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Each human being has unique behavior and qualities. However, some similarities in these behavior and qualities exist between individuals. To develop and practice our group and leadership skills this course required that we form two different groups and by working in them we were able to experience leadership and organizational dynamics.
Both my colleagues and I learnt the characteristics and qualities that a proper leader should possess. We were also able to gauge our own leadership capacity or being a follower. This was an opportunity for me to understand the positive and negative aspects when working in a group and gain some new knowledge from others.In developing a group as well as improving our personality, theories were essential tools.
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We applied these theories and concepts in interesting activities and as a result, we were able to understand them better. Eventually I gained experience in wide area from this interactive process. For instance, I was able to gain a new way to view others and myself as well as different events in the workplace and in life.
In this exercise, I participated in both Large Learning Group (LLG) as well as Peer Learning Group (PLG). I was able to identify variations in both qualities and behaviors among us as well as observe and compare the existing differences.
For instance, when the tutor asked us to form PLGs for the first time, majority of my colleagues formed theirs immediately while I was still struggling to find a group that would like my company. This was because unlike most of them I was too shy in making the first move and lacked in confidence to make acquaintance.
Fortunately, when I bumped into Songtao my former classmate, I was quite relieved because I was quite a nervous wreck. He enquired whether I was already in a group to which I obligingly said no. Then he asked me and three others to join him in order to form one. This was a clear indication that Songtao possessed leadership qualities and was very concerned.
That means I had a lot to learn from him. From there we held lengthy discussion to make project prioritization. This involved each group member's participation in exchanging his or herown views with others. One lesson that I learnt from this discussion is that a leader is not an instructor who keeps disseminating information, but rather leadership is about coordinating the discussion in the right manner.
In this paper, I will seek to highlight the various theories that I learnt in the exercise and use them in the various incidents I experienced in both LLG and PLG sessions.
The first theory I learnt in this process is Argyris Double loop learning. From my experience, I came to appreciate its importance in leadership. This theory gives a leader the opportunity to engage all group members so that there can be goodwill amongst them all (Smith, 2001). So in order to understand this theory our tutor John required that we share and reflect on our experiences as per the theory. What came to my mind at this point is a friend of mine called Joe.
Joe is a supervisor in the company we both work in. He does not learn quickly his mistakes and often end up making the wrong decision. This is because he does not scrutinize critically the cause of problems and as a result, his judgments are usually false. From my experience, I know realized that what Joe lacks is creativity that is required when using double loop theory once a problem is detected.
As a result, instead of solving the problem he ends up failing. While reflecting on my experiences, I realized that I applied model II when relating with Songtao. This is because both of us had different cultural background and as a result, each of us had a different mother language.
Accordingly, we could only speak in English and it helped a lot in seeking valid information. This is because unlike what would have happened had I chosen someone who was from my own cultural background, with songtao I was able to develop my communication skills as well as understand the diversity in our culture. Speaking in English therefore meant we could avoid engaging in non important issues as it would have been the case when dealing with somebody we shared same Arabic accent.
The next theory we learnt in our group process is that of Phenomenological Awareness as applied in Gestalt therapy. Here we had to stand aside from our usual mode of thinking to differentiate our actual perception at each moment from what already existed from our experiences. The main goal of this theory is to develop awareness (Yontef, 1993). By participating in simple activity within our PLG, we were able to discern three awareness zones.
This activity involved grouping into a pair and sharing what we could see, feel, think and describing what our partners felt. In my case, I described the general sitting arrangement of various people engaged in the larger groups as what I could see. However, in describing what I felt this was quite tricky because it was not as obvious as describing what I could see. This made me realize why the exercise was so important.
Other groups also seemed to be struggling by looking at the way people were using gestures to form images of their thoughts. As for my partner and I communication seemed difficult because of the intricate nature of describing the feelings that each of us possessed.
Another learning incident that changed my perception of activity-based learning is the experience with Gestalt's Field Theory. By definition this theory states that objects that seems simple when far away may have different characteristics when observed and analyzed at a close range (Yontef, 1993).
This LLG activity involved selecting an object to observe from a distance and progressing slowly towards it. The object that we chose was a classroom that was about a hundred yards from where we were standing. From this distance, the classroom glass windows looked very smart and nothing seemed to be wrong with any of them. However, as we progressed towards the class we realized that some of the glass panes were missing and others were broken.
Therefore, what started for me as just a mere theory that had little significance started to make a lot of sense. I realized it is possible that something that one observes from a distance can have a completely new meaning when at a close range.
This activity developed some new knowledge to me that I should not make judgment of things at the face value. Other people also learnt this important lesson because like me they had also formed a low opinion about this exercise. This activity therefore turned out to be very important to all of us because at the end we were more knowledgeable than before.
I also learnt more about myself when dealing with contact-full communication task. It happened as we were developing better know how on theory of dialogic relation by Gestalt. This theory states that relationships enlarge with contact.
