Thursday, May 17, 2012

Autistic boy,12, with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativity

Autistic boy,12, with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativity


Gifted: Jacob Barnett is so far ahead of his age group he is now leaving university he is developing his own theory on how the universe came into being

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By MailOnline
A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics.
Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 – higher than Albert Einstein – and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role.
The boy wonder, who taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a week, is now tutoring fellow college classmates after hours.
And now Jake has embarked on his most ambitious project yet – his own ‘expanded version of Einstein’s theory of relativity’.
His mother, not sure if her child was talking nonsense or genius, sent a video of his theory to the renowned Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton University.
According to the Indiana Star, Institute astrophysics professor Scott Tremaine -himself a world renowned expert – confirmed the authenticity of Jake’s theory.
In an email to the family, Tremaine wrote: ‘I’m impressed by his interest in physics and the amount that he has learned so far.
‘The theory that he’s working on involves several of the toughest problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics.
‘Anyone who solves these will be in line for a Nobel Prize.’
But for his mother Kristine Barnett, 36, and the rest of the family, maths remains a tricky subject.
Speaking to the paper, Mrs Barnett said: ‘I flunked math. I know this did not come from me.’
And it hasn’t gone un-noticed by Jake, who added: ‘Whenever I try talking about math with anyone in my family they just stare blankly.’
Jake was diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome, a mild form of autism, from an early age.
His parents were worried when he didn’t talk until the age of two, suspecting he was educationally abnormal.
It was only as he began to grow up that they realised just how special his gift was.
He would fill up note pads of paper with drawings of complex geometrical shapes and calculations, before picking up felt tip pens and writing equations on windows.
By the age of three he was solving 5,000-piece puzzles and he even studied a state road map, reciting every highway and license plate prefix from memory.
By the age of eight he had left high school and was attending Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis advanced astrophysics classes.
His classroom presence is quite unnerving for many of the 18-plus year old students at his IPIU lectures.
Speaking to the Indy Star, Wanda Anderson, a biochemistry major said: ‘When I first walked in and saw him, I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to school with Doogie Howser.’
She added: ‘A lot of people come to him for help when they don’t understand a physics problem.
‘People come up to him all the time and say, ‘Hey Jake, can you help me’.
‘A lot of people think a genius is hard to talk to, but Jake explains things that would still be over their head.’
And his Professor John Ross said his performance in lectures had been ‘outstanding’.
‘When he asks a question, he is always two steps ahead of the lecture.
‘Everyone in the class gets quiet. Poor kid. . . . He sits right in the front row, and they all just look at him.
‘He will come to see me during office hours and ask even more detailed questions. And you can tell he’s been thinking these things through.
‘Kids his age would normally have problems adding fractions, and he is helping out some of his fellow students.’
According to his parents Jake has trouble sleeping at night as he constantly sees numbers in his head.
But far from complaining, Jake has turned the sleepless nights to his advantage – debunking the big bang theory.
The next step, according to professor Ross, is for Jake to leave class altogether and take up a paid research role.

Genius: Jake Barnett is now set to become a paid astrophysics researcher
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369595/Jacob-Barnett-12-higher-IQ-Einstein-develops-theory-relativity.html
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Bernie Sanders: Congress doesn't regulate Wall St., the big banks regulate what Congress does

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Bernie Sanders: Congress doesn't regulate Wall St., the big banks regulate what Congress does
Posted By: Revel [Send E-Mail]
Date: Thursday, 17-May-2012 04:15:24


