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Psychic Sally Morgan hears voices from the other side (via a hidden earpiece) | Chris French

evidence "the most beloved British psychic" Sally Morgan can not be all that seems unlikely to deter his fans, writing

Chris French

According to its website, Sally Morgan is "the best of Britain loved psychic." It is undoubtedly a great success psychic - who has just published his third book and is currently filming the third series of transition psychic Sally Sky of life. However, an incident that took place a few days, it can cause some of his followers to wonder if Morgan is worthy of worship. Could it be that, like many self-proclaimed psychic superstars in the past, Morgan is just a gigolo self-service?

Let me describe what happened for you to make your own decision. Monday, September 12, a caller named Sue by phone on RTÉ Liveline radio show, a radio station in Ireland. Sue said she had attended Morgan show last night at the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, and was impressed by the accuracy of readings in the first half of the show.

But then something strange happened. Sue was sitting in the back row at the fourth level of the theater and had a small room behind it ("like a screening room") with an open window. Sue and her colleagues performed the voice of a man and "everything said the man, the psychic, he said 10 seconds later. "

Sue believes, not unreasonably, that the man Sally fed information through a headset connected to your microphone. For example, the voice that says something like "David, back pain, went fast," and seconds later, Sally claim to have the mind of a "David" in the scenario - You'll never guess - suffered from back pain and passed quickly.

A staff member noticed that several people near the back of the theater were aware of the voice and the mystery of the window is closed gently. The voice was not heard again.

Sue

speculated, again not unreasonably, given the history of fraud psychic, that the man was feeding information to Sally that was collected by involving the public in a conversation in the lobby before it starts. This is a technique widely used by fraudsters psychic, as members of the audience, of course, talk with others who are waiting to hear the "other side", how their loved one is dead, and so on .

subsequent calls to the radio account Sue compatible.

theater director general, Stephen Faloon said the voice heard by the public was in fact the voice of two staff members working for the theater, not someone to provide information to Sally. Sally Morgan companies also denied that the media is feeding information during the show. This episode is reminiscent of the exposure of the healer Peter Popoff in 1986 by James Randi. Popoff wow your audience, providing specific details and specific to your medical problems before claiming it cures with divine powers. This information was, according to Popoff, provided to him directly by God. It was certainly an effective technique, because right now Popoff was raking in about $ 4 million per month (excluding taxes) for its poor, sick and uneducated. Randi, an investigator with the help of Jason Alexander, has demonstrated convincingly that Popoff was actually received the "divine" information from his wife through a headset. After his presentation on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Popoff declared bankruptcy in 1987.

is important to realize that many so-called mediums, perhaps most, are sincere in their beliefs that have a "gift". These professionals are probably not willing to use some of the techniques used by the so-called cold readers to convince themselves and their caregivers who turn to a paranormal source of information. Because the technique of cold reading is not deliberately and systematically used, the readings of this type tend to be poor for believers, but all those hardcore.

But fraudsters can use cold reading to convince foreigners that they know everything about them. It is based on the intelligent use of language, careful observation, intelligent speculation, and the production of vague and ambiguous that plays the nanny (and remember) and more accurate than they really were. An expert in the field, cold reading can produce much more impressive than the readings rather than produced by most fans of mediums.

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Have we found evidence of the orang pendek?

Richard Freeman

describes the expedition last month in the jungles of Sumatra in the way of Pendekar orang

Even in this age of satellite maps and global positioning, there are still "lost world" where few humans tread and where species of animals not recognized by science live. Kerinci Seblat National Park in West Sumatra is one of those places. The size of a small country, its dark interior, full steam has never been sufficiently explored. Last month, I returned to the forests for the fourth time to follow an elusive species, and so far unregistered monkey known to locals as the orangutan Pendekar or "little man".

issue this year was the largest of its kind in visiting the area. It consisted of two teams. The first, consisting of Adam Davies (Leader of the expedition at the Centre for Fortean Zoology), David Archer, Andrew Sanderson and I would focus on forests in the highlands around Lake Gunung Tujuh. The second team of Chris Clark, Malam Lisa, Rebecca Lang, Mike Williams, Jon and Tim McGowan frail would be based in the "garden" area - the most open, semi-cultivated land adjacent to the real forest. According to local press, the creature was seen here several times when it comes to crops such as sugarcane raid.

before the team left, our guide gave us a witness called Pak Sahar Entis, who claims to have seen a Pendekar orangutan in the garden in April. He described it as about three feet high, but with massive shoulders and chest. He referred to a piece of washing on a line to indicate the color of your hair - one half of a tan. His face and monkey walked upright on two legs while swinging your arms. Realizing that Pak Entis became alarmed and raised his hands above his head by launching a "hoo-hoo" sound and quickly moved. It was visible for about a minute.

