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No Sound in Space :)
Source SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration.
Haven't seen the flick yet but the science, like that of 2001, rings true.
Build for Obselesence
Question, what costs $162M per unit, is years behind schedule and is ..., you guessed it, already obsolete even though the $400 billion dollar F 35 Joint Strike Fighter program is the most expensive and inept weapons system ever built, a testimony to government/military incompetence at the highest level.
Versions of the new single-engine stealth fighter are set to replace almost every type of fighter in the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps inventory—including aircraft specifically designed to support ground troops like the A-10 Warthog. That will leave troops in a lurch when the F-35 eventually becomes the only game in town.
"The F-35 will, in my opinion, be 10 years behind legacy fighters when it achieves [initial operational capability]," said one Air Force official affiliated with the F-35 program. "When the F-35 achieves [initial operational capability], it will not have the weapons or sensor capability, with respect to the CAS [close air support] mission set, that legacy multi-role fighters had by the mid-2000s."
The problem stems from the fact that the technology found on one of the stealth fighter's primary air-to-ground sensors—its nose-mounted Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS)—is more than a decade old and hopelessly obsolete. The EOTS, which is similar in concept to a large high-resolution infrared and television camera, is used to visually identify and monitor ground targets. The system can also mark targets for laser-guided bombs.
Can you imagine Apple doing something this stupid? Not
40 years & counting, The A10 Warthog - a military program that will continue until at least 2028.
Data Breaches by the Numbers
AeroMobil 3.0
BRT talked about the AeroMobil in a post titled If it looks good, it will fly well, an elegant approach to the age old dream of a car that flies, a radical yet well thought out project coming ever closer to reality as seen by this latest video about something that does look good and appears to fly very well indeed. OBTY, the site looks pretty damn good as well. :)
Silent Running, a prescient SF movie of the 3rd kind, is particularly relevant as seen in the ongoing 6th Great Dying being perpetrated by us as we move further into the 21st century, something beyond tragic as once a species is gone, it's gone forever, not to mention the negative impact species extinction does to biodiversity, the one essential needed for man to survive on planet earth. To address this critical issue, researchers have found a way to efficiently storehouse invaluable DNA of individual lifeforms before they become extinct, an approach radically different from that of Silent Running but with the same intent.
Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) have developed a cost-effective way to save a wide range of threatened species, including rare old ones that may be costly to protect.
Their new technique to help maximise both the species and genetic diversity we save helps resolve the dilemma facing conservation managers worldwide: whether to rescue a larger number of recent and more common species or fewer, unique and older species that may be more costly to preserve.
The technology will help nations such as Australia and New Zealand to protect as much diversity of both species and their genes as possible, says lead researcher Dr Joseph Bennett of CEED and The University of Queensland (UQ).
"The global extinction crisis is getting worse, and conservation funds are seldom enough to stop biodiversity from declining," says Dr Bennett. "This is like a library on fire – and we have to save as much of the precious information as we can.
Click on the little guy below to get more information on what CEED is trying to do.
Addendum: Researchers are also doing the same thing with seeds as seen by the svalbard-global-seed-vault, one of several being built to save as many of the world's plant species before they too disappear.
Emily Post Etiquette - Eagle Style :)
Bald Eagles are not only magnificent in appearance and stately in demeanor, as seen in this terrific video by Cornell's Lab of Ornithology, but also pretty laid back by allowing crows to partake in the annual fish feast in Homer, Alaska. Enjoy.
Some late fall/early winter random walks in CT. Enjoy.
The Tallest Peaks
Images like this never cease to amaze. In this case, it's a closeup of Saturn's B ring with ridges approximately 2 1/2 kilometers high.
Vertical structures, among the tallest seen in Saturn's main rings, rise abruptly from the edge of Saturn's B ring to cast long shadows on the ring in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft two weeks before the planet's August 2009 equinox.
Part of the Cassini Division, between the B and the A rings, appears at the top of the image, showing ringlets in the inner division.
In this image, Cassini's narrow angle camera captured a 1,200-kilometer-long (750-mile-long) section arcing along the outer edge of the B ring. Here, vertical structures tower as high as 2.5 kilometers (1.6 miles) above the plane of the rings -- a significant deviation from the vertical thickness of the main A, B and C rings, which is generally only about 10 meters (about 30 feet).
Seen below is Mike Carroll's amazing graphic of what it would look like flying over the B ring head on. :)
Bullet Time - Ant Style :)
Bullet Time Matrix Style :)
Merry Xmas to one and all. :)
A Replicant of the Raptor Kind
Building a replicant starts with mimicking nature, something DARPA wants to do in building a bot able to fly like the Goshawk, the acrobat supreme of the raptor world.
"Birds of prey and flying insects exhibit the kinds of capabilities we want for small UAVs. Goshawks, for example, can fly very fast through a dense forest without smacking into a tree," according to a statement in the announcement from Mark Micire,DARPA program manager. "The goal of the FLA program is to explore non-traditional perception and autonomy methods that would give small UAVs the capacity to perform in a similar way, including an ability to easily navigate tight spaces at high speed and quickly recognize if it had already been in a room before."
The focus is so firmly on developing a workable, independent flight intelligence, in fact, that DARPA doesn't even want to talk about what that intelligence would be flying in.
The last statement says it all, don't you think?
Northern Goshawk
Last Days - Why Wildlife Matters
Why wildlife matters.
14M/Hr
Interesting factoids regarding just how much $$ has gone into the never ending war machine since 9/11.
American taxpayers have shelled out roughly $1.6 trillion on war spending since 9/11, according to a new report from Congress' nonpartisan research arm. That's roughly $337 million a day -- or nearly a quarter million dollars a minute -- every single day for 13 years.
The $1.6 trillion estimate, which comes to $14 million per hour since 9/11, from the Congressional Research Service is up roughly half a trillion dollars from its 2010 estimate, which found that the post-9/11 military operations are second only to World War II in terms of financial cost.
Last week, a Defense Department official disclosed that since August, U.S. taxpayers have already spent more than $1 billion -- or $8 million a day -- on air strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Additionally, the Obama administration announced it is deploying 1,300 troops to Iraq in January.
The question to ask is: How successful have these operations been in improving the lives of the people said operations has impacted relative to the enormous profits accrued by the arms merchants supplying the hardware to do the deed? Something to think about, IMHO, as the infrastructure of the country continues to go down the tubes.
David Stockman found religion in terms of intelligent economic analysis after his stint as Reagan's OMB director whereby Voodoo Economics reigned supreme, policies that did not work due to how the system was gamed, something very different to how Eisenhower ran things, a president who, IMHO, understood what sound economic policy was all about.
Reaganomics (/reɪɡəˈnɒmɪks/; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey)[1] refers to the economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are commonly associated with supply-side economics, referred to as trickle-down economics by political opponents and free market economics by political advocates.
The four pillars of Reagan's economic policy were to reduce the growth of government spending, reduce the federal income tax and capital gains tax, reduce government regulation, and tighten the money supply in order to reduce inflation.[2]
Stockman's latest missive, The Fracturing Energy Bubble Is the New Housing Crash, rings true regarding Shale Oil, fracking's first cousin, the one trick pony whose rather limited act is in its final phase of existence.
In short, the Fed exported bubble finance to the entire world, but most especially China and the EM. The upshot was an extended era of booming but phony global growth, and a consequent artificially high oil prices at $115 per barrel.
When central bank inflated oil prices were coupled with lunatic junk bond yields in the US shale patch at barely 300 bps over the central bank repressed yield on the US treasury note, the result was the same old bubble thing. Namely, a half trillion dollar flow of high yield bonds and loans to the energy sector, and a wholly artificial explosion of US shale liquids production from 1 million to more than 4 million barrels per day.
Like in the case of the housing bubble, the energy boom was an accident waiting to happen— testimony to another even grander experiment by the madmen running the world's central banks. It is now exploding right on schedule. The plunging graphs subsequent to the housing bust are now being re-gifted to the energy patch and all the bloated, unstable chains of finance and real economic activity which flow from it.
The graph above, which shows that every net job created in the US during the last seven years is attributable to the shale states, will be one of the first to morph into a less happy shape.
But there is something else even more significant. The global oil price collapse now unfolding is not putting a single dime into the pockets of American households—-the CNBC talking heads to the contrary notwithstanding. What is happening is the vast flood of mispriced debt and capital, which flowed into the energy sector owning to the Fed's lunatic ZIRP and QE policies, is now rapidly deflating.
That will reduce bubble spending and investment, not add to economic growth. It's the housing bust all over again.
A new kind of inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition, a dark period of human history, has a very mild 2014 successor, in terms of torment and torture, when Spain drove out Google News using, you guessed it, copyright, to make it happen.
But sadly, as a result of a new Spanish law, we'll shortly have to close Google News in Spain. Let me explain why. This new legislation requires every Spanish publication to charge services like Google News for showing even the smallest snippet from their publications, whether they want to or not. As Google News itself makes no money (we do not show any advertising on the site) this new approach is simply not sustainable. So it's with real sadness that on 16 December (before the new law comes into effect in January) we'll remove Spanish publishers from Google News, and close Google News in Spain.
The internet is a system of tubes, right?
Germany previously passed an unsuccessful law of this sort, but the difference is that most media companies waived their right to charge for excerpts because Google created so much traffic.
To make sure that the Spanish version was more successful, language stipulates that media companies MUST charge! There is no choice in the matter.
Here's more:
Today [Google's new service] is available in more than 70 international editions, covering 35 languages. It's a service that hundreds of millions of users love and trust, including many here in Spain. It's free to use and includes everything from the world's biggest newspapers to small, local publications and bloggers.
... For centuries publishers were limited in how widely they could distribute the printed page. The Internet changed all that -- creating tremendous opportunities but also real challenges for publishers as competition both for readers' attention and for advertising Euros increased. We're committed to helping the news industry meet that challenge and look forward to continuing to work with our thousands of partners globally, as well as in Spain, to help them increase their online readership and revenues.
Of course, this is not the whole story. From what we can tell and have reported before, copyright only was developed after the advent of the Gutenberg press. Its implementation was at least in part intended to slow the transmission of information that was undermining the sociopolitical and economic system of the time.
It didn't work very well, of course. The Holy Roman Empire was riven by Lutheranism and eventually the "Divine Right of Kings" – which depended on the endorsement of the Church – also collapsed.
Thank god for fair use, at least in this country, otherwise, BRT, and other blogs like it, would cease to exist.
Happy Days are here again