Where contact refers to experience that an individual has with factors outside self and as a result being in a position to communicate and understand the outer world (Yontef, 1993). This exercise involved giving answers to sixteen sets of questions that focused on how I handle other people in different scenarios. Once I developed the answers to these questions, the next step was to discuss them with another student from the same LLG like me.
Jason was part of my LLG and by choosing him, I was very comfortable. We exchanged the answers for our questions and shared the motive for selecting them. In our discussion, I realized that I lacked good reasons why I had chosen some of the answers. More to that Jason turned out to be very helpful when I did not have answers to some of the questions. This is by helping me understand them and acting like my guide.
Therefore, to me this exercise as well as Jason partnership turned up to be very educative.We exchanged leadership role throughout the exercise where at sometime, especially when I was supplying the answers, I acted as the leader and Jason as a follower and things reversed when I was being guided.
When Jason guided me he demonstrated to me Argyris theory, Model II. That is at sometimes I failed to closely scrutinize some situations as well as the manner I organized my thoughts. This is something that only came to my attention while doing this exercise with Jason.
The lesson that I learnt as a leader from this exercise is that it is essential to understand what I feel in a particular situation and to learn the way to react in each situation. Again, to understand the feelings that I have in a situation as well as when I state something. Further that as a leader when I have passed the message I intended to, I should pause because some people may not like the message.
This is particularly important because like I observed previously leaders do not entirely pass on information and it is therefore important to learn as well from others in real life. The exercise further taught me that as a leader I should ensure my message is delivered with clarity and devoid of misinterpretation.
This is because as a leader one should not in any way seem confused but instead should have in his/her mind clear goals and aims. Otherwise in case at some point there appears to be confusion, a leader should seek assistance from teammate like was the case with Jason and me in order to have the clarity they deserve.
More so, one can understand the group process by looking at five organizational processes. These are intrapersonal, group-as-a-whole, intergroup, interpersonal, and inter organizational (Wells, 1985). I therefore came to realize that LLG can be considered as a group-as- a whole, while PLG can be taken as a smaller group.
However, because in our groups we were very helpful to one another, it seemed more like a family as opposed to a group. I therefore learnt that in real life it is important for us to consider the group interest before making the final decision or act in certain way.
By the tenth week in the group learning process, we had learnt a lot about each other and most of all each one of us had learnt a lot about self. As a group there was a lot that we were proud of like the fact that we had managed to be there this long for each other and learn a thing or two from each other.
This stage was therefore an important period for the group to understand our progress in this experience through the help of incremental development model by Woodward.This model is divided into four sections with each having team characteristics. A team therefore progresses from one section to the other until it reaches the climax of the hierarchy.
The first section represents the undeveloped team, followed by experimental team, then consolidating team and finally mature team. Our activity in this day therefore was to determine in which quarter or section of the clock like model, our PLG group belonged to.
We were to share our thoughts on this task with our tutor because on this day only three of our group members were present. Giving my opinion on our group's position was not easy for two reasons, first I am a very shy person and second my knowledge of the model was quite limited at that time.Majority of the students in the LLG group shared their opinion while a few others kept their calm like me.
I attributed the silence of these students to two things either they were too shy like me or lacked confidence in the model. This group participated in the discussion when prompted and by learning from them I realized that failing to chip in to the discussion meant I was pulling back my group's progress.
I learnt that as a leader I should not contribute in a discussion only when prompted, instead I should demonstrate confidence and ability to communicate my views to other members of my team in a manner that they can appreciate. Therefore for the sake of my team's position in Woodward's model I strongly believed that our PLG belonged in Mature Team quarter.
To support my position I can site our dedication in the group, we had also improved our knowledge of strengths and weakness in our team members and as a result we could work well amongst each other by harnessing the good qualities in each team member.
Our team by now could also discuss matters that different members hold different opinions to more openly and accommodate these diversities of opinions.Even more we cared and listened to other group members' ideas and plan our task and execute them as planned. These are the convincing facts that I presented in my argument that our group belonged to the mature team quarter.
Other students agreed with me and my lesson from this incidence is that instead of waiting to be requested by the tutor to speak I should always strive to give my opinion. This is because although it is always good to listen, it is equally important that as a leader one speaks out his/her opinion. I therefore came out of this exercise one notch wiser because I understood one of my weaknesses.
The next model that we looked at is the Trevor Tyson ART model. This model made me learn that the reason we had taken various position in our groups was due to the inherent authority to act in such a manner (Tyson, 2004).
External forces and previous experiences are some of the reason that might have influenced our decision in taking various positions. For instance some people were able to lead because of their nurturing or passing through situations that made them triumphant. On the other hand some of us were followers because that is the kind of life we are used to.
Lacking an opportunity to be a leader or being denied the opportunity to build the leadership confidence can be one of the reasons for the lack of leadership skills. For my case the decision to follow was due to my shyness as well as weakness in expressing myself. I am therefore less confident and this made me opt to follow instead of being in the lead.