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The man who predicted all the Wall Street nonsense, Former Senator Bryan Dorgan: JPM mess is tip of the iceberg..----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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>>> JPM's $2B blunder has one potential upside. it could be good timing, because regulators right now are writing a version of the volcker rule which could prevent this kind of risky bet from happening in the future. we can only hope. jpmorgan chase's ceo, jamie dimon, was one of the voices against a strong version of the volcker rule, but, of course, congressman barney frank now sees this as a big opportunity.
>> mr. dimon wanted a version of the volcker rule that frankly wouldn't do very much. i think we now have a stronger argument for a volcker rule that says no to a bank. your main job is lending and managing the money of your clients. you should not put your own money at risk.
>> the jpmorgan mess is also reminding voters how wall street nearly sent us into a depression four years ago and it gives president obama no doubt an opportunity to do something about it in this election year. but a recent poll should make the president take notice. in five potential swing states, large majorities agree with the statement " president obama has not done enough to hold the banks accountable for their role in the housing collapse." the collapse of the housing market and wall street's meltdown four years ago is still very much in the forefront of people's minds in this country. president obama should be out there, front on this issue, no doubt. especially since mitt romney still doesn't get it. here's what romney said today about jpmorgan.
>> i would not rush to pass new legislation or new regulation. this is, in the normal course of business, a large loss, but certainly not one which is crippling or threatening to the institution.
>> that is total denial. joining me tonight, vermont senator, bernie sanders. good to have you with us. the circumstances surrounding jpmorgan, how big an opportunity is this right now?
>> i think it calls attention to the recklessness and the greed of wall street. it reminds people that four years ago, these people on wall street forced this country into worst recession since the 1930s. forced us to have to bail them out. and while dodd/frank was a step further, it did not go far enough. the american people are angry with wall street. you know what? they want our financial institutions to invest in the real economy. they want wall street to be lending money to businesses, so we can create jobs. they do not want wall street involved in a gambling casino, waging risky bets, and losing substantial sums of money and threatening the entire economy.
>> how hard is it going to be for the senate to do what the american people want them to do when wall street is so terribly influential and some say the banks own the senate.
>> ed, let me tell you what many others might not tell you. some people think, well, gee, the congress regulates wall street. i think the truth is that wall street regulates the congress. they have untold, unlimited amounts of money, money which is used to get the deregulation, you recall during the '90s, in a bipartisan way, to get the deregulation which drove us into the brink of financial collapse. they have all kinds of lobbyists on wall street. they make all kinds of campaign contributions, so it will be hard. but on the other hand, as your polls show, the american people understand how dangerous wall street can be. they want congress to stand up and if we do what the american people want, it will be the right thing.
>> what do you want to do? you want to break up the banks?
>> here's what i want to do. for a start, you need to re-regulate. bring back glass-steagall, say that we're providing federal insurance for large banks. you know why? you can't go gambling. invest in the economy.
>> commercial and investment banks have to be designated.
>> in investment banks want to invest, get involved in las vegas-type activity, let them do it, but not with insurance.
>> and how big a chance is that becoming a reality?
>> i think our friend jamie dimon may have made it easier. so invest, whatever you want to do, but don't come crawling from the federal government for insurance. that's the key issue here.
>> well, you have the big getting bigger after what happened on wall street.
>> i want the american people to hear this. today you have three out of the four largest banks bigger than they were before we bailed them out.
>> three of the four?
>> yes.
>> bigger than they were?
>> yes. significantly, also, you have the six largest financial institutions have assets of over $9 trillion, which is the equivalent of two-thirds of the assets, equivalent to two-thirds of the assets of gdp of the united states of america. so stop for a minute. when you have institutions that large, jpmorgan chase, over $2 trillion, while some will say, we're never going to bail them out again, we're going to let them fail, i don't think that's the case. if they go under, with they will be bailed out again. number two, if teddy roosevelt was alive right now and saw that the top six banks provided half the mortgages in america and two-thirds of the credit cards, what do you think a good republican like teddy roosevelt would have said?
>> we would have gone after it.
>> he would have said, break them up.
>> 69% of the american people own homes. doesn't common sense come to play with lawmakers, why would you want to gamble with that part of the economy? why would you give people the license to do that? now, they could go back tonight and do it again. byron dorgan was here last night, and he says they're all doing it.
>> mm-hmm.
>> when's the senate going to wake up? you're there. where's the other 99?
>> let me just say again what many people will not be happy to hear. wall street is extraordinarily powerful. congress doesn't regulate them. the big banks regulate what congress does.
>> is it a political winner for the president to just hammer this on the campaign trail?
>> ed, in my humble opinion, if when the president first took office -- and i've got to tell you, byron dorgan and i and others went to the white house, a half a dozen of us, we went and said, mr. president, you've got to stand up to wall street. you tell me, ed, how many of these guys have gone to jail?
>> well, none of them have gone to jail.
>> what kind of punishment has been rendered for the horrendous damage they have done to millions and millions people? nothing at all. vf virtually nothing at all. they're coming back stronger than ever. there's another issue i want to touch on. that is you have a situation where the fed, of course is supposed to be regulating the large financial institutions, and then you have the absurdity of having somebody like jamie dimon, a member of the new york fed.
>> you're going to introduce legislation --
>> we'll have legislation next week ending this absurd conflict of interest.
>> senator, good to have you with us. thanks so much.
>>> house speaker john boehner says he hasn't threatened default again, but it sure sounds like it. howard fineman joins me. and wisconsin democrats are getting swamped by scott walker lies on the tube. tonight i have a message to the democrats in this town. you won't want to miss it.