Xmas came early to Wall Street when CT Representative Jim Himes shepherded in the gutting of
Dodd-Frank in the 1.1 trillion dollar spending bill passed by Congress by re enabling WS to use government backed monies to continue ginning the derivatives game for ever greater profits, thus eliminating risk due to the fact WS will get bailed out yet again, by us rubes, when the market tanks, as it always does, based on the bubble mentality of how the banks, and significant others, manipulate money to game the system, using tech to make it happen.
Wall Street has for some time attempted to put taxpayers on the hook for its derivatives trades. I highlighted this a year ago in the post: Citigroup Written Legislation Moves Through the House of Representatives. Here's an excerpt:
Five years after the Wall Street coup of 2008, it appears the U.S. House of Representatives is as bought and paid for as ever. We heard about the Citigroup crafted legislation currently being pushed through Congress back in May when Mother Jones reported on it. Fortunately, they included the following image in their article:
Unsurprisingly, the main backer of the bill is notorious Wall Street lackey Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a former Goldman Sachs employee who has discovered lobbyist payoffs can be just as lucrative as a career in financial services. The last time Mr. Himes made an appearance on these pages was in March 2013 in my piece: Congress Moves to DEREGULATE Wall Street.
Betrayal always has consequences as the French found out when they had their violent revolution (1789 - 1799), based on Popular resentment of the privileges enjoyed by the clergy and aristocracy "that" grew during a financial crisis following two expensive wars and years of bad harvests. something our so called leaders are doing, in similar fashion, in 2014.
Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means — to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal — would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face.
– Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice, in 1928
Amendment 28 anyone?
The 1st Law
IMHO, the 1st law of Thermodynamics (The conversation of energy) is the most important
scientific law articulated by man as it provides the raison d'ete as to how the quantum/relativistic reality, in which we all live, is powered. :)
Energy can be neither created or destroyed, only transformed.
Boltzmann and Wheeler are right, reality is information writ large. :)
The eventual successor to Glass
Tech never sleeps as seen by just how fast 3D printing has come along, not only in the first steps to print human organs using patient cells to start the process rolling but also in the first proof of concept to successfully merge electronics to contact lenses using the same tech to make it happen.
Michael McAlpine, the lead researcher, cautioned that the lens is not designed for actual use—for one, it requires an external power supply. Instead, he said the team created the device to demonstrate the ability to "3-D print" electronics into complex shapes and materials.
"This shows that we can use 3-D printing to create complex electronics including semiconductors," said McAlpine, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. "We were able to 3-D print an entire device, in this case an LED."
The hard contact lens is made of plastic. The researchers used tiny crystals, called quantum dots, to create the LEDs that generated the colored light. Different size dots can be used to generate various colors.
"We used the quantum dots [also known as nanoparticles] as an ink," McAlpine said. "We were able to generate two different colors, orange and green."
The contact lens is also part of an ongoing effort to use 3-D printing to assemble diverse, and often hard-to-combine, materials into functioning devices. In the recent past, a team of Princeton professors including McAlpine created a bionic ear out of living cells with an embedded antenna that could receive radio signals.
Things, they keep a changin. - Bob Dylan
If you don't love us...
Next kind of says it all, don't you think?
The CIA Report
No need to show the gruesome pictures of the CIA torture engine or belabor just how truly disgusting and damaging this fubar has been and will be to the nation for the foreseeable future as the real question to ask is: WHO AUTHORISED THE CIA TO COMMIT THESE ATROCITIES?? But we already know who, right? and WHAT CAN BE DONE TO BRING THESE PERPS TO JUSTICE? To yours truly, Attica sounds like a viable destination for the sociopaths who told the CIA to start the ball rolling if you ask me. To whit.
Former Bush vice president Dick Cheney staunchly defended the program, telling The New York Times the interrogations were "absolutely, totally justified."
"When we had that program in place, we kept the country safe from any more mass casualty attacks, which was our objective," he said.
Conditions were particularly ghastly at a black-site nicknamed Cobalt, in an undisclosed country, where "at times detainees there were walked around naked and shackled with their hands above their head," the report said.
Management of the program deteriorated so poorly in one country "that the CIA remains unable to determine the number and identity of the individuals it detained," the report said.
The review of 6.3 million pages of documents concluded that use of the techniques "was not an effective means of obtaining accurate information or gaining detainee cooperation."
Seven of 39 detainees known to have been subjected to so-called enhanced interrogations "produced no intelligence while in CIA custody," while others "provided significant accurate intelligence prior to, or without having been subjected to these techniques."
And in several cases "the CIA inaccurately claimed that specific, otherwise unavailable information was acquired from a CIA detainee" as a direct result of the harsh interrogations.
Turning on a dime :)
Had to put this in. Incompetence writ large. Check out the guy coming into the parking lot while this genius performs Bolero with a "Bimmer". Kind of reminds me of Congress and it's allegiance to incompetence at the public's expense. Thank Twisted Sifter for this gem. :)
The Language Construct
BRT has often talked about how language describes reality as language is the only construct enabling man to put in quantifiable terms, his interpretation of how reality might function, something most interesting to yours truly as a lay person forever trying to learn how reality actually works. What's even more amazing is how differently languages of the world are constructed, something most eloquently articulated in an Aeon piece titled There is no language instinct.
The basic ingredients of language, at least from our English-speaking perspective, are the parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and so on. But many languages lack adverbs, and some, such as Lao (spoken in Laos and parts of Thailand), lack adjectives. It has even been claimed that Straits Salish, an indigenous language spoken in and around British Columbia, gets by without nouns and verbs. Moreover, some languages feature grammatical categories that seem positively alien from our Anglocentric perspective. My favourite is the ideophone, a grammatical category that some languages employ to spice up a narrative. An ideophone is a fully fledged word type that integrates different sensory experiences arising in a single action: to pick one example, the word ribuy-tibuy, from the northern Indian language Mundari, describes the sight, motion and sound of a fat person's buttocks as he walks.
And of course, language doesn't need to be spoken: the world's 130 or so recognised sign languages function perfectly adequately without sound. It's a remarkable fact that linguistic meaning can be conveyed in multiple ways: in speech, by gestured signs, on the printed page or computer screen. It does not depend upon a particular medium for its expression. How strange, if there is a common element to all human language, that it should be hidden beneath such a bewildering profusion of differences.
The Tower of Babel does exist after all. :)
Schrodinger's Cat, forever residing in the nether world of being either alive or dead, is the glamor puss of quantum mechanics, the star participient in a theory most mystifying when it comes to trying to learn how reality works, is now being applied to the innermost sanction of life, the process that may operate at the edge of the quantum/classical realm, thanks to entanglement, the possible prime driver of reality itself.
When the team shone the laser at the system, (Photosynthesis) they observed a very peculiar light echo that came in beat-like waves. These 'quantum beats' were a sign that, instead of taking a single route through the system, the photon energy was using quantum coherence to travel by all possible routes simultaneously. Imagine if, when confronted by the stream, the famous cat somehow divided itself into lots of identical quantum-coherent cats that hop across the chlorophyll boulders by every available route to find the quickest one. Quantum beats have now been detected in many different photosystems, including those of regular plants such as spinach. It appears that the most important reaction in the biosphere is exploiting the quantum world to put our food on our table.
How does life maintain its molecular order long enough to perform its quantum tricks in warm and wet cells?
And if that's not enough for you, we come at last to the very mechanisms of evolution itself. Schrödinger suggested that mutations could involve a kind of quantum jump. In their classic DNA paper, Watson and Crick proposed that they might involve nucleotide bases switching between alternative structures, a process called 'tautomerisation' thought to involve quantum tunnelling. In 1999, the physicist Jim Al-Khalili and I suggested that proton tunnelling might account for one very peculiar kind of mutation – so-called adaptive mutation – which appears to occur more frequently when it provides an advantage. Our paper was entirely theoretical, but we are currently attempting to find experimental evidence for proton tunnelling in DNA. So, watch this space.
Beneath all these quantum solutions to puzzling vital phenomena, we find ourselves with a deeper mystery. Quantum coherence is an immensely delicate phenomenon, depending on those in-tune particle waves. To maintain it, physicists usually have to enclose their systems within near-perfect vacuums and cool them down to very close to absolute zero temperature to freeze out any heat-driven molecular motion. Molecular vibrations are the mortal enemy of quantum coherence. How, then, does life manage to maintain its molecular order for long enough to perform its quantum tricks in warm and wet cells? That remains a profound riddle. Recent research offers a tantalising hint that, instead of avoiding molecular storms, life embraces them, rather like the captain of a ship who harnesses turbulent gusts and squalls to maintain his ship upright and on-course. As Schrödinger predicted, life navigates a narrow stream between the classical and quantum worlds: the quantum edge.
And here's a short piece from Scientific American showing how wormholes and entanglement are intrinsically connected.
Maldacena and Susskind go so far as to equate the two in the relation ER = EPR, where ER refers to an Einstein–Rosen bridge (or wormhole) and EPR, short for Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen, is another term for entanglement. "Ours is a weaker statement, but it's easier to demonstrate to be true," Karch says. In his version wormholes aren't equivalent to entanglement; rather, 4-D wormholes are mathematically analogous to 3-D entanglement. Karch and his collaborator, Kristan Jensen of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, published their findings November 20 in Physical Review Letters. Building on their work, Julian Sonner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology strengthened the argument in a paper published in the same journal issue.
J. B. S. Haldane:
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine; but stranger than we CAN imagine." :)
Addendum: Check out Aeon Magazine and Decrypted Matrix, you won't be disappointed.
The impact of Bessie and her friends on the environment is huge, so huge that people are starting to rethink the way man grows food on planet earth.
Among the key findings in the report are:
More than 1.7 billion animals are used in livestock production worldwide and occupy more than one-fourth of the Earth's land.
Production of animal feed consumes about one-third of total arable land.
Livestock production accounts for approximately 40 percent of the global agricultural gross domestic product.
The livestock sector, including feed production and transport, is responsible for about 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
Here are some more interesting facts on what goes on mankind's dinner table.
Livestock production — which includes meat, milk and eggs — contributes 40% of global agricultural gross domestic product, provides income for more than 1.3 billion people and uses one-third of the world's fresh water. There may be no other single human activity that has a bigger impact on the planet than the raising of livestock. But as a new study out today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows, there is tremendous variation in how we raise livestock around the world — and major differences in what that means for the earth and for us.
Boggles the mind doesn't it?