A smaller group with time can develop to be a bigger group. However, this growth can either take a positive or negative direction. In Wilfred Bion psychodynamic theory this growth is called a lifecycle. Going by this theory as adopted by Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, two modality level of the group are highlighted. The first one is work group and second one is basic assumption group.
A group achieves the first status modality if members of a group work collaboratively with each other with a collective vision (Tyson, 1998). In such a situation there is rapid result in performing a task and quality of that work is maintained at high standards. Looking at our PLG situation I can justifiably say that we belonged to work group modality level since each team member played his role effectively.
The basic assumption group modality on the other hand is a group in which there is uncoordinated working among team members. It is therefore possible for team members to negate from group's basic goal (Tyson, 1998). For this level our activity was to analyze our understanding levels for the psychodynamic perspective based on a scale of 0-10.
We were to rank ourselves in this scale as novice, competent or expert with their scales being 0-4, 5-7, 8—10 respectively. At first I rated myself as 4 and many other of my colleagues who had even better knowledge of psychodynamic rated themselves at lower scales than me.
My participation in this group learning process helped me a lot in improving my communication skills. For instance as opposed to waiting to be asked to provide my opinion in any situation I can now freely speak out my view. The process has seen me develop my leadership skills as well as those of other members of my team. The course in leadership and organization dynamic presented us with experiences as well as knowledge that completely transformed our understanding.
This is in both understanding how to handle other people as well as understand ourselves. For instance by handling their work in competent manner leaders in our groups at times ensured that the group progressed as a whole. This can be demonstrated by the manner in which leaders have been able to communicate what has been discussed in incidences where some members were missing in group's discussion.
In addition our PLG leader was also able to iron out misconceptions in the group which enabled our group to grow and helped us to learn from our mistakes. Through this kind of leadership I have been able to develop my confidence and most importantly learn the value of true leadership.
The LLG was also a good group as team members were always helping each other. Both have therefore proved to be equally important to me and they have contributed to shape my learning experience with leadership. The lessons I have leant from the various experiences I had in both these groups is that I need to make certain improvements to myself in order to make a good leader.
Some of the lessons to improve leadership that I have learnt includeimproving my communication skills, not hiding in my fear when it comes to sharing opinions, not to underrate a person or task, raising my opinions openly instead of waiting to be asked to give these opinions, and finally is to clearly understand in my mind the goals and to be sure of what is taking place in the mind.
I can therefore say that to me the group's experiences proved to be vital lessons for improving my leadership qualities as well as behavior.
Smith, MK (2001), 'Chris Argyris: theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning',The encyclopedia of informal education, accessed on 31 October 2011, www.infed.org/thinkers/argyris.htm.
Tyson, T (1998), 'Working with Groups', 2nd ED, MacMillan, Hong Kong
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15.Are there many a suggestions for examining people for drunken driving? I try knee reflexes, response for eye pupils to light, pulse, and smell their breath. I realize it is not a perfect test but do not know of any better-F.C.WOODRUFF.
16.The following appeared in the Homoeopathic World. can you offer any suggestion to our English friend?.
"I wonder whether any of your readers could dell me what medicines cover the following. I have been unsuccessful in tracing them in either Clarkes Dictionary of Materia Medica or Kents Repertory, thought I should not like to assert that some of them might not be discoverable in those after a still more exhaustive search"-A.C.
a.Erosion of tonsils.
b.Hard nodule on vocal cords.
c.Invariable formation of ulcer at point where cheek is bitten.
d.Watery exudation from fossa navicularis,later becoming crusty, with distressing itching behind it..
e.Double joint of left thumb (persisting through three generations).
f.Varicose veins of uterus like bunch of grasps..
g.Shoulders and neck covered with big patches of long hair which readily falls our.
h.Head drawn towards breast with painful stiff neck over period of two years in case of girl of sixteen whose hair went white and has remained so.
i.Great emaciation (in male) with the not rudimentary muscular development, the skin behaving like elastic when pulled.
j.Attacks of deafness (right ear) after swimming.
k.Sensation as of a drop of water falling into more water with a (plop), when lying on ear.
l.Non-descent of tests in child at age of six. Has any radar tried Thyroidinum with success for this?
m. Sensation , when riding over any but the smoothest road, as of the nerves shaken up throughout the whole torso, particularly in the region of the stomach the agitation being quite incommensurate with the trifling causes, and lasting a while after the cause had ceased to operate.".
The following case is presented by Dr.C.Gorden of Edinburgh, Scotland, for analysis and remedy selection:.
M.H. hairdresser, age 22.Dysmenorrhoea very severe formerly. Some doctor prescribed anterior pituitary tablets for it. She took about 800 tablets in six months, and another 800 during the next 3-4 years., Result acromegaly.
Bones of head and face enlarged, and shoulders four inches wider than formerly.
Constant drowsiness,no ameliorated by sleep.
