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夕 Pictograph of a crescent moon.   – Evening, Dusk

I am calling the congressman on DickMorris.com list.  The list consists of 30 democrats.   What I am saying is the following:

• I am registered republican and currently not a vote for or against them as I do not vote in their primary and most likely they are in a district in which they do not have significant probability of electing republicans and thus:
• If they vote for this health care bill I will register democrat solely so I can vote against them in the primary
• I will to donate money to their primary opponents
• In the general election I will of course vote republican but hopefully the republican will not be running against them.  They will be running against their primary opponent!

Genetic code is reused in exactly the same manner human programmers reuse code.  Thus once some random string of genetic coding is found useful there is a process that preserves it from change.  That change is called survival.  If it is a random string with no purpose then it is swept from the system by error.  Error is death.  Thus if you sequence the human genome you can compare useful portions with those of widely separated animals such as mice and find almost identical code.

Gill Bejerano holds a BSc, summa cum laude, in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science, and a PhD in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Twice recipient of the RECOMB best paper by a young scientist award, and a former Eshkol pre-doctoral Scholar and HHMI postdoc. As co-discoverer of ultraconserved elements, his research focuses on deciphering the function and evolution of the non-coding regions of the Human Genome. Gill is currently a postdoc with David Haussler at UC Santa Cruz, and in early 2007 he will join Stanford university as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology and the Department of Computer…

I recommend tracking the Iceland situation.  The following videos are a good breeze over the latest developments.   The socialist leftist government of England invoked terrorism laws against Iceland for the sake of trying to get at more of Icelands assets.   Just goes to show you that you can not trust a liberal around a legal system.    They do not care a bit about your life.  But do not pay your taxes and you'll be in some serious trouble even maybe called a terrorist!

The U.K. is trying to force Iceland into giving up its claims on arctic oil and gas in compensation for their losses with Icelandic banks.   Nevermind the glaring non sequitur  that U.K. investors lost money in a private bank and not with the Icelandic government. 

It really bears watching because ordinary citizens that had no dog in the hunt are being asked to pay for what private banks did.  That's like running out onto the street and randomly grabbing some stranger and making him liable for my debts.   What is so central and bears watching is that there are many situations in the world economy where the innocent bystander is going to be asked to pay.  This may have flown in yesteryear but factoring in the internet these politicians might find a whole new era ushered in.   The best thing that could happen is that all banks that have failed to fully do so with out any government support.  Investors must learn that the saying of the day is caveat emptor and that there are no citizens standing by with ambulances to cart them of if they make a mistake.

Governments trying to institute a program against the will of the people? Its part of a revolution that is coming to a town very near you.   More on Birgitta Jonsdottir.

Adding a new category because of a paragraph I read.  It will compile the worst of the worst writing I encounter.  Why do this?  Read the following and you'll know.  It takes talent to write this badly:

If you can imagine identical twin sisters at rest, their breath drawing them subtly together and apart, who somehow latch onto ropes that pull them to opposite sides of the bed — you can imagine what happens to a chromosome in the dividing cell.

There is a bed, rope, breathing and a bed involved!  What could possibly be happening?   Cell division.    Yikes!   Some one needs to go to a 4 year school specializing in metaphors and similes. 

Chinese Character learning tool online

心   heart     肺  lung

Notice character for lung has same first component as leg series below. How fast you can leg it is highly dependent on how much lung you have.

头   head         耳 ear      鼻  nose       鼻孔  nostril       眼   eye                                       孔 orifice       眼镜  glasses – eye mirror 

Note how nostril uses the "sub" character as a component of the second character.  孔  orifice. 

臂  arm     肘  elbow   腕  wrist   手  hand   指   finger      拇 thumb  掌    palm                                                      手机  Cellular Phone = hand machine

腿  leg   膝 knee   脚  foot    踝    ankle   趾  toe                                   脚踏车  bicycle = foot tap car

单   Single – different than the number 1

双   Pairs – different than the number 2  – looks like 2 people walking side by side

三   triple = three – degenerates to the number

四   quadruple = four – degenerates to the number

Presented by Gregory Benford.

Genescient is the world's first computational biology company founded on the use of artificial biological selection to cure the diseases of aging. Our laboratory animals have been selected for longevity through 750 generations for the equivalent of 15,000 human years. I will describe Genescient's multiple pathways toward accelerating human longevity, with parallel enhancements of vigor and function. Genescient applies 21st century genomic technology to identify, screen and develop benign therapeutic substances at precise doses, to defeat the diseases of aging. Our singular approach addresses the complex genomic networks that underlie aging and aging-associated diseases such as cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases. I shall display some results and our first product, due in 2009.

Gregory Benford is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, where he was a Professor of Physics. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and the Universities of Turin and Bologna. In 1995 he received the Lord Prize for contributions to science. With more than 200 scientific publications, his research encompasses both theory and experiments in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics. His research has been supported by NSF, NASA, AFOSR, DOE and other agencies. He is an ongoing advisor to NASA, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and the CIA.

Dr. Benford is also the author of more than thirty books, nearly all still in print. His work has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. His non-fiction Deep Time received much praise in 1999 and he won the United Nations Medal in literature in 1994.

Gregory Benford became Emeritus form the University of California, Irvine, in 2006 in order to found and develop Genescient.

Emails have some very common parameters and thus studying the chinese used in them has some advantage.

年  – Year
月  – Month

周 -week

日  – Day   

星期一    Monday – Star Period One

周二   Tuesday  – Week two  … meaning day of the week number 2.  Translator gives 星期二

星期三    Wednesday – Star Period Three  …. using the email format this would be 周三    Communists are atheists because they want you to worship THEM.  If you are a libertarian atheist you would not get your knickers in a snare by calling it "Star Period One"….. notice any similarities of communists with the left in the United States?  Imagine hearing a liberal saying it is God Day #2 for Tuesday.

星期四  Star Period Four

星期五   Friday -  Star Period Five

星期六   Saturday -  Star Period Six

星期日  Sunday – Star Period Day

And thus falling out of the above the words for numbers:

zero,one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine, ten,eleven,twelve,thirteen:    

零，一，二，三，四，五，六，七，八，九，十，十一，十二，十三       

写道： Wrote =  写 Write  道 Road
发件人  From   =   发  Fa     件 Parts    人  People   -  this looks like a stick person

主题  Theme ( subject ) -    主 Main  题 Title

回复：   reply =  回  Back    复 Complex

收件人   Recipient =  收  Close  件Parts    人People

日期  Date = 日  Day     期   Period

上午  AM = 上  On   午Afternoon
 

下午   PM =     下    Next    午 Afternoon

TaoBao is a chinese ebay like website.  They have on their front page a list of categories.  I am using it to learn chinese characters.

I am recording what I do here on my 电脑 ( electric brain aka computer )

电 – electric

脑 – brain