This sentence is false
An "A Ha" moment is serendipity writ large whenever an idea, coming out of the blue, solves a wicked problem in elegant fashion, something Google did by rethinking CAPTCHA and turning it into an concise one click solution to thwart bots and spammers by simply enabling one to click the checkbox I am not a Robot, instead of trying to figure out nonsensical words displayed in often confusing and ugly ways. To yours truly, this is akin to This sentence is false, a logic bomb conundrum Kurt Godel used to great advantage when coming up with his revolutionary Incompleteness Theorem. ReCaptcha, a very cool approach to a noisome problem, will change the net for the better. :)
On Reaching 1400
1400, who could have "thunk" it in terms of the number of posts coming from BRT, something yours truly could have never imagined five+ years ago when BRT was created back in the day. :) So, what has transpired since 2008/9? Well quite a bit, some bad, some good and some in between. To whit.
2008 - 2014: Liar's Loans and the WS swindle, which continues unabated today, thanks to the gutless justice department 's failure to jail the bastards who stole our money.
2009 - Shock & Awe, the worst strategic move the US have ever done, created ISIS,. destroyed a nation and unleashed the hounds of hell all over the middle east thanks to the ineptness of W and the minions who worked for him. Addendum: You hire the people you defeated or blowback to the nth degree is guaranteed.
2009 - 2014 - Nation destroying started with Iraq and continued on with Libya and Afghanistan under Obama, the yes we can president, who channels "W" in more ways than one can imagine.
2010 - Citizen's United, the amazingly incomprehensible ruling passed by the Supremes, has magically transformed companies like Apple into personhood, thus enabling said companies to create super PACs to provide unlimited funding to never ending campaigns by our esteemed politicians because campaigning for office is eminently easier than actually governing as seen by the do nothing congress that has forgotten what the public weal is all about.
2009 - 2014 - The Supremes, as ideological hacks, began establishing their dubious place in history with Citizens United and finished the job with Greece NY, McCutcheon and Hobby Lobby. Next up, Obama care. Addendum: The corporate veil is now gone thanks to Hobby Lobby.
2012 - 2014 - The NSA, FBI, CIA & the IRS, among significant others, know where we live 24/7 thanks to the creation of Homeland Security and its rump court FISA, the worst two things Bush did in compromising our civil rights in America.
2002 - 2008 - Torture incorporated, courtesy the CIA with authorization coming from the Bush administration will be forever a stain on America's soul and an egregious violation of the Geneva Accords.
1900 - 2014 - Overshoot, the continued plundering of earth's resources, is moving toward the point of no return (June) as accelerating fossil fuel production, environmental degradation and ever increasing numbers of people is creating a situation that could end civilization as
we know it.
1900 - 2014 - GW is real, just look at the stats to see why.
2010 - 2014 - Solar is taking off. The best is yet to come though the fossil fuel boys are trying their best to prevent it. Ditto wind and maybe...viable fusion if the gods permit it.
2010 - 2014 - The rise of super AI, potentially the most dangerous thing man has ever done, will happen, whether we like it or not.
2014 - Quantum computing is coming, a tech that could change everything given just how powerful this tech truly is.
2011-2014 - Obamacare, a small step toward Single Payer, is working, something the Supremes may undo, which could create blowback along the lines of a revolution given just how many people have signed on in the last 2 years.
2013 - 2014 Inept US foreign policy, driven by the NeoCons, strikes again as the demonization of Russia could pave the way to WW III if the NeoCons continue to do "Stupid Shit".
1968 - 2014 - Healthcare, the FUBAR that keeps on giving, continues on, thanks to government regulatory incompetence, IT & insurance collusion and corporate greed in the guise of big pharma and significant others, who want the system to remain as dysfunctional as it is because of just how much money is being made by the powers at be.
1960 - 2014 - The military/Industrial & Congressional complex is alive and well, complete with never ending war because the monies made by all parties involved in the war machine make more money than god. Doublethink applies here without question.
2010 - 2014 - GMOs, another dangerous tech without question. Black swan anyone?
2012-2014 - AL - Artificial Life, another black swan anyone?
Beginning of Time to the Infinite Future - Hugh Everett's Many Worlds theory is becoming an increasingly viable way to explain how reality actually works as seen by research that's slowly beginning to prove the existence of the multiverse.
2013 - Wormhole creation, as a natural part of entanglement, is no longer considered wild conjecture but rapidly is approaching science fact if recent findings on this most interesting of topics prove to be true.
2009 - 2014 - The acceleration of tech truly astounds as we touch the fabric of reality every day with ever increasingly powerful and fine grained tools.
2009 - 2014 - Stem cell research, science that can change everything regarding immortality.
1980 - 2014 - The education hustle whereby college students become wage slaves thanks to CC and institutional buy in, thus creating higher educational debt greater than the debt held by all CC holders in the US.
The beat goes on as the science/tech equation vis a vis civilization is never ending, a fact that keeps BRT going as the grist in the mill is just too interesting to let go. :)
Addendum: To my loyal readers, thank you so much for your feedback on BRT because without question, your comments warm the cockles of this writer's heart to the max. :)
Interesting Stats
GW, the 900lb gorilla in the closet, continues to generate rather interesting stats showing why climate change will soon become the greatest challenge to the survivability of mankind, a notion deemed not acceptable to the millions of GW deniers who insist that climate change is nothing but a nefarious conspiracy peddled by inept scientist and the liberal media that supports them.
The numbers are stark. Carbon dioxide emissions: up 60 percent. Global temperature: up six-tenths of a degree. Population: up 1.7 billion people. Sea level: up 3 inches. U.S. extreme weather: up 30 percent. Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica: down 4.9 trillion tons of ice.
"Simply put, we are rapidly remaking the planet and beginning to suffer the consequences," says Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University.
THE OCEANS
The world's oceans have risen by about 3 inches since 1992 and gotten a tad more acidic—by about half a percent—thanks to chemical reactions caused by the absorption of carbon dioxide, scientists at NOAA and the University of Colorado say.
Every year sea ice cover shrinks to a yearly minimum size in the Arctic in September—a measurement that is considered a key climate change indicator. From 1983 to 1992, the lowest it got on average was 2.62 million square miles. Now the 10-year average is down to 1.83 million square miles, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
That loss—an average 790,000 square miles since 1992—overshadows the slight gain in sea ice in Antarctica, which has seen an average gain of 110,000 square miles of sea ice over the past 22 years.
Read the Physorg article to get the whole picture of why injecting more energy into any system makes it wilder.
Ingenuity + :)
Interesting twist on CG, time travel and problem solving. Enjoy.
Almost Alien
An amazing achievement is a vast understatement when it comes to describing the significance of the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's first analog computer, something almost alien in terms of just how advanced this system truly was when built around 205 BC.
"The complex clocklike assembly of bronze gears and display dials predates other known examples of similar technology by more than 1,000 years. It accurately predicted lunar and solar eclipses, as well as solar, lunar and planetary positions," the Times described the ancient mechanism, which measures just about 8 inches across.
For good measure, the mechanism also tracked the dates of the Olympic Games. Although it was not programmable in the modern sense, some have called it the first analog computer.
Interestingly enough, this may only be the beginning.
Last fall, an expedition led by Woods Hole and Greek government scientists began the first systematic, scientific investigation of the site of the shipwreck where the mechanism was found. The dive was shortened to just five days because of bad weather, but the scientists plan to return next spring.
I, for one, cannot wait to see whether other artifacts like the mechanism may come forth in the spring of 2015. :)
On a Wing but Not a Prayer :)
The Dutch have a pragmatic and innovative approach to life, something readily seen in the TU Delft Ambulance drone, a quick way to deliver cardiac resuscitation within timeframes nearly impossible to achieve using the traditional means of getting hardware to site whether it be by car, ambulance or helicopter. Pretty awesome application of tech without question.
Each year nearly a million people in Europe suffer from a cardiac arrest. A mere 8% survives due to slow response times of emergency services. The ambulance-drone is capable of saving lives with an integrated defibrillator. The goal is to improve existing emergency infrastructure with a network of drones. This new type of drones can go over 100 km/h and reaches its destination within 1 minute, which increases chance of survival from 8% to 80%! This drone folds up and becomes a toolbox for all kind of emergency supplies. Future implementations will also serve other use cases such as drowning, diabetes, respiratory issues and traumas.
Now all that's needed is to link it to an HC system able to take this data in real time and send it to appropriate parties as needs warrant, something a near impossibility given just how inept the US HC system truly is.
CO2 up close & personal
A must see to learn why global warming is for real.
On the Notion of Rainbows
BRT has talked often about how language defines our notion of reality based on how said language is constructed, whether it be pictographic like Chinese and Japanese or modular like English or Russian. To that end, a good friend of mine posted an awesome link showing how English differs from Chinese when it comes to color, a most important aspect of describing reality without question.
Here's a fascinating visualization (seen above) created by Muyueh Lee that shows the differences between how the English language and Chinese language each describe colors. On the left, you can see the number of English names for color hues (there's a lot!) and on the right, the number of Chinese names (there's a little!).
Shown below is a dataset depicting specific breakdowns of color descriptions.
This is Chinese
Interesting, eh?
To see how this works in interactive 3D, Muyueh Lee's amazing site is the place to go as the interrelational aspects of just how deep this finding goes is truly astounding.
To yours truly, the notion that language describes our take on reality rings true as shown by Lee's incredibly creative and innovative research.
PS. Thanks Mark for turning me onto this. :)
Reflection 2 Step
It's amazing how seemingly transparent glass acts like a mirror when the angle, background and lighting is just right as seen here in a shot taken during my time in Chicago, an awesome place to drink beer, talk with people and walk the streets in relaxed fashion. Enjoy.
Who knows, speaking in tongues may have inspired "Spoken Singing",
a musical technique pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg and significant others back in the 1910s.
"One never knows, do one?" - Fat Waller :)
Sprechgesang (German: [ˈʃpʀɛçɡəˌzaŋ], "spoken singing") and Sprechstimme (German: [ˈʃpʀɛçˌʃtɪmə], "spoken voice") are expressionist vocal techniques between singing and speaking. Though sometimes used interchangeably, Sprechgesang is directly related to the operatic recitative manner of singing (in which pitches are sung, but the articulation is rapid and loose like speech), whereas Sprechstimme is closer to speech itself (because it does not emphasise any particular pitches).[1]
The earliest compositional use of the technique was in the first version of Engelbert Humperdinck's 1897 melodrama Königskinder (in the 1910 version it was replaced by conventional singing), where it may have been intended to imitate a style already in use by singers of lieder and popular song,[3] but it is more closely associated with the composers of the Second Viennese School. Arnold Schoenberg asks for the technique in a number of pieces: the part of the Speaker in Gurre-Lieder (1911) is written in his notation for sprechstimme, but it was Pierrot Lunaire (1912) where he used it throughout and left a note attempting to explain the technique. Alban Berg adopted the technique and asked for it in parts of his operas Wozzeck and Lulu.
Had to put this pix up. Carl Sandburg was right, Chicago is the city with Big Shoulders. :)
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Bareheaded,
Shoveling,
Wrecking,
Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people,
Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.


