Joy Enamavu is a bilingual journalist from Kerala, South India. He covered the first Gulf War(1990-1991) for the Malayalam language newspaper Mathrubhumi, which is the second largest newspaper in Kerala. Joy Enamavu was the only journalist-an Indian expatriate-who could effectively report the War affairs in details. The journalist also wrote a book named Yasoodi (A beduvian religion in the history of middle east) about the Kurds' struggles and the nightmare they had when Saddam Hussein was at reign.The Anfal Project clearly and realastically explained in the novel Yasoodi(Yezidi)by the writer.Yezdis are very few at present world and it is a religion that has a history of thousands of years.The human struggles are very well observed in writers magic.The Malayalam readers for the first time can have an idea about the divers culture,religious belief and social structure of a far place.The very knowedge of Yezidi religion is enough for readers to remember Joy Enamavu for quite long time in the history of Mlayalam literature. Mostly the people of Malayalam speaking never convinced the atrocities committed by Saddam regime against humanity, the media actually misled the entire Malayalam speaking people.Due to the media feedbacks of wrong concepts and inexperienced journalists folks in Malayalam,the readers had not had a chance to know what happened in Iraq actually.Those handled the subject had to depend on the people who were not even neared the truth. Joy also contributed many articles and features in Telugu language. His articles and features published in Eenadu Daily and its Sunday Supplements. He was born on 7th October 1956, has wide range of experience that probably no other journalist in Malayalam have so far have few at present.
Quantum Archeology -also known as quantum resurrection and physical resurrection, is an emerging idea in transhumanist philosophy describing a possible methodology for raising the ancient dead. It anticipates coming process technologies usually called hypercomputing that include quantum computing, nanocomputing and light computing and attempts to look at resurrection issues in a post-singularity world.
Supporters include Frank Tipler and opponents Robert Ettinger.
The idea was inspired by Asimov's Foundation trilogy where Hari Seldon makes acurate probabilistic predictions using psychohistory across thousands of years.
The basis of psychohistory is the idea that, while the actions of a particular individual could not be foreseen, the laws of statistics could be applied to large groups of people and used to predict the general flow of future events.
Quantum archeology states that it is possible to reconstruct the exact states of any of spacetime, including the memories of any person, since the cosmos is entirely subject to law.
Asimov used the analogy of a gas: in a gas, the motion of a single molecule is very difficult to predict, but the mass action of the gas can be predicted to a high level of accuracy - known in physics as the Kinetic Theory.
Quantum archeology is opposite of psychohistory and is an attempt at the science of how those predictions are made, including methods like and is in its infancy.
It assumes the cosmos is a determinist system and it therefore follows it is possible to describe any history with enough processing power leading to resurrection by future techniques.
[ supports the theory, although sees manifestation into three dimensional resurrectees as unnecessary because sufficient simulations will be the same thing.
Like archeology which is able to reconstruct objects from ancient times using surviving fragments, knowledge about similar objects and probabilities, quantum archeology assumes future computing power like quantum computers will enable this by back tracing using laws of cause and effect with emerging mathematical and statistical methods.
There are always more variables in the cosmos than there were is history enabling enough information to be gathered to reconstruct any historical event down to the quantum particle. The universe is becoming increasing complex and any group of variables should plot backwards to a time when there are fewer events.
Everett's Many World's Theory implies that many future worlds will have few common ancestors. Therefore enough variables will exist at any future time to resurrect any past event in infinite or near infinite worlds.
Quantum Archeology further holds that no event in the cosmos can be non-determined, just complex, and makes no special conditions for human beings or any observers.
The idea was first discussed on line in the kurzweilai forums, where it was initially regarded as a pseudoscience, but began to be taken seriously as it received endorsement from eminent scientists like Frank J. Tipler and discussed in Universities by scientists like Professor Vlatko Vedral.
Critics of the theory include Professor Robert Ettinger, who thinks there may be some special property of a human body not knowable by mapping.
Another criticism of the theory is that entropy causes too much information to be lost at death therefore resurrection would breech the second law of thermodynamics.
Proponents retort that entropy does not imply abstract chaos but presently unmeasurable complexity.
Religious objections appear to believe human beings operate by different laws to the universe which was a challenge made to Everett's Many Worlds Theory.
Another objection is that a computer simulation may not produce a person. Founder of cyonics Professor Robert Ettinger in 2007 wrote on quantum archeology:
Some philosophers have criticized transhumanism on the grounds that it is an attempt at a religion since both posit immortality, resurrection, and through the Simulation Argument, a creator, but it is devoid of a subjective valuation system for Man.
Debates occur about the nature of identity such as those discussed in The Prospect of Immortality, and by the philosopher Professor Derek Parfit; the computing capacity needed, and the social and legal difficulties of raising the dead.
See Also
*Psychohistory
*Statistics
*Prediction
*Quantum Theory
*Many Worlds Theory
Supporters include Frank Tipler and opponents Robert Ettinger.