We climbed the forest, surrounded Lake Gunung Tujuh, the caldera of an extinct volcano, and crossed by canoe. After setting up camp, we begin trekking in the jungle. Overall, we walk several miles and then stop and have a longer period of silent observation.

also set up motion-sensitive camera traps. We find chewing ginger plants and willow shoots, both thought the food preferences of the orangutan Pendekar. DNA has not recovered from samples of this type, unfortunately, those who had been exposed to rain for a while.

a ride on the lake - a buffer zone, the thickest jungle - John Sahar brother found a track next to a rotting log that had been broken. Pendekar Orang fed larvae of these files. The letter was chosen by Andrew Sanderson with a rapid drying of dental plaster. Nearby, Sahar found a number of hairs that Adam kept in ethanol for laboratory analysis.

Back at camp, we got a little closer to the smelter, and it was clean. It was clearly a handprint rather than a trace. The palm tree is complete, the thumb short and almost triangular, and the fingers are thick, sausage-shaped. The structure is very different from the Sumatran orangutan with long slender fingers and thumb close to remnant. It was more like the imprint of the hand of a young gorilla, but with your palm a little more round.

The next day after the cameras were made up of patrols and observation. We found many traces of tiger and scratch marks in the region, and also the remains of two Malayan tapirs killed by tigers.

Sahar told us of another creature that can live in the deep jungle. The orangutan kardil, or "little men" would be a race of human beings around three feet high, very different from the orang-utan ape Pendekar. The orangutan kardil apparently go naked in the jungle have no hair, except for the head and hunt with poisoned bamboo spears. They are known to steal food.

In 1981, the father of the end of Sahar and a friend were commercial rice in a remote area five days walk from their village. Traveling through a valley beyond the mountain of Alus and Candi Bukit Asa Batang River. According to a friend Sahar has killed one of these "little men" who had looted their stores of rice. In retaliation several orangutan kardil stabbed to death. kardil The orangutan called to mind

Pondok

(temporary shelter). They interviewed a farmer who said an orangutan Pendekar in his shed was broken one night to steal sugar cane. The animal apparently derived from the tables to reach the stored crop.

In the garden there is some evidence that the orangutan Pendekar may be losing its fear of humans because of the lure of easy meal. I think that's where we are now more likely to have an encounter with the creature and capture on film.
We examined the photographs of most of the pitfalls of the camera and it seems that all the insects were captured, rain and a solitary bird. This is not surprising since they were only for nine days. However, there are plans to establish a set of camera traps in the park all the time and have them checked once a month. We hope that this project started in 2012.

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Have we found evidence of the elusive orang pendek? | Richard Freeman

Richard Freeman

describes the expedition last month in the jungles of Sumatra in the way of Pendekar orang

The next day after the cameras were made up of patrols and observation. We found many traces of tiger and scratch marks in the region, and also the remains of two Malayan tapirs killed by tigers.

Pondok

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Universities: a half-baked Ivy League that spells two tiers of unfairness | Peter Wilby

the imposition of a market in universities, ministers are divisions modern grammars and secondary scars

Maybe a camel is a horse designed by a committee not, but a coalition government with the addition of some prehistoric mounds Nick Clegg. No doubt the White Paper this week on higher education has a camel comparable characteristics. In a chapter that says "hiring without restriction" to 65,000 "high performance" of students receiving AAB or above a level. These students do not have caps on hiring ministers are forcing universities to limit the cost loans to cover costs up to $ 9,000 per year. Since universities do not attract many students will have their recruitment missions AAB - and therefore, incomes and jobs of employees - the reduction, this seems an incentive to recognize the achievements of top. This means that from a level of quality are strongly influenced by income class and family (despite the efforts of governments in the last 30 years), an incentive to support the most privileged 18.

