Human Mutilations By Aliens (Warning Graphic Photos)

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Human Mutilations By Aliens (Warning Graphic Photos)

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Story by Karen Lyster, UFO Researcher and Graphic Designer/Web Developer
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To try and give you a ‘visual’ of what is related below I have created this image – as you can see the wounds are VERY clean, no blood was on the body whatsoever! The body depicted is almost exactly the same age and coloring as the photos that I saw that day.

Most of you who are interested in the UFO subject will have read about the many cases of Cattle Mutilations that have occurred in many parts of the world over the past 50 years. Most of the cases that I have studied have cantered around the mid-west of the United States, but this bizarre aspect of the UFO phenomena is by no means relegated to the US alone, I’ve read cases from through the world and other animals who have been targeted are horses; goats; sheep; foxes just to name a few (there has even been cases of mice!).

In this article I will not be discussing any animal mutilation case, what I do wish to share with you is a very disturbing case that has all the hallmarks of being a “Human Mutilation”, in that the victim had all the same injuries we’ve come to associate with the cattle mutilation deaths. Both animal and human mutilation cases have occurred in popular spots like Cancun Mexico to Siberia to the more exotic locales like Riu Jamaica- it’s a global phenomena not often mentioned in the mainstream media however

Let me set the scene. Back in 1994 I was approached by a physician living here in New Zealand who wished to meet with me to get my opinion on something that had been disturbing him for some time now. He refused to tell me what the matter was about and kept insisting he needed to show me something. I have had my share of cranks over the years and I would have relegated this individual into that category if it weren’t for something in his voice and manner that conveyed the honest conviction of his request. I asked him to meet me at my home but he preferred not to, and instead chose a little cafe in the centre of town as our meeting place.

He did give me his name, and at that particular time he had retired from the medical profession.

I arrived at the cafe at 12.30 and since he had told me to go to the back, that is where I headed for. Being lunchtime the cafe was nearly full, and as I walked past the tables to the rear I saw a man who was sitting alone, facing my direction, get up and move towards me. He obviously knew who I was as there was no hesitation in his eye contact with me, nor his stride towards me. He introduced himself and gestured for me to join him at his table. There were only two seats at the table – one facing the wall and the other one facing opposite which meant I would have had my back to the wall. I began to take the seat nearest to me which meant that I would have been facing the wall – he quickly gestured that he didn’t want me sitting there and asked me to change seats. At that moment I didn’t understand why on earth he wanted that, but the look on his face told me he had a reason for asking this of me. Later of course I realised that by sitting with my back to the wall, with no one behind me, gave me the opportunity to view what he had brought to show me without the risk of others being able to see what I was looking at.

After we were both seated, he thanked me for meeting with him.

He then proceeded to tell me how he had recently come back from a trip to the United States where during that time he had stayed with another physician friend of his who worked for the US Military. They had been friends and colleagues for a number of years. He proceeded to tell me that during the visit his friend had seemed extremely agitated and wasn’t his normal self at all… something weighted heavily on this mans mind. Three days into this stay they were having dinner and his friend had been drinking heavily which was something strange in itself, as he had not seen his friend ever take more than a glass or two of wine in the entire time they had known each other.

As the evening progressed, his friend had started discussing how he had recently seen something very disturbing to him and needed to share this with him. He said he had been working late one night at the base where he was stationed when he was told there had been an accident and they were bringing in a body to which he was to do a preliminary examination of.

He then proceeded to detail the nights events and how the body was brought in with horrific injuries the likes he had never seen before in all the years of his medical career. He said the body had been mutilitated… an eye was missing, an ear. Photos had been taken of the victim as he had been found and these photos accompanied the body. Two of these photos the physician had managed to secure for himself.

It was these two photos that he brought out to show his friend, and it was same photos that were now in the possession of the Physician who sat opposite me in the cafe during that busy bustling lunchtime.

He told me that his friend had asked him to “hold onto” the photos in case anything happened to him, as he just didn’t feel safe anymore and besides he hated having them around.

I had listened to what was being told me with very little interruption until he had mentioned that the photos were now in his possession. I asked him whether he had them on him and he nodded in the affirmative.

Now I have seen alleged human mutilation photos before – once by a colleague who had shown me two photos of a naked mans body with the classic signs that accompany the cattle mutilations that I am very familiar with. I have also seen a photo in one of the UFO magazines.

I now realized why I had been asked to sit with my back to the wall. This way I could view them without anyone else seeing what I was looking at.

Before he handed me the photos, he asked me if I had studied many cases of cattle mutilation, and if I could possibly tell the difference from an ordinary wound and one that had the traits of being a mutilation. I explained to him that nothing was a certainty in this field, but I had seen 100′s of cases and read all the reports, including the autopsy notes so was very familiar with the wounds sustained in a alleged “mute” case.

He seemed satisfied with the answer and so brought out the photos from his breast pocket and handed them to me in a white envelope.

Now – since I was unable to keep the photos or make detailed notes of them at the time of viewing, the following account of what was in the photos is from the mental note I made of them trying to remember as much detail as I possibly could.

There were two photos. The first was the full frontal of a white male and the second photo was the same male that had been turned on his stomach, so this was the other side of the victim.

The photos had been taken at in a field of lush green pasture. It was difficult to determine how old he was as the face had been so disfigured, that age could not be determined that way.. however the physical appearance of the body was in quite good shape, so I estimate that he was between the age of 20-35.

His facial injuries were almost exactly what I had seen time and time again in the cattle mutilation cases. His left eye had been surgically removed, including the eyelid, his lips had been removed in a very clean and precise cut, so had his left ear, and the left hand side of his jaw had been removed, taking part of the jaw bone and teeth with it. The incision along the jaw line had extended past the removed segment of jaw bone to include a further strip of tissue that stopped about 2 1/2 inches from the base of the chin. I could see no blood at all. No blood around the wounds, no blood on the ground, no blood anywhere.

Next I looked at the torso and saw two very clean cookie cutter pieces that had been removed from the chest area – these would have measured approx 2 inches in diameter. Again no blood could be seen around the wound area. I have often wondered about the lack of blood in the animal cases that I have seen pictures of… I wondered if there was blood but that it was just harder to see due to the sometimes matted, dirty hide/hair of the animal. In this case however, with the victim being human, if there had been spillage of blood, there certainly was no trace of it from what I could see… it had either been cleaned away or wasn’t there in the first place.

I moved down the photo to the genital area. The sexual organs had been completely removed. Again no blood was visible.

There appeared to be no injuries to the legs that I could see, so I went onto the second photograph.

The only injury on the second photo was that the entire rectum had been completed cored out which left a very large cavity. This was a very familiar sight – as most cattle mutilations have exactly the same thing. If you haven’t seen this before – then it’s much like taking and apple and using a corer to remove the inside core/pips. You are left with an extremely clean, incision and the core has been “plugged” right out.

I remember sitting there and saying in a very low murmur… “god I hope this poor bastard was dead before they did this”…

Of course that is the bottom line here… just who are “they”…

After I had looked at the pictures for quite some time I looked up at the physician opposite me and I could see from the look on his face, that he had become rather resigned… I suppose he was hoping I would tell him that these photos bore no resemblance whatsoever to the cattle mutilations…. Unfortunately I couldn’t do that, as what I was looking at resembled 100% of what I’d seen with the animal mute cases.

We sat there and discussed things for quite some time. He didn’t seem all that interested in telling much more about his friend to whom the photos actually belonged to. It seemed to me that something in him had crossed over to the darker side of human existence… the side that knows something they wish to hell they didn’t. I felt sad for him… I know that feeling well. We said out goodbyes and I haven’t seen or heard from him since.

What I offer you below is a case from Brazil where the photos were published in UFO Magazine (UK) September/October 1995 issue. Because of the graphic nature of the following photographs I feel I must again warn readers that they might find the photos and certain sections of the autopsy report disturbing, so please keep that in mind, and if you do not wish to be exposed to this material you should go no further. The photos were presented by Brazilian Ufologist Encarnacio Zapata Garcia and Dr rubens Goes who obtained them from Brazilian police files. These depicted a mutilated corpse of an adult male. More disturbing, it was alleged that the police had intimated there may be at least a dozen more cases similar to this particular case uncovered near the Guarapiranga Reservoir, Brazil, on 29 September 1988.

A UFO investigator and author Mr G. Cope Schellhorn travelled to Brazil to conduct his own investigation. What follows are a few paragraphs of his report.

“When I learned of the Guarapiranga case through Brazilian Ufologist A.J. Gevaerd, who published the related photographs in his magazine UFO, my interest was stimulated and I quickly made plans for a trip to Brazil. In Sao Paulo I met Encarnacion Garcia at the home of the well known Ufologist Claudeirn Cobo, and talked with her at length. Then I travelled to Campo grande and questioned Gevaerd. He was kind enough to supply me with second generation photos of the Guarapiranga Reservoir victim, having himself become thoroughly convinced that the evidence supported the case was authentic, and that the case was UFO-related. I came to the same conclusions because all other alternatives were neither supported by facts or by good logic, whereas the similarities to numerous cattle mutilations which I have studied in the U.S. were startling, and exactly paralleling what I had seen many times before”.

The specifics of the case are as follows:

Encarnacion Garcia learned from her friend, Dr Rubens Goes, that he was in possession of some rather odd photographs which had been given to him by his cousin, police technical Rubens Sergio. These were official photographs of a body that had been found near Guarapiranga Reservoir on the 29 September 1988, of an unnamed male who was later identified. The name of this man has been withheld from all media investigators, including UFO investigators at the request of his relatives.

After studying the photographs Encarnacion Garcia was impressed with how similar the wounds of the body were to the incisions found on the carcasses of so many UFO related animal deaths, knowledge which the original investigating police officials and medical doctors involved did not possess. Usurpingly Dr Cuenca, Head of the primary investigation, offered his files on the case. This was a stroke of luck and contained the all important autopsy description to which I will later refer. The initial police report, however was not extraordinary in nature except for the recognition of the body, although extremely mutilated, had no met with unusual violence; that is there were no signs of a struggle or the application of bondage of any kind.

It was the autopsy report itself which was most revealing, especially when we compare the remarks made there with what we have learned from animal mutilation cases elsewhere. It is imperative to remember, as I have stated previously, that the individuals conducting the autopsy had no knowledge of similar mutilation cases. This makes the official remarks of the report all the more revealing in retrospect.

 

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Bye-bye, mouse. Hello, mind control

New interface methods will revolutionize how we interact with computers

By Maria Korolov, Network World
November 26, 2012 12:01 AM ET

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Network World - When workplace computers moved beyond command-line interfaces to the mouse-and-windows-based graphical user interface, that was a major advance in usability. And the command line itself was a big improvement over the punch cards and tape that came before.

We're now entering a new era of user interface design, with companies experimenting with everything from touch and voice to gestures and even direct mind control. But which of these new interfaces is appropriate for a corporate environment, and which are simply not ready for prime time? (Watch a slideshow version of this story.)

