The Third Annual Massive Madhatter Tea Party

The Third Annual Massive Madhatter Tea Party

I am late ,I'm late for a very important date ! The Free Art Society cordially invites you to witness The Third Annual Massive Madhatter Tea Party this July 31 n Tompkins Square Park .

This Tea Party features all the characters of Alice in Wonderland in all their wild glory. There are still many roles to fill for the big day and the Free Art Society needs Performers for this event.

Don your maddest hat and prepare to lose your head in this madcap East Village costume party.
Follow the white rabbit to Tompkins Square Park! Featuring every major character from Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland in a whirling eclectical spectacle.

The Red Queen will chop off heads. Humpty Dumpty will fall. Join the Black v. Red tug-of-war.
Question the Cheshire Cat and converse with the Caterpillar. See Alice & the Jabberwock in a thrilling swordfight duel to the death!!! And of course, there will be tea.

Featuring:Fritz Donnelly from “Hi Christina” as the Mad HatterRaya Brass Band
Moon Hooch and more!

Bring your camera's and document this epic East Village tradition! Performances from Upright Citizen's Brigade, Raya Brass Band and House of Yes!!!

If you missed last years tea party check out these links to get a better idea:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=209210309122492

http://vimeo.com/25941206

Please contact Leslie for more information!!!

DJ3K

 Derek Jeter’ homered in front of the home town crowd hitting one of baseball’s most hallowed milestones, a mark that has never been reached by any other New York Yankees’ great. Not Mantle ,not Marris, not Jolten Joe DiMaggio ,not even the Iron Horse Lou Gerhig ,or Babe Ruth could muster 3000 .Only Derek Jeter has entered this very exclusive 3000 hit club. Making today in one of the great moments of Yankee history.

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British University Stung by Bee loss

British University Stung by Bee loss 
by James Foytlin

Its an odd tale one reminiscent of a creepy sci-fi thriller ,a British university has been stung by a Bee theft .On Tuesday the university reported the theft of several thousand bees that were part a multi-million dollar neuroscience research project .Scottish Police are appealing for information after four bee hives containing  British black bees were stolen from a medical school in the city of Dundee.Police are keen to trace a white van and two men that were seen near the area on May 8.

Dr Chris Connolly lead researcher on the Dundee neuroscience project, who had reported the bees missing Sunday said in the ultimate understatement ,"This theft will undoubtedly hamper our research,"

The bees are described as "very unique" and identification should be easy. Dundee University's medical school has been investigating the potential effect of pesticides on bee learning and health. Dr. Connolly has speculated that who ever did this knows what they are doing and that the bees may have been stolen for breeding, or for selling to specialist bee-keepers.

Jetman Yves Rossy

Jetman Yves Rossy
by James Foytlin

Yves Rossy and his Jet Pack made a low key historic flight over the Grand Canyon. The Swiss adventurer, dubbed JetMan, weathered a set back Friday when he had to cancel his flight last minute due to red tape and various safety issues.The FAA only gave Rossy the green light less than an hour before he was scheduled flight Friday.

Despite the setback Rossy did not give up and on Saturday strapped his Jet Pack back on and took to the skies for a five-mile and eight-minute flight. Rossy has in the past rocketed above the English Channel as well as Swiss Alps.

Rossy's custom-built jet suit weighs 120lb with a  79" wing span. It's four engines give it enough thrust to reach average speeds of 125mph .

JetMan Rossy, who flew fighter jets for 17 years in the Swiss Air Force soared 200 feet above the canyon rim reaching speeds of up to 190mph before opening his parachute and landing safely on the canyon floor.  .

1997: Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigns after 19 moves in a game against IBM's Deep Blue

1997: Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigns after 19 moves in a game against IBM's Deep Blue
by James Foytlin 

On May 11, 1997, a new world chess champion was created when grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigned after only 19 moves in a game against IBM's Deep Blue. The chess-playing computer was developed by scientists at IBM. This was the sixth and final game of their match, which Kasparov lost two games to one, with three draws.

Garry Kasparov, was a chess prodigy from Azerbaijan. At 21 Kasparov beat the reigning champ Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest world champion in history. Kasparov  complied a FIDE (Federation International des Echecs) score of 2800, and a winning streak of 12 consecutive world chess titles. At the time of the match with Deep Blue Kasparov was considered to be the greatest chess player of all time.

Early Chess-playing computers had little success playing against accomplished chess masters , but all that changed in 1985, with "Chiptest" developed by a Carnegie Mellon doctoral student named Feng-hsing Hsu . Hsu went to work for IBM, and in 1989 as part of a team led by developer C.J. Tan created a computer capable of competing against the best of the best chess players in the world. Thus the supercomputer, Deep Blue was born. Deep Blue could calculate 100 billion to 200 billion moves in the three minutes . The time allotted to a player per move in standard chess match.

Deep Blue first challenged Kasparov in 1996, but was no match for the grandmaster known for his remarkably unpredictable play.  Kasparov went on to defeat the computer by switching strategies mid-game. Deep Blue challenged again In 1997, however Kasparov abandoned his traditional swashbuckling style, taking  a more defensive approach. Unfortunately this played in the Deep Blue's strength's and Kasparov finally went down to defeat .

Happy Easter ,Pope: Humanity isn't random product of evolution

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI marked the holiest night of the year for Christians by stressing that humanity isn't a random product of evolution.

Benedict emphasized the Biblical account of creation in his Easter Vigil homily Saturday, saying it was wrong to think at some point "in some tiny corner of the cosmos there evolved randomly some species of living being capable of reasoning and of trying to find rationality within creation, or to bring rationality into it."

"If man were merely a random product of evolution in some place on the margins of the universe, then his life would make no sense or might even be a chance of nature," he said. "But no, reason is there at the beginning: creative, divine reason."

Church teaching holds that Roman Catholicism and evolutionary theory are not necessarily at odds: A Christian can, for example, accept the theory of evolution to help explain developments, but is taught to believe that God, not random chance, is the origin of the world. The Vatican, however, warns against creationism, or the overly literal interpretation of the Bibilical account of creation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110423/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_easter_vigil_4

Who is John Galt ?

For the uninitiated Atlas Shrugged, the movie is the adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1957 classic novel. The novel, which centers around railroad executive Dagny Taggart as she fights to keep her business a float as American society crumbles around her, and descends into deeper and deeper recession .

In the novel Rand dramatized her unique philosophy in an intellectual mystery story that integrated ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics and sex. She considered herself primarily a fiction writer, but realized that in order to create heroic fictional characters, she had to identify the philosophic principles which make such individuals possible.

http://www.manhattanstyle.com/arts-entertainment/movies/who-is-john-gault/