Occult Chicago: Historical locations related to L.W. de Laurence - Edited!
The address on Michigan for the Order of the Black Rose is actually 3340 South Michigan Avenue. Which I think is now a nondescript building on the campus of IIT.
I noted this in my Daily Grail article on De Laurence ( http://www.dailygrail.com/essays/2012/12/the-mysterious-influence-one-human-mind ,) based on one of your posts, and got worried I'd made a mistake! : ) Just checked the newspaper article though ( http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/.../1912-11-13/ed-1/seq-8/ ) and it's definitely 3340.
I'd like to hear more about his arrest record!
1915 is incorrect. The OtBR and WW was located there up until the raid on November 11th 1912. There are no police records (Chicago corruption OR de Laurence really *was* magic) but there are a few surviving media-sensationalized stories in the Tribune, Inter Ocean, Tennesean, and a few other out of state papers.


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Huntsville Havoc thrive in a non-traditional hockey market
Posted 9:07 pm, April 21, 2016, by Chris Davis, Updated at 11:05PM, April 21, 2016
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) - Where the Huntsville Stars failed to attract people into their stands, the Havoc have excelled. "Once you get there, til the time you leave, you've been entertained," says Ashley Balch, the Havoc's President.
In a city like Huntsville, Balch knows they aren't just trying to attract hockey fans. "We're competing for the movie dollars, for the going out to eat dollars," he says.
Balch believes they obtained an edge over the former Huntsville Stars for many reasons, including the number of games they play compared to minor league baseball. "I need to be there because there's not as many games with baseball, I can miss tonight, I can miss this week because they're going to be back next week and play ten to 12 more games," says Balch.
He says it's also hard to compete with the pace of a hockey game. "Slower moving game, it takes a little longer where as hockey is, the Predators have proven that, they've come down to a non traditional hockey market and they've sold it," he says.
The Havoc have followed the Nashville Predators' model of providing constant entertainment, especially during stoppage in play. They've also hired their first full-time social media director. "That's the way you're going to reach the younger generation," says Balch.
They've built a brand of coming up with themed nights and giveaways, like free milk for fans that weren't afraid of ice on the streets. "There's not a bad idea in sports, maybe one doesn't work here, that worked somewhere else, but it's not a bad idea just because it hadn't worked here,' he says.
With six complete sellouts and setting a league attendance record with nearly 120,000 fans attending 28 games this season, they're obviously doing something right.
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In our past tutorials, I have shown you how to make fabric yo-yos and how to make buttons. This week we are going to combine them to make some prettyDIY hair accessories. You will be surprised how quickly you can complete this free sewing project. DIY hair accessories are perfect for using up your favorite scrap fabrics and most can be made in under 10 minutes.
First start by making your yo-yos and covered buttons. Here are the links to the tutorials.
Here is a YouTube video I made for you 🙂 Don't forget to subscribe for weekly sewing and craft videos.
Stitch your covered button in the center of the yo-yo.
Attach it to your clip or hairband. If you are using one of these spring clips or bobby pins, make sure you just sew it to the top of the clip.
How long did that take you? Not long I bet. And what a great way to use up your scraps. Make lots to match your favorite outfits.


