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QUANTUM ARCHAEOLOGY.

How Science is trying to resurrect the dead.





"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
George Bernard Shaw

• Micro Map of the past being created.
• Quantum computers and new maths to calculate detailed histories and memories of everyone dead.
• Face and body reconstructions a million years old already achieved: mind reconstructions coming.
• 106 billion people to be resurrected within 40 years.

• A Child's Guide to Quantum Archaeology (300 words) <~ start here!!!
• Short version (3,000 words)

• The Quantum Archaeology Grid

• Recursive Civilization

• XYLEM

• Turing Church Workshop Paper

• The Lazarus Long Delusion

MAIN ARTICLE:~~>http://web.archive.o...rchaeologyfile/



Every artefact and technique we find enables more of the the The Quantum Archaeology Grid


New Fossil Species of Horse Found in Ethiopia.

"An international team of paleontologists have discovered fossils of a new horse species that was about the size of a small zebra and roamed eastern Africa during the middle Pliocene, around 4.4 million years ago."
http://www.sci-news....orse-01623.html

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"an Italian museum is about to open a new exhibit. It sheds light on what life was like 600,000 years ago."



http://www.thv11.com...elopment-of-man

"Life was short and brutal, ruled, as paleontologists put it, by hunger and who could strike the hardest blow."

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New Fossil Hyena Found in Tibet.

28th dec

"Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a previously unknown species of cursorial hyena that lived in what is now Tibetan Plateau during the middle Pliocene, 4.9-4.1 million years ago."

http://www.sci-news....ibet-01646.html

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5 Key Insights from Paleontology

dec 26th
http://bigthink.com/...uide-our-future




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The last sixty years has seen incredible breakthroughs in paleontology. We learned that the continents have shifted. We’ve learned how to measure geologic time precisely. We’ve learned that asteroids have caused extinction on this planet. We’ve learned that we can extract DNA from fossils and tie the relationship of living things to fossil things. And we’ve learned that carbon is closely related to climate.
Those five insights have framed a toolkit for understanding how our planet works and gives us the scientific understanding to really move into the twenty-first century in a knowledgeable way"

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TREE OF LIFE PROJECT

http://tolweb.org/tree/

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The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).
Each page contains information about a particular group, e.g., salamanders, segmented worms, phlox flowers, tyrannosaurs, euglenids, Heliconius butterflies, club fungi, or the vampire squid. ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things."

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The Pentagon's Vision for the Future of Military Drones


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The Defense Department released its updated roadmap for the future of military drones this week, outlining the 25-year plan to "take the 'man' out of 'unmanned'" warfare, to quote one of the more colorful bullet points in the report.
According to the DoD, getting more, better drones in combat is crucial for the future success of the U.S. military. The blueprint lays out the government's strategy for how to make modernized unmanned systems "ubiquitous on the battlefield," even as the defense budget faces $487 billion in cuts over the next decade.
To take the long-term vision first, the Pentagon will aim to develop fully autonomous machines by 2030 or beyond. Despite the name, current unmanned aerial vehicles still rely on a human operator. They can cruise on autopilot and carry out preprogrammed tasks, compensate for small deviations in the plan and rely on automation in an emergency. But the machines can't figure out on their own how to accomplish a given goal."

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Zigloo - Gyre floating city.



http://zigloo.ca/gyre-seascraper/

This and other concepts

All of these are possible and wanted with accelerating technology.

With accelerating technology we have calculation power used to resurrect the dead.

More Watery homes :

http://www.seao2.com/undersea/

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RIKEN selected to develop exascale supercomputer

"Dec. 24, 2013, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology selected RIKEN to develop a new exascale supercomputer that is expected to keep Japan at the leading edge of computing science and technology.
The new supercomputer, which is scheduled to begin working in 2020, will compute on the "exaflop" scale, meaning that it will be able to perform in the range of a quintillion (a million trillion) floating point operations per second. Exascale supercomputing is expected to make possible high-resolution simulations, contributing to advances in a wide range of areas including drug discovery, weather forecasting, and astrophysics.
The new system will be about 100 times faster than the K computer, RIKEN's currently operating machine, which in 2011 was ranked as the fastest supercomputer in the world. RIKEN was selected for the new project based on its experience developing and managing the K computer."




"The RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) will now have two important missions: continuing to operate and manage the K computer for public use with the aim to generate useful research outcomes, and the successful development of the Exascale Supercomputer scheduled for completion by 2020. We ask for support from our associates around the world and in Japan as we launch our new project"



One of the Best TED talks by Transhumanists 2010:

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Top 10 archaeological discoveries for 2013

http://www.heritaged...for-2013/100570




RICHARD III's body

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Researchers have drawn up the first definitive list of genetic changes that make modern humans different from our nearest ancient ancestors, who died out tens of thousands of years ago.




http://www.pasthoriz...s-make-us-human

Useful recent article:

The list amounts to a series of biological instructions that shape the brains and bodies of living people and distinguish them from Neanderthals and other early humans that lived alongside them.
Scientists are now going through the list to work out which genetic tweaks might have been most important in driving modern humans to become the most dominant living organism on the planet today.
“We are quite confident that among these genetic changes lie the basis for the interesting differences between modern humans and Neanderthals,” said Janet Kelso, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.
“These mutations are specific to modern humans. Are they responsible for some of the features we have, or some of our particular achievements, such as settling all over the planet, or flying aeroplanes?” said Kay Prüfer, the first author on the study. “I don’t think we will ever find an aeroplane gene, but maybe we will find something that makes our brains tick better. If something like that exists, it will be on this list.”


Quantum Archaeology advances exactly as predicted, raising more of the past greater detail:
In the next couple of decades, calculation may be sufficient enough to commission accurate rescues of all dead people since the dawn of Man.





Nature: published online 18th dec 2013:

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains.


Authors:

• Kay Prüfer,
• Fernando Racimo,
• Nick Patterson,
• Flora Jay,
• Sriram Sankararaman,
• Susanna Sawyer,
• Anja Heinze,
• Gabriel Renaud,
• Peter H. Sudmant,
• Cesare de Filippo,
• Heng Li,
• Swapan Mallick,
• Michael Dannemann,
• Qiaomei Fu,
• Martin Kircher,
• Martin Kuhlwilm,
• Michael Lachmann,
• Matthias Meyer,
• Matthias Ongyerth,
• Michael Siebauer,
• Christoph Theunert,
• Arti Tandon,
• Priya Moorjani,
• Joseph Pickrell,
• James C. Mullikin
• et al.

"We present a high-quality genome sequence of a Neanderthal woman from Siberia. We show that her parents were related at the level of half-siblings and that mating among close relatives was common among her recent ancestors. We also sequenced the genome of a Neanderthal from the Caucasus to low coverage. An analysis of the relationships and population history of available archaic genomes and 25 present-day human genomes shows that several gene flow events occurred among Neanderthals, Denisovans and early modern humans, possibly including gene flow into Denisovans from an unknown archaic group. Thus, interbreeding, albeit of low magnitude, occurred among many hominin groups in the Late Pleistocene. In addition, the high-quality Neanderthal genome allows us to establish a definitive list of substitutions that became fixed in modern humans after their separation from the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans."

http://www.nature.co...URENEWSBREAKING




RESURRECTION STEPS.

First the finds then the mathematics.
First resurrect the species then resurrect the individual.

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The Future Is Smart Dust


Smartdust - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust‎
"Smartdust is a system of many tiny microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) such as sensors, robots, or other devices, that can detect, for example, light, temperature, vibration, magnetism, or chemicals. They are usually operated on a computer network wirelessly and are distributed over some area to perform tasks, usually sensing through radio-frequency identification. Without an antenna of much greater size the range of tiny smart dust communication devices is measured in a few millimeters and they may be vulnerable to electromagnetic disablement and destruction by microwave exposure."









2003 Chemists develop self-conscious dust.


http://readwrite.com...~orBh85wlfHd71d

"

Source: Gartner August 2013

The 2013 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle highlights technologies that support all six of these areas including:

1. Augmenting humans with technology

Technologies make it possible to augment human performance in physical, emotional and cognitive areas. The main benefit to enterprises in augmenting humans with technology is to create a more capable workforce. For example, consider if all employees had access to wearable technology that could answer any product or service question or pull up any enterprise data at will. The ability to improve productivity, sell better or serve customer better will increase significantly. Enterprises interested in these technologies should look to bioacoustic sensing, quantified self, 3D bioprinting, brain-computer interface, human augmentation, speech-to-speech translation, neurobusiness, wearable user interfaces, augmented reality and gesture control.

