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Re: Can scientific beliefs be compared to religous dogma?
« Reply #60 on: 21/10/2018 07:25:51 »
Re censorship here is a copy of some wordage that i just posted on another thread re The Catt Question some of which details the suppression of Ivor Catt & his ideas.
Quote from: phoba on 21/10/2018 06:03:22
Quote from: mad aetherist on 21/10/2018 03:12:26
I dont know much about fields & electricity, but i am thinking that u cannot get very far here if u dont read what Ivor Catt has to say (articles)(& youtube)(& google the Catt question).
Is there a link to the articles?
Here are a few -- i havnt checked these there might be multiple links -- youtube links at end (if them youtube links dont work then just go into youtube & search for IVOR CATT)(there are about 5 good videos).
http://www.ptep-online.com/2016/PP-44-13.PDF
http://www.ivorcatt.com/1_1.htm
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/07091.htm
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/y7aiee.htm
http://www.ivorcatt.com/
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/catanoi.htm
http://www.ivorcatt.com/2698.htm
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/
http://www.ivorcatt.com/em.htm
http://www.ivorcatt.com/28scan.htm
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/981.htm
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/wbbanbk1.htm
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/2812.htm
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO9irAXKT6g
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpSBFZedkJQ
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fqqXQPgCKo
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmH_RyLjftI
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The questions could be:
Are physicist more dangerous than crazy people of god ?
Today it is possible to destroy a country like France or UK in one night with 30 people and without weapons: just burn the HV voltage transformers in the substations. Even, France or UK could survive without electricity for months, the time to build another HV transformers (few factories and it is not a standard piece except RecX transformers in USA), the nuclear plants can't survive more than a week without any external power, there are not autonomous to cooling themselves. In the pools in nuclear plants there are hundreds of times the radiations compared to the core or even nuclear bombs.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R42795.pdf
So, if tomorrow terrorists, the people who believe in god, destroy HV transformers in Europe, the northern continent will have at least 1 or maybe 2 Sv each year, the last conclusions from Greenpeace are worst. The entire life on Earth could be affect durably, in bad terms. So, are there scientists responsible of that ? Even physicists could argue they don't choose anything about politics, you know politics are unable to build a doghouse so imagine to build a nuclear plant.
NB: for me there is only one science: physics
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Ubeda - https://archive.is/WJbaH
Bored chemist
Quote from: LB7 on 21/10/2018 09:26:32
The last power plant I looked at could run on diesel.
The paper you cited makes no mention of this fuel.
How do you spell "scaremongering"?
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Paradigmer
The neutron is made of elementary particles which are confined-photons & confined-photons are a process of the aether, so in a sense there is interaction.
I totally agree with this: The neutron is made of elementary particles which are confined-photons.
Have tell me how you come to this proposition?
Quote from: Kryptid on 20/10/2018 21:38:28
If u go throo the process of crunching the numbers u will find that nLeT is simpler than SR-GR.
Interesting! Can you show?
The entire observable universe is subliminally paradoxical.
Quote from: Paradigmer on 22/10/2018 04:14:28
I totally agree with this: The neutron is made of elementary particles which are confined-photons.Have tell me how you come to this proposition?
Is the electron a photon with a toroidal topology -- J G Williamson & M B van der Mark -- 1997.
A new theory of light and matter -- J G Williamson -- 2014.
On the nature of the photon and the electron -- J G Williamson -- 2015?
The toroidal topology of the electron -- Miles Mathis --2012.
Restoring the physical meaning of energy -- Conrad Ranzan -- 2013.
The fundamental process of energy -- part 1 -- Conrad Ranzan -- 2014.
A model of the electron -- R Wayte -- 2010.
(1) In aether theory u firstly calculate the aetherwind Vawo blowing throo observer O, & (2) stick Vawo into the equation for Lorentz gamma to give u the gamma (gamma(O)) that applies to the ticking rate for O's clock. (3) If u divide the apparent ticking rate of clock O by gamma(O) then that would give u the absolute ticking rate for clock O in the absolute reference frame (where the aetherwind Vaw is zero kmps), but there is no need to do (3), just saying.
In (1) u (a) use the known background aetherwind on Earth Vbgaw, which is say 500 kmps south to north say 20 deg off Earth's axis, Right Ascension 4.5 hr. And (b) u correct for Earth's spin (Vspin say 0.4 kmps) at your latitude (spin correction changes during 24 hrs)(due to the 20 deg), & (c) u correct for Earth's orbit (Vorbit say 30 kmps)(this correction changes during 24 hrs & during 365 days) .
(4) And u already know the apparent ticking rate of clock O.
Then to calculate the expected ticking rate of your clock (or an identical clock) for when it will be sitting in a satellite u calculate (1) for the satellite, ie its expected aetherwind (Vaws), & (2) stick Vaws into gamma to give gamma(S) for the satellite clock.
(5) The ratio of gamma(O) to gamma(S) is the ratio of the ticking rates.
(6) The main problem being that the aetherwind will be changing for both O & S during every second of the day & year.
In SR-GR u simply (1) calculate the relative velocity tween O & S & (2) stick that into Einstein's equation for gamma (this equation looks identical to Lorentz's, but it aint) to give gamma(O-S), which is the ratio of the ticking rates (no need for step (5)). However u will still need to continuously correct for the changing relative velocities of O & S similarly to (6).
So, SR-GR looks simpler than the aether theory model. But wait. SR-GR give bad numbers. Einsteinians have to resort to a menu of fudges to try to explain. Here they invoke a faux-Sagnac correction. So, u now have to go throo steps (7 8 9) or something, to work out a bogus faux-Sagnac correction. I aint gonna bother. Good luck with that.
One slight possible problem. I suspect that light does indeed slow near mass (in which case Einstein was right), altho i suspect that the slowing is probly a half of what Einstein said (in which case Einstein was half right)(due to a lucky guess of sorts)(but i think deserves credit anyhow)(if slowing is found to be true).
Anyhow i dont know what an aetheric calculation might look like -- i dont think that it will be much like the GR correction for space (radial length contraction) nor time (ticking dilation) -- i think that if ever it raises its ugly head the model & its equations will look nothing like gamma.
And i haven't included any such slowing correction in the above SR-GR calcs (but i did use gamma once)(praps i should have used it twice).
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I believe you misunderstand me. When I say an authoritative source, what I'm asking for are data from experiments that have been through the peer review process. It's not a matter of "some scientist said so, therefore it must be correct". Obviously, the words of a scientist are hollow if there is nothing to back it up. The reason that it needs to be an authoritative source that has been peer-reviewed is because there is a need for the information to be reliable and trustworthy. If the data has been reviewed by other scientists that are experts in their field, it is much more likely to be reliable than if it is from a lone venture experiment that has not been reviewed at all. A lone experimenter may not have the needed precision or may have made some fundamental errors. This is why replication of experimental results are important, to rule out mistakes like this.
Appreciate you take the effort to clarify, and I understand where you are coming from.
The replication of experimental results is of course important to rule out mistakes.
My take is, when authoritative sources are asserted with compromised peer-reviews, even they are for whatsoever good reasons, such as pragmatism, the necessity for the information to be reliable and trustworthy, is compromised.
Am stating this with my conviction on "Critiques of the scientific method".
As far as aether goes, it doesn't matter much to me whether Einstein believed in it or not.
Your this opinion is making Richard Fenyman turn in his grave:
"And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in cargo cult science." - Richard Fenyman on cargo cult science
The postulation for aether, is the crux of the contention by the scientists of those venture experiments; this must not be simply brushed away with the appeal to authority.
The rebuttals to the experiments that demonstrated the existence of aether, are akin to those in the geocentric era after having officially denounced the spheroidal Earth hypothesis, put away Galileo for good, and then high-handedly asked the deprived supporters of the Galilean hypothesis for supporting authoritative source.
I believe you do not understand its implications when you said it doesn't matter to you much whether Einstein believed in it or not.
Einstein was not quite in peace on this.
"My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory." - Albert Einstein, in a letter to Edwin E. Slosson, July 1925
It would falsify the Minkowski spacetime.
My arguments aren't against the aether, it's against the claim that the data supporting relativity is being faked by some conspirators in high places.