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Q: Is there any danger using unsanitised post data in a mail command with PHP? I've found myself working on another developer's code. By his own admission he's just a beginner so I want to give solid advice.
I came across this:
<?php

$headerFields = array(
        "From: ".$_POST[...],
        "MIME-Version: 1.0",
        "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8"
    );

    mail("submissions@[...].com","Submission to [...] from " . $_POST[...] . "","New submission to [...]

    Name*: " . $_POST[...] . " [...big-snip...]",
    implode("\r\n", $headerFields)
    );

(edited heavily, obviously)
I tend to not use mail() very often but my instinct is to sanitise everything with extreme prejudice. Is there any specific danger is leaving this as is or could someone of sufficient skill do some damage?

A: Yes you are correct that every input from users need to be sanitized and validated.
Golden rule: "Never trust your user"
One issue is that a non technical user might put anything in the name. for example they input email instead of name, we don't know what kind and type of user we can encounter. some user will input dots or even spaces even if there's  a label that only alphanumeric is acceptable. This can cause data integrity issues. based on my experience(learned from hard way), i encountered a user that put N/A in a field he/she don't know instead of leaving it blank and it caused a trouble. so validation is a MUST.
Another issue is that, html is allowed in emails. a user that has programming background can put a link in that and the receiver might click it and may lead to a malicious website. Also what if i put there(replacing the $_POST). It will ruin your header fields and might cause problem.:
$headerFields = array(
    "From: ". "\r\n FROM: DERP\r\n TO: IWANTTODESTROYTHEWORLD\r\n WOW: ASDASD\r\n MIME-Version: wow",
    "MIME-Version: 1.0",
    "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8"
);

Above example is not so dangerous, will/might yield only errors but some user might have that extra capabilities to inject malicious codes so clean it up and having a proper validation is a must

A: Someone of sufficient skill could inject some malicious code in the posted fields and have it executed. Ie: modified headers.
http://securephpwiki.com/index.php/Email_Injection
Concerning pure PHP injection, my quick search couldn't find an example with mail(), but it doesn't mean it is impossible.

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Home / Latest News / Hartlepool loanee Gray surprised at success so far after long move north
Hartlepool loanee Gray surprised at success so far after long move north
Posted on December 17, 2015 by Adam Ellis in Latest News, Skybet League 2 | 0 Comments
by Nick Lough
Hartlepool midfielder Jake Gray's ambition to play first-team football knows no boundaries – the 19-year-old has moved 250 miles north to get his fix at senior level.
Gray made the temporary switch from Crystal Palace last month to try to add to a handful of league appearances he made while on loan with Cheltenham last season.
It was all a bit daunting at first, but he insists there were never any issues about moving from London.
"The fans have been really good to me on Twitter and the coaches and players have helped me settle in really well," said Gray.
"I've been put in a four-bedroom flat, and at first I was on my own.
"A few days later, a triallist came in for a couple of days and then, just before the Leyton Orient game, we signed Kal Naismith on loan and he's living with me now.
"Kal and I get on well and the first point of conversation is football as it's the easiest thing to talk about."
His dazzling displays in the heart of Ronnie Moore's midfield earned Gray a nomination for PFA Player of the Month for League Two.
It's an accolade he was shocked to receive as he insists the Pools fans haven't seen the best of him yet.
"I'm quite surprised how it has gone," he said.
"It was a great feeling to score my first professional goals against Orient – and being nominated for PFA Player of the Month was something else.
"I was so surprised I didn't even realise until I was told, after it came out on Twitter.
"Everybody showed me so much support, which was really nice.
"I had a couple of good games but I feel like I have a lot more to give.
"It came as a surprise that I was nominated as I wasn't there the whole month, but I definitely feel I have a lot more to give."
Switching the attention to Tuesday's FA Cup second round replay with Salford City, Gray believes the pressure mainly lies with their opponents.
The Pools, in his eyes, are the less favoured side to win by neutrals.
He said: "Everyone wants us to lose, so in a weird way we are the underdogs.
"None of us feels the pressure. We knew it was going to be a really tough game going to Salford and I don't think anyone wanted that draw.
"It was a difficult game, but at the end of the day we could have won by two, three or more with the chances we had.
"First and foremost, we need to match their intensity and commitment and then, hopefully, our quality will come through.
"We're confident enough we can do the job and get through to the next round."
With his loan set to expire in January, where would Gray like to see himself for the rest of the 2015-16 campaign?
"I want to stay here at Hartlepool until the end of the season because I'm getting on really well and the manager seems to like me. I'm enjoying playing under him," he said.
"I feel like I'm learning a lot as well, so I'm happy here. I don't want go back and play U21 football as the level is much different to League football.
"Walking out through the tunnel and seeing all the fans here is a much better feeling."
*This article was originally published in The FLP on 13 December
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I love Joseph Joseph goods, clever and pretty! To be honest, I wouldn't say no to any of the things on their website.
We don't have a patio set, just the camping table, which admittedly, isn't very comfortable, it would be lovely to upgrade to something like this.... Our yard is round and I can see this with some comfy cushions and a shade of course.
Since becoming a Jamie Oliver addict, I have started serving food on a board, I would love to have something a bit more stylish than the one we have got.
And cake stands, totally impractical and take up loads of space unless it is a foldable one, and if you are going for foldable, Alessi has to be the best one on the market.
another Joseph Joseph fan here :) (though my home is sadly still without any of it).
I realllllly want their garlic crusher (I should just buy it) & the foldable digital scale. Lovely stuff.
I would do the whole kitchen out in their stuff if I could!
Who is the manufacturer of the wooden patio set?
I don't know, I bookmarked the image ages ago (before I discovered pinterest), pretty sure it was American, I loved the idea because it was round but would be able to buy it from overseas, I have yet to see one here that fits the bill.
Those Joseph Joseph utensils were on sale in Costco today, I think they were ¥2700. That's fairly achievable!!
lol sounds like we have the same TV!
I love those brilliantly designed kitchen utensils at the top of your post, too. Saw them at Costco the other day for just U.S. $20 for a set of 5!
looks like i am going to have to start shopping at Costco!
Mmm, let's see... new fridge, new sofa, new mixer (I lust after Kitchenaids), new TV wouldn't go astray, new 'pooter to replace my 6-year-old dinosaur, new dining suite (although it would be a wrench to say goodbye to our current one, which was our first major furniture purchase after we got married), new work desk. Actually, I think the thing I would upgrade first would be our knives for food preparation. I've never managed to buy a decent set and we currently use Victorinox steak knives for everything... and I mean everything... that needs chopping, slicing, cutting, paring or peeling.