Military Detention Law Blocked by New York Judge (Update 2)

Military Detention Law Blocked by New York Judge (Update 2)

Opponents of a U.S. law they claim may subject them to indefinite military detention for activities including news reporting and political activism persuaded a federal judge to temporarily block the measure.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan yesterday ruled in favor of a group of writers and activists who sued President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the Defense Department, claiming a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed into law Dec. 31, puts them in fear that they could be arrested and held by U.S. armed forces.
The complaint was filed Jan. 13 by a group including former New York Times reporter Christopher Hedges. The plaintiffs contend a section of the law allows for detention of citizens and permanent residents taken into custody in the U.S. on “suspicion of providing substantial support” to people engaged in hostilities against the U.S., such as al-Qaeda.
“The statute at issue places the public at undue risk of having their speech chilled for the purported protection from al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and ‘associated forces’ - i.e., ‘foreign terrorist organizations,’” Forrest said in an opinion yesterday. “The vagueness of Section 1021 does not allow the average citizen, or even the government itself, to understand with the type of definiteness to which our citizens are entitled, or what conduct comes within its scope.”

Enforcement Blocked

Forrest’s order prevents enforcement of the provision of the statute pending further order of the court or an amendment to the statute by Congress.
Ellen Davis, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan, declined to comment on the ruling.
The plaintiffs claim Section 1021 is vague and can be read to authorize their detention based on speech and associations that are protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Hedges and two other plaintiffs testified in a hearing before Forrest in March, the judge said. A fourth plaintiff submitted a sworn declaration. The government put on no evidence, Forrest said.
Forrest, an Obama appointee who has served on the Manhattan federal court since October, rejected the government’s arguments that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue over the law and that it merely reaffirmed provisions in an earlier law, the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, which was passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Plaintiffs’ Activities

In her opinion, Forrest said the government declined to say that the activities of Hedges and the other defendants don’t fall under the provision. Forrest held a hearing in March at which government lawyers didn’t call any witnesses or present evidence, according to the judge. The government did cross- examine the plaintiffs who testified and submitted legal arguments.
“The government was given a number of opportunities at the hearing and in its briefs to state unambiguously that the type of expressive and associational activities engaged in by plaintiffs -- or others -- are not within Section 1021,” Forrest said. “It did not. This court therefore must credit the chilling impact on First Amendment rights as reasonable -- and real.”
Hedges, who testified he has been a foreign news correspondent for 20 years, said he has reported on 17 groups that are on a State Department list of terrorist groups. Hedges testified that after the law was passed, he changed his dealings with groups he had reported on, Forrest said.
“I think the ruling was not only correct, but courageous and important,” Hedges said in a telephone interview yesterday.
The case is Hedges v. Obama, 12-cv-00331, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York(Manhattan).
To contact the reporters on this story: Bob Van Voris in Manhattan federal court atrvanvoris@bloomberg.net; Patricia Hurtado in Manhattan federal court atphurtado@bloomberg.net.