IMO, the contention was on the ways relativity were being spuriously supported to denounce aether, which renders all sorts of physical paradoxes and the myths they entailed, therefore much to the unrest of the so called dissidents. It was not entirely on the data that supports relativity.
Nonetheless, keep up with your work on the designed systems that use neutrinos as a communication medium. After all, I agree pragmatism is an important criterion for scientific endeavors and progress. All the best.
« Last Edit: 22/10/2018 09:12:13 by Paradigmer »
Kryptid
Compromised how?
The situation is not at all comparable. The scientific establishment as we know it today did not exist in Galileo's time. The church silenced Galileo for religious reasons, not scientific ones. Moreover, Galileo was not "put away for good", as the scientific establishment currently recognizes his work.
It doesn't matter much to me because a belief is not evidence.
@mad aetherist
When are you going to post that fake evidence you were talking about?
Einstein did not endorse the Einsteinian twin paradox time dilation proposed with SR, instead he provided a relativistic solution of gravitational time dilation to the twin paradox problem with the equivalence principle of gravitational potential, which involves active transformation by centripetal acceleration of geodesic motion for causing the shorter proper time to the traveling twin in the acceleration that apparently was traversing at near light speed velocity, and therefore illustrated the said paradox in the example does not exist.
No, not quite. He introduced one more postulate, a postulate so silly that it makes his other postulates look like science. He said that the inertially equivalent time dilation affected the clock even after the acceleration had finished. How silly is that?
But to some extent the authoritative source is me.
I don't think so. I'm not going to believe one random guy on the Internet over what professional scientists have been publishing for many decades now. You're going to need much more solid evidence than that. My preference is for you to supply the original data from these studies and equipment and then explain why that data is incompatible with relativity or show where the data was faked or fudged...........
Lets go back to 1905.
We see one random guy. Contradicting what professional scientists have been publishing for many decades. With no solid evidence, in fact with evidence contrary to what the random guy said (ie the MMX wasnt null).
And with no peer review. Alby has not had any article of his peer reviewed before publishing ever. Not one. Nix. Zilch. Zero.
Hey everybody, look at that blackhole over there.
You're right. Until the data of the relevant experiments were in and reviewed, we would have been right to be skeptical of Einstein's claims. I believe that many scientists were, in fact.
Not quite. There was major disagreement untill about 1932 i think it was when Miller's MMX was done & this showed an aetherwind, south to north, after which the major disagreement continued. Miller Michelson Lorentz Poincare Sagnac Ives & Co all died believing in aether & disbelieving in SR & GR. So did Einstein.
Re being skeptical i am skeptical about everything all the time. Everyone should be likewise.
Einstein died disbelieving in SR and GR? Source please. Even if he did, it doesn't matter. As I've said before, beliefs are not evidence. Speaking of which, are you finally going to give me a source for that fake evidence you claim to exist?
LIGO gravitational waves (harmonics of the calibration signals)..
Hafele Keating -- raw data shows was cherry picked & fudged.
GPS -- trumpeted as confirming Einstein.
Hammar X -- sfarti makes fake comments saying it destroys aether (no it didnt).
Roberts -- hit job on Miller MMX.
Shankland -- hit job on Miller MMX.
BICEP2 -- CMB & gravity waves & bigbang rubbish.
COBE & WMAP stuff -- blackbody radiation too good to be true.
Shapiro Delay -- fudged.
How about providing some authoritative source clearly showing that any such data was faked or fudged.
SHAPIRO DELAY FUDGING.
Roodenburg reckons that Shapiro shouldnt be using Schwarzschild (so confirmation of a Schwarzschildian GR delay to 5 decimals smells fishy).
Roodenburg et al -- Emmy Noether the ignored scientist.
Introduction and relevance.
Emmy Noether (1882 – 1935) was a brilliant mathematician, creating one of the pillars of physics: defining reference frames within which energy and momentum conservation can be proven. However, she was at the wrong place at the wrong time. The best position she could obtain was that of an assistant to David Hilbert, a mathematician at the university of Göttingen.
In 1933, she fled to the USA, where she died two years later. In 1915, she was hired by professor Hilbert to the university of Gottingen, who stated that "I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as lecturer. After all, we are a university, not a bath house". Hilbert did, as one of the very few male scientists, not ignore her. In 1918 Noether's theorem was published, a year after Einstein published his theory of
General Relativity. Unfortunate timing, because her theorem would have helped Einstein with his theory. General Relativity is in some respects in conflict with Noether's theorem. Although she signaled these inconsistencies to Einstein and despite his admiration for her work, he somehow did not take her comments to heart and ignored these comments in his work.
Emmy Noether remains the ignored scientist because her theorem is still not implemented in Einstein's theory. Einstein's theory is brilliant, but not perfect. For example, energy conservation requires the speed of light to be invariant to time in the wider reference frame, not just in the local reference frame. Because Einstein did not correct his theory for Noether's theorem, a small error lingers in the Schwarzschild solution, which prohibits the Shapiro delay to be explained by the Schwarzschild solution. Amazingly, Noether's theorem is not even mentioned in a major work of Relativity: Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler's "Gravitation". Emmy Noether, the ignored scientist.
Implications: 1) Inability to use the Schwarzschild solution to describe the Shapiro delay, 2) Failing proper time in gravitation at high transversal speed (like at CERN), 3) Failing energy momentum conservation within a sphere, 4) Ability to compute escape speed from a sphere, 5) black holes without singularity. Let us now look further into Noether's theorem, the resulting error in General Relativity, followed by the repair the Schwarzschild Solution for Noether's theorem.
Asada reckons that Shapiro Delay is due to the propagation of light not the propagation of gravity.
The light cone effect on the shapiro time delay -- Asada.
A test of general relativity using radio links with the Cassini spacecraft -- Bertotti et al -- 2003.
Bertotti shows Fig 3 showing the residuals for 18 days -- the residuals for each day each have a spread of about 0.0008 Hz, yet Bertotti takes the averages & claims an accuracy of +- 0.000023 Hz.
Radar testing of the relative velocity of light in space -- Bryan G Wallace -- 1969.
Wallace puts a case for c+v.
Farce of physics -- Bryan G Wallace. Chapter 6 is good. See also below.
The suppression of interesting facts in physics -- Rochus Boerner -- 2003.
Is the Speed of Light in Interplanetary Space a Constant?
The late physicist Bryan G. Wallace discovered in 1961 that radar distance measurements of the surface of the planet Venus did not confirm the constancy of the speed of light. There were systematic variations in the radar data containing diurnal, lunar and synodic components. Attempting to get his results published in Physical Review Letters, he encountered great resistance from referees, and eventually settled for a lesser journal[48].
In a letter to Physics Today[49] Wallace summarizes his findings as follows:
"The 1961 interplanetary radar contact with Venus presented the first opportunity to overcome technological limitations and perform direct experiments of Einstein's second postulate of a constant light speed of c in space. When the radar calculations were based on the postulate, the observed-computed residuals ranged to over 3 milliseconds of the expected error of 10 microseconds from the best [general relativity] fit the Lincoln Lab could generate, a variation range of over 30,000%. An analysis of the data showed a component that was relativistic in a c+v Galilean sense. "
Let's do a quick reality check here. If the speed of light in interplanetary space is non constant, how could NASA not have noticed in its robotic exploration of the solar system? Wallace makes the scandalous claim that NASA has noticed, and has been using equations with non-relativistic components to calculate signal transit times in the solar system all along:
"At the December 1974 AAS Dynamical Astronomy Meeting, E. M. Standish Jr of JPL reported that significant unexplained systematic variations existed in all the interplanetary data, and that they are forced to use empirical correction factors that have no theoretical foundation."[50]
In a 1973 paper[51], Wallace describes how the Lincoln Lab introduced averaging to suppress the anomalous radar results and refused to release the raw data to him, stonewalling his investigation.
"The apparent improvement in the residuals for later years was due to the fact that the Lab interpolated the 1964 [Venus] data to 12:00 UT and the 1967 data to one observation a day from 2:12 UT to 2:21 UT. The observing time for the 1961 data ranged from 00:33 UT to 23:40 UT. The involved radar astronomers are publicly claiming nearly complete agreement between their recent radar analysis and general relativity, but my investigation reveals otherwise. At the Fourth Texas Symposium of Relativistic Astrophysics, I.I. Shapiro of the Lincoln Lab promised to send me any data I wanted. I read in an article published by the lab that they had data for the same observing dates covering a wide range of daily observing times from both the MIT and USSR radar stations. I wrote Shapiro requesting this data 2/13/69; his letters of 2/28/69 and 3/12/69 ignored my request. I made an issue of this in my letter to him of 3/20/69, and in his reply of 3/27/69 he stated, 'Unfortunately the data do not exist in the form in which you wanted them and hence, I cannot honor your request.'