Attacks of exhaustion, must sleep.
Occasional migraine headaches.,.
Copious sweat. Skin pale and dirty looking,more so when cold.
Fear when alone in house but can conquer it.
Claustrophobia. Forgets words.
Very sensitive to HEAT and COLD.
Goes blue with cold.
Should this patient the treated on the totality of the symptoms or should the pituitary poisoning be antidoted prior to constitutional treatment, and if so, by what?.
-This case is a very interesting one, showing a through proving of pituitary substance carried to the extreme, One of the most difficult things to manage is the unbalancing of the system by glandular therapy,and bordering on this and associated with it are the effects of the sera and vaccines on the whole economy; so little do we know of the effects of the endocrine on the ratio of balance of the whole economy that it seems most unwise to ever resort to this system of therapy. However, it seems to have been done most through put in this case, and with most unpleasant results.
The best way to antidote the poison of this insidious organic substance is to treat the patient symptomatically,and that will antidote; this is the only method by which we can know that we are setting the house in order, and let Nature correct the difficulty in her own good way. In other words, the totality of the symptomatology in this condition must rule, and not the pathology.
I have worked this case out with Boenninghausen,using the following rubrics:.
Sleepiness caused by various things, page 243.
Intoxication with sleep, page 243.
Unrefreshed sleep. page 244.
Sweats easily, page 264.
Worse after becoming cold, page 276.
Fear when along, page 271.
Worse vaults (claustrophobia), page 305.
Memory lost, page 22.
Alternating moods, page 17.
Swelling of bones, page 203.
the ranking remedies are Phosphorus 48 (14 of the 15 symptoms appearing); pulsatilla 47 (13); Lycopodium 46 (13); Conium 46 (13).
Pulsatilla lacks the symptoms "far of being alone" and the dirty skin,both of which seem to be very prominent.
I am inclined to think that Conium is the remedy, for although it lacks the claustrophobia and the dirty skin, it has a direct action on the glandular system which has had the effect of throwing the hole system out of gear. For this reason I feel that it may be much more applicable that the other remedies and cover the case better-H.A.ROBERTS.
-I have worked out this case according to the Kent Repertory using the following rubrics:.
Fear of being alone, page 43.
Alternating moods, page 67.
Weakness of memory, page 64.
Weakness of memory for words,page 64.
Worse becoming cold, page 1949.
Unrefreshing sleep, page 1254.
Overpowering sleep, page 1299.
Profuse perspiration,page 1299.
Swelling of bones,page 1405.
Pale skin, page 1206.
Remedies appearing in eight or more of these rubrics and listed in order of value below, the numerical, value appearing fish and the number of rubrics second:.
Lycopodium 23-9, sulphur 19-9, Phosphorus 18-9,Baryta carb.17-8, Belladonna 17-8, Sepia 17-8,Nux vom. 16-8,Natrum mur. 15-9, Conium 14-9-J.N.HAZRA.
The pathologists among us have objected to our materia medica,that many of our symptoms are purely individual, and the ought to be critically expunged. Is not every symptom individual, strictly speaking? Does not every symptom result from the action of a drug upon an individual, and is not its character determined buy the innate disposition of the individual? this appears from a merely superficial comparison of the symptoms of various drugs on the same prover.
As early as 1930., when I observed, to my great astonishment,the similarity of he symptoms of various drugs which I proved upon myself, I tranquilized my various drugs which I proved upon myself, I tranquilized my mind my comparing the symptoms of one and the same drug observed by different provers,of whom I knew positively that they had proved the drug upon themselves. It is just as interesting to compare the symptoms of various drugs observed upon the same prove,as it is to compare the symptoms of one and the same drug observed on different provers.
Such a comparison reveals the individual character of the drug much better than the fashionable and pretended scientific lists or registers of temperaments. Individual symptoms do not restrain the sphere of activity of the drug. All the symptoms are individual in so far as they reflect more or less completely the dynamic relation of the drug to the organism of the prover-C.HERING,M.D., 1947.

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Taylor Mill Asks for Speed Limit Reduction, Honors Eagles Coach
The Taylor Mill city commission voted in support of a resolution to alter the speed limit on Taylor Mill Road from 45 to 35 miles per hour.
Mayor Dan Bell said that the nearby sidewalk project there was close to being finished and that the road is too close to pedestrians for cars to be traveling 45 miles per hour.
The resolution will be sent to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for consideration.
In other business, the commission approved a resolution applauding the leadership and community service of Shawn Murphy, a coach for the Taylor Mill Eagles. He was honored by the city for volunteering for the team for many years. He was diagnosed with cancer and won't be able to coach any longer.
Boys from the Eagles came to the meeting to honor their coach, bringing him to tears.
"You guys are the reason I get up every day," Murphy told them. "You have to get up and move. Every day is a battle."
Another resolution honored Pastor Bryon Banos, of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. October is designated as the month to honor pastors throughout the country.
