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Higher Ed

Lawmakers rush to rescue Auraria science building

By Chris Barge, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Originally published 11:11 a.m., March 25, 2008
Updated 12:16 p.m., March 25, 2008

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Key lawmakers are on the verge of announcing a way to fund construction of the new science building on the Auraria campus after all.

"They found another source of funding for it," House Speaker Andrew Romanoff told the Rocky this morning.

Romanoff, D-Denver, added that he and others plan to announce the solution today.

Higher education officials cried foul after legislators reversed course last Thursday and decided not to continue funding the $111 million project. The decision came in response to new revenue forecasts that the state would receive $700 million less over the next five years than predicted.

Construction on the first, $35 million phase of the project began in December. The university had expected to receive another $37.5 million in next year's budget.

But the Joint Budget and Capital Development committees decided at the last minute to instead only fund projects that could be completed next year, since it looked like funds would dry up completely for at least two to three years after that.

Committee Chairman Rep. Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction, said this morning he is furiously ironing out new legislation that could rescue the science building project.

Details at this point are not completely fleshed out. But the solution would involve the passage of two bills, both authored by Buescher.

The first, co-authored by Sen. Gail Schwartz, D-Snowmass Village, would reroute federal mineral lease revenue growth into higher education capital construction projects, authorizing the state to use the money to borrow about $200 million for projects such as the Auraria science building.

The second bill, which Buescher is drafting this morning, would authorize the state to issue certificates of participation - in essence, allowing the state to borrow money to pay for the rest of the science building specifically.

"We're close but I need to understand some of the technical aspects for this," Buescher said as he rushed through the Capitol hallways. "We're working hard."

Metro State president Stephen Jordan told several lawmakers at the Capitol this morning that the campus is at 98 percent capacity and that the building is absolutely necessary.

The project would double the space available for laboratory classes, and renovate the existing lab building, which is poorly ventilated and thus a danger to students, he said.

elections?

"In 2000 Bush and Cheney stole the election in Florida. In 2004 they played dirty tricks in Ohio. In 2008 could they go one step further — and suspend the election altogether?

The necessary architecture may already be in place. On May 4 last year, the White House issued the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, key parts of which remain classified and hence shrouded from public view. The directive outlines procedures to respond to a “catastrophic emergency,” defined broadly as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.” "

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now that we know, don't let i happen

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this is long (slightly incoherent?) and contains the phrase 'anatomically modern human' (that is what they call us in textbooks. eh?),, , some words,/ thoughts, words

Why all of this learning? Why so much curiosity and desire to discover and ‘know’ and ‘find answers’? Recently, a moment helped to understand these ‘whys’. I sat staring at a fellow ‘anatomically modern human’; we held fierce eye contact while we contorted our faces into bizarre forms…eventually the silly-ness subsided and a feeling of, not quite serious-ness, but definitely intensity grew in the air around, between and within us. He looked like he could have been so many things at once. every moment that I was looking at him he became new in front of my eyes. I had managed to lose my preconceived notions and understandings of who this person supposedly was, including his name and whatever else I had learned to associate with him. I was looking at him with innocence, with curiosity and a (glorious) lack of knowledge…and, inevitably, I came to realize, with slight confusion and fear. I imagined we were ancestors of ours, hominids from a long time ago: our minds and brains had evolved enough that we were not quite rocks or flowers—we were aware of something, but language had not yet evolved, and we had limited ways to communicate. We could not talk of the past, the present, the future—did the past, present, or future even exist? Didn’t we create their existence, in a way, when we began to talk about ‘them’? In this moment, no, they did not exist. The moment simply was, the moments simply were, and the moments simply continued to be. We could not talk about our feelings or emotions; all we could do was look at each other, intensely, and every moment was purely this moment—we were alive, and that was all there was to it, though we could not, would not, have used those words to describe it.

