MooPig's Trend Spotter Department :: "Lots of Sinking Ships Lately"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 22, 2012 | Bryan TX

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2 cargo ships sink in Philippines; 32 aboard saved | Inquirer News: "MANILA, Philippines—A cargo ship loaded with cement sank in central Philippines on Sunday and another vessel carrying iron ore went down off the country’s eastern coast, the coast guard said. All 32 crewmen from both ships were rescued."

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Vietnamese seamen can't get help from Philippines
By EGYolk on January 9, 2012
Tuguegarao City (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - The lack of a search and rescue ship has stopped Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) personnel stationed at the northern tip of Luzon from coming to the aid of 22 crew members of a Vietnamese ship, which sank in the Pacific Ocean on Christmas Day.

Though coast guard officials immediately deployed three ships and a helicopter for a search and rescue, it was a Philippine cargo ship and a fishing boat that saved the crew of 12 Indonesians and two Koreans, who had abandoned the ship, coast guard Admiral Ramon Liwag said.

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NOTE: This disaster is from Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Amver ship Bright Ruby sinks in South China Sea
The Bright Ruby was reportedly on a voyage from Malaysia to China when it encountered heavy seas. 14 crewmen have been rescued. Seven crewmen remain missing.

You may remember the Bright Ruby was hijacked by pirates for 37 days back in 2008.

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15 January 2012 :: Three die in South Korean ship explosion

"The explosion took place far below the sea border with North Korea. We see very little possibility (of attacks by the North)," a coastguard spokesman told the AFP news agency.

The ship's owners said that the explosion could have been caused by gases leaking from the ship's oil tanks.

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11 January 2012 Last updated at 00:16 ET Three believed dead in S Korean boat fire in Antarctic
The 167-foot fishing vessel Jeong Woo 2 caught fire about 370 miles north-northeast of the U.S. Antarctic McMurdo Research Base and 2,000 miles south of Christchurch, New Zealand. Maritime New Zealand, similar to the U.S. Coast Guard, reports that the fire killed 3 crewmen. Thirty uninjured survivors were transferred to the stricken vessel’s sister ship, the Jeong Woo 3, which will bring them to the Korean icebreaker Araon for transport to Lyttleton, New Zealand.

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Italian cruise ship sinking: rescue suspended on ship with 500,000 gallons oil, January 22, 2012
One more body has been taken out from the ill-fated Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia. Rescue has been suspended on the sinking ship with 500,000 gallons oil ...

Once again officials in Italian coast guard have suspended the search for the missing people in the huge cruise ship Costa Concordia that sank in the sea on 13th of this month. So far 12 people have been confirmed dead with 20 people still missing.

INTERVIEW  |  " ... So there is very close connection between governments and cruise ships. They make an incredible amount of money. They have very huge lobbies. And that's here in the U.S. So, in places like Italy, I would not be surprised if things don't turn out the way we would want them to and are not as crystal clear as they would be if the investigation was done here. (RICHARD ALSINA. Interview. Jan 16, 2012. HERE) ... "

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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/132433/2-cargo-ships-sink-in-philippines-32-aboard-saved
http://www.egyolk.com/mt/news/2012/01/vietnamese-seamen-cant-get-help-from-philippines.html
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/124161/vietnamese-seamen-can%E2%80%99t-get-help-from-philippines
http://www.transreporter.com/detail.php?pId=2&Id=15&nId=6210
http://amveruscg.blogspot.com/2011/11/amver-ship-bright-ruby-sinks-in-south.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16565208
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20120115/explosion-partially-sinks-cargo-ship-off-south-korea-120115/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16499390
http://www.vims.edu/newsandevents/topstories/korean_vessel_rescue.php
http://kalyan98.wordpress.com/2007/11/
http://nvonews.com/2012/01/22/italian-cruise-ship-sinking-rescue-suspended-on-ship-with-500000-gallons-oil/
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june12/cruiseship2_01-16.html

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Brain Industries :: Labeled, Desensitized, and Redirected -- SINGULARITY -- PART Five

Why Singularity? From the © 2010 Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Inc.
Quotes retrieved by Pat Darnell, Emphasis by MooPig

• The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence.

There are several technologies that are often mentioned as heading in this direction. The most commonly mentioned is probably Artificial Intelligence, but there are others: direct brain-computer interfaces, biological augmentation of the brain, genetic engineering, ultra-high-resolution scans of the brain followed by computer emulation.

• " The story of intelligent life on Earth is made up of beginnings. (SOURCE) "

Brave NEW Words: EXCERPTS

" There are people who would answer that intelligence is meaningful in itself; that "It is better to be Socrates unsatisfied than a fool satisfied; better to be a man unsatisfied than a pig satisfied." ... "

" ...The beginnings of human intelligence, or the invention of writing, probably went unappreciated by the individuals who were present at the time. But such developments do not always take their creators unaware. Francis Bacon, one of the critical figures in the invention of the scientific method, made astounding claims about the power and universality of his new mode of reasoning and its ability to improve the human condition – claims which, from the perspective of a 21st-century human, turned out to be exactly right. Not all good deeds are unintentional. It does occasionally happen that humanity's victories are won not by accident but by people making the right choices for the right reasons. (ibid. emphasized words by MooPig.)"

