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Tomorrow: Join an 'SOS From Australia' Event Near You
Reignite Democracy Australia and Children's Health Defense are calling on leaders throughout the world on Dec. 4 to participate in "SOS from Australia," an event aimed at denouncing the undemocratic restrictions imposed on the citizens of Australia.
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reignite Democracy Australia and Children's Health Defense (CHD) are calling on leaders throughout the world on Dec. 4 to participate in "SOS from Australia," an event aimed at denouncing the undemocratic restrictions imposed on the citizens of Australia.
CHD invites other organizations and individuals worldwide to show their support for Australians by showing up at the nearest Australian consulate or embassy and making a "Declaration of Solidarity."
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Participants in the Dec. 4 event will demand the Australian government create reasonable options for International travel and put an end to lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations and exorbitant fines for business and individuals related to "COVID-safe" measures.
"Our new Australian chapter, launching this month, will provide much needed information, advocacy and hope for all Australians during these unprecedented times," said Karen McDonough, CHD chapter coordinator.
Australia has been home to some of the most oppressive COVID restrictions in the world. In late October, Melbourne celebrated the end of the world's longest lockdown. For 262 days, its citizens were subject to a curfew between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., and were not permitted to travel more than three miles from home.
Under Melbourne's "zero-tolerance" policy, residents were permitted to leave home only to shop for essentials, get vaccinated, exercise for a maximum of two hours, attend "authorized" work or education, provide caregiving or seek medical help.
Much of the country endured strictly enforced outdoor mask mandates and heavy fines for violating COVID restrictions.
Australians now find themselves at the mercy of strict regulations and a new wave of draconian rules. Fears over the new Omicron variant have brought new travel bans and quarantine orders as the country is again on alert.
According to a Reignite Democracy Australia press release:
"Australians are facing unprecedented Government actions that have robbed us of our fundamental rights and freedoms – all enforced with extreme aggression by the Police Force. Many Australians no longer feel safe in our once-democratic country."
In August, there was a nationwide manhunt for a 27-year-old man deemed "public health enemy No. 1" after he allegedly broke quarantine after a positive PCR test.
In New South Wales, dogs that were slated to be rescued were shot and killed to prevent people from traveling to rescue them.
On Nov. 20, based on nine new COVID cases in Binjari, Michael Gunner, chief minister of the Northern Territories, initiated a "hard lockdown" allowing residents to leave their homes only for medical treatment, emergencies or if required by law.
Dozens of indigenous Australians were taken to quarantine camps. A number of aboriginal leaders allege military personnel and police officers are forcibly vaccinating people in their communities.
In one video circulating on social media, aboriginal elder June Mills put out a call for help claiming "children are being held and vaccinated against their will." Mills called the actions "an act of war against our people."
Another video shows two police officers shoving a person described as a "indigenous elder" into the back of a truck while onlookers shout, "This is cultural genocide!"
In Victoria, Premier Dan Andrews proposed bills that would give him the authority to impose $90,000 fines on individuals who violate public health orders, and $455,000 fines on non-compliant businesses.
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One Parliament member is speaking out. Queensland MP George Robert Christensen called on citizens to rise up against Australia's draconian COVID measures.
In a recent speech, he said:
"In 21st century, Australia state premiers are racing down that familiar path trying to out-tyrant each other, drunk on power, setting up their own biosecurity police states complete with medical apartheid. Sadly, we've enabled it refusing to rein them in – worse, supplying the Australian immunization register data that underpins this medical apartheid.
"The solution is a rediscovery of human dignity, along with — and I don't say this lightly — civil disobedience."
CHD asks global citizens to join Australians as they defend their basic freedoms. Together we are fighting for the future of all of our children.
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Girls abducted, sexual assault rising, gender equality a far-off vision....and violence continues
Although the initial incident occurred some two weeks ago, it is finally picking up 'steam' in the world's coverage. Some 234 young women, ages 16, 17 and 18, were kidnapped from their boarding school dorms in the middle of the night by terrorist thugs and shipped off into the forest in Nigeria and except for a few who escaped, have not been heard from since.
Word reaching the outside world indicates these young women have been sold for $12 to Boko Haram terrorists (definition of Boko Haram: western education is sinful) in what evokes medieval practices and attitudes. The Nigerian government of President Goodluck Jonathan is under growing pressure to find and release the young women and to punish the perpetrators of this heinous crime.
It seems that there are conflicting multiple groups seeking in some cases an Islamic state in the north eastern part of Nigeria, and some seeking a state that enforces the Ten Commandments, both of which groups obviously are using extreme measures to attempt to accomplish their 'religious' or moral convictions through complete control.
George Brown, former Prime Minster of Great Britain, now the point man for the United Nations on the education of young women, has offered UK help in finding and retrieving the young women. Women in Nigeria have taken to the streets of Abuja, the capital city, to protest government inaction, especially since one government official has kept the Nigerian security forces informed on a near-daily basis of movements on the ground by those holding these young women, yet the forces seem paralysed an ineffectual to recover these abductees.
Many observers point to the real problem in Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, as anarchy. Some point out that, for decades since independence from Britain, the presidency has shifted from a Christian occupant to a Muslim occupant of the office, and that both communities have lived in harmony, for the most part.
Now, however, things have changed dramatically. And the 'weapon' or target of choice of those seeking to impose their will through violence seems to be the education of women. Women, in the minds of the terrorists are not supposed to achieve an education, but rather are supposed to get married, have children and stay at home. Naturally in the course of pursuing such a for the west demented goal, schools, mosques, churches are being blown up, and yesterday in Abuja, a car bomb exploded raising the bar on violence and civil instability.
The question of the place, status, meaning and identity of women in the twenty-first century has become one of the defining issues of the planet's social, political and economic spheres. In the west, issues of pay equity, work balance, and sexual assault dominate the headlines. Colleges, the military and increasingly workplaces are experiencing a spike in sexual assaults. Just yesterday, the Obama administration's Justice Department issued a report that pointed a finger at some 55 colleges and universities in the United States that are not conforming to the letter and the spirit of Title Nine, which requires full investigation of all complaints of sexual assault. The U.S. military is reporting a significant spike in reports of incidents of sexual assault, whether that data indicates a rise in the actual occurrence or more likely a rise in the reporting of those incidents. And while the Taliban and terrorist groups like Boko Haram obviously have a very different attitude and approach to the question of the role, meaning purpose and future of women in their society from the attitude and approach in the west generally there is clearly an underlying and not so secret power struggle between men and women going on in many quarters. The Canadian media is today filled with calls for a public inquiry into the issue of missing aboriginal women, numbering by some estimates into the thousands, in unsolved mysteries considered by many to be crimes. Who knows where such an inquiry would lead, and the government appears very reluctant to acquiesce to the demands for one.
The front cover of The Atlantic this week pictures two U.S. media women, Claire Shipman and Katy Kay, representing ABC news and the BBC respectively, who have investigated what they call a lack of confidence among American women, compared to men, although both genders, from their research perform at an approximately equal level. American women do not ask for a raise in pay as frequently as do men; and women settle for considerably less than do their mail counterparts at the end of salary negotiations. The authors and their scholar sources attribute some of this to the "compliant" attitude of school girls. "If life were a continuing school yard, women would rule the world!" were the observations of one of the academics interviewed by Shipman and Kay.
Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was on the forefront of the political wave's attempt to make 'women's issues' integral to and inseparable from foreign policy issues, while she held that office. Naturally, that kind of high profile for women would have deeply disturbed the cavemen-like attitudes of groups like the Taliban and Boko Haram, and most likely recruits to AlQaeda as well. Only yesterday, the very troubled mayor of Toronto was reported to be making sexually offensive comments in a bar about one of his female opponents in the upcoming election for Mayor.
Misogyny has elements of racism and bigotry within it; yet, it seems to have an even deeper and more nefarious and less easily ameliorated through education component, like the 'precipitate' in E.J. Pratt's celebrated poem, The Truant. Although public discussion and debate of issues of gender relations have increased in the last few decades, so too has the advertising industry's reliance on objectification of women's bodies as a vehicle to sell products of all types to market sectors of all economic ranges. Paralleling this development, the entertainment industry has made billions, perhaps even trillions, trumpeting all nuances of sexuality in song, drama, movie and video, to the point that the presentation of what some call pornography has become a regular component of television programming. And, what is worse, men are calling the shots, while women enact the 'scripts'.
Boys and girls, at a younger age than previously believed, are engaging in sexual activity, if reports from sociologists are to be believed. The time period of adolescence seems to have collapsed, if indications of 'adult' behaviour and fashion and interest are a window of evidence. Movements from the Christian 'right' to promote abstinence among the young have had only minimal effect. The availability of condoms, and the urge to 'express yourself' through the exercise of some of the most powerful emotions in one of the most high-risk activities of human life, linked to the data that in some quarters children are born to single mothers at a rate never before witnessed, linked also to the narrow and misguided perceptions among some young males that they are unwilling or unable to compete with the growing mass of educated young women, and you have a sexual cocktail that is highly explosive, to be somewhat understated.
However, given all of the components of that 'cocktail' there are still many options to a more healthy pursuit of both respect and equality between the genders, omitting violence and fascism and complete domination by men of women, irrespective of the theological or ideological premises of the culture.
I listened as a middle-aged woman responded to a question about the condition of her husband, following an accident in which his truck, jacked up to permit his replacing a broken spring, fell off the jack and partially pinned him. "He has some pain, but he is very stubborn, you know," she said, and then quickly uttered, "So are women!"
And the thought that, only if and when men and women together talk about and pursue their individual and reciprocal respect, while being able to smile at the idiosyncrasies of each gender, without a heavy dose of 'God' as a fixed standard as their fear of being sinful and evil, will these issues of gender equality and respect become less violent and less abusive.
It is very difficult for many men to witness the data that most university graduate programs see a majority of female students, as do most undergraduate programs in North America. And it is very difficult for many women to understand why that would be a problem for men. The stereotypes of sex and gender wrap a restrictive binding around all discussions about sex and gender equality. "All men want...." is one of the most common reductionisms thrown at men; while "women want complete control"...is one of the more common reductionisms thrown at women. As Shipman and Kay note, while women seem to lack confidence, men suffer the opposite affliction: too much confidence, by comparison.
And, to some, the differences are reason enough for the competition.
Yet, what if it were not a competition, but rather a collaboration, between men and women, in their conversations and in their partnerships, including their marriages, to discover both the strengths and the fears and weaknesses of each person, in a spirit of harmony and security and safety, not of condemnation and power over, but of a determination to celebrate both strengths and vulnerabilities of each, and together to pursue the adventure of adjusting to the realities, in love and in humility, that each finds irritating in the other? What if?....Is that a prospect to simple for consideration in a world gone mad over complexity and competition?
Have we turned the bedroom and the kitchen table into just another chapter of the competition that engenders business, education, and social climbing? Have we so emasculated men, with their own complicity in their insufferable victimhood, that it will take centuries to evolve into something like real equality and real confidence, and not just bravado as its surrogate? Have we so empowered the aspirations of women, as a hedge against what some women call the subjugation of women throughout the centuries, that we have thrown the baby out with the bathwater? Can history really be discerned as the deliberate subjugation of women, for which men will have to pay for the ensuing centuries? Are we really so myopic and so frightened that we see any maturation of either gender as a threat to our status and power? Are we so narrow in our comprehension of what constitutes a purposeful and healthy life that we cannot embrace the flowering of both genders as a gift for the other? Are we so fixated on the balance sheet method of defining the world, that gains made by one segment of the population must be met with losses by another? Have we so reduced the definition of both masculinity and femininity to function and lost the essence of what it means to be a human being, never mind the biological and genetic similarities and differences?
Are we so fixated on the microscopic and the anal that we have lost both sight and appreciation of and for the wholeness of the other, because we have permitted society and culture to define us as function?
It may sound trite and somewhat nostalgic to ask questions that point to the advantages of vulnerability and weakness and insecurity and fear. However, it is in those questions and in those explorations that we do indeed find insight, golden insight and 'aha' moments, that disclose previously hidden truths that have been either too painful to discover and acknowledge or too audacious for our humble indoctrinations from our own spiritual foundation and formation.
Religion may attempt to provide missing courage and strength in our admittedly fragile existence; however, when it is used as a weapon against another, regardless of the other's gender, education, status or power(including powerlessness) it is a seriously flawed deployment of that religion, in the name of whatever deity we espouse and worship.
We have many miles to go into the forest of our own unknowing, into the darknesses of our own nights in order to discern our relationships with each other and with a deity worthy of our adoration. So too, will that deity be only too willing and eager to accompany us on that pilgrimage into the deep recesses of our profound humility, at the expense of our paralyzing hubris, in our pursuit of even a remote approximation of the fullest expression of love in all of its many forms and joys.
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December 1, 2011 /1 Comment/in Blog, Webinars /by Adam Asnes
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The recent explosion in mobile and social game popularity has created a lucrative market, both domestically and abroad for game development. Often, however, mobile games and apps globalization quality and functional testing get overlooked due to the rush to market and an incomplete process for international development, leading to a dissatisfying gaming experience for users.
Smartphone and tablet usage will have surpassed usage of PC's by years end, and by 2015 mobile commerce is expected to grow to $119bn. Further, forecasts show that the number of mobile users in emerging markets, such as China and India, will spike in coming years as users become more and more savvy. An international mobile and game strategy is no longer an option.
A number of issues go into games internationalization and localization, such as locale support in the code, language translation, culturalization and legal issues, all of which are unique to each target market. Are these issues affecting your efforts and do you have a strategy in place to combat these problems?
Danica Brinton, Principal of LocLabs, is our special guest in this interactive online session. Danica has built and lead significant globalization initiatives and teams at leading mobile and social companies. LocLabs has been involved in iPhone localization for five years and handles international product and production efforts for a number of mobile and social app developers. Check out Danica's article: Confessions of a g11n Veteran – Social and Mobile Apps Globalization