Shapiro later sent me data that were completely worthless for making an objective test of the relative velocity of light in space. The data were from two MIT radar stations in Massachusetts. The separation between them was only 0.2' of longitude and 20.6" of latitude and the observations had been interpolated to 2:12 UT to 2:21 UT with only one observation per day. It seems obvious that the Lab eliminated the variations by interpolating the data for each day to the one observing time for that day that agreed with the general relativity prediction. One could use the same method to prove that a stopped clock keeps perfect time."
A subsequent letter submitted to Physics Today on July 9, 1984 was denied publication. Wallace reproduced this letter in the chapter Publication Politics of his online book The Farce of Physics[52]. In it, he wrote
"The speed of light is c+v
During a current literature search, I requested and received a reprint of a paper [T. D. Moyer, Celes. Mech., 23, 33(1981)] published by Theodore D. Moyer of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The paper reports the methods used to obtain accurate values of range observables for radio and radar signals in the solar system. The paper's (A6) equation and the accompanying information that calls for evaluating the position vectors at the signal reception time is nearly equivalent to the Galilean c+v equation (2) in my paper RADAR TESTING OF THE RELATIVE VELOCITY OF LIGHT IN SPACE. [B. G. Wallace, Spectros. Lett., 2, 361(1969)] The additional terms in the (A6) equation correct for the effects of the troposphere and charged particles, as well as the general relativity effects of gravity and velocity time dilation.
The fact that the radio astronomers have been reluctant to acknowledge the full theoretical implications of their work is probably related to the unfortunate things that tend to happen to physicists that are rash enough to challenge Einstein's sacred second postulate. Over twenty-three years have gone by since the original Venus radar experiments clearly showed that the speed of light in space was not constant, and still the average scientist is not aware of this fact! This demonstrates why it is important for the APS to bring true scientific freedom to the PR journal's editorial policy."
Supporting evidence comes from Ronald Hatch who finds that the NASA equations for interplanetary navigation follow his MLET theory rather than special relativity:
"The experimental evidence is almost overwhelming in support of the MLET view. There is a large disjoint between the SRT theorists and the experimentalists. The SRT theorists continue to claim that the speed of light is automatically the velocity c and isotropic with respect to the moving observer or experiment. But the SRT experimentalists do what is necessary to explain and make sense of the measurements. The equations for tracking and navigating the interplanetary probes developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL) for NASA clearly follow the MLET template."[27]
Mr. Wallace died on April 19, 1997, his findings ignored and thus neither confirmed nor refuted by the physics establishment. The question remains: Is the speed of light in interplanetary space subject to systematic variations in time?
It is therefore imperative that systematic, high precision speed of light experiments be performed in earth orbit and interplanetary space. No such experiments have been carried out yet - why test a theory that you already know is correct? - but majority opinion has been changing lately. Attempts to reconcile general relativity with quantum theory have been a notable failure, and physicists have come to suspect that a unified field theory must involve "small" violations of special and general relativity. Müller et al. state
"Special relativity (SR) underlies all accepted theories of nature at the fundamental level. Therefore, it has been and must be tested with ever increasing precision to provide a firm basis for its future application. Such tests are also motivated by the efforts to unify gravity with the other forces of nature, one of the outstanding open challenges in modern science. In fact, many currently discussed models of quantum gravity do violate the principles of SR."[36]
This has finally created a renewed interest in testing both relativity theories experimentally to high precision. German physicists are currently designing the OPTIS mission[53], a satellite carrying ultra-high precision experiments to test key assumptions and predictions of relativity; among them, the isotropy and constancy of the speed of light. As expected, the OPTIS mission objective is to confirm special and general relativity, or at most to find weak violations:
"New unifying theories (e.g. the String-Theory) predict small deviations from the Special and General Relativity. If such deviations could be found (e.g. an unisotropy of the speed of light) the way to a new understanding of the time and space structure of the universe would be open."[54]
The motivation to conduct such experiments in Earth orbit is solely due to technological considerations and has nothing to do with the dissident argument that space-based tests of special relativity might produce radically different results than ground-based ones. But if Miller and other relativity critics are right, OPTIS may find much more than small deviations. The mission is still in the planning stages and no launch date has been set, but results could be available between 2005 and 2007.
Relativistic deflection of light near the Sun using radio signals and visible light -- P Marmet and C Couture.
This pours cold water on Shapiro.
Can you actually show me links to the data? You know, the actual, original studies? If you're going to claim that the data is fudged, I'm going to need to be able to confirm that the data is what you and others claim it is and that it doesn't match relativity's predictions.
By the way, who is this Roodenburg you mention?
Here is a link to the Roodenburg stuff. I will get Shapiro's stuff later.
http://www.loop-doctor.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Emmy-Noether-the-ignored-scientist_v9.pdf
Noether's theorem enhances Einstein's Relativity
Our three books (www.loop-doctor.nl) describe the repair of Einstein's Relativity for Noether's
theorem in full detail. We hope you get as many "aha" experiences as we did,
Rob Roodenburg (MSc. author)
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Quote from: Paradigmer on Yesterday at 05:54:59The rebuttals to the experiments that demonstrated the existence of aether, are akin to those in the geocentric era after having officially denounced the spheroidal Earth hypothesis, put away Galileo for good, and then high-handedly asked the deprived supporters of the Galilean hypothesis for supporting authoritative source.
Galileo was indeed silenced by the authority of the church, but his works was in fact scientifically denounced by the authority of geocentrism. Galileo was put away for good at then, and that was the insidious intention of the involved authorities. His works was revived in modern science is another thing. The scientific establishment that could exist two centuries later, may not be known today.
Quote from: Paradigmer on Yesterday at 05:54:59My take is, when authoritative sources are asserted with compromised peer-reviews, even they are for whatsoever good reasons, such as pragmatism, the necessity for the information to be reliable and trustworthy, is compromised.
The scientific method is intrinsically flawed. Have a look at an analysis for a hallmark scientific experiment that involved relativity, and let me know if you still think the peer review process is not compromised:
The cognitive paradox fallacy in cosmic inflation on accelerated expansion of space
This is a subtopic from "Critiques of the scientific method", which could be worthy for a read.
p.s. Please forgive my audacity. As offensive as my propositions seem to be, I have no mean to be offensive in any way.
Here is a link to the Roodenburg stuff.
Who is Roodenburg? Is he a physicist?
Galileo was indeed silenced by the authority of the church, but his works was in fact scientifically denounced by the authority of geocentrism.
Of that I have no doubt. That tends to be the case with any new idea in science that proposes to revolutionize the way we fundamentally think about the Universe. Speaking of which, do you know of any cases where an older theory was replaced by a newer theory, one that then became accepted by the scientific world at large for nearly a century, but then later it was discovered that the older theory was in fact the correct one? I'm not aware of any such cases. If I'm wrong on that, please do correct me. It most certainly would be beyond bizarre to think that the major scientific organizations of the world with their instruments and mathematical expertise came to conclude that relativity was correct if the older, non-relativistic aether theory was the one actually supported by the measurements.
The scientific method is intrinsically flawed.
Then you might as well declare that all scientific ideas, aether included, as being compromised.
Have a look at an analysis for a hallmark scientific experiment that involved relativity, and let me know if you still think the peer review process is not compromised:
Firstly, I don't see what that has to do with peer review. Secondly, there wouldn't be any time dilation for objects in an expanding space because they aren't actually moving.
Quote from: Paradigmer on 20/10/2018 11:21:59Einstein did not endorse the Einsteinian twin paradox time dilation proposed with SR, instead he provided a relativistic solution of gravitational time dilation to the twin paradox problem with the equivalence principle of gravitational potential, which involves active transformation by centripetal acceleration of geodesic motion for causing the shorter proper time to the traveling twin in the acceleration that apparently was traversing at near light speed velocity, and therefore illustrated the said paradox in the example does not exist.