The idea was inspired by Asimov's Foundation trilogy where Hari Seldon makes acurate probabilistic predictions using psychohistory across thousands of years.
The basis of psychohistory is the idea that, while the actions of a particular individual could not be foreseen, the laws of statistics could be applied to large groups of people and used to predict the general flow of future events.
Quantum archeology states that it is possible to reconstruct the exact states of any of spacetime, including the memories of any person, since the cosmos is entirely subject to law.
Asimov used the analogy of a gas: in a gas, the motion of a single molecule is very difficult to predict, but the mass action of the gas can be predicted to a high level of accuracy - known in physics as the Kinetic Theory.
Quantum archeology is opposite of psychohistory and is an attempt at the science of how those predictions are made, including methods like and is in its infancy.
It assumes the cosmos is a determinist system and it therefore follows it is possible to describe any history with enough processing power leading to resurrection by future techniques.
[ supports the theory, although sees manifestation into three dimensional resurrectees as unnecessary because sufficient simulations will be the same thing.
Like archeology which is able to reconstruct objects from ancient times using surviving fragments, knowledge about similar objects and probabilities, quantum archeology assumes future computing power like quantum computers will enable this by back tracing using laws of cause and effect with emerging mathematical and statistical methods.
There are always more variables in the cosmos than there were is history enabling enough information to be gathered to reconstruct any historical event down to the quantum particle. The universe is becoming increasing complex and any group of variables should plot backwards to a time when there are fewer events.
Everett's Many World's Theory implies that many future worlds will have few common ancestors. Therefore enough variables will exist at any future time to resurrect any past event in infinite or near infinite worlds.
Quantum Archeology further holds that no event in the cosmos can be non-determined, just complex, and makes no special conditions for human beings or any observers.
The idea was first discussed on line in the kurzweilai forums, where it was initially regarded as a pseudoscience, but began to be taken seriously as it received endorsement from eminent scientists like Frank J. Tipler and discussed in Universities by scientists like Professor Vlatko Vedral.
Critics of the theory include Professor Robert Ettinger, who thinks there may be some special property of a human body not knowable by mapping.
Another criticism of the theory is that entropy causes too much information to be lost at death therefore resurrection would breech the second law of thermodynamics.
Proponents retort that entropy does not imply abstract chaos but presently unmeasurable complexity.
Religious objections appear to believe human beings operate by different laws to the universe which was a challenge made to Everett's Many Worlds Theory.
Another objection is that a computer simulation may not produce a person. Founder of cyonics Professor Robert Ettinger in 2007 wrote on quantum archeology:
Some philosophers have criticized transhumanism on the grounds that it is an attempt at a religion since both posit immortality, resurrection, and through the Simulation Argument, a creator, but it is devoid of a subjective valuation system for Man.
Debates occur about the nature of identity such as those discussed in The Prospect of Immortality, and by the philosopher Professor Derek Parfit; the computing capacity needed, and the social and legal difficulties of raising the dead.
See Also
*Psychohistory
*Statistics
*Prediction
*Quantum Theory
*Many Worlds Theory
The Union of Students of the University of Alaska Anchorage is the student government of the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Each student pays $1 per credit hour for students registered in 3 or more credits. Maximum charge $12 and maximum credit hour is 12.
The President, Vice President and 23 Senators are elected at large to serve on the Assembly. Four representatives (Residence Hall Association, Club Council, Greek Council and Graduate Student Association) complete the rest of the board. The President and Vice President are elected in the spring for one year terms.
The union has co-sponsored political debates in Anchorage, including a 2004 debate held at the university between Senatorial candidates Tony Knowles and Lisa Murkowski.
Each student pays $1 per credit hour for students registered in 3 or more credits. Maximum charge $12 and maximum credit hour is 12.
The President, Vice President and 23 Senators are elected at large to serve on the Assembly. Four representatives (Residence Hall Association, Club Council, Greek Council and Graduate Student Association) complete the rest of the board. The President and Vice President are elected in the spring for one year terms.
The union has co-sponsored political debates in Anchorage, including a 2004 debate held at the university between Senatorial candidates Tony Knowles and Lisa Murkowski.
The Viva Voce Virus (VVV) is a 2007 British film that is part mystery, part fantasy, part buddy movie and all glamorous. VVV is a deft satire on the hypocrisy that surrounds sexuality in the film industry. The supporting cast includes drag queens, diabolical flim directors, a faded starlet and a voodoo doll. The film has a 50s B-movie atmosphere and polari subtitles.
Festival Screenings
Plot synopsis
At Gay Andy's Resort and Hotel, the only drinks served are tall, blue and multi-fruit encrusted. The only appropriate morningwear is a pastel-coloured terrycloth bathrobe. All the men cross their legs at the knee. The only tunes are showtunes. This is a 1970s B-movie, complete with lo-fi special effects. Crash! Into this world tumble manly hunks Burt and Buddy, survivors of a car smash-up that has left them stranded, to their horror, in these all-gay environs. There's only one solution: these straight-as-a-die men are going to have to pass until they can escape.