In another chapter, Witters white paper on the need to improve social mobility through an "equitable access" and noted that 20% of students in more advantaged areas are now seven times more likely than low incomes to attend an elite university, including Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol (in the 1990s were six times more likely). There is a promise to "strengthen" the Office of equitable access and a sign of approval for the use of "contextual information" - to get results and test background into account in the recruitment of -. students

is tempting to see the first chapter that Tory, Lib Dem second, each storing soda bump - in the academic affirmative action to others - to keep disgruntled bank and activists in the long route until 2015. However, the White Paper has a theme, if you look hard enough: the government's determination that there should be a market in higher education

Ministers expect universities on their own. With the tripling of the costs of attendance, it is expected that only the elite universities charge the maximum £ 9,000 per year. Humble institutions, with less to offer in the form of buildings covered in ivy, centuries of history and employment opportunities on the banks of the city or the FTSE 100 companies, which charge less. This is how markets are supposed to work. Unfortunately, it is how higher education, in part because students do not pay in advance and partly because it is difficult to tell from outside what is good in college. The student 'customers' and their parents are in prestige. The best way to increase your prestige, universities calculated, was to establish the highest price possible. A lower price would be a sign of an inferior product. All but a handful decided to charge £ 9000 or somewhere near it.

Ministers therefore imposed a market. Universities that can attract the best qualified students are allowed to charge the maximum rate and expand recruitment - although some, especially Oxford and Cambridge, will do that, preferring to maintain exclusivity. Meanwhile, the universities that are committed by 7.500 pounds or less must be allowed to tender for a part of the 20,000 places also outside the limits of contracting. In other words, those who can not draw the OAA will have a choice: go out of business or lower prices

the academic hierarchy is largely an accident of history. Major universities to attract the best qualified students by teachers and parents have heard of them. It also improves qualified staff with an international reputation for research. Because he knows that to get the "best" students, employers look for graduates, ensuring high employment, and thus attract the next generation of students. It's a virtuous circle in which the quality of teaching and the rigor of the courses are not related.

ministers are open about his ambition to become the English universities and more towards the American model, and create an equivalent of U. S. Ivy League. They believe, like most British are, the U.S. higher education is more equitable and efficient. They are wrong. More selective U.S. universities admit only 3% of its students from lower socioeconomic quartile (mostly African-American), 74% higher. As Howard Hotson, a scholar of Oxford, said in the London Review of Books, the UK does best in international rankings of American universities, once the population is taken into account, with four of 20 (one per 15 , 5 million) against the United States 13 (one per 23.9 million).

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No more debt. No more taxes. So how can we pay for care? | Peter Wilby

politicians want better public services, particularly for the elderly - but they reject all forms of pay for them

Europeans are not the only ones to suffer a debt crisis. The United States has also, which led the rating agency Moody to consider cutting its AAA credit rating. At $ 14.3tn (£ 8.9tn), the U.S. national debt as a proportion of GDP, the highest 12 in the world, and that the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal.

However, the size of the debt is not the problem. America can meet its obligations without sweating much. The question is whether it is willing to pay. President Obama can raise more debt, more tax revenues, lower expenses, or, more sensitive, do a little of all three. As expected, Republicans in Congress for the third option. But they refuse to accept that the first two should make a contribution, even when taxes are the lowest in 50 years. They also oppose cuts to defense, one of the most important elements of the federal budget and find public court, as opposed to the other - the health of the elderly (Medicare) - Some Republican campaign mid election period denouncing Obama cuts already. If you persist in this position, the creditors of the United States will not pay and the richest country on the planet will be in default in a matter of weeks.

We can consider this as an example of a malfunction of the American political system and we hope that, at 59 minutes past the hour 11, the Republicans came to an agreement. However, the U.S. crisis is a British dramatized the dilemma highlighted this week by the Office of Fiscal Responsibility. He warned that to meet the demands of an aging population, taxes would increase by £ 22 billion years in 2016 - equivalent to the increase in VAT to 24%, or income tax basis for 25 %

You can imagine the fate of any government that stands as a presentation. So the answer to reduce spending on the elderly? No, do not want to be. "There is no evidence that the public wants to see in human life later, to reduce," said Michelle Mitchell, director of age in the UK. Certainly not. They want more rights.

The point is illustrated by responses to the report Dilnot in elderly care, published just before national attention was distracted by Rupert Murdoch and phreaking. The report suggests that people with assets of over £ 100,000 - a figure significantly higher than the current threshold of £ 23,250, and close to the average wealth of single women from 75 to 84 -. Must continue to pay for residential care

However, a lifetime limit of £ 35,000 should be set at what someone has to pay, regardless of their assets. So you can buy a house with 2 million pounds - for which there will be no use if you live in a residence - and the state must pay its bills, at an annual cost of at least 1.7 billion books and probably more, given the increasing longevity. Cost of food and accommodation £ 7000 - £ 10,000 per year, but most find that the retirement income

Yes, the current system is not satisfactory. Houses - buy, improve, pay the mortgage - have formed the central narrative of the life most of the baby boomers, some of which have struggled with low incomes. For themselves and their families, the sudden loss and total assets of a hard-earned seems arbitrary and unfair.