Danica and Adam Asnes, Founder & CEO of Lingoport, will answer pre-submitted questions as well as questions from the live audience about the process of developing an international mobile and games production department in this 45-minute session.
Webinar: "Taking Your Mobile Apps Global: Games and Mobile i18n and L10n"
Time and Date: This webinar was originally recorded on Thursday, December 1st, 2011
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Presenters: Danica Brinton of LocLabs and Adam Asnes of Lingoport
Danica and Adam will field questions on a number of topics, including:
What strategy has Danica and LocLabs used for aggressively growing international presence for its social gaming clients?
How does an international production team operate?
What is the key to success of some of the international blockbuster social or mobile games?
Are there some fundamental differences in the approach to iOS vs. Android for globalization?
This presentation targets game developers, social and mobile developers, technical managers, software engineers, test engineering managers, QA managers, internationalization and localization managers, linguistic leads, project managers, and anyone wanting to learn more about games internationalization and localization.
About Danica Brinton
Danica Brinton has held leadership positions in international product management, strategy and globalization at Zynga, Yahoo!, Second Life, Ask.com, and Apple, Inc. Currently, Danica runs her own company, LocLabs. LocLabs specializes in international product management, international strategy, localizability/i18n, localization, localization testing, content management, and international feature development. Read Danica's article: Confessions of a g11n Veteran – Social and Mobile Apps Globalization
About Adam Asnes
Adam Asnes founded Lingoport in 2001 after seeing firsthand that the niche for software globalization engineering products and services was underserved in the localization industry. As Lingoport's President and CEO, he focuses on sales and marketing alliances while maintaining oversight of the company's internationalization services engineering and Globalyzer product development. Adam is a frequent speaker and columnist on globalization technology as it affects businesses expanding their worldwide reach. For creative inspiration and fun, Adam enjoys cycling and Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
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Posted by fahrusha under animals, anomalies, current news interest, environmental concerns, extraterrestrial, paranormal, Stephenville, UFOs | Tags: Carol Rainey, cattle mutilation, Chuck Zukowski, Colorado, DeeDee Correll, Great Britain, Jason Blevins, Mad Cow Disease, Manuel A. Sanchez, ranchers, ritual cult sacrifice, screen memories, Southwest, Stephenville, strange helicopters, UFOs |
I have been reading a number of accounts recently about a new crop of cattle mutilations taking place in the Southwest. There have also been reports of mutilations in Great Britain of cattle and perhaps water buffalo. The first thing that must be ascertained is whether there is a pedestrian explanation for any an individual case. Such prosaic explanations would include predatory animals killing livestock or ritual animal murder by a cult. To me ritual murder of animals is repulsive but it is not paranormal. In examining the possibilities concerning those reports that are truly anomalous I have come to the following conclusions: It appears that the killers come by air, because in the truly anomalous cases there are no tracks to be seen. There are also no teeth marks and often the victims have had organs and tissues removed with beyond normal surgical precision. There are often reports of both UFOs and helicopters being seen in the area. Helicopters may indicate that humans are involved and it has been speculated that government agencies are involved. Some people think that the government or some parallel agency is testing for Mad Cow Disease. There is some plausibility to this concept, but why as in the recent case below test four calves from one farm? And why the weird coring procedures? It seems more likely to me that someone in a helicopter, likely from the government, has observed or heard that a mutilation has taken place and is investigating it themselves, but as with many questionable government investigations, will not admit to doing so.
This is reminiscent of reports of UFOs from Stephenville, Texas, wherein certain reliable citizens who made radar verifiable reports were hounded by helicopters and told by phone calls purportedly from Air Force personnel to keep quiet.
There is an even stranger explanation of the helicopters as screen memories. It is speculated that the occupants of UFOs are able to replace memories of accidental observers with more prosaic images, or perhaps the human brains of some observers are not able to process seeing a UFO.
Two of the most interesting accounts are here:
CATTLE MUTILATIONS BAFFLE COLORADO RANCHERS
By DeeDee Correll
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-dead-calves14-2009dec14,0
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DENVER – Manuel A. Sanchez has ruled out every logical explanation for the
fate that has befallen the calves on his ranch in southern Colorado.
Over the past month, he's found four calves dead in a way that he cannot
reconcile with anything in his 50 years of raising cattle: eyes and ears
missing, tongues and genitals excised in what appeared to be a series of
fine cuts.
Mountain lions, bears or coyotes would leave messier marks, he said. And
Sanchez found no tire tracks or footprints that would suggest a human
invader — nor even bloodstains he'd expect to find around the carcasses if
someone had butchered them.
"There's nothing to go by," said Sanchez, who estimated his financial loss
at $10,000. "I can't figure it out."
Costilla County Sheriff's Sgt. James Chavez agreed: "There's nothing to
follow up on."
Besides Sanchez's calves in San Luis, several cases have been reported near
It's not the first time.
In the 1970s, ranchers in eastern and southern Colorado filed more than 200
mutilation reports, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation reports.
The agency investigated, even conducting an undercover operation, but to no
"It was such a bewilderment," recalled Tillie Bishop, a state senator at the
Some people suspected satanic cults. Others grew convinced of an
otherworldly explanation — space aliens.
But rancher Bill Bledsoe of Hugo, in eastern Colorado, said the deaths
weren't suspicious at all.
"People find a dead animal and think it died strange, but usually it turned
out something had been eating on it," he said. "I think they were just
jumping to conclusions."
Some veterinarians also attributed the mutilations to predators.
Northern New Mexico suffered scores of cases too. A 1980 report by a state
task force blamed predators. Ranchers widely panned it.
Then the mutilations appeared to stop.
But in the mid-1990s, 27 cattle in northern New Mexico were mutilated in 16
months, the Associated Press reported. Again, ranchers found cattle with
genitals removed, tongues cut off at the roots, and eyes and ears missing.
The incisions appeared to have been cauterized, they said.
Again, the reports stopped.
This year, reports began trickling in from southern Colorado.
In March, Mike Duran discovered a cow dead on his ranch near Trinidad, the
udder and vagina missing. "It was like a laser cut," not a rip, said Duran.
He'd seen such carnage before: In the '90s, he found a dead cow missing the
same parts.
Sheriff's investigators were mystified. "I don't know how to explain it.
They're just missing. There's no evidence of blood, of anything being cut,"
said Las Animas County Undersheriff Derek Navarette.
In northeastern Colorado, some Weld County ranchers joke about "coyotes with
scalpels," the Greeley Tribune reported. Some don't bother reporting
mutilations anymore because of skeptics, the paper said.
The Las Animas County sheriff's office investigated another case in March in
which a cow was missing the udder. There was no sign of human or animal
presence. "Unexplainable once again," Navarette said.
He said his office didn't order necropsies because of the prohibitive cost.
About 100 miles away, Sanchez found two dead calves in late October. A week
later, a third carcass was found, and the fourth in mid-November.
Frustrated by the lack of leads, Sanchez consulted Chuck Zukowski, a
Colorado Springs paranormal investigator who runs UFOnut.com.
Zukowski also investigated the cases in Trinidad, taking tissue samples from
two of those animals to Colorado State University.
Veterinary experts determined that the cuts were made before death and
didn't involve cauterization.
Zukowski says he's as baffled as everyone else.
Sanchez said that with the mystery unsolved, he didn't want to risk losing
any of his 32 remaining calves the same way. So he sold them at auction this
month.
"I didn't know when this was going to end," said Sanchez, who has 40 cows
left. "There's no way to catch these people. I don't even know if it's
Colorado cow mutilations baffle ranchers, cops, UFO believer
By Jason Blevins
Posted: 12/09/2009 01:00:00 AM MST
Updated: 12/09/2009 04:57:46 PM MST
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"I have no idea what could do this. I wish I did," he says.
Four calves, all killed overnight. Their innards gone. Tongues sliced out. Udders carefully removed. Facial skin sliced and gone. Eyes cored away. Not a single track surrounding the carcasses, which were found in pastures locked behind two gates and a mile from any road. Not a drop of blood on the ground or even on the remaining skin.
In his life in the piñon-patched pastures where his father and grandfather raised cattle, the 72-year-old Sanchez has seen
mountain lions and coyotes kill cattle, elk and deer. He's seen birds scavenge carcasses. He's heard of thieves slaughtering livestock in the field for their meat. He can't explain what he saw last month."A lion will drag its kill. Coyotes rip and tear flesh. These were perfect cuts — like with a laser or like a scalpel. And what would take the waste — all the guts — and leave the nice, tender meat?" Sanchez says, as he nudges his old Ford through rutted trails, rosary beads swinging from his rearview mirror. "No tracks. No blood. No nothing. I got nothing to go by. They don't leave no trace."
Every rancher who has reported similar cattle deaths — and there have been at least eight such deaths in southern Colorado this year — uses the same description.
"They just stripped this one," says Tom Miller, who in March was one of three ranchers near Trinidad who discovered mutilated cattle.
Cow raises the alarm
One morning, he went out to his concrete troughs to feed his herd of about 80 red and black Angus cows and calves. The herd was racing about. A cow that a week before had birthed a calf was bellowing, "raising all kind of devil," Miller says.
The remains of a calf killed on Manuel Sanchez's ranch show the killer's odd predilection for entrails. (Photo courtesy of Chuck Zukowski)
There by the trough — past the locked gate a quarter-mile from U.S. 350 east of Hoehne — was the calf. Its front legs and torso were gone. Its back legs were hanging by hide to a shattered pelvis and a meatless backbone. Miller thought a pack of coyotes had torn into the calf the night before.
Then he saw the ears: sliced off the head in circular, surgical-like cuts. He noticed that there were no tracks. And no blood anywhere.
"If anyone can show me how this happened, I will believe them. I know it's not coyotes, especially in one night. Only a human or something like that can cut the ears like that," says Miller, a 72-year-old rancher who was raised on the prairie bordering the Purgatoire River.
"If it was done by people, they sure went out of their way to bother and confuse me. And really, why? It doesn't make any sense."
Mysteriously mangled
Colorado Brand Inspector Dennis Williams came out and looked at Miller's calf. He lives next door; the calf would be the last of three strangely mutilated cattle that he would investigate in March of this year.
"I've heard about it. It was weird, to say the least. Totally unexplainable. To me, it looked like that calf had been dropped from a high distance, the way its hips were dislocated and all its broken bones," Williams says.
That same month, ranchers had called Williams to grisly scenes northeast of Aguilar and west of Weston to investigate mysteriously mangled cattle that had been seen healthy the day before.
To add to the weirdness, Sanchez, Miller and Mike Duran, who found a sliced Red Angus cow near Weston in March, have all experienced similar mutilations before. Sanchez lost cows in 2006 and 1993, Miller in 1997 and 1980, and Duran in 2000 and 1995.
"It's weird and unexplainable," says Duran, who lost a healthy 27-year-old Red Angus cow on March 8, her udder and rear end removed with what he describes as "laser cuts, like when somebody cuts metal with a torch."
Cops, like Williams and the ranchers, are stumped.
"We can't come up with anything," says Las Animas County sheriff's Deputy Derek Navarette, who investigated the Miller and Duran calves.
"We've seen these before and they are all kind of the same. No one has ever explained it. Northern New Mexico has had some of these same cases, and in those cases they never got any further than we did."
Predators ruled out
Chuck Zukowski of Colorado Springs investigated three of the eight mutilated cows in southern Colorado this year. The amateur UFO investigator and reserve deputy in El Paso County documents each scene, testing for radiation and scanning carcasses with ultraviolet light.
Despite his extraterrestrial inclinations, Zukowski's studies — found on his ufonut.com website — fall short of concluding anything paranormal. He seems certain all the animals he studied were killed and drained before they were sliced, which explains the lack of blood found near the animals.
The way the tongues were sliced off in straight lines back behind the teeth indicates it is not a predator kill, he says.
"I'm looking for obvious things," Zukowski says. "I don't like to say aliens did it. There are just too many unknowns. I like to lean on human intervention until I actually see a UFO come down and take a cow."
Sanchez is a salt-of-the-earth-type fellow who put three kids through college running cattle. Yet, he says he and his wife marveled at incandescent blue lights hovering over a ridge near his pastures in July and August. He declined to speculate about the lights.
"I just say the truth and that's what I saw," he says.
Duran, on the other hand, is willing to take the next step. He's looked at it from every angle, he says. If it wasn't human and wasn't a predator, he says, there's only one other option.
"I do believe it was UFOs. This universe is so big, a lot of people think we are the only ones here," he says, declining to guess why aliens harbor such bloody disdain for bovines.
"I bet there is something out there."
Jason Blevins: 303-954-1374 or jblevins@denverpost.com
Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13956752#ixzz0ZyF0JgPq
This last one is really worth the time to go to the site and check out the video, comments, map and additional photos.
I'd also advise interested readers to look at Linda Moulton Howe's website
because she is the person who won an Emmy award for her investigative film on the subject in the past and there are many informative articles there on the subject if you scroll down the page.
Another person who has made interesting speculation into possible reasons for an interdimensional or extra-terrestrial visitor too is Carol Rainey in the book Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility and Transgenic Beings of which there is a short review on this weblog. If you think I'm being partial in this article to female investigators perhaps you are right. 🙂
What I'm Reading, 12/09
Posted by fahrusha under afterlife, anomalies, books, Dreams & Visions, extraterrestrial, metaphysical, paranormal, psychic, spirituality, time travel, UFOs | Tags: book reviews, Budd Hopkins, Carol Rainey, Florida, Lew Smith, paranormal, Philip Smith, psychic healing, Sophie Busch, transgenic beings, UFOs |
Two books I've recently finished are Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility and Transgenic Beings by Budd Hopkins and Carol Rainey and Walking Through Walls by Philip Smith. Both books are about different areas of the paranormal, but they have something else in common which is dear to my heart: the authors are artists and also deeply interested in anomalous events (just like me :-)). It seems that having those interests in common are far from unusual.
Carol Rainey
In Sight Unseen, Hopkins (also a painter) and Rainey (also a filmmaker) explore some truly bizarre experiences a variety of people have had with purported aliens and hybrid alien/humans (transgenic beings). Budd Hopkins has spent many years researching the abduction phenomena and Carol Rainey adds much insight in terms of possible scientific theories which might explain some of the experiences. The story which stayed with me was that of "Mr. Paige", an odd but gentle individual that came to stay with a family and had an unusual relationship with a child of that family. Was he not human? Hard to say, but very intriguing. I've been aware of very odd persons without auras, but are they aliens or transgenic beings? I believe that Jacques Vallee also made mention of Mr. Paige in one of his books.
Budd Hopkins
Walking Through Walls is the story of interior decorator/psychic healer Lew Smith from the perspective of his son Philip Smith, a painter. It gives a window into the world of a child and teenager growing up in Florida with a parent who is immersed in the paranormal. Smith's writing style is breezy and sometimes very humorous. Especially valuable to me was his description of a session with spiritualist/psychic Sophie Busch. My grandmother often mentioned having gone to see Sophie Busch on several occasions but I hadn't read of her in the literature before. Smith's description added an extra dimension to my memories of my grandmother's experiences as told to me.
Both books demand that the reader suspend disbelief and have an open mind. I think they are both worthwhile to be read by individuals who have a strong interest in the paranormal.
Lew & Philip Smith (at Coral Castle?)
Related websites:
Philip Smith: http://www.walkingthroughwallsthebook.com/
Budd Hopkins: http://www.intrudersfoundation.org/
Carol Rainey (under construction): http://www.carolrainey.com/