That postulate doesn't make sense. Where was this from?
IMO, you should use time dilation gamma thrice for an observed fast moving object for its instantaneous prediction. One on the GR equivalence of gravitational potential with the centripetal acceleration in its high speed velocity, second one for the SR optical effect of the high speed object in its elliptic orbit, and the third one on the instantaneous GR gravitational potential.
Even then, with all other countless known and unknow perturbations, such as those caused by the unsolved 3-body problem, retrograde motion of the Earth in the galactic reference frame, etc, unlike in the lab, it is very difficult to be very accurate for predicting the TD for the atomic clock for every instant. And this is even so for a single satellite revolution that deviates with its apsidal motion for every revolution.
For instant, the Earth's equatorial plane is inclined at about sixty degree to the spiral trajectory of the Sun in its complex helical path while revolving around the Milky Way. This mean half the time the Earth in its complex motion, is revolving in its relative retrograde motion in the Solar System reference frame with its obliquity of the ecliptic alone. Also, the 3-body problem even with its pragmatic solution, is too overwhelming to handle with the countless celestial objects that could spontaneously perturb conjunctionally at any point of the orbit of the satellite. With all else that complexly contribute to its final outcomes, it therefore is more pragmatic to synchronize the atomic clocks with the differencing method.
Quote from: Paradigmer on Today at 11:34:08The scientific method is intrinsically flawed.
I wouldn't say that.
But you got Hannes Alfven turn in his grave:
"We should remember that there was once a discipline called Natural Philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but the science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect." - Hannes Alfven, 1986.
Since the transition to modern physics, the original scientific method of Francis Bacon, has been compromised.
You sure do like the "turning in his grave" line.
Okay, so which particular step in the scientific method is the wrong one? The observations? The experiments? The hypothesizing? What?
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A significant proportion of the global population is familiar with the name Martin Luther King Jr. The name has been associated with significant achievements whose benefits can be pointed out in the present decade. Unlike other revolutionists whose accomplishments were linked to some form of bloodshed, Martins choice of nonviolent techniques in the pursuit of his dream allowed the occurrence of a peaceful transformation. The legends governing principles that had been derived from the combinations of Christian beliefs and his history; these two aspects made Martin believe that change could be achieved in a civilized manner which prevented further loss. This essay analyses the dimensions of a complete life by defining the components of the dimensions, discussing their application and essence in everyday life.
The three dimensions are equated to length, breadth and the width. Length encompasses an individuals wellbeing that is personal dreams, achievements, and failures. The Length of life is two-sided i.e. it has both the negative and positive forms. Negative length can be manifested as obsessiveness to achieve making a person to self-centered and thus willing to do anything to will regardless of other peoples rights. On the other hand, an individual can express a positive length of life through self-love and understanding. Breadth can be summarized as the interpersonal relationship. It comprises all the ethics that govern how people relate regardless of peoples backgrounds, races, classes or age. Lastly, the Width encloses a persons religion that is one's relationship with a much higher power. Martin Luther believed that for life to attain some considerable level of perfectionism, all the three dimensions need to be included.
The three dimensions tend to define all the relationships that establish a peaceful coexistence. For instance, the realization of an individuals personality enables people to appreciate their capabilities and incapabilities. Such attributes allow one to be comfortable within a given environment, thus encouraging self-appreciation which in turn limits the impacts of inferiority and superiority feelings within the society.;A good intra-personal relationship which is often emphasized by a good spiritual life leads to positive inter-personal associations. The links between the three dimensions are thus directed towards a single goal which is a complete life.
However, any negativity in either the length, width or length results in an imbalance which can be interpreted as an incomplete form of life. For example, a negative length encourages a self-centered nature which gives some individuals a false illusion of being superior that others. Such attitudes lead to the development of rifts within the society where the antagonists strive to prove their beliefs. The population that is being treated as inferior often try to show that they are not while the one that is superior fight to maintain the position. Given the sensitiviy of the balance of the life dimensions, long term peace can only be achieved through the restoration of each dimension.
Like any other Martin Luthers speech, life dimensions is a notion that will still be applicable in future generations. Such an assumption is attributed to the dynamism of human environment which often interferes with a pre-existing balance. Despite the present decade civilization, violence is still being witnessed in various regions, internalization of the life dimensions ideology can be the real solution to such challenges.;
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Free Press Files Lawsuit on FCC's Net Neutrality Rules
By Grant Gross
IDG News Service | PT
Advocacy group Free Press has filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules, with the group arguing the new regulations are too weak.
The FCC's rules, approved by the commission last December, treat wireline and mobile broadband providers differently, but they shouldn't, said Free Press, a left-leaning media reform group. Free Press filed the lawsuit Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, just days after the FCC published the rules in the Federal Register, the last step before they go into effect.
The regulations, sometimes called open Internet rules, bar wireline broadband providers from "unreasonable discrimination" against Web traffic, but don't have the same prohibition for mobile broadband providers. The rules prohibit mobile providers from blocking voice and other applications that compete with their services, but don't prohibit them from blocking other applications.
"When the FCC first proposed the open Internet rules, they came with the understanding that there is only one Internet, no matter how people choose to reach it," Free Press Policy Director Matt Wood said in a statement. "The final rules provide some basic protections for consumers, but do not deliver on the promise to preserve openness for mobile Internet access. They fail to protect wireless users from discrimination, and they let mobile providers block innovative applications with impunity."
Free Press will fight to make the rules stronger, because there's no evidence in the FCC's record to justify this "arbitrary distinction" between wired and mobile broadband, Wood added. "The disparity that the FCC's rules create is unjust and unjustified," he said. "And it's especially problematic because of the increasing popularity of wireless, along with its increasing importance for younger demographics and diverse populations who rely on mobile devices as their primary means for getting online."
An FCC spokesman didn't have an immediate comment on the Free Press lawsuit.
The FCC will likely see more challenges from companies on the other side of the net neutrality debate from Free Press.
Earlier this year, Verizon Communications and MetroPCS filed challenges to the rules, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected the lawsuits because the companies filed before the rules were published in the Federal Register. Verizon, which has said it plans to refile a lawsuit, has argued that the FCC does not have the authority to regulate broadband.
Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service. Follow Grant on Twitter at GrantGross. Grant's e-mail address is grant_gross@idg.com.


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EasyCoder
Website coding for non-programmers
List of contents
For absolute beginners
Story Driven Design
The Software Crisis
About us / Contacts
Articles about building interactive, content-rich websites usually focus on the software structure and demonstrate the use of advanced JavaScript combined with a modern framework such as Angular, React or Vue. Useful as they often are, though, this is a very techno-centric way of looking at things and is really putting the cart before the horse.
Websites don't in general start as technical projects but as stories - descriptions, sometimes with pictures, sometimes not - of what the site should do. Stories are written by domain experts - the customers whose real-world needs are to be met by a new website, and it is with these stories we should start.
To explain this we need an example. The one I will use is called Here On The Map and you can see it working at https://hereonthemap.com. It's a demo site built to meet a somewhat artificial need, chosen to bring in some specific technical features. In design terms it's simple; the important aspect is the interactivity.
The 'story' of Here On The Map
Here On The Map (HOTM) has quite a simple user story. It displays a live map on which there are colored pins. The user can zoom and pan to reveal any part of the Earth's surface. When the user clicks a pin a panel of information appears about the location of that pin. Users can register with the site; they are then able to add their own pins and write about them using a rich text editor. Images can be accessed by URL or uploaded to the system. Here's what it looks like when viewing:
and while editing:
That's a not-untypical story of part of the website's functionality at least. From there we find a technical team and go to the implementation. But before we jump in with the coding, here are some general issues.
General implementation issues
To start with, the platform here is WordPress. Why? Because its the simplest way to get basic functionality in place, on top of which we can build our website. The theme chosen here is called No Header; it's a very basic theme that provides little more than a sidebar, leaving two-thirds of the screen for our own content. It also provides some basic responsiveness for mobile compatibility. Our application knows nothing about it and doesn't interact with it in any way.
This website is likely to be front-end driven. It's not impossible to deliver something along these lines with traditional server-side code, but good responsiveness to user actions would be hard to achieve. Furthermore, the visual structure is pretty basic so it's quite feasible - maybe even preferable - to implement it entirely in code. There's a rather fuzzy line between a web page and a browser application; the former has more emphasis on content and the latter on function. Here we're rather leaning towards a browser application.
