Militaries do not buy and modify new technology; new technology is develop and pitched to them. Live by the Segway, die by the Segway. Segway Company Owner Dies in Segway Accident
LONDON - Jimi Heselden was said to have been riding a Segway when he went off a cliff. The British millionaire businessman who owns the firm Segway has been found dead at the bottom of a cliff with one of the two-wheeled electric scooters near his body, police said on Monday. Jimi Heselden, 62, who bought the U.S.-based firm, and who was also chairman of Hesco Bastion, was discovered in a river near Leeds, northern England, on Sunday.
BURMA - The Yaza Mani Sula Kaung Hmu Daw Pagoda, a revered Buddhist religious monument in northern Burma's Sagaing Division, has become the latest victim of the ruling regime's meddling with national heritage sites, according to local residents. The pagoda, which has been undergoing renovations since January, is expected to emerge from its facelift a bright golden hue after centuries of pristine whiteness. Local people say the transformation, ordered by the country's top general, Than Shwe, will destroy its historic character and diminish its magnificence. A poet living in Mandalay said that because of the pagoda's religious and historical significance, the public, senior Buddhist monks, and scholars should have been consulted before the changes were made.Russian Soyuz spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan
KAZAKHSTAN (March 16) - Bringing a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts safely back to Earth after a months-long stay at the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz TMA-01M capsule touched down in Kazakhstan about 50 miles (80 km) north of the town of Arkalyk on the snowy steppes of Central Asia. They landed under harsh conditions, with ankle-deep snow and 30-knot winds reported by recovery crews.
Meet Opal, a guide dog for a guide dog
ENGLAND - When an Englishman's guide dog loses his sight, the owner finds another canine to show them both around. The new seeing-eye dog, Opal, sitting at his owner's feet, has become fast friends with Edward, who recently went blind. PHOTOS The video: Graham Waspe, a partially sighted man in England, depended on his guide dog Edward for six years. When glaucoma struck the loyal labrador, robbing him of his own sight, Waspe was devastated. Enter Opal, a 2-year-old labrador who now helps both Waspe and Edward get around.
VIRGINIA BEACH - Access the "Archive of the Soul" and its journey. Imagine uncovering the truth of who you are and loving it fully, living moment-to-moment completely fulfilled, remaining calm and steady while facing challenging situations. You can learn to do all this and more with the wisdom and healing energy held in the Akashic Records, an energetic archive of every soul's history and its future possibilities. Once accessible only to spiritual masters, now the Akashic Records are yours to personally enter anytime, anywhere, with How to Read the Akashic Records. [Akasha means "space" in Sanskrit, but it was a word popularized by the American psychic Edgar Cayce in his readings].
Whenever news of an earthquake hits, we are told that the quake had a magnitude of, say, 3.2 or 5.0, or even 7.0, as was the case in Haiti [or even 9.0 as in Japan]. We all understand that 7 is worse than 5, of course. But few of us really understand or appreciate the degree of difference. Popularly (yet inacurately) called the Richter Scale, today’s seismologists measure an earthquake’s energy according to what is technically called the moment magnitude scale.
Creator and former director of the annual competition in Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Epstein brought together some of the most eminent thinkers in the world to design and oversee a contest to find the world's first "thinking" computer, along the lines suggested by computer pioneer Alan Turing in 1950. With Gary Roberts and Grace Beber, Dr. Epstein has recently edited a comprehensive volume called Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodical Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer reviewing the status of Turing's predictions.
Vishnu: Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior
NASHVILLE - Hinduism is the world's [fourth] largest religion and its oldest continuously practiced one, so it is somewhat surprising there has never been a major museum exhibition on Vishnu, one of its most important deities. "Vishnu: Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior" is a new exhibit at Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual Arts that aims to introduce American art audiences to the visual beauty of the intricate ways Hindus throughout time have rendered their deities.
UFO Weekly Traffic Report
The UFO Traffic Report for March 9, 2011 includes selected cases from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. Read more details about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner homepage. The most up-to-date UFO information can be heard at the Web radio show UFO Traffic Report every Wednesday. Past shows are available at the Archive page.