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AARON STONEHOUSE is the Liberal Democrat MLC for South Metro. On Sunday he joined thousands of people protesting against the violence being inflicted on white farmers in South Africa. This is a shortened version of the speech he gave at the rally.
I'VE caught a bit of flak recently for voicing my concern for the welfare of white farmers in South Africa.
In case you aren't already aware, I'm a member of the Liberal Democrats, a libertarian political party in Australia. We don't particularly like identity politics or looking at the world through the lens of race. We treat people as individuals and we judge them by their actions, not by the colour of their skin.
So why would I care about the plight of white farmers in South Africa, you wonder? Well, it's simple: white farmers are being attacked in South Africa, their own government is fuelling the fire, and hardly any other government or organisation in the world are talking about it.
I care about this issue because I am a Christian, a libertarian and a member of this extended family of nations that you'd call the West.
You're probably already aware of this but, people who live in the West have a lot in common.
There is a reason why a young boy or girl in South Africa can grow up to become a member of parliament or a businessperson here in Australia. And I think a lot of has to do with our shared values.
The South African people and the Australian people share the same values. We are derived from the same European experience of crossing into the great unknown with nothing but our swag by our side and our crosses by our heart.
Not knowing how things would turn out, but having faith and a dream of a new life.
And so we Europeans found ourselves in these strange new lands. Some of us came to call South Africa home.
Others came to call the Americas home. And those, like most of us here today, came to call Australia and New Zealand home.
Yet even though we found ourselves in these disparate places, separated by great tides, deserts and climates—we still share the same values that our ancestors did all those years ago.
The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion are values that motivated the Pilgrims to leave the old world and settle in the Americas. They are values that we, their descendants, and others who have added to our experience, share today.
The right to speak your own language, farm your own land and teach your own children are values that motivated the Boers to trek inlands and build themselves new nations. They are values that we, their descendants, and others who have added to our experience, share today.
The right to chart your own destiny in life, free of any baggage caused by nobility or birth are values that motivated many in the British Isles to seek a new life in Australia.
They are values that we, their descendants, and others who have added to our experience, share today.
The reason why I seek to remind you of our common heritage and our shared values is because I, and we as a bloc, have received a great deal of criticism for expressing our concern for the welfare of other individuals in this space that we call the West.
We have been called racists, fear mongers and agents of division. Let me be clear. Our feelings are not motivated by hate, but rather by love. We love our neighbours and we want nothing but good things for them.
Whether we do so as a result of our Christian faith, any other faith or humanist principles, is irrelevant. We're all a part of the same experience that has led us to the same conclusion: that an egalitarian, just and liberal society is the best way to organise communities of people.
That's why whenever any form of totalitarian regime emerges, we rebel against it. We did so against the politics of discrimination against indigenous peoples in Australia.
We did it against the great evil of apartheid in South Africa.
The point I make in my remarks today is that human rights are universal, and racism is intolerable.
Do not let anyone make you feel ashamed for taking a stand for human rights, and for taking a stand against racism.
Every person, regardless of the colour of their skin, has a right to life, liberty and property, and we are custodians of those values.
We have an obligation to speak out when they are being violated.


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The world in which we live requires discernment. Even though faith guides us through the complexities of life, we often feel unsettled. In the conclusion of this series, the dark prophet shows us the way forward in times of uncertainty.
In this message, pastor Reuben introduces us to an Israelite clan named, the Rechabites. From them, we learn what obedience truly looks like, and why, "I can't, Lord" is often times our way of saying, "I won't, God!"
The way you view God shapes your relationship with God. Find out how God proves His love for His people, even while they are being led into exile into Babylon.
Jeremiah 15. Now older, Jeremiah has been faithful in spite of the obstinance of his fellow countrymen. What secured his faithfulness to God during such a period of opposition? Can we find a way to do the same during our dark times?
How did this young 20-something year old prophet, over the course of 42 years of ministry, in an idolatrous culture that had forsaken God, find the fortitude to stay true to his calling and mission? That's what we're going to uncover today as we make our way through Jeremiah 11-13.
Sometimes, when God places up in a crucible and turns up the heart, it's not to destroy us, but to purify us. Find out how this plays out in the nation of Judah.
We look at chapters 2 through 7 and see how how we can glean from Josiah's reign as he institutes changes to rid Judah of its idols. How can we rid ourselves of our idols and choose personal revival and relight the fire of our first love?
God tells Jeremiah that his task is to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant. That must've stoked this young prophet's fears. So, what does God do for Jeremiah that moves him past his fears?
Jeremiah wrote this about 2,645 years ago (ca 627 BC). And it remains relevant today. Think: If you post an update on your newsfeed or Instagram, how long does it remain of interest? 2… 3 days? Jeremiah wrote a series of posts that remain relevant 2 ½ millennia after he wrote it. We desperately need to hear what God is saying to us in this book! So, join us as we journey through this book over the next 13 weeks!


The No Messin'! project was developed by Network Rail in an effort to help keep youth away from the rail tracks. The aim of this campaign was to reduce crime such as trespassing, vandalism of property and other incidents resulting in injury of staff or members of the public.
This involved public events promoting alternative activities and a strong message regarding rail safety and the sponsorship of local support groups that provided support to troubled youngsters and activity clubs.
Much of my role at Network Rail involved updating the No Messin'! website, YouTube page and MySpace page with information regarding upcoming events, promotional videos and photos and information about previous events.
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Whilst working for Network Rail I designed some print work on their behalf. This included the creation of a magazine for Scottish Rail Reps, an initiative that ran along side No Messin'!. Please find the samples below.
The homepage not only acted as a gateway to the rest of the site with links clearly marked across the top of the page but also as a bulletin board containing the latest news from No Messin'! including site updates, news about upcoming events and past activities.
Whilst working on the No Messin'! website I spent the time to develop the Fun Stuff page. This page was developed as a parent page for the Gallery, Videos, Music and Game section accessible from the menu. This page included some of the latest content from each section allowing for a quick and easy way to access to the content.
I built the video section to hold all the videos on the No Messin'! website. This included a sub-section dedicated to freestyle footballer Collin Nell who appeared at all the events. The page layout was designed in a way that fits in with the rest of the site whilst providing an easy to use design experience.
Developed by an agency, the game features the No Messin'! mascot Maverick and is littered with rail safety information. My involvement with this page consisted of creating a background image for the game and implementing it into the page as it previously opened in a new window. This provided a more seamless user experience.
I worked with the marketing executives to develop this section showcasing interviews with celebrities involved with the No Messin'! campaign. The section was also accompanied by links to videos and wallpapers when available.
The competition page was created in coalition with the promotion giving people a chance to win a Wii with the results being announced at an upcoming event. The page involved an ASP script with entries been sent to the administrator managing the event emails.