Matthew Hicks was hired as a police officer in the city. Nathan Kling and Jordan Norris were hired as police recruits and will head to the Police Academy on October 27.
The Taylor Mill Fire Department demonstrated a new piece of equipment called the Lucas Device.
The machine generates continuous compression on a patient, providing a more stable pattern of heart compressions, even when the patient is moving on a stretcher as EMTs are transporting a patient whose heart has stopped.
Fire Chief John Stager said that heart compression can be very tiring to keep up for long periods of time, and this machine will take over and keep the compressions even and steady, freeing the paramedics or EMTs to do other lifesaving measures.
Stager said the machine cost $14,500, and the service plan is $3,500. He said typically these machines will last about ten to twelve years. When the machine is used, patients' rate of survival goes up to 86 percent, he said.
Commissioners accepted the resignation of Scott Smith from the Board of Adjustments. Mayor Bell said the city will be accepting applications for the position.
It was announced that the Moose Lodge will host a Trunk or Treat at Pride Park on October 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. Regular Halloween trick or treat hours will be October 31, from 6 to 8 p.m.
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Scammer on the forums!
Someone is making the rounds on the gun forums, offering to sell something for $200.
They are PM'ing or emailing.
On this forum I got a message from 'Alondrapawns' to sell 45 brass, and from a Sig forum a different user name, with 'doc' in it.
It seems to be forums that use this same Mobile format.
If you think it's suspicious, use the Report function and alert the staff. It will allow them to see the contents of the PM as well
Fraud alert
Postings selling items by [email protected] are fraud... tried to sell me a checkering jig and wanted money order or check. It was strange how everything came about, so I never sent money. Told the person I will only do face to face transaction. Sent me a phony address and phone number from Tampa FL. when the person claimed to live in my same home state and about 45 minutes away from me. I looked up address and it does not exists. That person was temporarily a member in this site under the name of pointblanc ((https://forums.1911forum.com/sendmes...ember&u=292004 ).
And of course that person will never answer the phone (727) 286-2507
Please make others aware of this scammer....
Thanks for the heads up. I'm not a brass buyer but experienced scamming for magazines earlier this year. TxSlade got to me for $200. I drove to his LKA in Tyler, TX. He skipped on his landlord there. I will find him...In person.
This guy johnny007 responded to my WTB ad via PM
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Hi you can hit up John on his email address he has what you want [email protected]
Be very suspicious of junior members whose only posts are leads on WTB posts. That is a scammer MO.
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You've Come a Long Way, Baby!: Lover's Lane Celebrates 27 Years
You've Come a Long Way, Baby!: Lover's Lane Celebrates 27 Years
POSTED ON December 27, 2019
Lover's Lane Celebrates 27 Years
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North Central NAMA Joins Global Hunger Effort
North Central NAMA joined the effort to reduce global hunger this month at Feed My Starving Children in Eagan, Minnesota. The group joined other organizations to pack MannaRice meals to send to undernourished children overseas. They packed meals that would make their way to Haiti.
The music started and the packing began! The perfectly portioned meals provided a task for everyone in attendance, and the assembly line got more and more efficient with each pack. In just under an hour's time, they helped pack enough meals to ensure food security for 49 children over the next 365 days.
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Or, Why I'm trolling my home state's meme page.
I'm from the same state as Bode Miller. Yesterday/last night/early this morning he won Bronze at the Olympics. My home state's meme page posted a status about how "proud" they are of "BODE F-ING MILLER." Being the antagonistic person that I am, of course I had to say something. And now I have my state's meme page up in arms.
Look, I get that there are athletes and people who are objectively "worse" than Miller. But that doesn't mean that we need to celebrate a person who is an EPIC douchebag just because he can strap skis to his feet and go faster than some other people. I'm disappointed that Miller is more famous to people than other New Hampshirites who have done good in the world (or at least not been major douchebags), like Alan Shepherd, Christa McAuliffe, Tomie dePaola, Ken Burns, Gene Robinson, or, if we want to stay in sports, Chris Carpenter or Triple H. That was a ridiculous run-on sentence, but I think it proves my point- there are SO MANY other people from NH that we can be talking about.
And the meme page just posted a "Good Guy Bode Miller" photo. Unfollowed forever.


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Trump Says He's Heard 'Interesting' Things About Aliens, Will 'Think About' Declassifying Info
President Donald Trump has claimed that he's heard some "interesting" things about aliens as well as the secretive Area 51 base in Roswell, New Mexico.
(TMU) – President Donald Trump has claimed that he's heard some "interesting" things about aliens as well as the secretive Area 51 base in Roswell, New Mexico, that some theorists claim is a UFO crash site.
The president was been extremely vague about details – and even withheld the information from his eldest child, Don Trump Jr.
The comments were made Thursday during a Father's Day-themed interview with Don Jr. that was held for the president's re-election campaign, reports NBC News.