Regardless of whether or not a moment like this actually happened ‘a long time ago’ between hominids of the ‘past’, it happened with us, hominids of the now, and it helped me to understand a large concept that I have been grappling with; which is, why humans ever felt the need or desire to know so much and acquire so much information. I think, among many other things (wonder, curiosity, love), it may have been out of fear and confusion; acquiring knowledge could (would, has, will continue to (hopefully)…) further understanding, allow for clarification, and perhaps dispel those (innate?) feelings of fear and confusion; or teach us to let those feelings go, rather than act with them in mind.

The teaching, the learning: these are what I came to understand as (some of) the reasons for the ‘whys’. Perhaps our ancestor hominids experienced the innocence of ‘not-knowing’; an innocence that was itself unknown, unnamed, to those who possessed it. This innocence encompassed real feelings, which we eventually named as love, wonder, fear, confusion… The intensity of those indescribable, nearly incommunicable feelings invoked our curiosity; our need to find ‘answers’… (answers which would perhaps soothe our worries, so we would not be scared?). Thus, we began looking for, and ‘finding’, ‘answers’, and are continuing to do so. We pursued knowledge and information; we are pursuing knowledge and information still. If we so choose, we are able to use this knowledge and information to dispel feelings of fear and confusion in simple ways; for example, the ability to employ language and speak to a fellow human and let her know that you are there to help her, not hurt her. However, knowledge and information is not always motivated by love; it is this ‘reality’, I think, that initially made me question why we had to go and learn so much and get so ‘smart’ in the first place. I am learning, and will continue to learn, a concept that has been learned before me: a concept embodied by simple designs, such as yin and yang; a concept expressed by other humans, such as visionary artist William Blake: the concept of necessary duality, or dichotomy—both the innocence, the light, and the experience, the knowledge, are necessary halves of the whole.

Hominid reconstructions and representations, both scientific and artistic, are representative of our current state of learning, analyzing, interpreting, acquiring knowledge and information…all in an effort, essentially, to understand/clarify/communicate. We are in the midst of experiencing that know-full experience which succeeds know-less innocence; as a friend put it, we are in the adolescent stages of our evolution. And what of young adulthood? Can we take this experience and use the knowledge gained from it to circle back to the innocence with a bit more intention and understanding? Perhaps young adulthood is too utopian; how about the elderly years? May we, at some point, be able to use this knowledge, this lived and gained and lived experience, to revisit our innocence, in a sense? It would be an innocence reached after the knowing, an innocence pursued with intention that could only have been intended because of all the experience of learning, knowing, finding, discovering, …We may be able to approach life (living things) with the innocent approach of a being who ‘knows nothing’: we look at the flower and wonder about it; we satiate our curiosity with facts and information about the flower; perhaps then we recognize the information about the flower which is unimportant (though the textbook may be interesting and worth appreciating, it is, ultimately, unimportant); then we focus on the qualities of the flower which do matter— the way the wind moves the petals and our hair; the way in which we are simply sharing space with the flower for a moment, existing beside it, within it; the smell and feel of the flower itself,…

Looking my friend in the eyes that night, I felt intoxicated by wonder and love; the slight feelings of fear and confusion, I recognized them; but it was as though I had learned enough to know that fear and confusion had nothing left to teach me, and all I needed to learn, wanted to learn, would continue to learn, was love and wonder…and to follow the example of the flower, and grow towards the light.

Yellow Sub's?

,said the Shotgun to the head

Introduction

Have you ever been kissed by God? Passionately (tongue, lips, etc.)? Or are you one who simply condemns God to the realm of the invisible? When do you feel most comfortable? When do you feel most loved? Perhaps it is in the warm embrace of your lover or in the assuring touch of you mother. Perhaps, like me, you have likened this person to God in your life and realized that God was loving you through them. Or maybe you don't believe in God. Cool. Here's a simpler question: Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth like sealing a thousand fleshy envelops filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding.