One thing that stands out when looking at the story is the way the site is made up of functional blocks. Quite big ones, in fact. In particular:
• A Google Map
• A user registration/login module
• A Rich Text editor component
• Picture upload and storage
The way these blocks interact with each other is the key to getting the site to work well, but it's hard to predict all of the details without first building the site. Once it's running, the nature of some of these interactions will become clearer. For example, when you click a pin you see the corresponding article. You also get a link to the author and a list of tags. When any of these are clicked, the map updates to show only the pins matching what was selected. A line of text appears under the map to tell you what filter you currently have in place.
A second interaction: When you zoom the map the current zoom level is shown at the end of a line of text below the map.
A third interaction: When you log out by clicking the link in the line under the map, the viewer or editor panels disappear, just in case you were viewing something that shouldn't be seen by someone who is not logged in. Also, if you were viewing a pin you created yourself it would be green. When you log out it goes yellow.
There are also various rules, such as what state information gets persisted as the application runs. We preserve the current latitude, longitude and zoom, also the name of the pin we're viewing. In the File Manager we hold onto the directory path so the user can return there next time. And so on.
These interactions and rules together form stories and they belong to the domain expert. They should be preserved in a form (s)he can understand and where they can easily be accessed to make changes, not buried in arcane code. Think long-term and think of the site maintainer, who will often be someone other than the original site builder.
Stories and Components
From the above we can see a structure begin to emerge, one of functional components joined together by stories. If we can find a way to manage these two things independently the website will be much easier to work with than if we jumble everything up together. With interactive websites, maintenance is a serious issue. If the stories are not easy to find in the code, a future maintainer will have trouble understanding what should be happening and is likely to break things.
Some components are just large third-party JavaScript libraries. Here we have two in particular; Google Maps and CKEditor, the component that provides our rich text editor. Each of these is freely available from a CDN or can be installed along with the rest of the website. The key thing is they are both black boxes. We have no interest in how they are implemented, only in the interfaces they present to the world.
The rest of the components might be provided as standard libraries, WordPress plugins, one-off code specifically written for this project or some combination of code and library. Whichever is the case, we should design our application to use components in a clean and consistent manner.
That just leaves the stories. For reasons I've already given, these should remain visible in a form that's as close to the original as it's possible to get, and a good precedent for this exists in the form of SQL. Database applications may do all sorts of things with data, whether transforming it for display or using it to control layout, but the actual process of extracting it from a database is done in a way that is readily understood by database domain experts as well as by programmers. Can we express our stories in a similar way?
Levels of coding
General-purpose computer languages are for programmers. The rest of us speak and write in English or another human language, and we do it entirely using words. Human languages look nothing like JavaScript code; there are no curly braces, fat arrows or triple-equals, yet we humans process them pretty well and manage to organize whole societies by using them. Another clear difference between human and computer languages is that one you can speak; the other you can't. Not without sounding daft, that is. This may sound like a trivial point but most human communication is verbal, not written, and in most languages the way we write closely mirrors the way we speak.
When we come across a complex entity, rather than spell it out longwindedly every time we give it a name such as a Defibrillator. Or, to return to the context of HOTM, a Map or an RTF Editor. We don't concern ourselves with how it works, only with what it does, that is, the interfaces it presents to us. This works in the computer world too. You can draw a map with just 3 items of information, such as
"draw a map in the box, with latitude 45.234, longitude 5.82 and zoom 5.5"
The one and only requirement for a viable computer language is that it must be unambiguous, so the above qualifies as a valid computer language statement while remaining perfectly readable English.
Of course, any compiler able to process the above and execute it will itself be written in a conventional programming language, but that part doesn't have to be visible to the person implementing the stories. All (s)he needs is a syntax that's rich enough to express all the features required by the stories while providing access to the APIs of the major components.
By layering our application in this way we can maintain high readability, which gives us some confidence that future modifications can be made quickly and safely by whoever is available to do the work.
Here On The Map was built to demonstrate the principles outlined above. It's written entirely in high-level script, using a syntax derived from English and a vocabulary that encompasses all the concepts and activities required. The compiler and runtime package is called EasyCoder and it's available from the WordPress plugin library. To illustrate the general flavor, here's a simple fragment from a user story:
"When given the id of a particular pin record in the database, read the record, set up the map and display the article for that pin"
and here's the corresponding section of script:
rest get Record from `_/ec_markers/id/` cat RequestedID or
print `Failed to load the requested pin.  Error: ` cat the error
if property `id` of Record is not 0
set the latitude of Map to property `latitude` of Record
set the longitude of Map to property `longitude` of Record
set the zoom of Map to property `zoom` of Record
update Map
fork to ShowStory
You should be able to see that there is no computer code to learn, as everything is expressed in English words. Admittedly, the syntax is a bit clunky, but it's still understandable. Names of things are camel-cased with an initial capital letter, while language commands remain in all lower case.
The first command requests a record from the database by calling a REST server that's part of the language plugin. This is one of the minor functional components that come with the system and which are largely hidden from the application programmer. In fact, though conceptually simple this is a fairly complex operation, the details of which are best kept well hidden. In the event of an error a report is logged but nothing else happens and the screen remains unchanged.
Assuming a valid record came back it will have a non-zero id, so we can extract the 3 map parameters and update the map. This time we're using the Google Maps module, wrapped in simple commands that let us access its API without worrying about the details.
And finally we go off to show the article for the pin. The 'fork' command merely ensures that the story is shown in parallel while processing continues in this thread. (No, we haven't discovered a hitherto-unknown threading feature in JavaScript; threads in this context are provided by cooperative multitasking inside the language engine.)
The HOTM website documents all the scripts used for the application. The total amount of code is a lot less than the equivalent JavaScript would be, with or without a React framework to help it. Of course, driving all this is a pile of JavaScript; a compiler/runtime engine of about 50kB and further components that bring the total close to 200kB if they are all used. Plus the scripts themselves, loaded from GitHub. The site loads in under 3 seconds; over half of this is just getting the initial WordPress page from the server, after which things fly along. Scripts compile in a few tens of milliseconds and compilation usually happens in parallel with other things like image downloads.
A website can be built very quickly using EasyCoder, partly owing to the way each command does a lot of work but also because so much of the usual infrastructure needed by websites is already provided. The bulk of HOTM took less than 2 weeks from the initial idea to a fully working website. Errors are rare because the internal functions are used over and over again, leaving bugs with few places to hide. However, it has to be acknowledged that this is a fairly small website using readily available technologies, so what if you need to build some really complex functionality?
Mixing technologies
People have a tendency to favor particular ways of working, and programmers are no exception. The current hot subject is JavaScript frameworks, with React leading the pack, and its adherents often suggest it should be used for everything. I disagree. There's nothing wrong with React but I wouldn't use it to write any code that is likely to be modified - or maybe even seen - by my customer. All that complex stuff belongs in the lower levels of coding.
The reason is my wish to keep the stories visible. JavaScript code of almost any kind fails to reveal user stories in a form that can be easily understood by anyone other than the original programmer. Without understanding, many more problems soon follow. I've demonstrated above that functionality can be split into one level for the stories and another for the infrastructure, and it's in the latter area that React belongs.
A key feature of React is that it's a component technology; another is its 2-way mapping between the component and the model. This works well in the environment I use, where major units of functionality are built as components and joined together by the random glue of stories. There are, after all, two different kinds of programming going on here. The one that deals with components looks at contained functionality and seeks to optimize it, while the other, that deals with stories and frequently-changing relationships between components, seeks to retain clarity at almost any price. These two aims are directly contradictory when applied to the same entity but not if the entities themselves are separated.
The EasyCoder high-level scripting language used by HOTM is built out of individual plugin modules that each perform a bounded range of duties, either for a specific domain or for a particular technology. The core of it just handles the random glue that keeps the user stories visible. Writing new plugins is simple; you code them to handle the syntax chosen to deal with functionality exposed by a component, which itself will often be delivered as minimized JavaScript from a CDN. How these components are engineered is entirely down to their author, and if (s)he is most comfortable using React then that's what it will be.
