Protoype Mechanical Hand and Arm

Italo Calvino's "The Mirror, The Target"

A photo of me in 2009, superimposed on a photo of my mom in 1976.


check this out!
http://irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/

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Introducing: Tiffany Claus

 'Tiffany is of German/Russian heritage. She studied opera classically as a high school and college student and oil paints portraits. She graduated with a Bachelors of the Arts and Psychology for Art therapy with plans attain a masters in Art Therapy before she unexpectedly broke into modeling and acting. Tiffany's modeling and look alike career began when Tyra Banks talent scouts found her images on myspace. They were so impressed with her natural resemblance that they asked her to appear on her show in Los Angeles. From there she decided to pursue her career as a professional look alike and has become the most sought after Angelina Jolie impersonator worldwide.' via her website here

another biography:

'Tiffany grew up in a small town in Maryland with little opportunity for an entertainment career. She started singing opera and oil painting by 14. She participated in school musicals and art exhibits. After high school she went on to a Maryland State University to study Art and Design where she also studied opera. She graduated in 2003 with a degree in Art and Design with Painting. She focused in oil painting, as a portrait artist.. After graduating she worked as a free lance portrait artist and interior designer. During her years in college she also had her two children, Klaus and Vonessa with her long time partner, Jeffrey. For as long as Angelina has been the well recognized actress she is, Tiffany has been compared to her for her striking resemblance.     
During the course of her years in college and the births of her children Tiffany continued to hear of her likeness to the movie star. Tiffany wasn't sure she was as similar looking as what people told her but with years of hearing it she finally sent out a photo of herself to a look alike agency through the internet. That is when she began her career as a look
alike.Tiffany's first job as a look alike was when she appeared in a photo layout for Maxim's brother magazine, Stuff. Soon she also appeared in Maxim, People, US, Look, Marie Clare, New York Post and several over seas magazines. Tiffany also made t.v. appearances on The Tyra Banks Show, The Chelsea Handler Show, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, Maruy Povich, The Next Best Thing, Live with Regis and Kelly, and local news. She also made her film debut in, "Meet the Spartan's (2008.)  In theatres January 25, 2008.'

Here is some of her work. I am guessing it is from her college years. I don't think she makes work since becoming a celebrity look alike.

Here is an interesting/unsettling site which visualizes data for a name and related information such as sex, location, news, relationship status, economic wellbeing, family history, etc etc. (Try inputting your telephone number into the search)

Is Our Solar System a Double Star System?

The asteroid behavior seems to provide evidence.

There is speculation in the astronomy field whether our solar system is actually a double star system, with the Sun's twin, Tyche, being a Brown Dwarf star. Apparently about half of all stars are part of binary system - the rest are singles, and a few triples and quads. Reputable journalism on NASA report on Tyche-- new Kuiper/Oort gas giant or Brown Dwarf Star? (closer than thought now, WISE doing infrared scans, but results aren't fully released). Explains Pluto and Sedna's erratic orbits and also the "shearing" observable at the far edge of the solar system (as expected in Binary Solar system's edge collisions).

Here is a report: http://www.science20.com/science_20/tyche_suns_dead_binary_edge_solar_system-77081

And a YouTube video that is somewhat questionable, but has some good graphics and explanations of how a binary star system effects it's twin star. The current theory is that our planets orbit around "our Sun" and the other sun, which is a non-visible brown dwarf star (like a huge planet) is on another orbit, somewhat like a comet, that enters our system every 24,000 to 26,000 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7C41znZ6GA

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