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\section{Cosmological billiards}

Let us start by summarizing the BKL-type analysis of the ``near spacelike singularity limit'', that is, of the asymptotic behaviour of the metric $g_{\mu\nu}(t, \textbf{x})$, together with the other fields (such as the 3-form $A_{\mu \nu\lambda} (t, \textbf{x})$  in supergravity), near a singular hypersurface. The basic idea is that, near a spacelike singularity, the time derivatives are expected to dominate over spatial derivatives. More precisely, BKL found that spatial derivatives introduce terms in the equations of motion for the metric which are similars to the ``walls'' of a billiard table \cite{Belinsky:1970ew}. To see this, it is convenient \cite{hep-th/0212256} to decompose the $D$-dimensional metric $g_{\mu\nu}$ into non-dynamical (lapse $N$, and shift $N^i$, here set to zero) and dynamical ($e^{- 2 \beta^a}$, $ \theta^{a}_i)$ components. They are defined so that the line element reads
\begin{equation}
\label{eq1}
ds^2 = - N^2 dt^2 + \sum_{a = 1}^{d}
e^{-2 \beta^{a}} \theta^a_i \theta^a_j  dx^i dx^j.
\end{equation}
Here $d \equiv D- 1$ denotes the spatial dimension ($d = 10$ for SUGRA$_{11}$, and $d = 9$ for string theory), $e^{- 2 \beta^a}$ represent (in an Iwasawa decomposition) the ``diagonal'' components of the spatial metric $g_{ij}$, while the ``off diagonal'' components are represented by the $\theta^{a}_i$, defined to be upper triangular matrices with 1's on the diagonal (so that, in particular, $\det \theta = 1$).

The Hamiltonian constraint, at a given spatial point, reads (with $ \tilde{N} \equiv N / \sqrt{\det g_{ij}}$ denoting the ``rescaled lapse'')
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq2}
&&{\cal H}({\beta}^a, \pi_{a},P,Q) \nonumber \\
&= &\tilde{N} \left[\frac12 \ G^{ab} \pi_a \pi_b  +
\sum_A c_A (Q,P,\partial{\beta},\partial^2 {\beta}, \partial Q)\exp\big(- 2 w_A ({\beta})\big)\right] \, .
\end{eqnarray}
Here $\pi_{a}$ (with $a = 1, ... ,d$) denote the canonical momenta conjugate to the ``logarithmic scale factors'' $\beta^a$, while $Q$ denote the remaining configuration variables ($\theta^a_i$, 3-form components $A_{ijk} (t, \textbf{x})$ in supergravity), and $P$ their canonically conjugate momenta ($P^i_a, \pi^{ijk}$). The symbol $\partial$ denotes {\em spatial}  derivatives.  The (inverse) metric $G^{ab}$ in Eq.~(\ref{eq2}) is the DeWitt ``superspace'' metric induced on the $\beta$'$s$ by the Einstein-Hilbert action. It endows the  $d$-dimensional\footnote{10 dimensional for SUGRA$_{11}$; but the various superstring theories also lead to a 10 dimensional Lorentz space   because one must add the (positive) kinetic term of the dilaton $\varphi \equiv \beta^{10} $ to the 9-dimensional DeWitt metric corresponding to the 9 spatial dimensions.} $\beta$ space with a Lorentzian structure
$ G_{ab} \, \dot{\beta}^a \dot{\beta}^b$.

One of the crucial features of Eq.~(\ref{eq2}) is the appearance of Toda-like exponential potential terms
$\propto \exp (- 2 w_A(\beta))$, where the $w_A(\beta)$ are {\em linear forms} in the logarithmic scale factors: $w_A(\beta) \equiv w_{Aa} \, \beta^a$. The range of labels $A$ and the specific ``wall forms'' $w_A(\beta)$ that appear depend on the considered model. For instance, in SUGRA$_{11}$ there appear: ``symmetry wall forms'' $w_{ab}^S (\beta) \equiv \beta^b - \beta^a$ (with $a < b$), ``gravitational wall forms'' $w_{abc}^g (\beta) \equiv 2\beta^a + \underset{e \neq a,b, c}{\sum} \,  \beta^e$ ($a \neq b$, $b \neq c$, $c \neq a$), ``electric 3-form wall forms'', $e_{abc} (\beta )
\equiv \beta^{a} + \beta^{b} + \beta^{c}$ ($a \neq b$, $b\neq c$, $c\neq a$), and ``magnetic 3-form wall forms'', $m_{a_1 .... a_6} \equiv \beta^{a_1} + \beta^{a_2} + ... + \beta^{a_6}$ (with indices all different).

One then finds that the near-spacelike-singularity limit amounts to considering the {\em large $\beta$ limit} in Eq.(2). In this limit a crucial role is played by the linear forms $w_A ( \beta)$ appearing in the ``exponential walls''. Actually, these walls enter in successive ``layers''. A first layer consists of a subset of all the walls called the {\em dominant walls} $w_i (\beta)$. The effect of these dynamically dominant walls is to confine the motion in $\beta$-space to a {\em fundamental billiard chamber} defined by the inequalities $w_i (\beta) \geqslant 0$. In the case of SUGRA$_{11}$, one finds that there are 10 dominant walls: 9 of them are the symmetry walls  $w_{12}^{S}(\beta), w_{23}^{S}(\beta), ... , w_{910}^{S}(\beta), $ and the 10th is an electric 3-form wall  $e_{123} (\beta) = \beta^1 + \beta^2 + \beta^3$. As noticed in \cite {hep-th/0012172} a remarkable fact is that the fundamental cosmological billiard chamber of SUGRA$_{11}$ (as well as type-II string theories) is the {\em Weyl chamber} of the hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebra $E_{10}$. More precisely, the 10 dynamically dominant wall forms $\big\{w_{12}^{S}(\beta), w_{23}^{S}(\beta), ... , w_{910}^{S}(\beta), e_{123} (\beta)\big\}$  can be identified with the 10 {\em simple roots}    $ \{ \alpha_1(h), \alpha_2(h), ... , \alpha_{10}(h)\}$ of $E_{10}$. Here $h$ parametrizes a generic element of a Cartan subalgebra (CSA) of $E_{10}$ . [Let us also note that for Heterotic and type-I string theories the cosmological billiard is the Weyl chamber of another rank-10 hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebra, namely $B E_{10}$]. In the Dynkin diagram of $E_{10}$, Fig. 1, the 9 ``horizontal'' nodes correspond to the 9 symmetry walls, while the characteristic ``exceptional'' node sticking out ``vertically'' corresponds to the electric 3-form wall $e_{123} = \beta^1 + \beta^2 + \beta^3$.  [The fact that this  node stems from the {\em 3rd} horizontal node is then seen to be directly related to the presence of the {\it 3-form} $A_{\mu\nu\lambda}$, with electric kinetic energy $ \propto g^{i \ell} g^{jm} g^{kn} \dot{A}_{ijk}\dot{A}_{\ell m n}$].

\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
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\begin{picture}(340,60)
\put(5,-5){$\alpha_1$}
\put(45,-5){$\alpha_2$}
\put(85,-5){$\alpha_3$}
\put(125,-5){$\alpha_4$}
\put(165,-5){$\alpha_5$}
\put(205,-5){$\alpha_6$}
\put(245,-5){$\alpha_7$}
\put(285,-5){$\alpha_8$}
\put(325,-5){$\alpha_9$}
\put(260,45){$\alpha_{10}$}
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\caption{\label{e10dynk}\sl Dynkin diagram of $E_{10}$.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

The  appearance of $E_{10}$ in the BKL behaviour of SUGRA$_{11}$ revived the old suggestion of  \cite{Julia:1982gx} about the possible role of $E_{10}$ in a {\em one-dimensional reduction } of SUGRA$_{11}$. A posteriori, one can view the BKL behaviour as a kind of spontaneous reduction to one dimension (time) of a multidimensional theory. Note, however, that we are always discussing generic {\em inhomogeneous} 11-dimensional solutions, but that we examine them in the near-spacelike-singularity limit where the spatial derivatives are sub-dominant: $\partial_x \ll \partial_t$. Note also that the discrete $E_{10} (\mathbb{ Z})$ was proposed as a $U$-duality group of the  full $(T^{10})$ spatial toroidal compactification of $M$-theory by Hull and Townsend \cite{hep-th/9410167}.

\section{Gravity/Coset correspondence}

Refs \cite{hep-th/0207267,hep-th/0410245} went beyond the leading-order BKL analysis just recalled by including the first three ``layers'' of spatial-gradient-related sub-dominant walls $\propto \exp (- 2 w_A (\beta))$ in Eq.(\ref{eq2}).  The relative importance of these sub-dominant walls, which modify the leading billiard dynamics defined by the 10 dominant walls $w_i(\beta)$, can be ordered   by means of an expansion which counts how many dominant wall forms $w_i(\beta)$ are contained in the exponents of the sub-dominant wall forms $w_A(\beta)$, associated  to {\em higher spatial gradients}. By mapping the dominant gravity wall forms $w_i(\beta)$ onto the corresponding $E_{10}$ simple roots ${\alpha}_i (h), i = 1, ..., 10,$ the just described BKL-type {\em gradient expansion} becomes mapped onto a Lie-algebraic {\it height expansion} in the roots of $E_{10}$.  It was remarkably found that, up to height 30 (i.e. up to small corrections to the billiard dynamics associated to the product of 30 leading walls $e^{- 2 w_i (\beta) }$), the SUGRA$_{11}$ dynamics for $g_{\mu\nu} (t, \textbf{x})$, $A_{\mu\nu\lambda} (t, \textbf{x})$, considered  at some given spatial point $\textbf{x}_0$, could be identified to the geodesic dynamics of a {\em massless particle} moving on the (infinite-dimensional) coset space $E_{10}/K(E_{10})$. Note the ``holographic'' nature of this correspondence between an 11-dimensional dynamics on one side, and a 1-dimensional one on the other side.

A point on the coset space $E_{10}(\mathbb{R}) / K(E_{10}(\mathbb{R}))$ is coordinatized by a time-dependent (but spatially independent) element of the $E_{10}(\mathbb{R})$ group of the (Iwasawa) form: $g(t) = \exp h(t) \exp \nu (t)$. Here, $ h(t) = \beta_{\textrm{coset}}^a (t) H_a$ belongs to the 10-dimensional CSA of $E_{10}$, while $\nu (t) = \sum_{\alpha > 0} \nu^\alpha (t) E_\alpha$ belongs to a Borel subalgebra of $E_{10}$ and has an infinite number of components labelled by a {\em positive root} $\alpha $ of $E_{10}$.  The (null) geodesic action over the coset space $E_{10}/K(E_{10})$ takes the simple form
\begin{equation}
\label{eq3}
S_{E_{10}/K(E_{10})} = \int \frac{dt}{n(t)} (v^{\textrm{sym}} | v^{\textrm{sym}})
\end{equation}
where $v^{\textrm{sym}} \equiv \frac{1}{2} (v + v^T)$ is the ``symmetric''\footnote{Here the transpose operation $T$ denotes the negative of the Chevalley involution $\omega$ defining the real form  $E_{10(10)}$ of $E_{10}$. It is such that the elements $k$ of the Lie sub-algebra of $K(E_{10})$ are ``$T$-antisymmetric'': $k^T = - k $, which is equivalent to them being fixed under $\omega : \omega(k)= + \, \omega(k)$.} part of the ``velocity''  $v \equiv (dg/dt) g^{-1}$ of a group element $g(t)$ running over $E_{10}(\mathbb{R})$.

The correspondence between the gravity, Eq.~(\ref{eq2}), and coset, Eq.~(\ref{eq3}), dynamics is best exhibited by decomposing (the Lie algebra of) $E_{10}$ with respect to (the Lie algebra of) the $GL(10)$ subgroup defined by the horizontal line in the Dynkin diagram of $E_{10}$. This allows one to grade the various components of $g(t)$ by their $GL(10)$ level $\ell$. One finds that, at the $\ell = 0$ level, $g(t)$ is parametrized by the Cartan coordinates $\beta_{\rm coset}^a (t)$ together with a unimodular upper triangular zehnbein $\theta_{{\rm coset} \, i}^a (t)$. At level $\ell = 1$, one finds a 3-form $A_{ijk}^{\rm coset} (t)$; at level $\ell = 2$, a 6-form $A_{i_1 i_2 \ldots i_6}^{\rm coset} (t)$, and at level $\ell = 3$ a $9$-index object $A_{i_1 \mid i_2 \ldots i_9}^{\rm coset} (t)$ with Young-tableau symmetry $\{ 8,1 \}$. The coset action (\ref{eq3}) then defines a coupled set of equations of motion for $\beta_{\rm coset}^a (t)$, $\theta_{{\rm coset} \, i}^a (t)$, $A_{ijk}^{\rm coset} (t)$, $A_{i_1 \ldots i_6}^{\rm coset} (t)$, $A_{i_1 \mid i_2 \ldots i_9}^{\rm coset} (t)$. By explicit calculations, it was found that these coupled equations of motion could be identified (modulo terms corresponding to potential walls of height at least 30) to the SUGRA$_{11}$ equations of motion, considered at some given spatial point $\textbf{x}_0$.

The {\it dictionary} between the two dynamics says essentially that:

\noindent (0) $\beta_{\rm gravity}^a (t,\textbf{x}_0) \leftrightarrow \beta_{\rm coset}^a (t) \, , \ \theta_i^a (t, \textbf{x}_0) \leftrightarrow \theta_{{\rm coset} \, i}^a (t)$, (1) $\partial_t \, A_{ijk}^{\rm coset} (t)$ corresponds to the electric components of the 11-dimensional field strength $F_{\rm gravity}$ $= d \, A_{\rm gravity}$ in a certain frame $e^i$, (2) the conjugate momentum of $A_{i_1 \ldots i_6}^{\rm coset} (t)$ corresponds to the {\it dual} (using $\varepsilon^{i_1 i_2 \ldots i_{10}}$) of the ``magnetic'' frame components of the 4-form $F_{\rm gravity} = d \, A_{\rm gravity}$, and (3) the conjugate momentum of $A_{i_1 \mid i_2 \ldots i_9} (t)$ corresponds to the $\varepsilon^{10}$ dual (on $jk$) of the structure constants $C_{jk}^i$ of the coframe $e^i$ ($d \, e^i = \frac{1}{2} \, C_{jk}^i \, e^j \wedge e^k$).

