chamber...

Scientists say they have found a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, which likely to spark a new surge of interest in the pharaohs.

The purpose of the space is unclear, and it's not yet known whether it was built with a function in mind or if it's merely a gap in the pyramid's architecture.  

The scientists made the discovery using cosmic-ray imaging, recording the behavior of subatomic particles called muons that penetrate the rock similar to X-rays, only much deeper.  

The pyramid is also known as Khufu's Pyramid for its builder, a 4th Dynasty pharaoh who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C. Visitors to the pyramid, on the outskirts of Cairo, can walk, hunched over, up a long tunnel to reach the Grand Gallery. The space announced by the scanning team does not appear to be connected to any known internal passages.

Scientists involved in the scanning called the find a "breakthrough" that highlighted the usefulness of modern particle physics in archaeology.

Hypocrisy...

Self Destruct...

Only Two...

 

French feminist groups staged a protest against a retrospective honoring director Roman Polanski at film institute La Cinematheque Francaise.

A few dozen protesters gathered near the Paris institute as the event was starting, booing as Polanski attended the opening.

Two members of the Femen activist group went topless near Polanski inside the film institute, shouting "no honor for rapists."  The institute said its role was not to moralize.

Polish-born Polanski in the 1970s pleaded guilty to having sex in the U.S. with a 13-year-old girl, whom he plied with champagne and Quaaludes.

Since Polanski fled the U.S., he has mostly lived in Paris.

Director of Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby, he won the Academy Award for best director for The Pianist in 2003.

Softly...

Michael Oreskes has resigned as chief of NPR's newsroom following accusations of sexual harassment that dated back to the 1990s.

Oreskes said in a statement that he was deeply sorry to the people he hurt. He said: "my behavior was wrong and inexcusable, and I accept full responsibility."

He told Jarl Mohn, president and CEO of NPR,  that he would step down. Earlier, Oreskes had been placed on leave and Mohn appointed Chris Turpin as the temporary news chief.

Two women had accused Oreskes of suddenly kissing them when they were discussing job prospects with him in the 1990s, when he was Washington bureau chief of The New York Times.

Waiting for those who did it but softly. 

Ann-Laure...

Ann-Laure Decadt, 31, of Belgium, also died, leaving behind two sons -- a 3-year-old and a 3-month-old -- the mayor of the Belgian town of Staden told ABC 

Decadt’s husband, Alexander Naessens, called her death unbearable. She was on a trip with her mother and two sisters at the time of the attack on pedestrians on Halloween Night-Manhattan.

PAPA...

Papa John himself slammed NFL leadership, blaming the organization for lackluster sales at his pizza restaurants in the third quarter. Shares of the pizza chain fell more than 11 percent.

John Schnatter, the founder of Papa John's, said the league and its leadership "hurt" the company by not resolving the player protests that have been taking place during the National Anthem.

Papa John's, which has been the official pizza of the NFL since 2010, said the combination of declining NFL viewership and negative consumer sentiment associated with the league caused sales in the third quarter to slump.

"Leadership starts at the top, and this is an example of poor leadership," he said.

BullShitter...**

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false.

For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.  [Harry Frankfurt of Princeton U.]

Truth, Lies, and the Bullshit.    Which is your preference?... Just a thought.

Application...*

Patent Application for a Pharmacy System

The Proposed Idea

a-      Creating the New Medication Proposed class.

b-      Naming and clearly identifying the class as RPhX.

c-      Number of medication items included in this class, would be the smallest strength doses of an RX medication with an eye on economics. Analgesics, Lipid Lowering medication items, among others, are part of the items to be added.

d-     Allow importation of these items freely from International sources by individuals and or organizations, which dispense these prescriptions such as CVS, and Walmart. Creating price competition similar to all other goods on Open Free Market.

E-      Pharmacists added to the current authorized prescribers to prescribe and write prescriptions for these medications in this class.

f-       Allow the pharmacists to extend the current prescription for additional time

g-      No Healthcare Insurance involvement in this class, absence of Co-Pay.

          Example of the medications for this class is Tylenol #2, Ambien 5mg, Lipitor 10mg, Zocor 10mg, Viagra 12.5mg, and similar.
I-   Expand expiration time permitted on medication transferred from the original container to a dispensed [customer] bottle to 2 years rather than one year.
Patent Pending #11/081,991

Floss...*

It's one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.  Except there's little proof that flossing works.

Still, the federal government, dental organizations and manufacturers of floss have pushed the practice for decades. Dentists provide samples to their patients; the American Dental Association
insists on its website that flossing "is an essential part of taking care of your teeth and gums."

When the federal government issued its latest dietary guidelines, the flossing recommendation had been removed, without notice. The government acknowledged the effectiveness of flossing had never been researched, as required.

What else is not required?    Looking forward.