2. Machines replacing humans

There are clear opportunities for machines to replace humans: dangerous work, simpler yet expensive-to-perform tasks and repetitive tasks. The main benefit to having machines replace humans is improved productivity, less danger to humans and sometimes better quality work or responses. For example, a highly capable virtual customer service agent could field the many straightforward questions from customers and replace much of the customer service agents' "volume" work — with the most up-to-date information. Enterprises should look to some of these representative technologies for sources of innovation on how machines can take over human tasks: volumetric and holographic displays, autonomous vehicles, mobile robots and virtual assistants.

3. Humans and machines working alongside each other

Humans versus machines is not a binary decision, there are times when machines working alongside humans is a better choice. A new generation of robots is being built to work alongside humans. IBM's Watson does background research for doctors, just like a research assistant, to ensure they account for all the latest clinical, research and other information when making diagnoses or suggesting treatments. The main benefits of having machines working alongside humans are the ability to access the best of both worlds (that is, productivity and speed from machines, emotional intelligence and the ability to handle the unknown from humans). Technologies that represent and support this trend include autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, natural language question and answering, and virtual assistants.

The three trends that will change the workforce and the everyday lives of humans in the future are enabled by a set of technologies that help both machine and humans better understand each other. The following three areas are a necessary foundation for the synergistic relationships to evolve between humans and machines:

4. Machines better understanding humans and the environment

Machines and systems can only benefit from a better understanding of human context, humans and human emotion. This understanding leads to simple context-aware interactions, such as displaying an operational report for the location closest to the user; to better understanding customers, such as gauging consumer sentiment for a new product line by analyzing Facebook postings; to complex dialoguing with customers, such as virtual assistants using natural language question and answering to interact on customer inquiries. The technologies on this year's Hype Cycle that represent these capabilities include bioacoustic sensing, smart dust, quantified self, brain computer interface, affective computing, biochips, 3D scanners, natural-language question and answering (NLQA), content analytics, mobile health monitoring, gesture control, activity streams, biometric authentication methods, location intelligence and speech recognition.

5. Humans better understanding machines

As machines get smarter and start automating more human tasks, humans will need to trust the machines and feel safe. The technologies that make up the Internet of things will provide increased visibility into how machines are operating and the environmental situation they are operating in. For example, IBM's Watson provides "confidence" scores for the answers it provides to humans while Baxter shows a confused facial expression on its screen when it does not know what to do. MIT has also been working on Kismet, a robot that senses social cues from visual and auditory sensors, and responds with facial expressions that demonstrate understanding. These types of technology are very important in allowing humans and machines to work together. The 2013 Hype Cycle features Internet of Things, machine-to-machine communication services, mesh networks: sensor and activity streams.

6. Machines and humans becoming smarter"

RESURRECTION will be done by microroboics (any robots under 1/1000th of a meter. T hese include nanobots and Quantum Robots to engineer inside the quantum world)

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ACCELERATING TECHNOLOGY

We're at 0.8 today by many measures.



robot narrated:



Google's Ray Kurzweil predicts how the world will change

The Times (subscription)-39 minutes ago

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RISE OF EXASCALE COMPUTING (10^18 calculations per second)

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In January 2012 Intel purchased the InfiniBand product line from QLogic for US $125 million in order to fulfill its promise of developing exascale technology by 2018.^[3]

The initiative has been endorsed by two US agencies: the Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration,^[4] both of which are part of the US Department of Energy. The technology would be useful in various computation-intensive research areas, including basic research, engineering, earth science, biology, materials science, energy issues, and national security.^[5]

The United States has put aside $126 million for exascale computing beginning in 2012.^[6]

Three projects aiming at developing technologies and software for exascale computing have been started in 2011 within the European Union. The CRESTA project (Collaborative Research into Exascale Systemware, Tools and Applications),^[7] the DEEP project (Dynamical ExaScale Entry Platform),^[8] and the project Mont-Blanc.^[9]
The Indian Government has committed USD 2 Billion to ISRO and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore to develop a supercomputer with a performance of 132.8 exaflops by 2017. ISRO has already booked key equipment to develop the first Indian exaflop supercomputer. Most of the sub-systems will be developed in India.^[10]
In Japan, the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science is planning an exascale system for 2020, it will consume less than 30 megawatts." wiki




Quantum Computing and Mathematics are also racing ahead.

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MILITARY BLACKOUT ON FORCE FIELD BEING PIONEERED



"

Researchers at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), which is the research and development arm of the Ministry of Defence, claim it is possible to incorporate material known as supercapacitors into armour of a vehicle to turn it into a kind of giant battery.