The fact that at levels $\ell = 2$ and $\ell = 3$ the dictionary between supergravity and coset variables maps the {\it first spatial gradients} of the SUGRA variables $A_{ijk} (t,\textbf{x})$ and $g_{ij} (t,\textbf{x})$ onto (time derivatives of) coset variables suggested the conjecture \cite{hep-th/0207267} of a hidden {\it equivalence} between the two models, i.e. the existence of a dynamics-preserving map between the infinite tower of (spatially independent) coset variables $(\beta_{\rm coset}^a , \nu^{\alpha})$, together with their conjugate momenta $(\pi_a^{\rm coset} , p_{\alpha})$, and the infinite sequence of spatial Taylor coefficients $(\beta (\textbf{x}_0)$, $\pi (\textbf{x}_0)$, $Q (\textbf{x}_0)$, $P (\textbf{x}_0)$, $\partial Q (\textbf{x}_0)$, $\partial^2 \beta (\textbf{x}_0)$, $\partial^2 Q(\textbf{x}_0), \ldots , \partial^n Q (\textbf{x}_0) , \ldots)$ formally describing the dynamics of the gravity variables $(\beta (\textbf{x}) , \pi (\textbf{x}) , Q(\textbf{x})$, $P(\textbf{x}))$ around some given spatial point $\textbf{x}_0$.\footnote{One, however, expects the map between the two models to become spatially non-local for heights $\geq 30$.}

It has been possible to extend the correspondence between the two models to the inclusion of fermionic terms on both sides \cite{hep-th/0512163,hep-th/0512292,hep-th/0606105}. Moreover, Ref. \cite{hep-th/0504153} found evidence for a nice compatibility between some high-level contributions (height $-115$!) in the coset action, corresponding to {\it imaginary} roots\footnote{i.e. such that $(\alpha , \alpha) < 0$, by contrast to the ``real'' roots, $(\alpha , \alpha) = +2$, which enter the checks mentionned above.}, and $M$-theory {\it one-loop corrections} to SUGRA$_{11}$, notably the terms quartic in the curvature tensor. (See also \cite{Damour:2006ez} for a study of the compatibility of an underlying Kac-Moody symmetry with quantum corrections in various models).

\section{Conclusions and outlook}

At this stage, we are far from having a proof of the full equivalence between SUGRA$_{11}$ and the $E_{10} / K(E_{10})$ model, or of any other gravity/coset conjectured pair. The partial evidence summarized above is suggestive of the existence of some kind of hidden symmetry structure in General Relativity and Supergravity. However, it is quite possible that this hidden symmetry is present only in a way which cannot be explicitly realized at the level of the classical field equations. Indeed, the situation might be similar to that discussed in the plenary talks of Sasha Polyakov, Igor Klebanov and Eva Silverstein. In the much better understood gravity/gauge correspondence a quasi-classical, weakly curved spacetime corresponds to a strongly quantum, strongly self-interacting gauge theory state. Reciprocally, the perturbative, weakly-interacting gauge theory states correspond to non-perturbative, strongly curved gravity states. By analogy, we might expect that the simple geodesic coset motions correspond to strongly curved spacetimes, with curvatures larger than the Planck scale. [This would intuitively explain why the coset picture becomes prominent in the formal limit where one tends towards an infinite-curvature singularity.] In addition, it is possible that the equivalence between the gravity and coset models hold only at the level of the quantized models. In this respect, note that the quantum version of the null geodesic dynamics (\ref{eq3}) would be, if we neglect polarization effects\footnote{Actually, Refs~\cite{hep-th/0512163,hep-th/0512292,hep-th/0606105} indicate the need to consider a {\it spinning} massless particle, i.e. some kind of Dirac equation on $E_{10} / K(E_{10})$.} a Klein-Gordon equation\footnote{This equation, submitted to a condition of periodicity over a discrete group $E_{10} ({\mathbb Z})$, has been considered in Refs~\cite{hep-th/9903110,hep-th/0401053} in the context of quantum theories with all spatial dimensions being toroidally compactified.},
\begin{equation}
\label{eq4}
\square \, \Psi (\beta^a , \nu^{\alpha}) = 0 \, ,
\end{equation}
where $\square$ denotes the (formal) Laplace-Beltrami operator on the infinite-dimensional Lorentz-signature curved coset manifold $E_{10} ({\mathbb R}) / K(E_{10} ({\mathbb R}))$.

As recently emphasized \cite{DNGRF07}, the gravity/coset correspondence sketched above suggests a new physical picture of the fate of space at a cosmological singularity. It suggests that, upon approaching a spacelike singularity, the description in terms of a spatial continuum breaks down and should be replaced by a purely abstract Lie algebraic description. In other words, one is led to the conclusion that space actually ``disappears'' (or ``de-emerges'') as the singularity is approached\footnote{We have in mind here a ``big crunch'', i.e. we conventionally consider that we are tending {\it toward} the singularity. {\it Mutatis mutandis}, we would say that space ``appears'' or ``emerges'' at a big bang.}. The gravity/coset duality suggests that there is no (quantum) ``bounce'' from an incoming collapsing universe to some outgoing expanding one \cite{hep-th/0504153}. Rather, it is suggested that ``life continues'' for an infinite ``affine time'' at a singularity, with the double understanding that: (i) life continues only in a totally new form (as in a kind of ``transmigration''), and (ii) an infinite affine time interval (measured, say, in the coordinate $t$ of Eq.~(\ref{eq3}) with a coset lapse function $n(t) = 1$) corresponds to a sub-Planckian interval of geometrical proper time\footnote{Indeed, it is found that the coset time $t$, with $n(t) = 1$, corresponds to a ``Zeno-like'' gravity coordinate time (with rescaled lapse $\tilde N = N / \sqrt g = 1$) which tends to $+\infty$ as the proper time tends to zero.}.

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A Silicon Valley Eichler Becomes a Cheery Hub Where Dozens Can Gather
"It's the new French embassy," jokes architect Mary Maydan, who turned a previously botched Eichler into a home that's as warm and welcoming as its social residents.
When Dan and Meital approached Mary Maydan, principal and founder of Maydan Architects, about renovating their Bay Area property, they had an unusual request.
As the founder and CEO of a software company and the owner of a bi-coastal real estate business, Dan and Meital have a robust social circle that they want to be able to entertain regularly. So besides creating a home that would be comfortable for their four daughters, they also wanted an address that could accommodate dozens. "Meital and Dan were looking for a place where they would be able to comfortably host four to 100 people," Maydan says. "They are full of life, and they enjoy a very busy social life."
A concrete walkway leads to their home, which is painted in a custom white and gray stucco. The lighting is by Modern Form.
But besides being the de facto hub for their friends and extended colleagues, they also intended to have a home that respected its history and embraced its surroundings. Set in Silicon Valley's town of Atherton on a sprawling lot, Dan and Meital's home was built by famed California real estate developer Joseph Eichler before undergoing a remodel. The house was in good shape, but the remodel didn't serve its architectural status or the owners' needs.
"The oversized skylight enables the owners to see the sky from the center of the house," Maydan says. "It was also important to ensure that the palm tree, which was planted in the center of the entry atrium, can get plenty of sunlight."
"We were looking to enjoy indoor and outdoor living all year long, see the beautiful nature we are surrounded by, take in the eternally blue California sky, and get amazing light in every room," Meital says. "We couldn't find it, so we decided to build it."
The skylight measures 18 feet by nine feet, and was divided into seven panels. "Their objective was to see the sky everywhere," Maydan adds.
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Maydan had her own requirements for taking on this renovation, and Meital agreed: "I told her that I only do remodels if we can work together to create a gorgeous house," the architect remembers. "I don't sign on to remodel a bathroom."
The evident excitement between the owners and Maydan made this project worthwhile for all, and their equally confident outlooks created a fun environment long before any party guests arrived. "We shared the same aesthetic and the lot was magnificent, but what really drew me to the project were Meital and Dan's personalities," says Maydan. "They are wonderful, warm people with natural style."
BoConcept couches anchor a Restoration Hardware coffee table and a Crate and Barrel carpet in the living area. The gray pouf is by CB2, and the artwork is by Senechal.
Of course, it also helped that everyone was on the same page in regard to the renovation. The trio envisioned a large and open ground floor, which would be illuminated by floor-to-ceiling windows and a collection of skylights. The original entryway featured an atrium, and they sought to keep it as a way to literally bring the outdoors in. A staircase would be built around it to act as the focal point between an open-concept living area and six private bedrooms.
"They wanted a very friendly, functional, and warm kitchen," Maydan says. Meital adds, "We cook a lot and have a lot of friends. We are French people!" Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Bosch appliances mix with a Restoration Hardware dining table and BoConcept chairs.
"We were able to keep most of the original foundation and some of the framing. The general contractor was even able to salvage the existing radiant heat tubing under the finished concrete floor," Maydan says. "We also managed to save three bathrooms, while the rest of the remaining house was almost completely torn down."
In the master bedroom, a Crate and Barrel bed and West Elm sheets define the space.
There were challenges to salvaging as much as possible—which included finding a contractor who even wanted to save the original radiant heating—while making modern changes along the way. In order to accommodate the atrium with a foundation already in place, the team had to figure out how to drain the water away from the home without much disruption. And instead of keeping the existing kitchen, Meital later decided to tear down a wall to make the area larger. "It would have been much easier to design a new build in this location," Maydan says. "But it's nice to be able to save things that are worth saving."
An Ethos bathtub contrasts woodwork by Porcelanosa in the master bathroom.
It took two years before this renovation was complete and guests were welcome to come and go, but the changes are exactly what the owners had in mind. Now that it has a big ground floor—which is set under seven panels of skylights—they're connected to the outdoors whether they're eating Meital's beloved cooking or basking in the tropical backyard that Dan spearheaded.
"It was really nice to see how each of them took charge of the parts they were passionate about and made the perfect creation for their family," Maydan says. "The house is always open to their large group of friends. I joke that it's the new French embassy."
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In this powerful new collection of short stories, fallible characters trip over their feet of clay and sprawl into encounters with horrors beyond their comprehension. "One Last Bloom" tells of a graduate student in microbiology who's so obsessed with staying ahead of an academic rival that it blinds him to the enormity of a horror that's gradually overwhelming their laboratory. "Emotional Dues" concerns a painter inspired by his hatred of his domineering father and the insidious parasitic relationship that develops between him and a wealthy art patron. In the title story, a man pursues his ex-wife to Mexico to retrieve their young son from the cult she has joined, only to discover that what he has mistaken for a simple case of domestic family abduction is part of an elaborate ritual to bring something unholy from the dawn of time back into the world. Strantzas (Nightingale Songs) nimbly balances sympathetic characters humanized by their flaws with horrors on a cosmic scale so vast that they mock the very notion of human significance. The 10 stories in this book abound with references to the work of H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, and Robert W. Chambers, and Strantzas deftly demonstrates his ability to hold his own with them. (May)