Jerusalem hospital shows off vaccine that destroys cancer in 2 shots

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Jerusalem hospital shows off vaccine that destroys cancer in 2 shots
Posted By: LucyInTheSky
Date: Thursday, 17-May-2012 02:40:59

It will never be allowed in the USA. You'll see. They will put up all sorts of red tape to keep it out. The horrors of chemo therapy and other barbaric treatments is what keeps the American Cancer Society and others in the black. There is no way they would ever allow a cure unless THEY (Big Pharma) were the ones making money at it.
Lucy
Early human test results suggest a vaccine can train cancer patients' bodies to seek out and destroy tumour cells.
The therapy, which targets a molecule found in 90 per cent of cancers, eventually could provide an injection that would allow patients' immune systems to fight off common cancers including breast and prostate cancer.
The first results of trials in people, at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem, suggest the vaccine can reduce levels of disease. The human work is so preliminary it has yet to be published in a scientific journal.
In the safety trial at Hadassah, 10 patients with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, received the vaccine. Seven have finished the treatment and the developer, drug company Vaxil Biotherapeutics, reported all had greater immunity against cancer cells compared with before they were given the vaccine. Vaxil added that three patients were free of detectable cancer following the treatment.
Cancer cells usually evade a patient's immune system because they are not recognized as a threat. While the immune system usually attacks foreign cells such as bacteria, tumours are formed of the patient's own cells that have malfunctioned.
Scientists have discovered that a molecule called MUC1, which is found on the surface of cancer cells, can be used to help the immune sys-tem detect tumours. The new vaccine, ImMucin, developed by Vaxil and researchers at Tel Aviv University, uses a section of the molecule to prime the immune system so it can identify and thus destroy cancer cells.
Vaxil suggested that if large-scale trials prove as successful, the vaccine could be available within six years. Initial research on the vaccine, in mice, was published in the journal Vaccine, and suggested the treatment induced "potent" immunity in mice and increased their survival from cancer.
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Scientists have discovered that a molecule called MUC1, which is found on the surface of cancer cells, can be used to help the immune sys-tem detect tumours. The new vaccine, ImMucin, developed by Vaxil and researchers at Tel Aviv University, uses a section of the molecule to prime the immune system so it can identify and thus destroy cancer cells.
Vaxil suggested that if large-scale trials prove as successful, the vaccine could be available within six years. Initial research on the vaccine, in mice, was published in the journal Vaccine, and suggested the treatment induced "potent" immunity in mice and increased their survival from cancer.
Cancer charities gave the vaccine a cautious welcome. Dr. Kat Arney, at Cancer Research UK, said: "These are very early results that are yet to be fully published, so there's a lot more work to be done to prove that this particular vaccine is safe and effective in cancer patients."
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Reboot of the Grid - Update







Reboot of the Grid - Update

The critical mass for this visualization to have desired effect is about 118,000 people worldwide actually doing it with focus. If we consider that human concentration and meditation skills are not perfect, we need 144,000 people as the critical mass. 

But to read about it is one thing and actually do the visualization on 5-20-2012 completely another. I would encourage as many people as possible to actually participate, although it may be in the early morning hours in your part of the world. 


We can do it! It still needs to go viral! We need to reach millions of people, so that the critical mass of people actually doing it is attained. Please post it on your websites and blogs. If you know an alternative media outlet, you can send it to them. You can create a Facebook group for your local group of people dong this in your part of the world. You can create a video about this and post it on Youtube. If you have contact within Occupy movement or Anonymous, they might be interested in spreading this also.

The exact time for the solar eclipse maximum  in your location may differ from the official time for this meditation, which is synchronized with Mount Shasta maximum eclipse trigger point time for all time zones.




If your place is not listed, you can find world time zones map here:


The main Facebook group for this event is here:


And you can also watch the videos:




General information and guidelines about Reboot of the Grid: