studies in Norway. Geografiska Annaler 1. Stockholm.
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On This Day – 20 June. A Newspaper History of Sailing
1968. "Hope for De Kat: Dalling Silent". A large-scale search for missing yachtsman Joan de Kat continued yesterday as the 18th day of the solo transatlantic yacht race drew to a close. The liner Empress of England, with more than 500 passengers on board, yesterday joined the search for De Kat, who is adrift on a liferaft following the break-up of his 50-ft. trimaran Yaksha.
To read the full report, Click on the following LINK: 1968 06 20 – OSTAR 794
1986. "No Report Made by SA Yacht". The Plymouth headquarters of the Carlsberg transatlantic yacht race said yesterday it had not heard from the South African monohull Tuna Marine Voortrekker since Tuesday.
1987. "Yacht Collides with Freighter Off Cape Point". An 8,5-metre glass-fibre yacht was holed when it collided with a freighter off Cape Point in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The yacht, which remained afloat; was later towed into Hout Bay by a National Sea Rescue Institute vessel from Station 8.
1992. "Sailor Confronted by Angry Whale". Anthony Steward, who is attempting to circumnavigate the globe in a 5,8 metre open dinghy, had some anxious moments this week when an agitated whale took an instant dislike to his boat NCS Challenger.
2004. "Zulu Storm Bears Down On the America's Cup". Shosholoza! Make way, here come the Zulus. It is a bright blue and gold winter's morning in Cape Town as the sounds of the Zulu work song echoes against the centuries-old stone of the Victoria & Alfred basin. The high-tech training yacht Shosholoza is setting out for a day's work on the waves. Stimela, sphuma, South Africa! Here comes the steam train.
To read the full report, Click on the following LINK: 2004 06 20 – stitched final – 049


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March 2023 – January 2024 Mar 2023 – Jan 2024
BPHC AdvisoryBoard Meeting
National Take-Down Tobacco Day of Action @ Everywhere!
The next #TakeDownTobacco National Day of Action will happen on Friday, March 31, 2023.
On the eve of April Fools' Day, youth advocates across the country will again join together to call Big Tobacco's bluff and expose them for who they really are: jokers who gamble with people's lives. Learn more here: https://www.takedowntobacco.org/
May 31 all-day
This yearly celebration informs the public on the dangers of using tobacco, the business practices of tobacco companies, what the World Health Organization (WHO) is doing to fight the tobacco epidemic, and what people around the world can do to claim their right to health and healthy living and to protect future generations.
The Member States of the World Health Organization created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes. In 1987, the World Health Assembly passed Resolution WHA40.38, calling for 7 April 1988 to be a "a world no-smoking day." In 1988, Resolution WHA42.19 was passed, calling for the celebration of World No Tobacco Day, every year on 31 May.
https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-no-tobacco-day
Evan Litwin's Birthday, Communications & Marketing Coordinator
Reagan Murphy's Birthday, Youth Programming Coordinator
Aug 6 all-day
5:00 pm BPHC AdvisoryBoard Meeting
all-day National Take-Down Tobacco Day o... @ Everywhere!
National Take-Down Tobacco Day o... @ Everywhere!
The next #TakeDownTobacco National Day of Action will happen on Friday, March 31, 2023.On the eve of April Fools' Day, youth advocates across the country will again join together to call Big Tobacco's bluff and expose them for[...]
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Issue 12 – June, 2016 (1mb PDF)
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We are a coalition of Burlington residents, businesses, schools, colleges, parents, youth, medical professionals, students, social services, law enforcement officials, court representatives and more.
We recognize that the damages of drugs, alcohol abuse and tobacco effect us all and we work together to create a healthier environment in Burlington, Vermont.
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Q: Jquery Menu mouse over not working Hi am trying to implement a simple menu using jquery but with no luck.Kindly look into this fiddle.Thanks in advance
http://jsfiddle.net/Gg3cR/12/

A: instead of visibility: hidden; you need display: none; to start out with
here is updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Gg3cR/13/
EDIT:
It will probably be better in the long run to keep the list in a div, and show/hide the div on mouse over
Here is a link to show the difference between the two:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_display_visibility.asp
if you want to use visibility still, you could use .css('visibility', visibilityState)

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