Meanwhile, light years away in the vast reaches of turquoise space, a parallel universe exists - our own, year 2005. Ronnie is an actress who has just got her first big break - a leading role in a lesbian vampire B-movie. But Ronnie holds a secret close to her heart: she dates girls in real life, too. Despite her good luck in nabbing the role, Ronnie's life in general sucks: things aren't too enlightened on set; the assistant director Clark is a homophobic asshole; Ronnie's girlfriend Madeleine is exasperated with Ronnie's semi-closeted behaviour and, worst of all, bits of another disturbing world - Gay Andy's - are starting to leak into Ronnie's real life. Ronnie gets spooked, and in a frustrated moment constructs a voodoo doll in order to enact a petty revenge on Clark. Things go very, very wrong - Clark remains healthy, but her own life crumbles even further.
A latter-day Nancy Drew, Ronnie tracks down the magic shop where she bought her voodoo doll and complains that it never worked properly, and that very odd things are occurring in both her working and personal life. The creepy shop workers deny all knowledge of ever selling her a voodoo doll, and refer her to a mysterious temp agency that provided the worker who sold her the doll in the first place. When Ronnie finally arrives at the location for the recently liquidated Swizzlestick Temp Agency, she discovers an abandoned laboratory, and evidence that an ageing 1950s B-movie actress - Gloria LaFonche, also director of infamous 1970s camp classic Gay Andy’s 2 - was involved in manufacturing the malevolent blue Viva Voce Virus, a disease that seems to have its roots in Hollywood's yesteryear, a disease spread by the heterosexual screen kiss, a disease that makes screen actors shut up about their same-sex love affairs while trumpeting their heterosexual romances. When Ronnie starts to investigate why, the search leads her back to the mysterious Gloria LaFonche again - and possibly even to Ronnie’s current acting role in her own modern film. By now the parallel worlds are freely blending, and Ronnie's sense of reality is truly threatened when she finds herself in the übercamp world of Gay Andy's! preparing for a showdown between herself and Gloria LaFonche; between herself and Buddy and Burt; between herself and the Hollywood practice of closeting gay and lesbian actors; between herself and the malevolent blue Viva Voce Virus; between herself and camp stereotypes and between herself and... herself.
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Festival Screenings
Plot synopsis
At Gay Andy's Resort and Hotel, the only drinks served are tall, blue and multi-fruit encrusted. The only appropriate morningwear is a pastel-coloured terrycloth bathrobe. All the men cross their legs at the knee. The only tunes are showtunes. This is a 1970s B-movie, complete with lo-fi special effects. Crash! Into this world tumble manly hunks Burt and Buddy, survivors of a car smash-up that has left them stranded, to their horror, in these all-gay environs. There's only one solution: these straight-as-a-die men are going to have to pass until they can escape.
Meanwhile, light years away in the vast reaches of turquoise space, a parallel universe exists - our own, year 2005. Ronnie is an actress who has just got her first big break - a leading role in a lesbian vampire B-movie. But Ronnie holds a secret close to her heart: she dates girls in real life, too. Despite her good luck in nabbing the role, Ronnie's life in general sucks: things aren't too enlightened on set; the assistant director Clark is a homophobic asshole; Ronnie's girlfriend Madeleine is exasperated with Ronnie's semi-closeted behaviour and, worst of all, bits of another disturbing world - Gay Andy's - are starting to leak into Ronnie's real life. Ronnie gets spooked, and in a frustrated moment constructs a voodoo doll in order to enact a petty revenge on Clark. Things go very, very wrong - Clark remains healthy, but her own life crumbles even further.
A latter-day Nancy Drew, Ronnie tracks down the magic shop where she bought her voodoo doll and complains that it never worked properly, and that very odd things are occurring in both her working and personal life. The creepy shop workers deny all knowledge of ever selling her a voodoo doll, and refer her to a mysterious temp agency that provided the worker who sold her the doll in the first place. When Ronnie finally arrives at the location for the recently liquidated Swizzlestick Temp Agency, she discovers an abandoned laboratory, and evidence that an ageing 1950s B-movie actress - Gloria LaFonche, also director of infamous 1970s camp classic Gay Andy’s 2 - was involved in manufacturing the malevolent blue Viva Voce Virus, a disease that seems to have its roots in Hollywood's yesteryear, a disease spread by the heterosexual screen kiss, a disease that makes screen actors shut up about their same-sex love affairs while trumpeting their heterosexual romances. When Ronnie starts to investigate why, the search leads her back to the mysterious Gloria LaFonche again - and possibly even to Ronnie’s current acting role in her own modern film. By now the parallel worlds are freely blending, and Ronnie's sense of reality is truly threatened when she finds herself in the übercamp world of Gay Andy's! preparing for a showdown between herself and Gloria LaFonche; between herself and Buddy and Burt; between herself and the Hollywood practice of closeting gay and lesbian actors; between herself and the malevolent blue Viva Voce Virus; between herself and camp stereotypes and between herself and... herself.
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