Don Jr., who is apparently just as interested as the rest of us in what transpired at Area 51 during the alleged UFO crash in 1947, wound down the interview by asking his father, "Before you leave office, will you let us know if there are aliens?"
"Because this is the only thing I really want to know. Would you ever open up Roswell and let us know what's really going on?"
However, Trump responded in a guarded way, protecting the seemingly classified information.
"So many people ask me that question," Trump said. "There are millions and millions of people who want to go there [Roswell] and see it."
"I won't talk to you about what I know about it, but it's very interesting," he continued. "Roswell is a very interesting place – there's a lot of people who would like to know what's going on."
Don Jr. then responded by asking if his father would consider eventually declassifying the information, to which the president responded: "Well, I'll have to think about that one."
Area 51 was created amid the Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union as a top-secret research and development site for aircraft such as the U-2 spy plane and other then-cutting-edge platforms.
Conspiracy theorists and ufologists have claimed that an alien spacecraft crash-landed just outside Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, after a rancher found mysterious debris in a pasture used by his sheep. Officials of the U.S. Air Force responded at the time that only a weather balloon had crashed – a claim that hardly convinced UFO enthusiasts, even after the Pentagon admitted that the debris was related to a top-secret atomic warfare project.
Since then, some claim that the base houses everything from alien spacecraft to extraterrestrial pilots' corpses and other technology – speculation that has been fed by popular culture and the fact that the U.S. government didn't actually confirm the base's existence until 2013.
Last June, Trump said that he was briefed on UFOs but revealed that he was quite sceptical about their existence, saying: "People are saying they're seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly."
Last September, however, the U.S. Navy admitted that widely-circulated video footage captured by Navy pilots that purportedly showed UFOs flying through the skies did depict actual "unknown" objects that flew into U.S. airspace.
While officials admitted that they have been baffled by the unknown flying objects, they also admit that past encounters with them have been frequent. They also said that rather than calling them "UFOs," they prefer the term "unidentified aerial phenomena" or UAPs.
The videos were eventually declassified in April, to which Trump responded: "I just wonder if it's real. That's a hell of a video."
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Flying Saucers And Giant Aliens Described In A Possible Declassified FBI File
Paul Seaburn, Guest Writer
"Giant human-like aliens!" "Flying saucers." "Multidimensional beings!" When the rest of the news is bad (we're talking about 2020 here), nothing pulls the public's attention away from disasters, disease and doom like UFOs and aliens. That 'could' explain why a few media sites have pulled out the big headlines and exclamation points to reveal the possible disclosure of a decades-old FBI document about an alleged UFO and alien encounter in 1947. Roswell? There's little indication this is the same incident. The story of what they're referring to as Memorandum 6751 appeared this week in Alienstar, The Daily Star and Sputnik News. Yes, we know they're not the most reliable sources, but the FBI file itself at least looks real. Let's see what else we can find.
"These FBI files were recently leaked and in them, you can clearly see the fact that not only did they already confirm the existence of aliens out there but that they also have captured proof of these multidimensional beings that have attempted to visit our planet on multiple occasions so far."
"The text that dates back to 1947 is especially important as it mentions the term "flying saucers" on multiple occasions. You can see the official FBI Vault yourself right here and see the fact that they've been lying to us all along."
The name Memorandum 6751 comes from the number stamped on top of the memorandum. It appears to be 67 pages long, but only a blurred photocopy of the first page is shown in the story – not a good sign – and the Vault, the FBI repository of declassified files, doesn't seem to have it under a variety of search criteria. Sputnik News claims it's "dubbed Memorandum 6751 by UFOlogists" but a search on that term doesn't bring anything up except these stories… and one more which we'll discuss later.
Part of the disks carry crews, others are under remote control.
- Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane.
- These visitors are human-like, but much larger in size.
- They are NOT excarnate earth people but come from their own world.
- They do NOT come from any "planet" as we use the word, but from an otherio planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us.
- The bodies of the visitors and of the craft also, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our . . . matter.
- The disks possess a type of radiant energy, or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They re-enter the otherio at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace.
- The region from which they come is NOT the 'astral plane', but corros – ponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoterio matter will understand these terms.
- They probably cannot be reached by radio but probably can be by radar, if a signal system can be devised for that."
These are the bullet points listed on the alleged memorandum dated July 8, 1947 – the same day as the first press release about recovering a crashed "flying disc" on a ranch near Roswell. Coincidence? The writer is anonymous, but says he or she possesses several university degrees and was "formerly a university department head." The memorandum was written to the FBI and is NOT an FBI investigative report. Unlike the early Roswell reports, this memorandum refers to "living" beings "much larger in size" than humans who are visiting rather than crashing and occupy another dimension from us rather than another planet. It also does not say how the unnamed writer obtained all of this information. Alienstar says the documents were released "recently" but the video it links to shows them in 2018. Unfortunately, the other 66 pages or so are not published or linked to in the article.
However, the site Film Daily has another interesting, albeit also undocumented, revelation.