Remember at all times that what we're doing is creating a top-level syntax that's readily understandable by English speakers who are also domain experts. The complexity behind this syntax is not for them; it's for the programmer, who is then free to pick the best tools for the job. You are free to construct a language that has just one word; "doit", everything else being hidden inside that one command. That's how websites are in effect built today, but I don't advocate doing it that way. We can do better.
To a certain extent, adopting this strategy tends to focus the mind on building better reusable components. When you build a component alongside the code that uses it there's a tendency for ad-hoc interfaces to be added to solve short-term needs, making it progressively more difficult for the component to be used outside of the context for which it was originally built. The discipline of having to build the component in such a way that it can be accessed solely through published interfaces forces a reappraisal of just what the component is offering to the world, and in the process makes it a better component. And better components lead to better, more reliable and less costly websites.
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A western Sydney home has been significantly damaged in a fire which is believed to have been deliberately lit.
Police say officers were travelling on a train through Rooty Hill on Wednesday night when they noticed smoke coming from a nearby house.
Emergency services extinguished the blaze at the house on Mavis Street a short time later but the premises was severely damaged.
Initial inquiries suggest the house may have been deliberately lit, police said.


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FRATERNITY FOUNDED - 1872
SYMBOL - Ivy Leaf
FLOWERS - Lily of the Valley & Forget-Me-Not
PHILANTHROPY - Alpha Phi Foundation in support of Women's Heart Health
CONSTELLATION - Ursa Major
COLORS - Silver and Bordeaux
Alpha Phi's High Ideals
In Alpha Phi we live by 4 high ideals: innovation, character, generosity and sisterhood. These are the ideals that guide every sister in every chapter, and in Beta Sigma we strive to embody these ideals every day.
Sisterhood that lasts a lifetime
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The common bond of Innovation
Innovation is one of the most important values to our chapter. We provide many opportunities for academic success to our sisters including weekly study hours, many destress event each term, and incentives for sisters who achieve academic excellence. We are so proud to have a chapter full of dedicated scholars!
Generosity is hand in hand.
Generosity is one of the values we stick closest to in Alpha Phi. Our sister participate in countless community service projects every year, both individually and as a group. We are so proud to be a chapter that focuses so much on helping the community we love!
High expectations for Character
Character is an incredibly important value to Alpha Phi. We strive every day to become the women that will lead the world. As one of the few women only groups on campus we are able to foster a culture of self betterment and growth, and provide our newest members with over 100 inspiring women to look up too.
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Nintendo revenue tumbles, but profit remains
Cost-control practices enable Nintendo to turn a profit, despite revenue sliding 11.3 percent during last 9 months of 2014.
Don Reisinger
Nintendo's last nine months of 2014 weren't so bad. Nintendo
The last nine months of 2014 were a bit of a mixed bag for Nintendo, the company revealed in an earnings release on Wednesday.
During the period, Nintendo's revenue slid 11.3 percent compared to the previous year, reaching 443 billion yen ($3.8 billion), the company reported. While revenue was down, Nintendo was able to reverse its fortunes a bit, boosting its profit by 484 percent year-over-year to 59.5 billion yen.
Nintendo -- which makes gaming hardware, like the Wii U and 3DS, as well as popular software titles, including the Super Mario franchise -- has been competing in an increasingly hostile market. The company's Wii U is in last place in the console space behind Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One. Nintendo also has been negatively affected by a growing contingent of casual gamers migrating from its platforms to smartphones and tablets.
For years, Nintendo has maintained that its strategy of delivering casual games that rely on motion and other concepts would be successful. While that was certainly true with its Wii console, Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS haven't attracted the same level of appeal. That is, perhaps, best reflected in the company's revenue figures, which have fallen off a cliff over the past several years. During the last nine months of 2010, for instance, Nintendo's revenue was 808.8 billion yen -- nearly double what it's generating in sales right now.
Despite its troubles, Nintendo has been able to stabilize its business. The company generated a profit of 59.5 billion yen between April and December 2014, which was actually more than its profit in 2010 when revenue was much higher. Nintendo said that it expects to generate a 30 billion yen profit this fiscal year, which ends in March. During its last fiscal year, Nintendo lost 23.2 billion yen.
A key component in Nintendo preserving its income has been cost-control: The company's expenses in 2014 were significantly lower than they were during the same period in 2013.
Still, Nintendo needs to sell more hardware and software to compete more effectively in the gaming space. While unit sales were up in 2014, the Wii U has reached just 9.2 million unit sales worldwide since its launch in 2012, placing it far behind the PlayStation 4, which has sold more than 18 million units. Nintendo also noted that its 3DS portable has experienced slumping sales, with the company selling 7 million units in the last nine months of 2014, compared to 11.6 million the previous year. Software sales on the 3DS were stagnant.
Nintendo did not immediately respond to a request for comment
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Microsoft reveals HoloLens 2, Epic's Tim Sweeney pledges long-term Unreal Engine support
By Alex Calvin, PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor
The Big M has shown off the second iteration of its HoloLens AR headset.
Microsoft revealed the tech at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress event, saying that the hardware is more comfortable and features eye-tracking magic to make projections seem more natural.
Much like its 2016 predecessor, HoloLens 2 doesn't come cheap, coming in at a cool $3,500. Right now, the tech is being aimed at businesses for enterprise use.
On-stage during the unveiling, Epic's Tim Sweeney said that Unreal Engine support for the AR hardware is in the works and will be rolled out to developers in May of this year. It's clear that the Fortnite boss isn't talking about game development, rather the enterprise audience that Microsoft is targeting. Sweeney did, however, say that Epic is in the AR scene for the long-term, so it's likely we'll be seeing Unreal powering augmented reality games in the future.
Furthermore, Sweeney praised Microsoft's open approach to development for HoloLens, saying that he doesn't want to see walled gardens appearing around this emerging market. Just three years ago, the Epic boss was publicly clashing with the Big M over its new Universal Windows Platform and the Microsoft Store for being a closed platform.
"Epic Games and Microsoft have been close partners for almost 25 years and we've really helped to shape the industry together with DirectX and Unreal, with Xbox and Gears of War and, most recently, in opening up Fortnite with cross-platform play between seven device families," the Epic boss said.
"Now we are here witnessing the birth of an entirely new generation of technology with augmented reality and HoloLens. I believe that AR is going to be the primary platform of the future for both work and for entertainment. AR is going to play such an intimate role in our lives that we've got to establish clear ground rules respecting everyone's rights. That means open platforms, open ecosystems and privacy protections that put the user first. That is exactly what Microsoft is launching here today. Epic will fully support Microsoft's HoloLens strategy now and for the long-term. We're starting with the Unreal Engine. HoloLens is up and running now and coming to all developers in May. Unreal enables television and film producers, architects and industrial designers to bring photo-realistic final pixels to HoloLens in real time. At Epic Games, we also make games - perhaps you have heard of some of them - and though I'm not here to announce a game or AR strategy yet, I am here to tell you that in the years to come, Epic will support HoloLens in all of our endeavours. We'll support HoloLens as an open platform and we will resist attempts to build walled gardens around our lives."
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PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor
Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.
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Are you buying that crap?
Why are liberals constantly distorting things? You know the man said that in jest.
In fact, I just watched it again to see if I missed him jesting.
Maybe the 200 year old thing was a joke. I don't know. Dubious. The "Good gene" part wasn't in jest though. He repeats more often than Trump boasts on twitter.
But, seemingly, even though Trump has the best genes in the world... he's still crap in the sack.
Bet that's gonna irritate his little twitter-fingers.
"No. Fake news. I am the best lay the world. Nobody shags better than me. Just ask anyone. I'm the best."


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The male Tawny Owl has settled into a routine of spending the day on his favourite perch on the nest tree. He seems to be less troubled by Magpies than he has been recently.
It is tempting to suppose that the female owl is in the nest hole below him, and he is guarding her. It is really too early for even these very early owls to think about nesting, but they constantly surprise us by changing their timetable. The pair have not been seen together as in previous years, but that may be sheer chance.
Apart from that, not much was going on. I went to the Rima relief to feed the Coal Tit, which obligingly came down, and saw a Blackbird bathing in one of the small ponds that are part of the installation, now choked with leaves.
The seven young Mute Swans from the nest in the Italian Garden, which have been wandering about in ones and twos, were all together again and following their mother as she crossed the Vista.
In the background you can see two of the many Shovellers that are browsing all over the Long Water. One of them came so close inshore that I could have reached out and touched it, which is unusual for these normally shy ducks.
It is odd that the two Great Crested Grebes on the Serpentine, of which this is one, are still in their plain winter plumage when the pair on the Long Water are in their full breeding regalia.
I think that the Long Water pair may be quite old. As far as I have been able to observe, Great Crested Grebes become darker as they age, and keep their fine chestnut feathers for longer.
There was just one Mistle Thrush on Buck Hill.
They spend much of their time just across the road in Hyde Park, where they are less easy to find in the long grass and big trees.
A pair of Pied Wagtails at the Round Pond were hunting on the downwind side of the pond where the waves splash over the edge and leave little pools on the pavement. They were picking up things that were too small to identify, which may be visible in this picture as small black spots.
The photo of the procession of swans as as majestic as it is delightful.
The swans are a pretty rough bunch, though. They hang around the Vista looking for a fight with a dog.
Oh that is hilarious. No, I would not mess with an adult swan myself!
Ian Young 17 December 2014 at 22:28
I once saw a dog owner let his small dog drink from the lake while the whole swan family were a couple of feet away. A youngster and its father hissed furiously but luckily the dog ran back to its owner before anything happened. The owner remained oblivious throughout
Oblivion is the word. I saw a dog owner today whose slavering pet was trying to kill the geese. She walked past the swans and remarked to the woman she was with, 'Careful of them -- they bite, you know.'
That would have made me SO angry!
While still on the subject of grebes. Still amazed by last week's news that grebes' closest living relatives are flamingoes, and their next nearest relatives are pigeons and allies! Good coverage on Nature and Daily Mail websites. Also a surprising intertwining of songbirds, some supposed near-passerines and birds of prey, though I gather some of this is a few years old.
by Jim n.L.!
While this was done with DNA, the extraordinary flexibility of a grebe's neck gives a hint.
I do little series of birds on Facebook, for a bird-watching friend and I to discuss. We've finished Grebes of the world, then got 3/4 way through Finches (there were too many and I ran out of steam). At present, we are looking at every single member of the Heron family. The stunning beauty of night herons (which I had never heard of) was a revelation. Today's Heron lives in the Galapagos and is modestly coloured to blend in (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_heron).
Still on grebes. Come to think of it, there are couple of things in common between the parading ritual of flamingoes and the courtship display of great-crested grebes. Isn't evolution remarkable? Jim


I believe in guardian angels. Without one, I don't know how I negotiated the two-hour drive home from a speaking engagement the other day.
I don't remember one inch of road. My thoughts were wrapped around the profound realizations that occur when you step outside your own world and visit another.
I raised some questions during my speech: Who blogs? Who's on Facebook? Who has an RSS reader? Who reads Inman News? Who's paperless? Who creates videos of their listings?


The elf cursed under his breath as he plodded through the mire.
thing more dangerous than a hungry rat.  Not yet, anyway.
intolerable, but the lure of treasure overcame this...for now.
dilemma, against something like a horde of demons.
one would come to rescue him.
Well, then, he thought, let's make sure nothing bad does happen.
Belphanior as he prepared to strike from his concealed position.
it swung out at the big reptile's neck...and bounced off!
alligator:  (whips its powerful tail)  RRROAR!
Belphanior:  (knocked against the wall)  Ungh!
and Belphanior used this to his advantage.
himself, Belphanior headed back to the main shaft, looking both ways.
standing in another cistern, from which a single other passage exited.
down its wet, slimy length, alert for any signs of danger.
glob, which was oozing toward him at an alarming rate!
backed up, struggling to get the thing lit.
body moved across the wet pipe's stone floor.
then leaped, landing on the far side of the burnt slime.
map would pay, and pay dearly.
as he slowly, meticulously lowered himself down the pipe, foot by foot.
covered the door itself, while a rusty needle waited behind the knob.
carefully, he went to work on the traps.
like _that_ tight of a fit.
though these were tattered and rotted with age.
it rolled to one side, stopping against a wall.
I'll be damned!  I killed him!
the treasure he was sure must wait there.  However, there was nothing!
Belphanior:  (hesitates as his head buzzes)  Huh?
a niche of the chamber below.
unique phenomenon found down here.
still in great pain)  Argh!
hamstrung, and in a flash, the elf was atop it, slicing at its head.
from falling in the muck.
had passed, Belphanior realized that all of his wounds had healed.
and was ready to take on the world.
making them noticeable for the first time.
the nearest sewer exit, smiling.
this slaying, other than simple robbery.
Thanks to Sean Donohue for the original idea.


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GST heat goes on internet sales
Debate is turning into action over taxing internet sales.
The Australian Treasurer told media at the Council on Federal Financial Relations Meeting in Canberra on 9 April his Government will require overseas companies selling intangibles into Australia to register and pay GST on their sales there. This includes companies like Netflix and many others which are clearly in the Australian Government's sights.
Treasurer Hockey says the States in Australia have agreed to this in principle and they intend working as quickly as possible to achieve it. He also said it would make sense to apply the same rules to goods sold over the internet below the import exempt threshold of $1,000. That will be welcome news for Australian retailers.
http://jbh.ministers.treasury.gov.au/transcript/075-2015/
Meanwhile, in New Zealand, our Government maintains the line it will await the OECD special working party on digital commerce (due to release a further report later this year) before acting and there is no current intention to review the low value import threshold here for goods.
NZ retailers still have their work cut out to persuade our Government to act sooner and follow the EU and South Africa.
On 13 April Retail NZ and Bookseller NZ launched an #eFairnessNZ campaign seeking urgent action on this. They say it is hurting retailers all over New Zealand. The campaign is being run on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #eFairnessNZ.
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While the regimes in place in South Africa and the EU have significant practical and enforcement issues it does appear they are collecting revenue. We won't know how they are impacting consumer behaviour for another few months but it certainly doesn't look like the sky has fallen on them.
I'd say this is an inevitability but we still are some way away from the ideal technological solution we need.
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Overseas companies avoiding GST?
Simon Moutter, Spark's MD, says overseas companies like Netflix are avoiding GST.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11422160
He has a point, and it's not news really. But the debate grows as more New Zealand businesses feel the heat from overseas digital competitors.
I've no doubt a solution will be found and I agree with Moutter, it will be a technology solution.
VAT /GST regimes around the world apply the "destination principle" i.e. the tax burden lies where consumption occurs. Unless we abandon that policy building block we must find a way to tax the increasingly valuable services being purchased from offshore.
Some countries are forging ahead without waiting for the OECD to come up with a multilateral solution [South Africa, the EU, the Bahamas]. As Moutter points out, the US has rules in place for sales taxes on inter-state transactions, but of course enforcement isn't as difficult when the two taxing states are part of the same country.
This is a challenge for technology entrepreneurs as much as tax administrators.
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Dorset Stories
Linda O'Leary—To Serve with Love
by Liz Shafer
Linda O'Leary, pictured above with her faithful companion, Rosie, is perhaps one of Dorset's most universally known denizens. Not from celebrity or notoriety, mind you, although she is recognized for acting as consultant by acclaimed author Anita Shreve in her novel 'Rescue.' And it's not because she comes from a large, extended family with a long history in the area. Or that she's worn just about every hat there is to wear as a member of the United Church of Dorset and East Rupert.
It's just that Linda has encountered—and served—so many people: as a lifetime member of the Church, as a local teacher and school principal—and, for 37 years, as a volunteer with the Northshire Rescue Squad, a nonprofit organization providing emergency medical services to five area towns.
Linda and her brother Daniel grew up surrounded by aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents in Dorset and Kirby Hollows. She lives in the house her parents built, just around the corner from where her mother was born. Daniel, a familiar face at Burr and Burton Academy where he acts as its custodian, lives nearby with his wife, Cindy.
A graduate of BBA, Linda attended Castleton State College—as it was then known—got a degree in education, and enjoyed a 35-year career, first as teacher, then principal, at two area schools before retiring in 2015. Her affection for her former students is obviously reciprocated—many of them still keep in contact with her, and she is often invited to their birthday parties, graduations and weddings.
