Found this on the YouTube, and was utterly blown away. It's short but powerfully points out that Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest inventors in history and has not received his Historical Due. It's amazing the influence one man can have on the course of human history. Tesla was truly a man of courage.
The Cream caught wind of the rumor yesterday and have now been informed, by an unnamed source within the Grimey's camp, that the promoter's "fiscal scenario has mandated a cancellation." Lost Highway Records has a "developing" artist or two that they wanted to get on AIMS shows and their quid pro quo was to offer the services of a marquee artist on their roster. Morrissey begins a tour on Feb. 28 in Boca Raton, so it seemed like everything was gonna work out. It's not.
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By LOUIS UCHITELLEThe economy shrank at an accelerating pace late last year, the government reported on Friday, adding to the urgency of a stimulus package capable of bringing the country back from a recession that appears to be deepening.
The actual decline in the gross domestic product — at a 3.8 percent annual rate — fell short of the 5 to 6 percent that most economists had expected for the fourth quarter. But that was because consumption collapsed so quickly that goods piled up in inventory, unsold but counted as part of the nation’s output.
“The drop in spending was so fast, so rapid, that production could not be cut fast enough,” said Nigel Gault, chief domestic economist at IHS Global Insight. “That is happening now, and the contraction in the current quarter, as a result, will probably exceed 5 percent.”
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From theNEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Sales of newly constructed homes plunged in December to the lowest level on record, going back to 1963, according to a government report released Thursday.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported that new home sales fell to an annual seasonally adjusted rate of 331,000 in December. That's down 14.7% from a revised 388,000 annual rate in November.
The December sales pace was 44.8% below the same month a year ago, when the annual rate of new home sales was 600,000.
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LOS ANGELES – The creator of "Star Trek" and his wife will spend eternity together in space. Celestis Inc., a company that specializes in "memorial spaceflights," said Monday that it will ship the remains of Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry into space next
year.
The couple's cremated remains will be sealed into specially made capsules designed to withstand the rigors of space travel. A rocket-launched spacecraft will carry the capsules, along with digitized tributes from fans. The Roddenberrys' remains — and the spacecraft — will travel ever deeper into space and will not return to earth, company spokeswoman Susan Schonfeld said.
After Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, his wife commissioned Celestis to launch a part of his remains into space in 1997. She died Dec. 18, 2008.
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By Elizabeth Giddens“The answer lies at the back of the brain in an area called the cerebellum, which is involved in monitoring movements. Our studies at University College London have shown that the cerebellum can predict sensations when your own movement causes them but not when someone else does. When you try to tickle yourself, the cerebellum predicts the sensation and this prediction is used to cancel the response of other brain areas to the tickle.
Two brain regions are involved in processing how tickling feels. The somatosensory cortex processes touch and the anterior cingulate cortex processes pleasant information. We found that both these regions are less active during self-tickling than they are during tickling performed by someone else, which helps to explains why it doesn’t feel tickly and pleasant when you tickle yourself. Further studies using robots showed that the presence of a small delay between your own movement and the resulting tickle can make the sensation feel tickly. Indeed, the longer the delay, the more tickly it feels.”
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Writer: Clem Rorsch
Wafaa Bilal is an Iraqi artist living in the United States that made headlines several years ago. It wasn't surprising to later find out he had an exhibit federally shut down after he locked himself in a gallery for an entire month and allowed online viewers to watch him and to shoot him with a Paintball Gun. He made the project work democratically, you could choose to shoot an Iraqi(himself) or you could choose to deny one shot. It almost sounds a bit juvenile the result is predictable but it does inspire deep questions why isn't empathy a stronger response than aggression? What many people didn't understand is that he was locked inside for nearly a month with very limited human contact under constant fire. Democracy could not hold back the Firing Squad, and on many of his video blog entries you could tell he was experiencing extreme anxiety and/or states of near madness. People fired the gun all night prevented him from sleeping causing even more duress. All this was in the safety of a gallery, and the bullets were paint balls.......Which immediately makes you question, what if this was real? What if going to get food felt like this, what if sleeping had no peace and was under the threat of constant terror, how must it feel to be an Iraqi then and right now. ::the only reaction I could find appropriate was tears and sorrow:: We count death tolls, we count measurable things, we cannot count the countless lives driven to the brink of sanity.
While US airlines have bumped prices so sharply that some frequent fliers are turning to the bus, a European airline is getting ready to sell you a ticket to London that costs less than an entree at the Olive Garden.
Low-cost Irish monster Ryanair announced that it plans to begin flying from Europe to the US, with economy tickets starting at 10 Euros, or around $13.00. Ryanair expects to make money on the flights by sticking to its wildly successful European business model of charging passengers for almost everything but the air they breathe, and by offering a more traditional business cabin in the front of the plane.
Ryanair's plan is to offer flights between its base at Stansted, an outlying London airport that is popular with the budget crowd, and New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, and cities in Florida. Ryanair doesn't have the planes to get started right away, but the airline's outspoken CEO Michael O'Leary says that with the recession sure to put dents in the order books of Boeing and Airbus, there are deals to be made.
If a $15 flight to Europe sounds too good to be true, that's because it is.
Theory of multiple intelligences The theory of multiple intelligences was proposed by Howard Gardner in 1983, to more accurately define the concept of intelligence and address whether methods which claim to measure intelligence (or aspects thereof) are truly scientific.
Gardner's theory argues that intelligence, as it is traditionally defined, does not sufficiently encompass the wide variety of abilities humans display. In his conception, a child who masters multiplication easily is not necessarily more intelligent overall than a child who struggles to do so. The second child may be stronger in another kind of intelligence, and therefore may best learn the given material through a different approach, may excel in a field outside of mathematics, or may even be looking through the multiplication learning process at a fundamentally deeper level that hides a potentially higher mathematical intelligence than in the one who memorizes the concept easily. "The theory suggests that, rather than relying on a uniform curriculum, schools should offer "individual-centered education", with curriculum tailored to the needs of each child.".jpg)