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Perioperative Care of the Surgical Patient: Surgical Emergencies in Cancer
Oncologic surgical emergency may be defined as an acute, potentially life-threatening condition arising from cancer pathology, e.g., obstruction of hollow viscera, bleeding from the tumor, or its treatment such as cecal perforation in a neutropenic patient. Understanding the pathophysiology and prognosis of the surgical condition the patient presents with is therefore very important for appropriate management and improving outcomes. Broadly, cancer patients present with three main emergencies: obstruction, infection, and bleeding. The common emergency oncosurgeries are listed in Table 33.1 .
Common Surgical Emergencies in Oncology Patients
Airway Emergencies
Airway obstruction and stridor from upper aerodigestive tract cancers
Tracheobronchial tree obstruction
Hemorrhage from upper aerodigestive tract cancers
Acute intestinal/gastric outlet obstruction
Biliary tract obstruction
Hematemesis from upper GI malignancies
Perforations (GI and hematolymphoid tumors)
Choriocarcinoma leading to hemorrhage
Intraabdominal/intrathoracic leaks/hemorrhage
CNS Problems
Raised intracranial pressure (due to intracranial tumors, intracranial bleed with hematolymphoid malignancies)
Malignant spinal cord compression
Malignant pathologic fractures
CNS , Central nervous system; GI , gastrointestinal.
Depending on the anatomic site of the problems and the resultant severity of their symptoms, the urgency of the situation can be decided. The World Society of Emergency Surgery study group initiative on Timing of Acute Care Surgery (TACS) classification described the nature of emergency surgeries and the ideal time for surgery. Prioritizing care of patients in need of surgical interventions is based on the color-coding system ( Table 33.2 ), which is used for injured patients requiring surgery in trauma centers. Similarly, the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) also classified the timing of intervention for emergency surgeries ( Table 33.3 ). Though these classifications and timelines are not meant for emergency oncosurgeries, they can be easily adopted for this purpose. In an excellent review, Eschamann and colleagues note the advantages of TACS classification. It allows continuous feedback via a regularly updated surgical plan, monitoring of the classifying urgency according to patients' clinical condition, and ensures that the patient status is communicated, with the proviso of being time-dependent, i.e., urgent, immediate, etc., in an emergency. The World Society of Emergency Surgery study group notes some limitations of the NCEPOD classification system. The surgery and main symptoms outlined in NCEPOD may not always match the clinical situations. Factors other than pathophysiology processes, such as psychologic factors and quality of life issues, should influence the urgency of the surgery. For example, a body image issue may be the main issue for a young woman scheduled for breast reconstructive surgery for a malignant lesion. The TACS also has the following important advantages: adoption and consistent adherence to the triage system for oncosurgical emergencies will ensure that time to surgery (TTS) can be made into a quality improvement tool. Thus the actual timing to surgery (aTTS) can be checked against the ideal time to surgery (iTTS). This ratio, if lower than 1, indicates that the surgery occurred within the "ideal time." A ratio higher than 1 indicates delayed surgery; the Acute Care Surgery team and management can then take measures to improve compliance and engage in a quality improvement cycle.
Proposed Ideal Time to Surgery (itts) and Color Coding
Timing—iTTS
From Diagnosis
Possible Clinical Scenarios (TACS)
Immediate surgery
Bleeding emergencies
Immediate life-saving surgical intervention, resuscitative
laparotomy.
Within 1 h
Incarcerated hernia, perforated viscus, diffuse peritonitis, soft tissue infection accompanied with sepsis
Surgical intervention as soon as possible, but only after resuscitation (within 1–2 h). Administration of antibiotics upon diagnosis: no delay.
Soft tissue infection (abscess) not accompanied with sepsis
Administration of antibiotics upon diagnosis: no delay.
Within 12 h
Appendicitis (local peritonitis), cholecystitis (optional)
Within 24 or
Second-look laparotomy
Schedule in advance. Intervention should occur during day time.
TACS , Timing of Acute Care Surgery.
Adapted from Kluger Y, Ben-Ishay O, Sartelli M, et al. World Society of Emergency Surgery study group initiative on Timing of Acute Care Surgery classification (TACS). World J Emerg Surg. 2013;8(1):17.
NCEPOD Classification of Interventions
Immediate life (1A), limb or organ-saving intervention (1B)—resuscitation simultaneous with intervention. Normally within minutes of decision to operate. Life-saving, other, e.g., limb or organ saving.
Intervention for acute onset or clinical deterioration of potentially life-threatening conditions, for those conditions that may threaten the survival of limb or organ, for fixation of many fractures and for relief of pain or other distressing symptoms. Normally within hours of decision to operate.
Expedited
Patient requiring early treatment where the condition is not an immediate threat to life, limb, or organ survival. Normally within days of decision to operate.
Intervention planned or booked in advance of routine admission to hospital. Timing to suit patient, hospital, and staff.
While it is recognized that additional categories or subcategories could be defined it is important that the classification remains as simple as possible to use. (National confidential enquiry into patient outcome and death. London: The NCEPOD classification of interventions [Online]. 2004. www.ncepod.org.uk/pdf/NCEPODClassification.pdf )
While it is recognized that additional categories or subcategories could be defined, it is important that the classification system remains as simple as possible to use.
Risk Stratification
In emergency surgeries the time available to evaluate the patient preoperatively and optimizing for surgery is limited. The key challenge is achieving meaningful improvement in the patient's condition without causing delay in performing time-sensitive surgery. Prompt decision-making by senior caregivers is required to minimize delays. The time taken to correct any physiologic abnormalities needs to be balanced against the urgency for the surgery to be undertaken.
Cancer patients are sometimes cachectic. Cancer cachexia is a syndrome presenting as a significant loss of body weight due to muscle wasting (also called sarcopenia) and fat loss. The other signs are loss of appetite, anemia, and asthenia. Cachexia cannot be treated with conventional nutritional therapy.
There may be additional comorbidities associated with the particular cancer or related to the treatment (e.g., adriamycin-induced cardiomyopathy, reduced diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) following bleomycin, etc.). Occasionally, emergency surgical procedures may be necessary as a temporary remedy. Various audits have shown that the clinical outcomes of patients with surgical oncologic emergencies are often poor and the surgery is associated with higher short-term mortality (9.8%–13%) compared with elective surgeries. Risk factors for poor outcome after emergency oncosurgery are shown in Table 33.4 . All these factors have been shown to correlate with higher 30-day postoperative mortality. These predictors can be used for patient counseling and documentation for emergency oncosurgeries.
Risk Factors for Poor Outcome After Emergency OncoSurgery
Palliative intent of prior cancer treatment
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Score (ECOG-PS)
Raised lactate dehydrogenase
Low handgrip strength
Low albumin (<28 g/L)
ASA physical status >3
Care Processes to Improve Patient Outcomes
The 4th National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) in the UK made the following recommendations for this purpose. It must be kept in mind that the NELA report is meant for all patients undergoing emergency laparotomies and may be useful in improving patient care and outcomes, but may not apply to oncosurgical emergencies. ,
Improving outcomes and reducing complications: intrahospital variation can be reduced through standardization of processes and modification of systems.
Ensuring all patients receive an assessment of their risk of death: preoperative assessment and documentation of risk has been encouraged, initially using the P-POSSUM model and more recently, the NELA risk prediction model.
Delivering care within agreed time frames for all patients.
Enabling consultant input in the perioperative period for all high-risk patients: consultant-led care—the right intervention, at the right time, and at right place with the right facilities available.
Effective multidisciplinary working. This involves inputs and timely services from three departments/teams, i.e., Radiology, Critical Care, and the Elderly Care group (if required). The radiology services provide timely reports on computed tomography (CT) scans to prevent delays in emergency surgery without discrepancy in the reports. Critical care ensures adequate bed availability such that premature discharges are prevented. When required the Elderly Care group also provides input.
Supporting quality improvement. Quality improvement is defined as a formal and systematic approach to analyzing the practice and improving performance to deliver timely, safe, efficient, effective, patient-centered equitable health care. , Health care managers can support this by adopting one of the quality improvement models such as the Model for Improvement (Plan-Do-Study-Act [PDSA] cycle) described by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement or the Six Sigma model (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control [DMAIC]) described by the American Society for Quality. ,
Optimizing Patient Condition
Poulton and Murray described the following strategies for improving the patient outcomes in patients undergoing emergency laparotomies. It must be kept in kind that these strategies may not be entirely applicable to emergency oncosurgical patients.
These strategies can be grouped into two categories:
1. Timely Antibiotics: The recommendation for elective surgery is that antibiotic for surgical prophylaxis be administered 60 min before surgical incision. However, patients presenting for emergency surgeries may have signs suggestive of sepsis at the time of admission. In these cases, intravenous antibiotics should be administered as soon as possible. The Surviving Sepsis Guidelines suggest administration of broad-spectrum antibiotics intravenously within 1 h of admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). This recommendation is based on a landmark retrospective study over a 6-year period in ICUs in the United States and Canada. The survival of patients with sepsis improved (79%) when antibiotics were administered before the development of shock. With every 1-h delay in administration of antibiotics after the hypotension set in, there was a decrease in survival by 7.6%.