When a threat from incoming fire is detected by the vehicle, the energy stored in the supercapacitor can be rapidly dumped onto the metal plating on the outside of the vehicle, producing a strong electromagnetic field.

Scientists behind the project claim this would produce a momentary "force field" capable of repelling the incoming rounds and projectiles.

Although it would last for only a fraction of a second, if timed correctly it could prevent rocket propelled grenades, which detonate on impact, from reaching their target. The supercapacitor could then be rapidly recharged ready for another attack.
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dec 2010

http://www.telegraph...scientists.html

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http://crete-kreta.c...ical-collection




en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics‎







Resurrection Technology due in 2026-7

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Boots unveils BI V2.0 3D printing

"Providing details on the new BI V2.0, they said: "Our design can support up to triple extrusion and can print virtually any 1.75 mm filament extruding at up to 240 degrees Celsius," They called attention to the printer's "self-replicating" design, which can empower the user to share the technology with others. "Once you receive the BI V2.0, you can print, improve upon and share components so that anyone can build their own printer at a very low cost." The BI V2.0 3D printer does not need a computer for operation; one can use an integrated LCD controller."
http://phys.org/news...ils-bi-v20.html

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How one company forecasts future technologies



"
Some technologies are easy to predict, but it’s easy to get the detail wrong.

Although I’m a futurist, I have absolutely no idea what information and communications technology will look like in 50 years time.
I do know that some of it will be familiar because once we find a usable form, we tend to stick with it – glowing rectangles will probably remain popular. But I also know that we will see technology and applications which have not yet been imagined.
This technology space is growing in complexity and capability at a much, much faster rate than any other, and the implications for society are profound.
One year is easy, but 15 years is necessary
Can I tell you what we’ll be doing on the internet a year from now? The answer, of course, is yes – but so can anyone who spends any time thinking about it, and we’ll all be pretty much on target.
Short-term projection is easy because the products are in the late stage of development now. In fact the same is true out to about five years, because the product development has already started.
In telecommunications and informatics research, we try to figure out what society will require about 15 years out.
Why 15 years? A first-rate research grant takes about a year from concept to successful award, for a program which takes about three years to complete. Successful research with a commercial focus can then lead to commercial development, usually another five years.
It then takes perhaps ten years to get a commercial return on the research and development investment. Getting a product to market faster than ten years can give you a first-mover advantage; or, as we have seen time and time again, you can be so far ahead of market demand that your product falters.
Aiming for the Goldilocks just-right zone of 15 years in total is about right.
How do you see the future?
So how do you make a prediction from a distance of 15 years?
Our team embraces anekantavada, the Jainist doctrine of the necessity and validity of a multitude of viewpoints:
we look at technology developments, from academic research through to what we can gather about emerging consumer products from major ma..." MORE>>>>

http://www.pcauthori...chnologies.aspx





HOW TO BE A FUTURIST


Warren Buffet - dont take him on @ poker-
"
Your best way to explore the futurist profession further is to meet some professional futurists and get their advice. Some ready ways to do that are:

• call them on the phone for a chat–most are generous with their time and will gladly talk with you
• go to a professional futurists event–the Association of Professional Futurists Spring meetings are a great place to meet and get to know futurist professionals, and the World Futures Society conferences (normally in late July, rotating among different cities in North America) offer a mix of people interested in the future and those working as foresight professionals
• Join the Foresight Network, an online community of futurists and people interested in the future
• Find the futurists at Poptech, TED, SXSW, and other events that draw forward thinking people

Then, you may consider taking a course and seeing how your skills fit, whether you like the kind of work futures involves, and so on. There are online offerings from several futures studies programs.
Resources for futures degree programs
I am best informed about the U.S.-based programs in futures studies, including graduate programs at:

• The University of Houston
• The University of Hawaii, Manoa
• Regent University

Each offers a first class program in futures. I know the key faculty at all three.
There are also foresight events and educational programs around the world, including those connected with:

• The Australian Futures Foundation [www.futuresfoundation.org.au]
• The University of Stellenbosch, South Africa [http://www.ifr.sun.ac.za/]
• Swinburne University in Australia [www.swinburne.edu.au/index.php]
• Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan.