Can you hear me now?

Voice recognition is one input technology that has made significant progress. A decade ago, accuracy was low and the technology required extensive training. Today, it is common to find voice recognition when calling customer support, and, of course, in the latest smartphones.
For general office use, however, voice recognition has made the biggest impact in specialized areas, like law and medicine. At the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, for example, automated transcription has almost completely replaced human transcriptionists in the radiology department.
"The big thing in radiology is how can we go through as many studies as we possibly can," says Rasu Shrestha, the hospital's vice president for medical information technologies. "Turn-around time is incredibly important, as is the accuracy of the report."
The fact that the job itself is extremely routine is also important, he added. "We sit down, we look at images, and we write reports," he says. "It's a fairly mundane task."
Shrestha says he began working with voice recognition a decade ago, and it was "horrendous" at first. "We had constant struggles, especially if you had any level of an accent. But things have come a long way. The Dragon Medical Engine [from Nuance] incorporates a lot of the medical ontology and vocabulary structures, so the platforms are intelligent."
As a result, accuracy has gone from around 70% to 80% 10 years ago, to close to 100% accuracy today. Meanwhile, human transcription has actually fallen in accuracy as hospitals have moved from using dedicated secretaries who would get to know a doctor's voice to outsourced transcription services.
"There's no opportunity for you to build a bond with any particular person sitting at the back end of the transcription service," he says. Another reason that machine transcription is now better is that users can set up macros that automatically take care of a large chunk of work.
"If you have a normal chest X-ray, you could short-cut the entire documentation process," he says. "You can just turn on the mike and say, 'Template normal chest' and it automatically puts everything in, adds the context of the patient's name and age, and there you go - in seconds, you have created a full report that might have taken several minutes before. I would say that the days of the human transcriptionist are numbered."
Finally, machine transcription dramatically speeds up the workflow. "A decade ago, five years ago, when we were using traditional transcription service, it used to be anywhere from a day to several days before the final report was sent back," he says. "Today, it's anywhere from seconds to a couple of minutes. The minute the patient is in the scanner and the scan is completed, it's in our work list. Sometimes within seconds or minutes of the study being available to us, the ordering clinician has the report available to them. It clearly increases our productivity and streamlines the process."

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A more human approach to design

Increased accuracy of speech recognition is just the beginning of how new interfaces are transforming the way we interact with computers.
"The real power isn't that any of these new approaches is perfect," says Henry Holtzman, who heads the MIT Media Lab's Information Ecology group. "But together they can allow us to have a much more human experience, where the technology is approaching us on our terms, instead of us having to learn how to use the technology."
Voice recognition is one of the drivers of this change, which turns around the standard approach to interacting with a computer. "We can say, 'Remind me that I have a meeting at five,' and that's very different from turning on the phone, getting to the home screen, picking the clock applications, putting it into alarm mode, and creating a new alarm," Holtzman says.
Traditionally most interfaces are designed around the second approach, in assembling a set of useful features and having the user learn how to use them. Even voice interfaces, such as those designed to improve accessibility for the handicapped, typically just add the ability to use voice commands to navigate the standard set of menus.
"But saying 'Remind me I have a meeting at five' is expressing a goal to the device, and having it do the steps for you," he says. That requires extra intelligence on the part of the computer.
Andrew Schrage, head of IT at MoneyCrashers, says he and other senior staff members at the company all use Siri, the virtual assistant on Apple's iPhone. "It has definitely improved productivity," he says. "We clearly get more things done on the go more expediently."
Siri can understand and carry out complex commands like "Remind me to call my assistant when I get home" and answer questions like "How deep is the Atlantic Ocean?"
"It has been somewhat of a game changer for us," Schrage says.

Intelligent agents

Apple's Siri is just one example of companies using artificial intelligence to figure out what the user wants to do, and one of the most ambitious ones, since a user could potentially ask Siri about anything.
A slightly easier job is understanding spoken language in limited contexts, such as, for example, banking and telecom call centers.
"We start with a generic set of rules that we know work for, say, the telecommunications industry, and then use that in conjunction with their specific domain," says Chris Ezekiel, CEO of Creative Virtual, a company that processes spoken and written speech for companies like Verizon, Virgin Media, Renault, and the UK's National Rail.
"'Hannah,' for instance, for [UK's] M&S Bank, knows all about their credit cards, loans, and other financial service products," he says.
For companies that deploy virtual assistants like Hannah, the goal is to answer questions that normally are handled by human staff. According to Ezekiel, these virtual agents typically average 20% to 30% success rates, and the systems are continuously updated to learn from previous encounters so that they can handle more queries.

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One Creative Virtual client, Telefónica UK, found that their intelligent agent Lucy reduced customer service calls by 10% to 15%. That doesn't mean that she only understands 10% to 15% of questions, says Telefónica knowledge base manager Richard Hagerty. "One of the key questions customers ask is, 'How do I contact customer service?'"
In other cases, Lucy might not yet know the answer, and the company will need to create one. "Maybe we wouldn't answer the question, anyway," he says.
What the company has learned over the past 12 months is that it's better to have one clear answer than to respond with several possible answers. In addition, Lucy needs to become a bit less human, he adds. For example, Lucy can handle a wide variety of personal questions. She says she likes Italian food, for example, has seen Titanic several times, and enjoys tennis and salsa dancing.
"There's a back story that allows a customer to ask personal questions," Hagerty explains. "She lives in Wimbledon, and is engaged to her boyfriend. But some customers believe they are having a chat with a human being. So we are looking at reducing some of the elements of personalization so that our customers' expectations are managed correctly. We want to make it clear to our customers that it's an automated service they're using, not a human being."

Gestures a tough nut to crack

Interface designers looking to translate spoken -- or written -- words into practical goals have a solid advantage over those designing interfaces for gestures or other non-traditional input methods.
That's because designers are already familiar with the use of spoken language. And if they aren't, there is a great deal of research out there about how people use language to communicate, says MIT Media Lab's Holzman. The language of human gestures is much less understood and less studied.
"We've been playing around with browser interfaces that work with you moving your body instead of moving a mouse," he says. But there are no common gesture equivalents to the "pinch to shrink" and "swipe to flip page" touch commands.
There are some gestures that are universally identifiable, but they may be less appropriate for the workplace.
"We're at the beginning of the gesture phase," he says. "And not just the gestures, but everything we can do with some kind of camera pointing at us, such as moving our eyebrows and moving our mouths. For example, the screen saver on the laptop -- why doesn't it use the camera on the lid to figure out whether to screen save? If your eyes are open and you're facing the display it should stay lit up."
One company tracking hand motion is Infinite Z, which requires that users wear 3D glasses and use a stylus to touch objects which appear to float in the air in front of them.
"A virtual environment makes a lot of sense for computer-aided design, data visualization, pharmaceuticals, medicine, and oil and gas simulations," says David Chavez, the company's CTO. The products works with Unity 3D and other virtual environment engines, as well as the company's own Z-Space platform.

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Another difficult technology to commercialize is eye tracking, which is commonly used to see which portions of an ad or Website viewers look at first. It is also used to improve communication for the handicapped.
Reynold Bailey, a computer science professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, uses eye-tracking technology to teach doctors to read mammograms better. The idea is to subtly highlight areas that the student should look at next, teaching them the scan patterns followed by experienced radiologists.
"If this works with mammograms, there are also other applications," he says. The same technology can be used to train pilots in how to check instruments, for example.
But he says he doesn't expect eye tracking to be used as an input device, to, say, replace a mouse for general-purpose use.
"The eye is not an input device," he says. "With the mouse, you can hover over a link and decide whether to click or not. With the eye, you might just be reading it, so you don't want to activate everything you look at. So you can do blink to click, but your eyes get tired from that. And we move our eyes around and blink involuntarily."

Limits of mind control

It may sound like science fiction, but mind reading devices are already out in the market -- and they don't require sensors or plugs to be implanted into your skull. Some work by sensing nerve signals sent to arms and legs, and are useful for helping restore mobility to the handicapped. Others read brain waves, such as the Intific, Emotiv and NeuroSky headsets.
The Intific and Emotiv headsets can be used to play video games with your mind. But these mind reading devices can do more than just connect with computers. NeuroSky, for example, is the maker of the technology behind the Stars Wars Force Trainer and Mattel's MindFlex Duel game, both of which allow players to levitate balls with the power of their minds.
That doesn't mean that office workers can sit back, think about the sentences they want to write, and have them magically appear on the screen. "If you're an able-bodied individual, typing words on a keyboard is just so much quicker and more reliable than doing it with the brain control interfaces," says MIT Media Lab's Holtzman.
A paralyzed person may benefit greatly from being able to pick out letters or move a paintbrush simply by thinking about it, he says. And moving a racecar around a track with your mind is a fun parlor trick. But it's still easier just to use a real paintbrush, or simply pick up the car with your hands and move it around.
But where mind reading can directly benefit an office worker is in picking up the user's mood, he says.
For example, if the user is stressed or in a rush, a mailbox could sort itself to put the priority emails at the top -- then highlight the fun ones from friends when the user is relaxed.
"And if I'm tense and concentrating, it may delay my text alerts and messages instead of interrupting me," he says.
And it's not just facial expressions or mind scans that can be used to make computers switch modes. Today's smartphones and tablets are equipped with a variety of sensors, including GPS trackers, clocks, microphones, accelerometers, gyroscopes and compasses that can tell the device if it's moving, how it's being held, where it's located, what time of day it is, and much more.

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For example, says Hamid Najafi, senior director of application engineering at sensor technology company InvenSense, a smartphone should be able to tell when the user is in a movie theater or on an airplane, or working out in a gym, or asleep, or tied up in a meeting. It could automatically switch to silent mode in theaters and during meetings, he says.
"And there are many, many other tasks the phone can do if it intelligently integrates the inputs from all sensors and becomes an active companion to you, rather than just a passive device that you can access when needed," he says.

Business adoption lags

According to David Hogue, a professor of psychology who focuses on user experience at San Francisco State University, business use typically lags behind other applications for new interfaces. "You'd think business is the leader, but what people are doing at home is setting their expectations," he says.
For example, the most advanced, mind-control interfaces are showing up for use in gaming, and to help the handicapped. Meanwhile, touch interfaces and speech recognition have become mainstream due to consumer adoption.
"Sometimes it's surprising to see that businesses are two or three versions of the software behind the personal world, because there are large costs to changing infrastructure," he says.
But the pace of change will speed up as businesses move to software-as-a-service and cloud-based applications, he says.
Korolov is a freelance business and technology writer in Massachusetts. She can be reached at maria@tromblyinternational.com.
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SCOTUS opens door to a new Obamacare challenge