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The Pavane is a majestic, stately dance in 4/4 time, thought to be originally from Padua, Italy. It was often used to open a ball or other ceremonial event, as an opportunity for the ladies to show off their dresses.
The Gaillard, also originating from Italy, is a lively dance consisting of four hopping steps and a high leap, an opportunity for the athletic gentlemen to show off for their partners.
The Pavane and Gaillard were hugely popular in 16th and early 17th century Europe, especially in England and France. The two dances were usually performed in sequence, and often composed that way too. William Byrd composed at least 40 sets of Pavanes and Gaillards, the most famous of which we present here.
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Q: Inserting Data to SQL Server from a Python Dataframe Quickly I have been trying to insert data from a dataframe in Python to a table already created in SQL Server. The data frame has 90K rows and wanted the best possible way to quickly insert data in the table. I only have read,write and delete permissions for the server and I cannot create any table on the server.
Below is the code which is inserting the data but it is very slow. Please advise.
import pandas as pd
import xlsxwriter
import pyodbc

df = pd.read_excel(r"Url path\abc.xlsx")
conn = pyodbc.connect('Driver={ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server};'
                      'SERVER=Server Name;'
                      'Database=Database Name;'
                      'UID=User ID;'
                      'PWD=Password;'
                      'Trusted_Connection=no;')
cursor= conn.cursor()
#Deleting existing data in SQL Table:-
cursor.execute("DELETE FROM datbase.schema.TableName")
conn.commit()
#Inserting data in SQL Table:-
for index,row in df.iterrows():
    cursor.execute("INSERT INTO Table Name([A],[B],[C],) values (?,?,?)", row['A'],row['B'],row['C'])
conn.commit()
cursor.close()
conn.close()

A: To insert data much faster, try using sqlalchemy and df.to_sql. This requires you to create an engine using sqlalchemy, and to make things faster use the option fast_executemany=True
connect_string = urllib.parse.quote_plus(f'DRIVER={{ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server}};Server=<Server Name>,<port>;Database=<Database name>')
engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine(f'mssql+pyodbc:///?odbc_connect={connect_string}', fast_executemany=True)

with engine.connect() as connection:
  df.to_sql(<table name>, connection, index=False)

A: Here is the script and hope this works for you.
import pandas as pd
import pyodbc as pc
connection_string = "Driver=SQL Server;Server=localhost;Database={0};Trusted_Connection=Yes;"
cnxn = pc.connect(connection_string.format("DataBaseNameHere"), autocommit=True)
cur=cnxn.cursor()
df= pd.read_csv("your_filepath_and_filename_here.csv").fillna('')
query = 'insert into TableName({0}) values ({1})'
query = query.format(','.join(df.columns), ','.join('?' * len(df1.columns)))
cur.fast_executemany = True
cur.executemany(query, df.values.tolist())
cnxn.close()

A: Try to populate a temp table with 1 or none indexes then insert it into your good table all at once.
Might speed things up due to not having to update the indexes after each insert??

A: This should do what you want...very generic example...
# Insert from dataframe to table in SQL Server
import time
import pandas as pd
import pyodbc

# create timer
start_time = time.time()
from sqlalchemy import create_engine

df = pd.read_csv("C:\\your_path\\CSV1.csv")

conn_str = (
    r'DRIVER={SQL Server Native Client 11.0};'
    r'SERVER=Excel-PC\SQLEXPRESS;'
    r'DATABASE=NORTHWND;'
    r'Trusted_Connection=yes;'
)
cnxn = pyodbc.connect(conn_str)

cursor = cnxn.cursor()

for index,row in df.iterrows():
    cursor.execute('INSERT INTO dbo.Table_1([Name],[Address],[Age],[Work]) values (?,?,?,?)',
                    row['Name'],
                    row['Address'],
                    row['Age'],
                    row['Work'])
    cnxn.commit()
cursor.close()
cnxn.close()

# see total time to do insert
print("%s seconds ---" % (time.time() - start_time))

Try that and post back if you have additional questions/issues/concerns.

A: Replace df.iterrows() with df.apply() for one thing. Remove the loop for something much more efficient.


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I think that they did the movie pretty good. They had lots of details that compared to the book and so you could see a lot of those details shoved into a two hour movie. They made have Rudy always trying to get Liesel to kiss him and Rudy doing almost everything with Liesel.
I think that the movie didn't do to much of it poorly because it had lots of details in it from the books but it added and got rid of some stuff. Like in the bomb shelter in the movie Hans plays his accordion in the bomb shelter while in the book Liesel reads in the bomb shelter and speaking of books and where she would have got them or stole them Liesel only stole one book from the mayors wife and didn't even steal like at all from anyone and she said she was borrowing in the movie but in the book she always is like I need to steal something and in the movie it left out pretty much everything Rudy and Liesl stole.
What they did alike is lots of stuff like when Max was asleep (when they thought he was going to die) she read to him and talked to him. Also they had her stealing the Shoulder Shrug and the Grave Diggers hand book.
What they didn't do is lots like when it was Max them thinking he is going to die Liesel stole books to read for him and brought him "Presents" and Liesel played soccer a lot more instead of just the once. Also their was when Max was marching through town like all the other Jews not just him all the sudden showing up at Alex's shop to see Liesel. The movie also left out the big part when Liesel read to the person who would always spit on the Hubermanns door but she stopped when Liesel started reading to her and gave them her coffee ration and they left out all the times she spit on her door and her just sitting in her chair in her house during the bombing and them trying to get her out of the house to the bomb shelter.