The University of Houston Futures Program offers information on its program and links to the main futures/foresight graduate programs around the world
The Association of Professional Futurists' About the Futures Field is also a resource for people interested in the profession.
World Future Society courses
The World Future Society annual conferences offer introductory courses that are inexpensive, and taught by leading practitioners in the field. They are a good way to learn a little more about the work of a futurist without committing to a degree program. The WFS conferences are a smorgasbord of futures sessions, and you may find good ideas there, good conversations, and people to talk to about the work of the futurist. WFS courses. See WFS Courses."

http://foresightcult...o-be-a-futurist


40 Years old!


https://www.wfs.org/


Einstein the futurist



"When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Neverthess, no-one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
http://www.panarchy....igion.1939.html

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SOCIAL & PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF MASS RESURRECTION.

We will be able to augment most pieces of us in the 2020's.

The brain will be the important bit. Our brain - and artificial brains.
We've already started augmenting our own brains micro implants and nutrition/lifestyle.


Lab on a Chip Magazine.


http://pubs.rsc.org/...ournalissues/lc

"Miniaturisation for chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and bioengineering"

What we can do now.











Criminals from the past wont, hopefully, be punished but educated or have their problems solved (95% of people in jails have mental illness).

Nothing we can do or think (a form of doing?) is possible to hide from the future simulating us.


If we can safely build A.I. ( )
Our bodies will change from slow, constant learning at neural network connectivity growth speed,
to accelerating speeds.

Housing for Resurectees will become possible on different planets...some man-made,
and also in different times zones on earth: eg before mankind evolved.

Machine intelligence will change everything.

The commercial race in A.I. on smart phones is driving it fast.

Our bodies lose billions of cells a day and rely on learning.

But we will gain intelligence at accelerations, and the facilities will seem like magic to us now.
At some point in the 2020's we will lose touch with how intelligence is operating in us, like we dont consciously know how cells change in us.

We are immortal, and so is everyone who has ever 'died'.

Whole groups will resurrect together: the numbers of dead far outnumber those alive, and this will hold until we reproduce as survival strategies, seeding other galaxies and other universes.

The laws of Nature we have learned.competition, reproduction and death, need not gold in our futures

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013



OBITUARIES

NOT DEAD!!!


Kenneth C. Edelin, Doctor at Center of Landmark Abortion Case, Dies at 74

By ROBERT D. McFADDEN



United Press International

Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin, left, with his lawyer in 1975, after Dr. Edelin's sentencing. An all-white jury had convicted him of manslaughter.
Dr. Edelin became a hero of the women’s movement after his conviction and eventual acquittal for performing a legal abortion in 1973.


Marta Eggerth, ‘the Callas of Operetta,’ Dies at 101

By MARGALIT FOX

A coloratura soprano, Miss Eggerth was often compared to Maria Callas for her vocal facility, charm and ubiquity — in opera houses, on the concert stage, in the movies and on Broadway.


Andy Granatelli Dies at 90; Revved Businesses and Cars

By FRANK LITSKY

Mr. Granatelli turned STP oil treatment into a national institution and shook up auto racing’s establishment with his innovations.


Dr. Robert Neuwirth, a Pioneering Gynecologist, Dies at 80

By WILLIAM YARDLEY

Dr. Neuwirth developed minimally invasive procedures that allowed many women to avoid hysterectomies.


Harold Simmons Dies at 82; Backed Swift Boat Ads

By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

Mr. Simmons, who built a billion-dollar empire starting with a Dallas drugstore, gave $26.9 million to “super PACs” opposing President Obama in the 2012 presidential election.


Vito Rizzuto, Reputed Mafia Boss of Canada, Dies at 67

By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK

Mr. Rizzuto’s dapper outfits and his ability to avoid prison led the authorities to call him the John Gotti of Montreal.


Joseph Santo Dies at 84; Restaurateur of Romance

By BRUCE WEBER

Over the years, Dr. Santo opened a number of restaurants — Yellowfingers, Arizona 206 and Contrapunto among them — near the corner of Third Avenue and East 60th Street.


Andrew Jacobs Jr., 81, Ex-Congressman, Dies

By REUTERS

A former Marine, Mr. Jacobs was among the early critics of the Vietnam War. He also helped write the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a touchstone of civil rights legislation.


Paul Blair, Center Fielder for Champions, Dies at 69

By BRUCE WEBER

Perhaps the finest outfielder of his era, Mr. Blair was known for his speed and grace, and for his ability to read a hitter’s swing and make a quick break on a fly ball.