Work

floated a solution before the last election: one mandatory "insurance" to perceive the world in 65 years removed from their property at death. The risk of treatment should be grouped so that each would pay perhaps 10% of its assets instead of a few unfortunate loss of 90%. The details - the rate is a fixed amount or a percentage of assets, for example - have never been resolved because the Conservatives have shot down the idea of ??using the term "death tax" emotional and confusing (this evil a tax that you pay only when you are dead?) and the publication of photos of tombstones. They have broad public support, as they did in 2007 when he proposed to reduce the tax liability on inheritance.

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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 23 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2554

Science is independent of humanism, atheism and religion | Julian Baggini

is one of the greatest human achievements, but some atheists seem to raise the level of science our savior

last week, argued that if science and religion can be clearly compatible, which often mix less comfortable than most believers confidently maintain. There are, however, on the other side of the story of the relationship of science to the belief: the idea that many atheists that science is not just for their part, but your best friend. The uncomfortable truth for believers and atheists, is that science is a loner who never avoids revealing embarrassing truths about anyone trying to claim ownership of it.

This is not the point of view rather ridiculous that science is "a myth" that the physics of Niels Bohr is not "valid" the poetry of Beowulf. In fact, I'm not sure that anyone gave this more than a second of thought that has that. John Gray sounds often as if he does, but what it really says is that science "has become a vehicle of myth," as the inevitable progress of science itself no better way to understand the world of beliefs about sun gods or spirits of the earth.

Talk about "myths" that I find to be an inexpensive way to try to assimilate the perennial problems of science with religion, when in fact they are very different. While religion is enough to find a way to coexist with science, atheistic humanism is often claimed too close a relationship with him. Science appears as what founds and justifies the humanistic perspective. In an important sense this is right. Atheism can be defined negatively with respect to theism, but atheists are naturalists, above all, committed to a positive vision of the universe contains only entities and natural forces. This view is not held as a matter of faith, but because that's what the scientific evidence strongly suggests.

If it is a marriage of science and atheism, then one must admit that in all other, the two have a relationship not exclusive. Take the statement made some years ago by the British Humanist Association agreed with the statement "and other scientific evidence is the best way to understand the universe" is a characteristic of the humanistic perspective, humanistic or 2002 international " Amsterdam Declaration, which kept "Humanism advocates the application of the methods of science and free inquiry problems of human welfare." These two statements are made with the same conviction of many believers. It's just that for them, science leaves many questions open, and in such cases, we are entitled to base our judgments on non-scientific reasons. Only the most fanatical scientism emphasize object, which science can not speak, one must be silent. You can find abroad and standing before a table, only interested in what your brain is made in response to visual stimuli, but that person would be just that:. Odd

most problematic of all, however, is sometimes simplistically that science is supposed to defend, or even determine, the secular humanist approach to life. First, it seems very clear that science really threatens to undermine many cherished beliefs traditionally held by secular humanists. Of course, secular humanism maintains the value of autonomy, individual freedom and rational. If the science of humanity has proved nothing at all in recent decades is that humans are much less autonomous, rational and free of what we expect. As a matter of fact, do not think any of these challenges defeats what really matters about the humanist vision of ourselves. However, to argue that it would be difficult and I'm not sure I could do it successfully so far. Moreover, it remains possible that advances in the science of dogmas atheists really going to break some time. These are sufficient reasons to believe that by embracing science as closely, atheists are just making it easier to backstab.

Worse, however, when atheists speak of science as the source of all knowledge and wisdom we need to live. The most obvious recent example of this is Sam Harris is the moral landscape, with the caption "How science can determine human values." The demand is difficult to imagine a more exaggerated the power of science, and when I Harris interviewed about his book, most of the time was spent trying - without success on my part - to understand in a way that was remotely possible (you can hear some of the interview in this podcast).

When Harris sounds convincing when he attacks the idea that science is nothing crazy to say about human values. Scientific evidence can indeed reveal moral facts, such as inequality and absolute levels of wealth affects the well-being, that the different "races" are not that different races and not really feel that some animals pain, and what type it is, and so on. Science can also reveal the physiological and neurological mechanisms that underlie what we value in life, such as achieving flow states or avoid pain. But science can not tell us what to evaluate, because when he tells us how things are, there is always the question, what to do about it? You can, for example, we say that X produces more happiness than Y, but can not tell us we should do everything it produces the greatest happiness.
book Harris The standing ovation he received many atheists - but fortunately far from all - is a symptom of an unhealthy desire to raise the scientific level of our savior. Gray is the kind of mythology is the right to warn against. Science is indeed one of our greatest achievements of mankind and we must respect, admire and feed to inform our worldview. However, it can not provide all of this notice and we can not blithely assume that always support our most fundamental beliefs. Atheists must accept that they are not the same flesh with science, and their love and admiration can not be matched with the same passion they imply.