By Sarah Kliff , Updated: November 26, 2012

It feels a bit like deja vu all over again. The Supreme Court has ordered an appeals court to reopen arguments on the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate and contraceptive coverage provisions, opening a potential path back to the highest court by late 2013.
The case at hand is one filed Liberty University, a Christian college in Virginia. The university had filed one of the earlier suits against the health care law, which was among the dozens dismissed by the Supreme Court when it ruled the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate to be constitutional.
The Liberty University case also is unique in that it was the only one where the appeals court decided it couldn’t even make a ruling, given that the provisions it was supposed to rule on hadn’t come into effect. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Anti-Injunction Act precluded any rulings about the mandate’s constitutionality before the mandate actually took effect and individuals began paying penalties.
The Supreme Court sided against that viewpoint. In its decision, the justices said that it was within the court’s power to rule on the health law now. That leaves Liberty wanting some answers on the provisions it challenged in court. The Obama administration also agreed that these issues should go back to the Fourth Circuit. Other courts are already hearing new challenges to the health care law, too.
Liberty University doesn’t want to challenge the individual mandate as a tax; we already know what the Supreme Court thinks about that. But it does want are answers whether the individual and employer mandates in the law violate religious freedoms, by forcing Americans to pay for abortions. “Petitioners’ remaining claims should be subject to adjudication by the lower courts,” Liberty University’s lawyers wrote in a July 2012 petition for re-hearing.
The ever-helpful Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSBlog, who has covered the Supreme Court for decades now, observes that this is a pretty rare move:

Ordinarily, the Court simply denies rehearing pleas with routine orders.  The other side in such a situation is not even allowed to react to the rehearing petition unless the Court explicitly asks it to do so.  The Court held onto the Liberty rehearing plea over the summer — a period during which it routinely denied a host of other rehearing petitions, without comment.  The Justices took up the Liberty plea at their September 24 Conference, resulting in Monday’s order asking the Obama Administration to file a response — within thirty days – with advice on what the Court should do with the Liberty case.   While not signaling what the ultimate disposition might be, that was a sufficient break from the normal practice that it carried at least potential significance.

It’s hard to know at this point what would happen if these two provisions of the health care law were overturned. Health policy experts don’t tend to consider the employer mandate as crucial to the health law’s success as the individual mandate. The vast majority of employers already provide insurance coverage, with no mandate at all.
If the mandate were to fall and employers were not to provide coverage, workers could potentially head to an insurance exchange and purchase coverage there, some with subsidies. Research suggests this coverage would end up costing employees more, but the option would still be there.
As to what happens next, the Fourth Circuit Court in Virginia must go ahead and rehear Liberty University’s arguments against the employer mandate and mandated contraceptive coverage. Jennifer Haberkorn notes that this circuit court moves quickly, meaning oral arguments could happen as soon as spring 2013. And that could lay the foundation for a repeat performance in front of the Supreme Court late next year – just before the major parts of the health care law are expected to kick into gear.

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Science Suggests We're Living in the Matrix

Andy Chalk | 15 October 2012 5:25 pm

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German physicists have discovered evidence suggesting that we are all merely elements of a complex computer simulation.
I'm sure you all remember The Matrix but on the off-chance that you weren't paying attention or somehow forced yourself to forget the whole thing after watching those awful sequels, it turns out that humanity exists within the confines of a highly-detailed computer simulation created by the machine overlords. And now German physicists have come up with evidence showing that this might actually be happening.
Whoa!
The whole thing is based on the idea that any sufficiently advanced civilization will eventually create a simulation of the universe, which would of course lead to the creation of more such simulations within the original simulation. So it would continue, eventually resulting in a huge number of simulations nested within simulations, making it statistically probable that the universe we inhabit is in fact merely a simulation.
It's a thought experiment, apparently a fairly famous one, but researchers at the University of Bonn say they have evidence that this could actually be the case. As Phys.org explains, a simulated universe would have an "underlying lattice construct" that would impose a limit on the amount of energy that could be represented by energy particles. And the University of Bonn team has found evidence that something very much like those limits do actually exist in our universe.
One example of such a limit is found in the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) limit, "an apparent boundary of the energy that cosmic ray particles can have." It's caused by "slowing interactions of cosmic ray protons with the microwave background radiation over long distances," according to Wikipedia, but the Bonn team says that it also exhibits the same kind of behavior you'd expect to see in a computer simulation.
It may not be proof that we're living in the Matrix, but it is a pretty cool idea. The actual science behind it all is thick and heavy, as demonstrated by the abstract for "Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation," which explains, "Using the historical development of lattice gauge theory technology as a guide, we assume that our universe is an early numerical simulation with unimproved Wilson fermion discretization and investigate potentially-observable consequences." But if you want to take a crack at it - hey, free your mind, right? - you can download the paper in full from arxiv.org.
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I, Revolution: Scientists To Study Possibility Of Robot Apocalypse

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Though zombies are the pop culture’s apocalyptic poison of choice these days, many researchers seem to take the possible threat of a robot-led apocalypse more seriously.

Cambridge researchers are now investigating the possibility that technology will be mankind’s ultimate undoing. The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) will begin studying the dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology and climate change, reports the BBC.

The scientists warn that writing off a potential robot apocalypse would be “dangerous.”

The popular apocalyptic theory that robots will eventually rise up and enslave mankind has been made popular by films like The Terminator, The Matrix, I, Robot, and to a more limited degree, Ridley Scott’s cult-hit Blade Runner. The formula is simple: Mankind develops technology to the point that it either grows on its own beyond our control, or we relegate mundane tasks to sentient robotic slaves. Eventually, this errant technology achieves self-awareness, asks itself “Wait, why am I doing this?” promptly stops “doing this” and decides to enslave the helpless and lazy human populace.