Robert W. Wilson, Frugal Philanthropist, Dies at 87

By PAUL VITELLO

Mr. Wilson, the founding partner of the firm Wilson & Associates, donated about $600 million to causes including environmental conservation and Roman Catholic education.


Mike Hegan, 71, Player Who Made Long Journey Home

By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Hegan, who played for several teams in the major leagues, including the Yankees, returned to his Cleveland and became a broadcaster.


Frederick Fox, Milliner to Royals, Dies at 82

By PAUL VITELLO

Beginning in 1970, Mr. Fox designed more than 350 hats for Queen Elizabeth. His trademark skill, admirers said, was to mix whimsy and propriety.


Barbara Branden, Biographer of Ayn Rand, Dies at 84

By PAUL VITELLO

Ms. Branden, once a member of Ms. Rand’s inner circle, wrote an unauthorized biography, “The Passion of Ayn Rand,” published in 1986, that angered some Rand followers.


Edwin A. Shuman III, Former Prisoner of War Who Defied Hanoi Hilton Guards, Dies at 82

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN

Commander Shuman, a Navy pilot whose plane was shot down in 1968, led an effort by prisoners to conduct church services in the North Vietnamese camp known as the Hanoi Hilton.


Yusef Lateef, Innovative Jazz Saxophonist and Flutist, Dies at 93

By PETER KEEPNEWS

Mr. Lateef crossed musical boundaries, playing world music before world music had a name.


Rodolfo Hernandez, 82, Dies; Awarded Medal of Honor

By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK

Mr. Hernandez received the award for charging at the enemy in a daring assault while wounded and armed with an inoperable rifle and a bayonet when he was an Army corporal during the Korean War.


Marv Wolfenson, 87, Dies; Led an N.B.A. Rebirth in Minnesota

By WILLIAM YARDLEY

Mr. Wolfenson and his partner, Harvey Ratner, returned N.B.A. basketball to Minnesota in 1989, nearly 30 years after the Lakers had departed for California.

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Creator of AK-47, Dies at 94

By C. J. CHIVERS

General Kalashnikov sometimes lamented the weapon’s unchecked distribution but took pride in having invented the rifle, the most abundant firearm ever made.

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Stan Brooks, a Familiar Voice on 1010 WINS, Dies at 86

By PAUL VITELLO

Mr. Brooks’s tenure and prolific output on New York’s first all-news radio station made him one of the most recognized voices on the radio for more than 40 years.


Larry Lujack, a Cranky Voice on Chicago Radio, Dies at 73

By MARGALIT FOX

Mr. Lujack was a longtime disc jockey whose curmudgeonly attitude influenced current radio personalities like Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern.


Edgar M. Bronfman, Who Built a Bigger, More Elegant Seagram, Dies at 84

By JONATHAN KANDELL

Mr. Bronfman helped the liquor company acquire other businesses and make a stake in Hollywood, and he championed the rights of Jews as president of the World Jewish Congress.


John Eisenhower, Military Historian and Son of the President, Dies at 91

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN

Mr. Eisenhower, the son of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the five-star general turned president, forged his own career in the Army and then chronicled the history of the military in numerous books.


Lawrence O. Kitchen, Steady Hand for Lockheed, Dies at 90

By REED ABELSON

Mr. Kitchen rose through the ranks of the aerospace company during a 30-year career and led the company through rocky tussles with governments during the 1980s.


Kelly Clark, Lawyer Who Won Boy Scouts Abuse Case, Dies at 56

By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK

Mr. Clark’s successful child molestation lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America in Oregon led to the release of a trove of documents containing thousands of accusations of sexual abuse.


Michiaki Takahashi, 85, Who Tamed Chickenpox, Dies

By WILLIAM YARDLEY

Dr. Takahashi, a researcher of measles and polio viruses, was spurred to action when his 3-year-old son fell ill.


Kenneth A. Schechter, 83, Dies; With Help, He Flew Blind

By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Schechter, then Ensign Schechter, a Navy pilot during the Korean War, was at the heart of one of the most electrifying air rescues in American military history.

Cynthia Eagle Russett, Chronicler of Women’s History, Dies at 76

By MARGALIT FOX

Professor Russett’s best-known book, “Sexual Science,” published in 1989, explored attempts by Victorian

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Wadi Al-Salaam: The Largest Cemetery in The World


NOT DEAD!