This book is the result of a kiss. A kiss that brings symbols to life and fear-based shortcomings to their symbolic death. To be kissed by a deity is nothing short of a miracle. The mind altering/altaring effect can last more than a lifetime. Here is the accoutn of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an incongruent mean of babble and brilliance. He wanders the streets disheveled and tormented by all that he sees that does not reflect her love. He is a wandering man, sort of like a modern day John the Baptist, telling of the coming of a female messiah that he has known intimately. He is the babbling man you cross the street to avoid. He is the unavoidable end before the new beginning. He is a lover in search of greater love. SHE is One and many: Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction and creation; Oya, the Yoruba orisha of death and rebirth; the Holy Ghost, which is to say, the woman restored to her rightful place in the Holy Trinity. No longer ghost, no longer virgin, She is mother of us all.

saul williams
los angelas, 2004

plantablility, peppers

perhaps not new news, but 'they',,some humans in the world somewhere,, package products in packaging that is plantable. noiiiiice. an accro(?)yogi woman lady held a workshop yes ter day, and brought in plantable packages, and shared with us her thoughts on people as play mates and hye hey do you want to play? and happy thoughts of all you playfull people thought themselves into my head.

(smiley face spiced side ways)
e ver eat a galapno pepper for fun, only to discover a fiyah on the back porch in the days following? i'm debating whether the succeeding (as in that which came after the preceeding, altho it appears to be working in the sense of triumphant, as well) pain was worth the initial pleasure. i met a texan today who really sympathized with this spice situation, which is apparently quite prevalent in the south.

Understanding and Imagination in the Light of Driftwood

Photo by Luke Powell

I've been wanting to put this together for quite some time....This is an audio file containing Rena Jones' Driftwood (2007) and a speech called Understanding and Imagination in the Light of Nature (1992) by Terence McKenna. If you have an hour give a listen...Get comfortable, yoga, close your eyes, turn off the lights and light a candle...whatever you feel.

Listen once, listen to it again...Give it to a friend, a relative, a teacher.

Burn a copy for a long car ride, gather round with friends and listen on a Friday night, and think...are we breathing? or are we just trying to constantly catch our breath?

Love & Create

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9fbirp

Like quantum objects, thoughts seem to obey the uncertainty principle. Goswami notes, "You can never simultaneously keep track of both the content of a thought and where the thought is going.."

Science kicks Ass - with nice Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uephBmkupvQ

The Hin-Jew

When I write, it helps to post things on here...I get a better sense of what its like when its out in the open, and of course I dig any feedback...This is supposed to go in the Government Department Newsletter for my teacher and boss...

Forty one long revolutions around the sun marks the end of Professor of Government Steven Hoffmann’s full-time teaching career at Skidmore College. As of the fall of 2008, Professor Hoffmann will migrate to half-time duty informing the bright minds of Skidmore on the current political challenges we face in our world.

Since my first semester at Skidmore, I have had the privilege of learning with the man whose career has been to say the least, outstanding. What Professor Hoffmann brings to the Department is not only enormous experience and expertise, but brilliant and inspiring character that holds true in the face of the seemingly endless torrent of atrocities and ambiguities in world politics. I often find it difficult to imagine four more seconds of such mind-grinding work, let alone four decades, and yet I see Steve bright eyed and smiling nearly every day he’s on the job.

Through my studies one thing I have been able to conclude is that the increasing level of complexity in the world is strangely met by a similarly complex level of beauty. For example one can sign onto the Wikipedia (an online encyclopedia authored by users all around the world) and find an image graphing the World Wide Web. What they will find is a staggeringly intricate picture not unlike something taken from the Hubble Telescope. For me, this is something along the lines of when people first caught a glimpse of our beautiful planet from space. It contains a sort of positive shock-value; a testament to our limitless imagination.