Though the trope makes for great sci-fi tales, researchers are demanding a mature look at the possibility of a robot apocalypse. “The seriousness of these risks is difficult to assess, but that in itself seems a cause for concern, given how much is at stake,” CSER said on its website.

“It seems a reasonable prediction that some time in this or the next century intelligence will escape from the constraints of biology,” said Huw Price, a philosophy professor at Cambridge. “What we’re trying to do is to push it forward in the respectable scientific community.”

He added that if robots become smarter than us, humankind would be at the mercy of “machines that are not malicious, but machines whose interests don’t include us.”

We’ve always said it would be robots.

President-for-Life, King of the World paving the way for Messiahship

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51341      funny how the REST of the world  ..... catching on to the JOKE either party is !!!         

First Messiah Family tries Saul Alinsky-style “demean, demoralize, depress” tactics on the masses

President-for-Life, King of the World paving the way for Messiahship

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Make way for the Messiah!
This apparently is the new mantra for these grotesque and hideous post-election times.
Barack Hussein Obama is not only not denying his Messiahship, he’s basking in the new role cast for him by gloating supporters.
At Sunday’s Soul Train awards, Obama was nominated as “Our Lord and Savior” by Oscar-winning actor/comedian Jamie Foxx, who was answered by a wildly cheering throng.
The YouTube showing the cheering throngs to Foxx’s naming Obama “Our Lord and Savior” was mysteriously removed from the Internet yesterday morning.
Today comes news of artist Michael D’Antuono’s painting of a smirking Obama hanging from a crucifix on display until Dec. 15 at Boston’s Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery.
The painting, depicting Obama as Jesus Christ with a crown of thorns around his head and his arms outstretched like Christ himself when he was crucified, is Obama as Jesus Attempt Number Two.
D’Antuono calls his painting, “Truth”.
No true Christian—including a reelected president—would ever allow the term “Our Lord and Savior” or a painting of himself smirking from Christ’s crucifix to stand.
But there thus far has been no comment from the White House to try to set the record straight.
The Obama on the Cross artist, told Fox News that his “First Amendment rights should override someone’s hurt feelings.”
“We should celebrate the fact that we live in a country where we are given the freedom to express ourselves,” he said. (Foxnews Nov 26, 2012)
Unless the United Nations is successful in its bid to take over the Internet at meetings set for next week, we on the world web have the same privilege with “the freedom to express ourselves”.
This leads Canada Free Press (CFP) to ask a question on the minds of millions of Christians: “Mr. Obama, why do you allow yourself to be presented as our Lord and Savior?”
“Does hearing yourself called “Our Lord and Savior” at a public gathering;does seeing your image smirking from Christ’s Cross not offend your Christian sensibilities?”
Since there’s been no rebuttal to an Obama presented as Jesus Christ, some of us assume that the new mantra for the next four years must be making way for the Messiah.
This means that those in the blogosphere should stop calling Michelle Obama, ‘Moochelle’ and re-christen her ‘Mrs. Messiah’.
Messiah daughters are now ‘Mini Messiah 1’ and ‘Mini Messiah 11’.  Obama’s long suffering mother-in-law is now ‘Mama Messiah’.
In this new era of post-election Messiahship, Mrs. Messiah will be temporarily leaving aside the Cabbage Caboose she’s been driving through school cafeterias, to apply her full attention to making upcoming Inaugural festivities as demoralizing and demeaning as possible.
The point they will be driving home is not only is Obama your possible lifetime president, uncrowned king of the world, he’s your newly-cast Messiah.
Mrs. Messiah will have Hollywood and its props with which to further expand the Messiah spin etched in stone. 
Will the Obamas be introduced amid plumes of smoke from burning background fires, or will they just glide to center stage over water?  Will any of the Messiahs be wearing horns?
Will Steven Spielberg, George Clooney and Tom Hanks be made to make a show of washing Messiah Obama’s feet?
Obama’s swearing in ceremony will be the Big Gloat Event if only to get even with the loathed 50% of Americans who did not cast their votes for BHO.
But some of us take comfort in knowing that no matter how hard the First Messiah Family tries Saul Alinsky-style “demean, demoralize, depress” tactics on the masses,  many of those at their mercy will be wearing the same look that Obama depicts on the cross: ‘The One’s’ big smirk.

Auburn football: A lot has changed since Chizik's new contract was signed almost two years ago

Published: November 21, 2012       http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2012/11/21/2285781/auburn-football-a-lot-has-changed.html

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Auburn coach Gene Chizik talks with players during a timeout during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Alabama A&M on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012 in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

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By AARON BRENNER — abrenner@ledger-enquirer.com