"A decade ago, a seventy page document was declassified by the FBI and put into their online database called The Vault. (How very cinematic of them.) This document is now frequently referred to as Memorandum 6751 & makes claims of inter-dimensional beings and flying saucers."
Film Daily says Memorandum 6751 was declassified in 2010 and that's when it allegedly appeared on The Vault. It also says it's "frequently referred to" yet references to it seem to be non-existent. Heck, there's not even a reference on Wikipedia!
Interesting? Definitely. A nice distraction from the bad news of 2020? Definitely. Real? Wow. This story has more red flags and holes than a minefield under inspection by a bomb-sniffing dog with a cold and more outrageous claims than a political campaign flyer. It would be nice to write the whole thing off as a hoax, like the FBI's infamous Hottel memo (which you CAN find on Wikipedia), but 2020 is also the year of UFO disclosure. Perhaps Tom DeLonge and his group could look into it. After all, Memorandum 6751 does say:
"Flying saucers."
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Back To Possible Alien Spaceship For 'Oumuamua'
Paul Seaburn, Guest Writer
It was a strange interstellar comet, it was a stranger spaceship, it was an interstellar asteroid, it was something else, and the latest — it's a frozen hydrogen-sicle. And now, the cigar-shaped unknown space object from another solar system is back to being a spaceship … or at least a piece of alien technology. That's the latest from two leading astrophysicists who have been watching and commenting on 'Oumuamua ever since it showed up unannounced in 2017 and has been inspiring debates, exploration suggestions and occasional concern ever since.
"The first interstellar object observed in our solar system, 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua), exhibited a number of peculiar properties, including extreme elongation and acceleration excess. Recently, Seligman & Laughlin proposed that the object was made out of molecular hydrogen (H2) ice. The question is whether H2 objects could survive their travel from the birth sites to the solar system."
Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, and Thiem Hoang, an astrophysicist at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, sprang into action as soon as astrophysicists Darryl Seligman, University of Chicago, and Greg Laughlin, Yale University, released their research paper in May 2020 proposing that 'Oumuamua was formed in a giant molecular cloud (GMC) and is composed of molecular hydrogen ice – a giant cigar-shaped interstellar hydrogen iceberg. Seligman and Laughlin tied their theory to the idea that outgassing or evaporating hydrogen ice wouldn't be visible from Earth — explaining the mystery of how 'Oumuamua could be a comet if it didn't have a tail, especially when it accelerated out of the solar system.
"Assuming that H2 objects could somehow form in the densest regions of GMCs, we found that sublimation by collisional heating inside the GMC would destroy the objects before their escape into the ISM [interstellar medium]. We also studied various destruction mechanisms of H2 ice in the ISM. In particular, we found that H2 objects are heated by the average interstellar radiation, so that they cannot survive beyond a sublimation time of tsub ~ 10 Myr for R = 300 m (see Figure 1). Only H2 objects larger than 5 km could survive."
"Not so fast!" said Loeb and Hoang. In their response, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, they point out that the closest GMC is too far away for a hydrogen iceberg to survive the trip (due to the heat generated by cosmic collisions) and would probably not even survive an exit from a GNC. Loeb admits that, while this knocks 'hydrogen iceberg' off the "What' is 'Oumuamua?" list, we still don't know for certain what it is. Fortunately, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (VRO) is scheduled to become operational next year and he believes it will detect "one 'Oumuamua-like object per month." If they can't figure out what it is with that kind of data, they need to turn in their astrophysicist club membership cards.
'Oumuamua as alien technology disguised in a crust of space debris – proposed by Loeb in 2019 – was never disproved, just pushed down on the list of possibilities. With hydrogen iceberg joining the "Nope" list, it can move up again until the VRO collects more data or a human spaceship launched in time to catch 'Oumuamua before it leaves the solar system.
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The Mysterious Indian Manuscript Of Ancient Flying Machines
Brent Swancer, Guest Writer
Throughout history there have been various mysterious texts, scrolls, and manuscripts claiming to have secret or even forbidden knowledge that lies beyond our ability to comprehend it. These manuscripts come creeping up upon us through the mists of time, wreathed in mysteries that we may never understand, and they have served to propel the imagination since time unremembered. One such text must surely be an ancient Indian manuscript, which purportedly holds the secrets to amazing, fantastical flying machines well before their time, and the veracity of which has been debated right up into the present.