I asked Professor Hoffmann what he hoped his students would take away from his class apart from the standard plethora of information he offers and after a moment he replied: “The ability to have their writing and thinking reflect the complexity they will run into, the complexity that is out there.” Taking one of his classes, whether it is “Military and Political Lessons from WWII” or “What the United States Does Wrong in the World: Views from India and Answers from Washington”, always propels me into the unyielding intricacies while his delivery, his scholarship, and his life often seal the beauty.

I laugh sometimes when he asks me to perform an incredibly easy task such as uploading a syllabus to the Web or when I catch him typing something with only two fingers, but I am at the same time in complete awe of his perseverance. Covering and teaching topics like the Middle East and foreign policy, subjects unfortunately foreign to many Americans, is not an easy task for any, and perhaps as significant as being on the front lines.

When I asked Professor Hoffmann what advice he could offer in avoiding some of the mistakes we find ourselves with today he noted, “Don’t elect people of strong ideological positions. Find problem solvers.” I hate to sound like a tech-freak, but I can see this wisdom in the image of the web. The amalgamation of dots and colors and lines, to me gives no indication of ideology, but rather a solidification of our inherent connectedness, our ceaseless dependence, and our uncompromising diversity.

Thank you very much Professor Hoffman for holding out until I got here, it has been a pleasure and I wish you well.

Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent [Video]

Just found a link to the best Noam Chomsky Movie: Manufacturing Consent. (right click - save as)

(its long, so grab an Apple)

No Fuckin' Way!

Dude, this is fake, i Fuckin know it...but i guess we've just gotten sucked into staying in Iraq for the next 100 years. Thanks you fuckin assholes!

Contraceptive Corn? Viagra?

Viagra too?

Crossing The Event Horizon

Nassim Knows...

My brain was exploded into pieces recently by the six hour presentation given by Nassim Haramein detailing his Unified Field Theory of Everything. I will not try to encapsulate the amazing research and conclusions drawn but will strongly urge everyone to take the time to soak in this revolutionary research. I have ripped all four DVDs and am more than willing to disseminate them. I have yet to find a feasible way to host the 4GBs online but am happy to burn the quicktime files to DVD and send them out via mail to anyone...just post your address.

I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Integrity, of Wisdom and of Peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are One.
Namaste





It's all gonna work out.
Love.
Light.
LIberation.

Genetically Modified Oligarchical Control?

This is a long radio talk with the author of this book.....Very interesting, gonna order a copy of the book produced by globalresearch.ca

Engdahl's Website - good articles on economy, geopolitics, gmo's

French State upholds ban
Brazillian Women Invade Monsanto Crops
Mexico Approves GM Corn
Seed Bank : Rockefeller/Gates/Monsanto

Dear Mr. Roberts,

I am a student of Government and have grown to heavily respect your views and experience over the past year. I came across your article today, and it served as a powerful summary of many things I had been mulling over for months now.

I was wondering, since you are an American citizen, if there are any precautions you yourself are taking in order to face the obstacles we as a nation now face. I do not know how you feel about personal questions, but the more I research the more I am wondering what people who are intelligent, innocent, and have good hearts can do.

Do we give more money to the economy? Do we save it? Do we place it in gold, or grains?
These are just a few things I have been thinking about, thank you very much for your time.

when a country makes such serious errors and is in
such wicked hands, it is hard for an individual to
know what to do. leave, perhaps

The End Of Money

someone kick me down

IMPOrTAnT MEsSAgE FroM GENERAL DIRECTION
Eliot Spitzer OPED in Washington Post

ANOTHeR IMPoRTANT MessAGE FROM GENERAL DIRECTION
The Collapse of American Power - Paul Craig Roberts

Nanofoods nanofoods

Awesome name for our new band...

The Eclective Consciousness. Do you guys like it?

Esperanto!!!

Telecom Immunity

You can sign this link provided by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to try and help stop the immunity of telecom communications.