" ... The Singularity Institute exists to carry out the mission of the Singularity-aware – to accelerate the arrival of the Singularity in order to hasten its human benefits; to close the window of vulnerability that exists while humanity cannot increase its intelligence along with its technology; and to protect the integrity of the Singularity by ensuring that those projects which finally implement the Singularity are carried out in full awareness of the implications and without distraction from the responsibilities involved. (ibid.) ... "

" ... That's our dream. Whether it actually happens depends on whether enough people take the Singularity seriously enough to do something about it – whether humanity can scrape up the tiny fraction of its resources needed to face the future deliberately and firmly. (ibid.) ... "

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President Barry Finds His DarkSide ...

[PHOTO Left SOURCE] Singularity

[PHOTO Right SOURCE] Steampunk Star Wars

NTVNDSMD #2: Next Top Vampire Nanny Super Model Diaries

by Pat Darnell and Jack Handey :: September 17, 2009

Dearest NTVNSM Diary:

What if Coincidence is the Singularity ??
Google:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,010,000 for coincidence, singularity. (0.26 seconds)

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Re: Infinitely Unlikely Coincidences [WAS Re: [singularity] AI ...Re: Infinitely Unlikely Coincidences [WAS Re: [singularity] AI critique by Jaron Lanier]. Stathis Papaioannou Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:29:57 -0800 ...
www.mail-archive.com/ singularity@v2.../msg01859.html -
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The Anthropic Coincidences, Evil and the Disconfirmation of TheismNov 30, 2005 ... In words, this means that the probability that God exists given the anthropic coincidences and a universe with an initial singularity and ...
www.infidels.org/library/ modern/quentin.../anthropic.html -

Physics Letters B : The oscillating dark energy: future ...Jump to Scalar–tensor description and coincidence problem‎: ... the four types of future singularities .... which may solve the coincidence problem. ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/ retrieve/pii/S0370269306004813 - Similar - by S Nojiri - 2006 -

Coincidence of Generic Relative Minimum Singularities in Problems ...Hence, for the coincidence of the generic relative minimum singularity classifications of problems (5) and (3) with dimx = n + m − l it is sufficient to ...
www.springerlink.com/index/ X0316MX2686M6310.pdf - Similar - by AA Davydov - 2001 -

Tech's Most Dangerous IdeaAug 31, 2009 ... And while it may be a coincidence, Singularity is making headlines at a time when angel investors are getting stingier. ...
www.fool.com/investing/.../ techs-most-dangerous-idea.aspx

The oscillating dark energy: future singularity and coincidence ...The oscillating dark energy: future singularity and coincidence problem. Shinichi NOJIRI, Sergei D ODINTSOV Physics letters. Section B 637:33, 139-148, ...
cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=17802243 - Similar -by S NOJIRI - 2006 -

Singularities of Curves and Surfaces : Abstract : NatureLet multiple points of orders p. q, r …, where p is not less than q, r …, move up to coincidence along a continuous curve; then the compound singularity ...
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v85/n2150/ abs/085336a0.html - Similar -by AB Basset - 1911

Singularity: "Sheer Coincidence"Singularity. Just another Reality-based bubble in the foam of the multiverse. Monday, April 27, 2009. "Sheer Coincidence" ...
spacetimecurves.blogspot.com/2009/.../ sheer-coincidence.html

Next Top Vampire Nanny Super Model Diaries

by Pat Darnell and Jack Handey

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Dearest NTVNSM Diary:
What if Life is the Singularity?


:: Google: singularity, life = Results -- 2,140,000 for singularity, life. (0.19 seconds)

... Welp, that's about it for today, Buffy.

Let's Create a Singularity with our American Solidarity

Retrieved from FWD :: FWD Emails by D2R2 and the Herd

Sept. 11, 2009

We have a little less than one month to get word across our great land and into every community of the United States of America.

The Program:
On Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, American flags will be displayed outside every home, apartment, office and store in the USA.

Every individual has the duty to display an American flag on this eighth anniversary of one of our country's worst tragedies.

We shall do this in honor of those who lost their lives on 9/11. We will show respect to their families, friends, loved ones -- who continue to endure pain. Also, for those who today are fighting to guard our borders, those on foreign lands preserving our freedom, we rasie the colors that do not run.

In the days, weeks and months following 9/11, our country was bathed in American flags as citizens mourned the incredible losses and stood shoulder to shoulder against terrorism.

Sadly, flags have not been flying. Patriotism pulls Americans worldwide through tough times; attacks further galvanize us in solidarity. Lets Create a Singularity with our American Solidarity...

Our American Flag is the fabric of our land and community shared by all. Fly your flag on 9\11 and don't let your light shine any less brighter; we prevail over terrorism of any kind.

Action Plan: Here's what we will do:

1. Forward this Statement to everyone you know. Take a moment to think back to how you felt on 9/11; let those sentiments guide you.

2. Fly the colors, our American flag, of any size on 9/11. Honestly, make it a priority to do so on this day.
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MooPig adds -- God Bless our Country:

God Bless us.