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Why the Bush was centre-stage for the new writing renaissance

Before Bush's movements from his home of 40 years, Dominic Dromgoole recalls the pioneering work, the stories of bad taste, and why it was a privilege to work

that the 1990s represented a rebirth of the new act is without a doubt. In this period there were a variety of jobs, quality of emotion and a quantity of production that has rarely been equaled. Play to survive, or if one of them, take some time to be clear, but at that time there was a tremendous sense of possibility, and doors that open in front.

Why this revival happen? A hundred explanations have been distributed - the disintegration of the Cold War, the merger of certainty, the joy of ecstasy, to Thatcher, the change in the phase of care - everything is true in a small way, none of their complete response. Where did the renaissance begin? We all like to claim a definitive role in any time of cultural reinvention, everyone likes to say that we were there. But few have more rights than Bush, who in the 1990s went to war to write new ones in a culture that began in the cult classic fetish directors vain glory and drama. The Bush administration had a fine tradition of integrity to the truth, visions of writers and life. Just to stay true to that tradition that helped turn the tide. And how the Bush administration was in the works that have fallen into your mailbox -. Range, a wildness and vivacity of work not previously thought possible (or taste) before

In Day-Glo frightening dreams of Philip Ridley to the beauty of David Harrower replacement Protestants, honesty vulgar Catherine Johnson advanced to the narrative of seductive Conor McPherson, the breath of life in Billy Roche to shadow of hypnotism Sebastian Barry, the explosion of joy in a Jonathan Harvey for new talents in jazz Samuel Adamson, Helen Edmundson fan questioning much of the daily observations of acute Simon has doubled from the blatantly break the rules Tracy Letts for warm humanity of Richard Cameron, the generosity of a wealthy Jane Coles to the rhetoric of a charred Chris Hannan, electricity and a nervous David Eldridge to the authority of a lyric Naomi Wallace - joy was to be there to welcome so many new ways of understanding the world in our scenario. Great privilege that he has to work with this material. Sometimes we feel like we were the luckiest people in the world. Maybe they were.

gravitate toward stories

Great Bush. Adhering to them. All those in the Bush administration has a story to go home with - all those who have worked a lot. A legend says that if certain paints a bright white walls of the room, gradually stained a blue opaque. It is surprising that Lindsay Kemp pigment splattered on the walls, in 1974, still haunts the place and be transferred. There were many great nights - the first night of 'Trainspotting', when most of the audience leave the theater seemed to come back 10 minutes later after refueling, the first night of Beautiful Thing, where you can almost feel the spirit of the changing social and cultural era under his feet the first night of Declan Hughes dig for fire, when a group of yuppies surf slammed the door in Dublin Ireland miserabilism some time. And many great nights.

The proximity of Bush's life was his great virtue, but sometimes the line has become a little too well, and sometimes completely dissolved. He was the actor who had escaped from the notch and found lying in a program of Bush. One night while he was doing his rounds on his way to the entrance of the Goldhawk Road to come on stage, saw the oncoming police. As you can imagine scarpered. His colleagues had to spend the rest of the night, improvising around a space really empty. Another poor fellow - glue your box - hidden from the noise of Shepherds Bush, accidentally wandered up the stairs, opened the double doors and found himself in a play by Billy Roche. He was in the Irish church steeple lit, guarded by a hundred attentive faces and be spoken by a man who gives an intense monologue. Nobody knows if he ever recovered psychologically.

And there were rumors: an encyclopedia of stories of bad taste, Shakers illegal knee in the fight passionate horrible bathroom drunk nothing, and psychotic obsession that lasted 20 minutes. Throughout sweet stories of loyalty, kindness and generosity.

the university theater, you get overloaded with intellectuals and academics shit with Stanislavski and Brecht. In my first job as an assistant, I took about 20 minutes to realize that the best move career was closed for the next two years. The Bush administration has learned an approach and a definition. Both are equally simple. The approach: the theater is an art in its design, and art by accident. If you confuse the two, you find yourself in trouble. Definition: The theater is a group of people telling a story about another group of people in a third group of people. It is difficult to simplify, or better than.

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