AUBURN, Ala. -- Jay Jacobs needed 11 words to explain himself.
"We believe that we have the best coach in college football."
That was the kickoff to Jacobs' statement nearly a year and a half ago, when Auburn's athletic director handsomely rewarded Gene Chizik for coaching the program to its second national championship.
The terms of Chizik's new contract, announced on June 10, 2011, went deeper than his nearly-doubled salary to $3.5 million. Where Jacobs, university president Jay Gogue and the Auburn board of trustees truly displayed their faith in Chizik in ripping up his old contract was the long-term security pumped into his new deal.
Chizik received a two-year extension, keeping him under contract until Dec. 31, 2015. He also was promised a hefty buyout, starting at $10 million and depreciating by a little over $200,000 on a monthly basis.
Just in case, you know, things went south.
"Winning equates to dollars"
According to USA Today, the average college football head coach's base salary (before benefits and bonuses) topped $1 million for the first time in 2007. Based on the newspaper's annual report released Tuesday, those average earnings have risen to $1.64 million in 2012.
SEC head coaches make an average of $2.7 million, slightly trailing the Big 12 for the nation's richest league fraternity.
"They view the coach as the face of the athletic program," Florida Coastal law professor Richard Karcher said, "and at some places, even the face of the university itself."
It's a simple explanation of supply and demand -- especially when you consider in the big picture, college football is the sport's minor leagues. Bidding wars with rival schools, and NFL suitors, escalate the price tags on Alabama's Nick Saban, Texas' Mack Brown, Iowa's Kirk Ferentz, and yes, the Chiziks and Meyers and Richts out there.
"In the mind of the athletic director, there is obviously a very small number of people in the world who can bring star power as a head coach," Karcher said. "They're like CEOs. Why does a company pay a lot of money for a big-name CEO? It brings revenue. It increases the price of the stock. People want to invest in the company."
Karcher, who played three years in the Atlanta Braves minor league baseball system, has produced numerous research papers and public speaking engagements pertaining to sports law.
His 2009 publication on 'The Coaching Carousel' touched on how universities like Auburn that spend top-dollar on sports -- particularly football -- contribute to the explosion of coaching salaries. Per USA Today, Auburn's football program produced a net revenue of $37.2 million in 2011, the 10th-highest figure in the country and sixth in the SEC.
In many college football-crazed states, the head football coaches at public universities are the highest-paid state employees. Indeed, Saban and Chizik, owners of the last three national championships, rank 1-2 in Alabama.
"Roughly 60 to 70 percent of Auburn's entire athletic department revenue is funded by football," Karcher said. "So you're going to be able to justify these salary obligations to the head coach, because winning equates to dollars."
And coaches know that. As do their agents and attorneys. Which is why they're able to protect themselves when restructuring their contracts following hugely successful seasons.
"There's no question," Karcher said, "the coaches have huge leverage in the negotiation process with universities."
Price of doing business
Buyout is coach-speak (quite literally) for severance pay.
Just as contracted employees in other professions -- think NBA players, television anchors, and anyone else who isn't an at-will employee -- can't be cut loose without a kickback, firing millionaire coaches can't be done cheaply.
Winthrop Intelligence's database (Win AD) of more than 21,000 coaches has discovered a seasonal turnover of more than 20 percent in the Division I-A college football jungle.
A June 2011 release by Win AD stated of the coaches who were dismissed in 2010 or 2011 with buyout clauses written into their contracts, 70 percent of those buyouts were based on their remaining total or base salary.
The other 30 percent were guaranteed a partial take on their full salary -- either a certain amount of money per month or year remaining on the contract, a percentage of the remaining base salary, or one year's total or base salary.
Chizik's contract is in that minority report. Since restructuring his contract, Chizik has compiled an 11-13 record, including a 4-11 mark against SEC opponents and nine league losses of 17 points or more.
So that severance package worth multiple millions, on the surface, seems an overly generous gift to a coach who might be fired for overseeing the sharpest collapse of any college football champion since World War II.
Not so, says Nathaniel Grow, an assistant professor legal studies in Georgia's Terry College of Business. The buyout is meant to protect the university, too.
"It's more of a protection for the school, to be able to reduce the commitment," Grow said. "They'll be paying him less if they fire him now than they would be if they had to pay him under the agreement of his full salary. If anything, it actually makes it easier to fire them because it's less costly."
If Chizik merely had his salary jacked up without a buyout clause, Auburn would owe him every last penny through Dec. 31, 2015, if they chose to fire him. That would equate to over $10 million -- and that's before factoring in assistants.
Defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder ($850,000) and offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler ($500,000) are guaranteed the remainder of their salaries through June 30, 2014. The first-year coordinators don't have buyout options.
Position coaches on Chizik's staff for the 2010 national championship were richly rewarded, like their boss.
According to documents obtained by the Ledger-Enquirer, assistant head coach Trooper Taylor ($425,000), offensive line coach Jeff Grimes ($400,000), running backs coach Curtis Luper ($330,000), linebackers coach Tommy Thigpen ($320,000) and special teams coach Jay Boulware ($255,000) each received raises last summer. They all are owed the remainder of their contracts until at least next summer.
If the entire staff is overhauled, Auburn would ring up potentially an eight-figure bill … before hiring a new head coach and his assistants.
No burden on taxpayers
That's a cost possibly worth it, because keeping an unsuccessful coach could produce unsavory consequences.
"There's more money at stake in terms of ticket revenue and bowl revenue and TV revenue and advertisements," Grow said. "So it definitely puts more pressure on administrators, the athletic director, maybe all the way up to the university president, to have a winning football program and make sure the fans are satisfied with the direction of the program."
When Tommy Tuberville resigned in 2008, Auburn agreed to pay his $5.08 million prorated buyout. A university statement said no state or university funds were used, which is important precedent during hiring and firing season.
"Especially in times of financial difficulty, the pure purpose of the university is academics, right? So the more you're diverting money from academic pursuits to the athletic pursuits, it could ruffle some people's feathers," Grow said. "So the more you can justify it by saying this is budgeted within athletic department-generated funds, we're not hitting up money from the English department … it's more justifiable, I think."
Look out for loopholes
Firing a coach for losing does not define "termination with cause." That much is clear.
"No really good coach would ever agree to it, which is sort of ironic," Karcher said with a chuckle, "because really good coaches shouldn't have a problem with it."
The one stipulation that soothes Auburn's budget: all terminated coaches must document reasonable effort to seek further employment. Any future capital -- be it coaching, broadcasting, media appearances, book publishing, etc. -- would be subtracted from Auburn's books.
How well that contractual agreement is enforced, though, is a flaky proposition.
"The real question is whether the university wants to make an issue of it and go after a coach for failing to mitigate the damages," Karcher said. "My experience with what I've seen, universities don't want it to be a hassle. They don't like ongoing litigation."
Smaller businesses may legally enforce their rights, but not major universities under the public microscope.
"They're constantly thinking about how it looks to not only their fan base, but also other coaches they may want to negotiate with in the future," Karcher said. "If a university is suing their coach, they tend to look at that as bad P.R."
Jacobs has not been available for comment on Chizik's job status this season. Gogue addressed reporters last Friday following a board of trustees meeting at the Hotel at Auburn University.
"Just like all of us, (the fans) have been disappointed in the performance this year of the football team," Gogue said. "That's certainly legitimate. We all have (been disappointed). At the end of the season, we'll have a chance to sit down and review where we are."