2. Management of Hypovolemia and Correction of Electrolyte Disturbances: Cancer patients presenting for emergency surgery may have hypovolemia due to either presence of sepsis or hemorrhage due to previous surgery for cancer or from the untreated tumor itself. A patient presenting with abdominal emergency may have vasoplegia due to severe inflammatory response caused by sepsis, lost fluids due to nausea, vomiting or diarrhea, fluid sequestration within the bowel lumen, or intraabdominal hemorrhage. These patients may need administration of high-volume fluid resuscitation in the first 24–72 h of the perioperative period. The cancer patient may therefore present with mixed etiology of hypervolemia. A rapid correction of hypovolemia with appropriate intravenous fluids and/or blood and blood products (if the patient is coagulopathic) is essential. Perioperative blood transfusion has been shown to increase cancer recurrence rates and reduced disease-free survival in patients undergoing surgeries for various solid tumors. It is not possible to use the usual measures to reduce transfusion requirements such as autologous blood donation, preoperative erythropoietin therapy, or isovolemic hemodilution in an emergency. A lower transfusion trigger, i.e., 8 g/dL should be aimed at, unless the patient is in shock and needs an increased oxygen-carrying capacity. The transfusion of fresh frozen plasma (FFP) has also been shown to negatively impact patient outcomes. , Though the transfusion thresholds for blood and blood products in cancer patients remain unknown, in patients with massive blood loss, the only option is to replace the lost volume with blood and aim to correct coagulopathy, guided by viscoelastic hemostatic assays such as TEG or RoTEM.
Target Blood Pressure in Patients Undergoing Emergency Surgery
In a retrospective study of over 33,000 patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, Walsh and colleagues found that mean arterial pressure (MAP) <55 mmHg for increasing durations of time ranging from 5 min to >20 min led to a graded risk of increase in acute kidney injury (AKI) and acute myocardial injury (AMI), both diagnosed by raised biomarkers. Futier et al. (IMPRESS study) compared two strategies in 298 high-risk (of AKI) adults. The first strategy aimed to maintain systolic blood pressure (SBP) within 10% of the patient's resting SBP using noradrenaline infusion. The second was the standard management strategy of treating SBP ≤80 mmHg or lower than 40% of the patient's resting SBP intraoperatively and up to 4 h after the surgery using ephedrine boluses. The primary outcome, i.e., systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and at least one organ dysfunction, occurred more commonly in the control group (52% vs. 38%; relative risk [RR], 0.73; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.56–0.94; P = 0.02; AR difference, −14%; 95% CI, −25% to −2%), but there was no difference in mortality. Currently, there is no universally accepted definition of intraoperative hypotension, and in any case a single threshold will not fit all patients. An extensive literature review concluded that blood pressure targets should be decided by the following considerations: the surgery to be performed, the patient's preoperative blood pressure (provided it is not too low or too high), and risk of hypotension-related organ dysfunction and bleeding due to hypertension. In patients with low blood pressure preoperatively, they suggest maintaining MAP between 60 and 65 mmHg unless bleeding is present. Perioperative goal-directed therapy was found to improve outcomes in acutely ill patients, septic or trauma patients, or those undergoing high-risk surgeries (baseline mortality expected to be >20%) when hemodynamic optimization to supranormal values (cardiac index [CI]) >4.5 L/m/m 2 , pulmonary artery occlusion pressure <18 mmHg, oxygen delivery of >600 mL/min/m 2 , and oxygen consumption of >170 mL/min/m 2 ) was performed before the development of organ failure. However, more recent trials have shown no benefit of goal-directed fluid therapy either in critically ill or major surgery patients.
1. Omitting/Optimizing Medication: Cancer patients may have several comorbidities and may be taking multiple medications. Considering the likelihood of perioperative hypotension and possible presence of AKI, medications such as ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers should be avoided and may be changed to some other class of antihypertensive drug class if required. Beta blocker administration should be individualized but none should be added in the immediate preoperative period. The POISE trial evaluated the efficacy of extended release metoprolol, 100 mg administered 2–4 h preoperatively and within 6 h postoperatively, then 200 mg daily for the next 30 days in over 8000 high-risk patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. There was a reduction in cardiovascular deaths, myocardial infarction (MI), or cardiac arrest (5.8% vs. 6.9%, hazard ratio [HR], 0.84; 95% CI, 0.70–0.99, P = 0.04) in patients given metoprolol. However, there was an increased incidence of stroke (1.0% vs. 0.5%; HR, 2.17; P = 0.0053) and death (3.1% vs. 2.3%; HR, 1.33; P = 0.032) as compared with the placebo group. To obtain benefit from beta blocker therapy, it cannot be started in the immediate preoperative period, rather at least 30 days prior to surgery. This is not possible when the patients present for emergency oncosurgery, and therefore unless the patient is already taking beta blockers, they should not be started afresh. , If the patient is already taking statins, they should be continued. The decision regarding continuing or discontinuing antiplatelet agents and anticoagulants needs to be individualized. In patients with recently inserted drug eluting stents or mechanical valves, bridging therapy with intravenous unfractionated heparin may be required. If it is deemed essential, the effects of newer oral anticoagulants (NOACs) may be reversed using 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate that contains coagulation factors II, VII, IX, and X, and also protein C and S or appropriate reversal agents such as idarucizumab or andexanet alfa, depending on the urgency of surgery. Idarucizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody fragment (Fab). It binds to free and thrombin-bound dabigatran, nullifying its effect. Andexanet alfa acts as a decoy receptor for all FXa inhibitors (apixaban, edoxaban, and rivaroxaban) and by binding to them reverses their effect.
2. Nutrition: When emergency surgery is required, it is challenging to make a decision regarding initiating nutrition postoperatively. However, the patient's nutritional status should be assessed preoperatively time permitting, and a postoperative nutritional strategy should be planned. The route of nutrition will depend on the nature of surgery and clinical status of the patient in the immediate postoperative period. For example, if the patient undergoes excision of a necrotizing fasciitis-affected area on the periphery or torso, an enteral feeding route may be possible, but not for someone undergoing resection of the colon and anastomosis. If the patient is still in shock postoperatively and needs vasopressor therapy, enteral nutrition should still be tried, at least in the form of trophic feeds for the multiple benefits described recently. Further increases in the amount of feeds to be given will depend on the clinical improvement in the patient condition, improvement in indices of tissue perfusion, and signs of feed intolerance, if any. If enteral feeding does not seem possible, parenteral nutrition may be considered within a week following surgery. In some patients when adequate nutrition cannot be achieved enterally, partial parenteral nutrition supplementation may be started to meet the goals.
3. Perioperative Glycemic Control: Patients with preexisting diabetes mellitus and patients who need emergency surgery will often have hyperglycemia. A study from the Leuven University almost two decades ago in 1548 patients (of which a large proportion were perioperative patients) showed that strict glycemic control (4.44–6.11 mmol/L) improved ICU survival. However, a subsequent study suggested a high incidence of hypoglycemia and no survival benefit of strict glycemic control in medical ICU patients. A large multicenter study from Australia and Canada showed that a blood glucose target of 9.99 mmol/L resulted in lower mortality than intensive sugar control. The current recommendation is to maintain blood glucose level in the preoperative or anesthetized patient at 9.99 mmol/L.
4. Preoperative Chest Physiotherapy: A recent multicenter study in more than 400 patients undergoing elective abdominal surgery found that 30 min of preoperative physiotherapy session resulted in a 15% absolute risk reduction in the postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs). This may not be possible in emergency situations; however, early institution of physiotherapy in the postoperative period with early mobilization should go a long way toward reducing PPCs. The second part of optimization includes minimizing delays in surgery by optimizing the care pathway, which was discussed earlier.
Another study recommended the following strategies for improving outcomes in patients undergoing emergency general surgery: early recognition and resuscitation, early intervention if serum lactate >2 mmol/L, early identification and treatment of sepsis as per surviving sepsis guidelines (as one in five patients requiring emergency laparotomy fulfills sepsis criteria), prioritization to early surgical intervention, use of protocolized fluid management, and using a noninvasive cardiac output monitoring device to measure dynamic fluid response. In addition, postoperative admission of selected patients to ICU or HDU and continued care by the anesthesiologist and surgeon were also recommended.
Preoperative Airway Assessment
The ability to predict a difficult airway is critically important in emergency situations in situ to help identify the optimal approach to airway management. This is particularly important when confronted with a patient with cancer. The airway in a cancer patient may be difficult to secure if the patient is suffering from head and neck cancer or has previously undergone surgery for head and neck cancer, laryngeal tumors, and so on etc. The patient may be at high risk for regurgitation and aspiration of gastric content if a gastric outlet obstruction is present. In hypoxic, hemodynamically unstable, septic patients, the airway becomes physiologically challenging as the cardiopulmonary reserve of the patient reduces. Quick tests, such as the MACOCHA score ( Table 33.5 ), or the HEAVEN criteria ( Table 33.6 ), in addition to the existing difficult airway predicting tools like LEMON (Look externally, Evaluate 3-3-2 rule, Mallampati score, Obstruction, Neck mobility), can be useful for assessing the risk of difficult airway and preparation for management. ,
The MACOCHA Score
Factors Related to Patient
Mallampati score III or IV
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
Reduced mobility of cervical spine
Limited mouth opening <3 cm
Factors Related to Pathology
Severe hypoxemia (<80%)
Factors Related to Operator
Nonanesthesiologist
M.M allampati score III or IV
A.A pnea syndrome (obstructive)
C.C ervical spine limitation
O.O pening mouth < 3 cm
C.C oma
H.H ypoxia
A.A nesthesiologist nontrained
Coded from 0 to 12
0 = easy, 12 = very difficult
Reprinted with permission of the American Thoracic Society. Copyright © 2022 American Thoracic Society. All rights reserved. Audrey De Jong, Nicolas Molinari, et. al., Early Identification of Patients at Risk for Difficult Intubation in the Intensive Care Unit Development and Validation of the MACOCHA Score in a Multicenter Cohort Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013; 187(8): 832-9. The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is an official journal of the American Thoracic Society.
The HEAVEN criteria
Hypoxemia
Oxygen saturation value ≤93% at the time of initial laryngoscopy
Extremes of size
Pediatric patient ≤8 years of age or clinical obesity
Anatomic challenge
Includes trauma, mass, swelling, foreign body, or other structural abnormality limiting laryngoscopic view
Vomit/blood/fluid
Clinically significant fluid present in the pharynx/hypopharynx at the time of laryngoscopy
Exsanguination
Suspected anemia that could potentially accelerate desaturation during rapid sequence intubation (RSI)-associated apnea
Limited cervical range-of-motion due to immobilization or arthritis
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