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Deadpool 2 Almost Had More Mutants Using A Lot More Mutant Powers
by Leo Faierman
in Movie News, SR Originals
Deadpool 2 launches into theaters this week and is plotting an impressive opening, with delighted critics already calling it a worthy follow-up, but imagine the brilliant cameos and action scenes that could've been. As it stands, the original shattered predictions with its meager $58 million budget, plotting the course for an unexpectedly prosperous Marvel movie franchise.
The original Deadpool was directed by Tim Miller, and all forecasting points to its success as a fluke. However, Ryan Reynolds finally discovered his superhero calling, with fans and neophytes alike celebrating the character's comedic fourth-wall breaking antics, R-rated violence, and over-eager sexual appetite. Having since raised over $750 million globally, the Deadpool franchise is alive and well, with a collection of hilariously inspired ad campaigns ushering in the highly anticipated sequel.
Related: Is Deadpool 2 In Any Way Suitable For Children?
One would expect that, this time around, the Deadpool 2 filmmakers were handed a blank check, but it appears that ambitions are still being reigned in. Co-writer Rhett Rheese, who also worked on the first film, weighed in on the potential mutant mayhem that might've been, if only the budget allowed it.
"Mr. X was one, a villain. Black Tom was much expanded in an earlier draft. I think those were the only two that I think played a prominent role. Sluggo had a bigger role. Sluggo's in the movie, in the prison. He was in a bigger role in the prison in earlier drafts where there was more mayhem. There were versions early on where in the prison, when Cable broke in, all the mutant collars failed and so all of a sudden all the mutants had their abilities and it was just this mayhem of every mutant fighting every other mutant with every ability possible, but budget - budget kind of brought us back down to earth there and we did it a little more traditionally. The collars stayed on, but those are probably the only ones that had a bigger role that that dropped out."
Mr. X is a bloodthirsty, death-obsessed, psychically-powered mutant; the tragedy is that the Deadpool film franchise might be one of the only places that could serve as a sensible home for him. As for Banshee's cousin Black Tom Cassidy, early reporting on Deadpool 2 implied the more significant role described in Rheese's comment. And then there's strongman Sluggo, who joins Wire in the group of cut or diminished characters, and he's relegated to a quick cameo in the sequel.
Maybe budget concerns on their own should be given an honorary co-director credit in this franchise, as the first Deadpool film was similarly hounded and eventually transformed by financial hesitations. Garrison Kane was originally set to feature in the film, but the elaborate effects required for his bionic arms in every scene prompted his removal. And the glorious set piece at the end, where Deadpool forgets his bag of guns in the cab and simply has to make do with his swords? A clever script mutation added to reduce the gun wrangling and effects budget on set.
In the end, we trust the filmmakers, and the critical response indicates that these were the right decisions. Still, the thought of an all-out R-rated superpowered brawl in a mutant prison seems like a tragically missed opportunity, no matter how you (*ahem*) slice it.
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Deadpool 2 (2018) release date: May 18, 2018
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) release date: Jun 07, 2019
Gambit (2020) release date: Mar 13, 2020
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Tottenham must start firing in front of goal, says Nacer Chadli
By Ben Pearce, Tottenham Correspondent
Published: 10:30 PM September 9, 2015
Updated: 7:20 PM December 7, 2020
Nacer Chadli says Tottenham need to start banging in the goals as the Lilywhites prepare to return to action at Sunderland on Sunday.
Spurs only found the net three times in their opening four games before the international break, failing to secure a victory any of those matches.
That winless start to the campaign included a goalless draw at home against Everton in Tottenham's last outing, when Mauricio Pochettino's side had 20 shots but failed to beat visiting goalkeeper Tim Howard.
Chadli admits he and his team-mates need to improve in that regard and take more of their chances, but he was at least encouraged by the number of opportunities.
"As an attacking player if you don't create chances it's a big problem but if you've created chances and you don't score maybe it's an off day, it can happen to everybody," said the Belgian.
"I think we have to work hard and be focused on the day of the game, because we had some good moves and just the last shot was not good.
"Three goals is not enough for a club like Tottenham, you have to score more and we know that and we're going to work harder."
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Spurs will hope two new signings, Clinton Njie and Heung-Min Son, will help them to carry more of a threat and give them more of a cutting edge in the final third.
As versatile attacking midfielders, the pair could challenge Chadli for his place in Pochettino's side – but he has welcomed their arrivals.
"I always work, I always do my best and we have a lot of games and the manager has to pick his team so it's ok," he said. "It's always good to play with more great players and I think it's a plus point for us. For me, I'm excited because a club like Tottenham is a big club."
At the other end of the field, Chadli is pleased to see his countrymen Jan Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld teaming up at the heart of Tottenham's defence.
The pair helped Spurs to keep their first clean sheet of the season against Everton. And, although they are forced to play in the full-back positions for the Belgium national team due to the presence of Manchester City's Vincent Kompany and Zenit St Petersburg's Nicolas Lombaerts, Chadli feels their partnership for Spurs could help them to earn their preferred centre-back spots for the Red Devils.
"Why not, because they're very good at this position," said Chadli. "They were very good [against Everton], very strong to deal with [Romelu] Lukaku and sometimes with [Arouna] Kone. It was a very good performance from the defence and we have to keep it like this."
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I met a young woman two days ago in Amman. Just married last week, half my age, a pleasant smile and a discernible shyness when it came to speaking English with me. She seemed happy. Her brothers regularly beat her. They wanted her to marry someone of their choosing, and she didn't. She had the opportunity to pursue her university studies, but they prevented her from doing so.
In the absence of a father, with the mother powerless and reluctantly siding with her sons, there seems to be no escaping the violence for this young woman. Her village north of Amman is steeped in tradition according to a mutual friend I spoke to afterwards. Part of this tradition means, regrettably, that the men in a family feel they must exercise their power over women by beating them.
The young woman I met is silent – such silence won't help her, and it won't help all the other women and girls who are victims of violence in Jordan. But her fear at speaking out is understandable. The reprisals from her brothers can be even more severe. Our mutual friend told me that there are organizations that help women who are victims of violence, but in his words, "that is not enough. The mindset of the men has to change as well. Even if the woman is empowered to become more assertive, she will still face men who will challenge her. Education has to take place for the men in order for these traditions to change." I couldn't agree more.
I couldn't agree more either. This is a very moving piece and it is awful that this is the way it is. Things need to change in society.


even if its just one thing.
I then comitted to writing a post every Monday.
So here we go some sparkle from last week.
I am so very hunmbled by all your lovely comments.
Yayyy I am so glad I dont have to struggle with a decison about wether to go back or not!
is just we what need to help us and him.
* I came under budget again woot and we are putting the extra money away for Lil C's 1st birthday in September.
but honestly its much easier writing it down.
I cant wait to see what Diamonds I find this week.
I hope you have been able to find some gorgeous Diamonds in your "rough" days this week too.


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Q: Using #include in header files Assuming we have 2 files DIO.c and DIO.h. I used to #include all necessary header files in DIO.h and only #include DIO.h in DIO.c. while working on drivers for ATmega32, I found out that some functions are declared implicitly while including other modules. This made me wonder is that right to include all files in header file instead of source file? and how what
i'm doing currently affects dependency?
After visiting some repos on github i found out that they never #include anything in header files, and only include everything in C file, which made me more confused about what about typedefs? how they use them without including the header file containing them?
Here is an example of DIO.h file:
#include "Dio_Private.h"
#include "Dio_Config.h"
#include "../../Utilities/Macros.h"

and here is an example of DIO.c file:
#include "DIO.h"

If the answer was that I should include all header files in C file, what about enums?
for example, if I want to use enums defined in DIO.h file in any other module, should I now seperate these enums in another header file and only #include it?
Thanks in advance :)

A: @ShaneGervais is right that you should use include guards, and right that #include is somewhat like pasting the contents of the header file into your source file, but incorrect about the rest of it.
Example Dio_Private.h
#ifndef DIO_PRIVATE_H_
#define DIO_PRIVATE_H_

int dinput(char **);

int doutput(char *);

#endif

This will ensure no errors on multiple #include
Do not use #pragma once.  Do not use #define __DIO_PRIVATE_H__.  These are not standard C and the latter one results in undefined behavior.
Do not define your functions in a header file, especially as a beginner.  For very small, very succinct functions that do not use global variables and which will not bloat your code too much if used several times over, it may be appropriate, when you more fully understand how to use them, to define them in a header file.  Example:
#ifndef MYSTRDUP_H_
#define MYSTRDUP_H_

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

static inline char *mystrdup(const char *s) {
    size_t n = strlen(s) + 1;
    char *r = malloc(n);
    if (r) memcpy(r, s, n);
    return r;
}
#endif

A: It's perfectly fine to #include multiple headers in one and use that (provided you use proper include guards).
Having said that, if you don't like typing multiple #includes over and over and you are thinking of creating a big one just for convenience, keep in mind that this will affect compilation time (since the contents of all the headers have to be parsed for every .c file that includes them).

A: This question is a matter of opinion and style, and therefore probably not regarded as a "good" question for SO.  I can offer advice only:

*

*Include anything in the header file necessary to make the header file valid without requiring additional includes.

So for example if header file xxx.h  references a symbol such as int32_t, then it should explicitly include stdint.h.  Otherwise the user of the header file will have to "know" that stdint.h is required to be included before xxx.h, even if the subsequent source never references stdint.h type or symbols.
To not allow nested includes is a nonsense, because the user of a header file will have to know or work out what include dependencies are required and they cold be very many.
On the other hand to include headers for symbols not referenced in the header itself pulls in interfaces the user might not expect and is inefficient.  You might do that when a public interface is a collation or parts in multiple headers, but you need ot be able to justify it and follow the principles of maximum cohesion, minimal coupling.

After visiting some repos on github ...

I would not assume some randomly selected repo to be definitive or even good practice or the arbiter of such.  Being published on Github is not an indication of quality - it is a poor strategy to learning good coding style.  You might better take your "best-practice" cues from standard or device library headers for example.