She began working with the Northshire Rescue Squad (NRS) in 1985 after hearing that they were enlisting volunteers. She was teaching at the time, and had just earned a certification in Advanced First Aid and CPR. "I thought it might come in handy at school," she explains, and it did, on a number of occasions. "Every teacher should know CPR.", says O'Leary.
At the beginning of her stint with the NRS, she accompanied the crew on calls to observe and assisted by retrieving equipment from the ambulance or reassuring patients. "It's such rewarding work," she says. "The people we helped were always so thankful!"
The experience made her want to learn more, so she enrolled in an EMT class, driving to Rutland twice a week over six months' time for an intensive course that culminated in a 150-question state-administered test as well as a practical exam that allowed her to demonstrate her skills. "No pressure," she quips. Eventually, she earned advanced level certifications for EMT-Defibrillation and Advanced EMT, which allowed her to administer drugs and IVs as needed.
In addition to answering calls, squad members on duty are required to make sure everything is ready to go during an emergency: equipment is inspected; oxygen tank levels are recorded; and the rigs (ambulances) are cleaned and washed. Then there's the monthly training sessions held by the Squad, educational opportunities through the Southwestern Vermont and Rutland Regional Medical Centers, and the annual conference for Vermont EMS District #10 out of Rutland.
And as one of the few Squad members who lived in Dorset, O'Leary says she would often act as a first responder when a significant emergency call for the town went out, even when she wasn't on duty. "I would administer care until the duty crew arrived," she says. If it was serious or my advanced skills were needed, I would go to the hospital with the crew and the patient."
At first, she'd sign up for extra shifts, often from at 6 pm on Friday night to 6 pm on Saturday because they worked well with her teaching schedule. "And like with anything new," she says, "you realize how much there is to learn."
"Over the years I've responded to almost any emergency you could imagine. Medical calls like cardiac arrests, anaphylactic shock, diabetic emergencies and strokes. And trauma calls like car accidents, falls, gunshot wounds, burn injuries—and occasionally, hang gliders versus barbed wire fences or hands versus snow blowers!" In 1995, she was named Northshire Rescue Squad's first woman president. And she's been a member of the Board of Trustees since its inception in 2008.
When she became principal at Middletown Springs Elementary School in 2000—which called for working additional days beyond the teaching year—it became more of a challenge for her to put in those 12-hour shifts. "I gave a lot," she says, "But I got as much as I gave." O'Leary finally stepped down from her duties as an EMT in 2020, but continues to serve on the NRS Board of Trustees; she also acts as vice chair for the Manchester EMS District.
She's grateful for the skills she acquired there. They enabled her to care for her aging parents, and took away a lot of the worry that she might have otherwise felt when they were ailing. And she's been able to step in on various occasions during church services when a parishioner suffered a health crisis.
But that's not all she does at the Church. As clerk, she takes the minutes at all of its cabinet and congregational meetings, works in the church office when they need an extra hand, and sings in the choir. And she serves on three committees, including the Steering Committee for the Rummage Sale, a monumental undertaking that usually happens twice a year, spring and fall. O'Leary is also the person behind the inspirational messages posted on the church's Facebook page. "Many days, we get hundreds of likes and shares," she says. "It was an especially important outreach during the isolation of COVID."
With Linda, dedication, grace and kindness—delivered with a wry sense of humor—is all in a day's work.
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Police Officers Beat Up Parents During Earthquake Memorial
Category: Corruption Tags: China / collapsed high school / memorial / Sichuan earthquake
The 2008 Sichuan earthquake led to the deaths of thousands of students. (Image: pexels / CC0 1.0)
By VISION TIMES, June 6, 2019
Thousands of students died in China after a massive Earthquake hit Sichuan Province in 2008. In memory of the lost, parents recently conducted a public memorial in front of Juyuan High School. However, they were met by brute force from the Chinese police.
The crackdown
More than 100 families from Dujiangyan had gathered in front of the site of the collapsed high school in the morning for the memorial. Relatives were preparing to unfurl banners that detailed the facts and laws in regard to the incident in 2008. But the government was there to oversee the memorial. Banners and placards were snatched from the parents.
"The authorities wouldn't let them hang them up, and they snatched away the banners and placards," said one of the parents. "The government wanted to monitor [the memorial], and there were clashes… Now, the government has beaten up members of our group and they have gone to the hospital," Chen, one of the children's parents, told RFA.
Weakness in the foundations of the school buildings may also have contributed to their collapse. (Image: pixabay / CC0 1.0)
The crackdown only happened after the relatives set up wreaths and burned funeral offerings, like paper money and incense, to the departed. The victims were taken to the hospital to receive medical attention.
In the 2008 earthquake, 9,000 school children perished. With a magnitude of 8.0, the devastation left in the mountainous regions of Sichuan was colossal. The earthquake hit schools the hardest, turning them to large crumbles and dust. The weak foundations of the buildings also played a role in their collapse. It was later revealed that the weakness could have been the result of corruption during construction that compromised the quality of the buildings. This angered the public, who immediately demanded answers.
Many attempts to bring the problem to the public's attention were blocked by the government. The parents conducted several stage protests, petition events, and other activities to raise awareness about the tragedy. According to Tan Zuoren, a Chengdu-based writer who researched the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, human rights lawyers are not able to raise a finger due to compensation cases regarding the case of the victims, as well as threats to forfeit their licenses.
Parents are put under surveillance on the anniversary of the tragic incident. (Image: pixabay / CC0 1.0)
A similar incident occurred outside a city hall in southern China. Grieving parents from Dujiangyan were there to seek answers for the seemingly weak foundations of the school. They were arrested and beaten up. "They detained several of the parents' representatives. We are trying to get them released. They detained eight people," said Hu Jian, a resident of Dujiangyan, who also lost a daughter in the catastrophe.
A banned memorial?
According to a government source in Sichuan's Mianyang City, any official quake memorial for the victims is non-existent. The municipal Communist Party secretary seemed uninterested in commemorating the anniversary of the tragic event. Aside from the state's attempt at censoring the event, local media also seemed to ignore the anniversary as well.
"If you dare to commemorate it, they will arrest you on any old charge," Huang, a resident of Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu. "Most parents — especially those who have given interviews to the media in the past — have been subjected to 'stability maintenance' in advance [of the anniversary]. Every year they are under 24-hour surveillance."
Over 80,000 perished in the wake of the catastrophe. More than a decade after the quake, affected parents who rallied for compensation and financial assistance have yet to receive anything from the government.
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The Design Council has published a new report which sets out the value of the design industry to the UK and identifies a number of issues that need to be addressed to enhance its value. According to the Designing a Future Economy: Developing design skills for productivity and innovation, the sector contributes £209bn to the UK economy, almost double that of what the creative industries were previously thought to contribute. The report also claims that people working in the sector are significantly more productive than the UK average worker. However it also cautions that a skills gap costs the UK economy nearly £6 billion annually. The report was compiled using UK and US-based data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and O*Net, a US-based research company offering definitions and data on different jobs.
The authors of Designing a Future Economy claims that creative skills are used across the economy, not just by designers. Crucially designers and people using skills are able to mix the cognitive abilities they have learnt, such as visualisation or problem solving, with the technical abilities they require for their job, such as coding or drawing. Underpinning all the skills identified across the occupations we mapped (from architect to digital designer) is knowledge of design. This combination of knowledge, technical and interpersonal will become more and more essential in the future economy.
The research found that creative skills are important in the day-to-day work of over 2.5 million people in the UK, delivering high-value returns to the economy. In total, creative designers contribute £209 billion to the UK economy and are 47 percent more productive that the average UK worker, delivering almost £10 extra output per hour.
The research is positive news for the economy, yet it also highlights evidence of an emerging skills gap that is beginning to influence the economy. Skills shortages and gaps amongst those already working in design-based occupations cost the UK economy £5.9 billion in lost output in 2015.
An estimated 59,000 people working in creative skills intensive industries have skills gaps, and our study also shows designers require more expensive training but receive it less often than the average UK worker.
There is also a decline in the pipeline of new talent. In 2017, just under 166,000 GCSE students took Design and Technology subjects, a 61 percent decrease from the year 2000. This has also been accompanied by a decrease in the number of teachers and teaching hours dedicated to the subject at secondary level. Likewise, between 2011/12 and 2015/16, the number of people leaving higher education with undergraduate or postgraduate qualifications in creative arts and design subjects fell by 7 percent.


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