A new whistleblower has come forward stating that they have "unfettered access to customers voice and data packets"

Mention this to me

A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said....Dr Eriksen said the slowly rotating mass of rubbish-laden water poses a risk to human health, too. Hundreds of millions of tiny plastic pellets, or nurdles – the raw materials for the plastic industry – are lost or spilled every year, working their way into the sea. These pollutants act as chemical sponges attracting man-made chemicals such as hydrocarbons and the pesticide DDT. They then enter the food chain. "What goes into the ocean goes into these animals and onto your dinner plate. It's that simple," said Dr Eriksen.



Watch the weather change

Some Sing

Our connectivity is changing the way we live in a funny way. An article I read today by an English professor pointing out the vulnerability of our generation because of our desire to BE EVERYWHERE NOW. In a given day we travel on the computer to dozens of places, and thus all these places now are a part of us in some way.

Logically the transformation of the world seems so far off, but if many of us in the free, technologically advanced world are living this life of perpetual motion, what kinds of effects does this have on the whole, through our consciousness and action?

I really wonder you know. We don't take the time to know the full things, we'd rather just get a taste...Dabble, master, move on. Where are our thoughts? Are we to be a generation of generalists? If I am constantly other places...text, blog, websites, IM, youtubes is it a conscious escape? a constant step forward? a constant step into the unknown? do i notice its effects? do i feel a change? do i feel good? am i truly happy?

Im just talking out my ass, but i thought it to be an interesting thought...should we try and live as far into the future as possible? or as the now seemingly classics said, be here now?

Time to devise better strategies to use and conserve scarce water – Ban Ki-moon

17 March 2008 – The international community needs to start conceiving strategies for using water more efficiently and sharing it more fairly, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says, warning that unless action is taken soon, the problems caused by water shortages around the world will only multiply.

In an opinion column published today in The Hindu of Chennai, India, ahead of celebrations on Saturday to mark World Water Day, Mr. Ban called for partnerships between governments, civil society groups, businesses and individuals to better use and conserve water.

“We are at the early stages of this awakening,” he wrote. “But there are some encouraging signs, especially in the private sector. Corporations have long been viewed as culprits. The smokestacks from power plants pollute our air; the effluents from industry spoil our rivers. But this is changing – more and more today, businesses are working to become part of the solution, rather than the problem.”

Mr. Ban cited the gathering earlier this month in New York of the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative, on the subject of water.

He stressed that it was important to move “beyond the mere use of water to stewardship,” given how scarce fresh water is becoming in so many regions of the world, both rich and poor.

“International Alert has identified 46 countries, home to 2.7 billion people, where climate change and water-related crises create a high risk of violent conflict. A further 56 countries, representing another 1.2 billion people, are at high risk of political instability. That’s more than half the world.”

The Secretary-General said population growth and climate change would only exacerbate the situation, observing that already one child dies every 20 seconds from a disease associated with a lack of clean water.

Helping people living “in the most abysmal standards of hygiene and sanitation” would not only reduce the death toll, Mr. Ban stated, but would also assist in protecting the environment, alleviating poverty and fostering economic development.

video day

its juggling... but in a cone, a big cone... woa

Were the dinosaurs done in by fungus?

More interestingly, Terence McKenna had a theory that the mushroom spore traveled inter-galactic to our planet. I assumed when I heard in my biology class that there are virtually no mushroom fossils on the planet dating pre-Tertiary period, that Tmk knew this. Apparently we didn't find this information out until 2004 at the earliest...
The end of the Cretaceous period-->Tertiary period is the marked by the end of Dinosaurs on this planet...also known as the k/t boundary (or mass extinction), it is thought to have been brought on by asteroid impacts. Evidence for asteroid impact: large amounts of Iridium on the planet, which wasn't there before, impact sites and shocked quartz
More on shocked quartz:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocked_quartz

IMPORtANT MESsAGE FROM GENERAL DIRECTION

Sickness

Inspire

MadV=Mad chill

Cleansing the Doors