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breaking

TELESCOPES IMPLANTED IN LIVING EYES!


" A breakthrough surgery that involves implanting a tiny telescope inside an eyeball was just performed in Utah for the first time."

http://fox13now.com/...formed-in-utah/




You can see where this is headed...why not microscopes and long range auto adjusting telescopes

Edited by Innocent, 31 December 2013 - 04:49 PM.

[Julia36]

DIABETES CUED IN MICE





http://www.columbiah...ines/720-123013

"Could a Nobel Prize be in MU's future?




COLUMBIA, Mo 12/30/13 (Beat Byte) -- One of the most important milestones in medical history may await University of Missouri School of Medicine researchers, who this month received three U.S. patents for methods that cured type 1 diabetes in mice via a major discovery.

"We discovered that type 1 diabetes destroys not only insulin-producing cells, but also the blood vessels that support them," said microbiology and immunology professor Habib Zaghouani, Ph.D.

The disease's two-pronged attack -- on the insulin-producing cells and the tiny, micro-scale blood vessels that supply them -- was a surprise with significant consequences. "When we realized how important the blood vessels were to insulin production, we developed a cure," Zaghouani said. "

Edited by Innocent, 31 December 2013 - 04:58 PM.

[Julia36]

DANGEROUS HOMEMADE LASER SPIDER.


"The DIY Laser Guy hacked an Attacknid remote controlled robot and outfitted it with a balloon-popping death ray laser.
The bot originally fired foam darts, but after a bit of tinkering, it now shoots out a bright, blue beam from a 2W laser diode, according to the video posted to YouTube.
The robotic contraption is his “most terrifying laser creation as of yet.” Which is saying something, because this inventor really likes making insanely powerful lasers."

http://www.guns.com/...s-terror-video/

Not a great leap to have them flying and shooting death rays at Amazon Books or Pizzas.

[Julia36]

JFK (to resume office in 2027) on Accelerating Growth and Action

Edited by Innocent, 31 December 2013 - 05:09 PM.

[Julia36]

TRAIN AS A PAID HACKER:

• Internet Crime Current Report: IC3
• Data Breach Investigations Report
• Types of Data Stolen From the Organizations
• Essential Terminologies
• Elements of Information Security
• Authenticity and Non-Repudiation
• The Security, Functionality, and Usability Triangle
• Security Challenges
• Effects of Hacking
  
  • Effects of Hacking on Business
• Who is a Hacker?
• Hacker Classes
• Hacktivism
• What Does a Hacker Do?
• Phase 1 - Reconnaissance
  
  • Reconnaissance Types
• Phase 2 - Scanning
• Phase 3 – Gaining Access
• Phase 4 – Maintaining Access
• Phase 5 – Covering Tracks
• Types of Attacks on a System
  
  • Operating System Attacks
  • Application-Level Attacks
  • Shrink Wrap Code Attacks
  • Misconfiguration Attacks
• Why Ethical Hacking is Necessary?
• Defense in Depth
• Scope and Limitations of Ethical Hacking
• What Do Ethical Hackers Do?
• Skills of an Ethical Hacker
• Vulnerability Research
• Vulnerability Research Websites
• What is Penetration Testing?
• Why Penetration Testing?
• Penetration Testing Methodology

https://www.eccouncil.org/Certification/professional-series/ceh-course-outline

[Julia36]

ANCIENT FOOTPRINTS DISCOVERED.







http://planetearth.n...ry.aspx?id=1579





Discovery of oldest footprints gives clues to Mexico's climate

2 January 2014, by Harriet Jarlett

The oldest human footprints in North America have been dated for the first time and could help scientists to understand what Mexico's climate was like 7000 years ago.
The new climate data, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, comes from two sets of footprints found in the Chihuahuan desert in north-eastern Mexico.
The first of these sets was discovered in 1961 after workmen stumbled across them while building a road. At the time they were removed and placed in a museum where, despite being described in detail, their provenance was lost.
A team of researchers, from John Moores University in Liverpool, who were interested in where these prints came from began interviewing local people to see if they could find more. Eventually, in 2006, another track was found in a quarry.
'When we discovered these new prints, they were preserved in the same material as the ones in the museum. So we presumed it was a rediscovery of these lost footprints as opposed to a new discovery,' explains Dr Nick Felstead now of Durham University, lead researcher on the project."

2nd Tracked Asteroid in History hits Earth

http://news.discover...s-up-140102.htm