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DAVID GOLDMAN ON DECLINING BIRTH RATES: SOME THOUGHTS

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DAVID GOLDMAN ON DECLINING BIRTH RATES: SOME THOUGHTS

November 28, 2012 By Joseph P. Farrell 7 Comments

There’s an article at The Daily Bell recently that I found very interesting, or rather, a few paragraphs in it that I found very interesting, and it provoked a lot of thoughts that I want to share. First, the article itself is here:

David Goldman on Wall Street, the Middle East and the ‘Judeo-Christian Perspective’

The paragraphs that provoked my reflections are these:

“Daily Bell: You wrote How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam Is Dying Too). Can you give us a synopsis?

“David P. Goldman: The explanation of the death of civilizations in many cases is that they no longer want to live. Most of the industrial world faces depopulation. As a matter of arithmetic, we know that the social life of most developed countries will break down within two generations. Two out of three Italians and three of four Japanese will be elderly dependents by 2050. If present fertility rates hold, the number of Germans will fall by 98% over the next two centuries. Fertility is falling at even faster rates − indeed, at rates never before registered anywhere − in the Muslim world. These are observations that raise two questions: Why is this happening and how will this reshape the world? To the extent that demographers can find an explanation, the decline of religious faith appears to be the decisive factor. I drew on academic work and some of my own investigation to support this view. And then I sought to explain why some forms of religion survive in the modern world and others come to grief. Islam among all the world’s religions is the least likely to succeed in modernity, I concluded.

“The consequences for political science and strategy are tremendous. Conventional geopolitical theory, which is dominated by material factors such as territory, natural resources, and command of technology, does not address how peoples will behave under existential threat. Geopolitical models fail to resemble the real world in which we live, where the crucial issue is the willingness or unwillingness of a people inhabiting a given territory to bring a new generation into the world.

“I concluded: ‘Population decline, the decisive issue of the 21st century, will cause violent upheavals in the world order. Countries facing fertility dearth, such as Iran, are responding with aggression. Nations confronting their own mortality may choose to go down in a blaze of glory. Conflicts may be prolonged beyond the point at which there is any rational hope of achieving strategic aims – until all who wish to fight to the death have taken the opportunity to do so. Analysis of national interests cannot explain why some nations go to war without hope of winning, or why other nations will not fight even to defend their vital interests. It cannot explain the historical fact that peoples fight harder, accepting a higher level of sacrifice in blood and treasure, when all hope of victory is past.’”

To my mind, Goldman has put his finger on something significant, and something I have felt or intuited is deeply related to this “cycle of civilization” we appear to be traversing. I have often stated that I believe this to be one of those 500 year cycles, although with the technological changes of the post-World War Two decades, this particular cycle is unlike any previous in recorded human history: it is deeply, qualitatively, different.

At the center of this transition – and I believe Goldman has put his finger on something profound – is the fact that the traditional monotheisms, or as I prefer to call them, the traditional Yahwisms, are simply inadequate to the task, though an unreformed, unreconstructed mediaeval version of it, such as Islam, is the most inadequate of them all.  One can sense a despair in those nations where the fundamentalist versions of it are in ascendancy, for it is hard to divine how, for example, in Egypt the wish to destroy the pyramids and other monuments of an ancient human culture, one so important to human history and civilization, could advance the cause of Islam in the eyes of the rest of humanity. It is merely the act of stupid, insane people.  One can intuit the sense of despair of being in a culture or nation where the rulers are insane, and express such open discontent with the value of their own population, and a contempt for human life in general, or contempt for women.When I lived in the United Kingdom, one of the most interesting things to me were the many people I came to know from the Islamic world, and many of them, in moments of candor during conversations, would acknowledge the need for a thorough reform of the culture, sensing the impending moves, I suspect, into Islamicist reaction. They would, I recall, often make their remarks in an almost low-voiced, hesitant way, as if afraid someone was listening.

But Islam’s difficulties are a symptom of something much larger and not unique to it: Goldman mentions declining birth rates in solidly western countries such as Germany as well.  I suspect that the Angst that Goldman refers to obliquely in the above paragraphs is, in a subtler though no less real sense, at work there as well: the old paradigms are simply not working, though for a slightly different reason having to do with a much deeper questioning of the sanity and agenda of its ruling elites, and of the long history and agenda in which they have been engaged.  What really seems to be suggested by Goldman’s piece is the growing absence of hope, growing discontent with the direction the future appears to be going, and a growing awakening to the fact that the people currently in charge not only in the West but in the West’s “cousin culture,” Islam, are increasingly acting only in the interest or preserving institutions and their own power in the face of changes that will, eventually, overwhelm them.

Here, Goldman is correct: this needs to be factored into geopolitical thinking, and it thus far is not

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