In 1952, a G.R. Josyer, founder of the "International Academy of Sanskrit Research," came forward to unveil a previously unknown text at an event exhibition of rare Sanskrit manuscripts. The text was called the Vaimānika Śāstra, meaning "The Science of Aeronautics," supposedly dictated between the years of 1918 to 1923 to a G. Venkatachala Sharma by the mystic Pandit Subbaraya Shastry, who said the information had come to him in flashes and dreams, and considered himself the earthly conduit of the information from the real author, the ancient sage Maharshi Bharadwaja, itself claimed to be thousands of years old and put out there freely for "the benefit of all of mankind." The mysterious text itself was devoted to the vimānas, which were the fantastical flying chariots, thrones, carts, palaces, and other vehicles of the gods mentioned in ancient Sanskrit epics, but which according to this manuscript were actually advanced flying machines far predating any known airplanes. A news publication would say of the unveiling of this mysterious manuscript:
Mr. G. R. Josyer, Director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Research in Mysore, in the course of an interview recently, showed some very ancient manuscripts which the Academy had collected. He claimed that the manuscripts were several thousands of years old, compiled by ancient rishis, Bharadwaja, Narada and others, dealing, not with the mysticism of ancient Hindu philosophy of Atman or Brahman, but with more mundane things vital for the existence of man and progress of nations both in times of peace and war. One manuscript dealt with Aeronautics, construction of various types of aircraft for civil aviation and for warfare. Mr. Josyer showed some types of designs and drawing of a helicopter-type cargo-loading plane, specially meant for carrying combustibles and ammunition, passenger aircraft carrying 400 to 500 persons, double and treble-decked aircraft. Each of these types had been fully described.
The text styles itself as sort of a treatise on ancient Indian flying machines, giving exhaustive descriptions, diagrams, and illustrations of aerodynamics, propulsive devices, materials, and metallurgy, as well as the definition of an airplane, what a pilot is and their duties, aerial routes, food, clothing, metals, metal production, mirrors and their uses in wars, varieties of machinery, and others. The text goes into great depth on a variety of different flying vehicles. For instance, there is the Shakuna Vimana, which is shaped like a bird, measures 80 by 56 feet in dimension, and is crafted from a super-light, advanced alloy called raja loha. There is the Sundara Vimana, a giant cylindrical cone that utilizes steam and vaporized oil for energy production and is equipped with five gas engines, electrical tube wheels, and lifting fans. The Rukma Vimana is a massive, 5-tiered construct that has a 100 or 1000-foot base dimension, a 20-foot height, and an 80-foot cone height and operates on solar power. Another is the Tripura Vimana, which can move in air, on land, or through water, and which is fashioned of a fire-resistant alloy.
Every single one of these outlandish contraptions is explained in great technical detail, with elaborate illustrations of their inner workings and designs, meticulous recipes for their fuels and alloys, and it all really boggles the mind that any of this could come from thousands of years ago, as claimed. Yet the Vaimānika Śāstra became very popular immediately upon release, being translated into Hindi in 1959 and then English in 1973. Of course, considering that this information and the bizarre designs were claimed to be thousands of years old, its public reveal immediately drew the attention of UFOlogists and ancient astronaut theorists, who studied the Vaimānika Śāstra with great interest and fascination. However, the work has also drawn its share of criticism. One of the main problems with all of this is that, although the information is claimed to be from mystic ancient sources and a great sage, it was more or less released in modern times by the self-professed medium Pandit Subbaraya Shastry, who then left it to his son, Shri Venkatrama Shastry, after which it found its way into the collection of Josyer. However, Shastry has been claimed to have been a humble, honest man who never intended for his work to get out into the public eye, and he never took personal credit for any of it. It doesn't seem as if it was an intentional hoax perpetrated by Shastry, although it might have been by his son. However, this is probably the least of the worries the veracity of this text has.
Even more damning are the findings made by scientists who actually went and checked out the viability of the designs contained within the text. For instance, researchers from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore checked it out in 1974, and it did not take them very long at all to come to the conclusion that, in reality, most of the designs in the Vaimānika Śāstra simply would never actually be able to practically fly. The team found that not only are the aeronautics and geometries of the craft all wrong, but that the proposed methods of propulsion are also not viable. They even went as far as to say that the designs offended the laws of physics, that the author of the manuscript had a poor understanding of aeronautics, and stated, "If the craft is taken to mean what the drawing and the text say, it can be stated that the craft is a decided impossibility." The study would not mince words at all when it says;
Any reader by now would have concluded the obvious – that the planes described above are the best poor concoctions, rather than expressions of something real. None of the planes has properties or capabilities of being flown; the geometries are unimaginably horrendous from the point of view of flying; and the principles of propulsion make them resist rather than assist flying. The text and the drawings do not correlate with each other even thematically. The drawings definitely point to a knowledge of modern machinery. This can be explained on the basis of the fact that Shri Ellappa who made the drawings was in a local engineering college and was thus familiar with names and details of some machinery. Of course the text retains a structure in language and content from which its 'recent nature' cannot be asserted. We must hasten to point out that this does not imply an oriental nature of the text at all. All that may be said is that thematically the drawings ought to be ruled out of discussion. And the text, as it stands, is incomplete and ambiguous by itself and incorrect at many places.
Ouch. There was also the researcher J. B. Hare of the Internet Sacred Text Archive, who also is blunt and harsh when he says of the origin of the manuscript and its contents:
You just have to buy into the assumption that 'channelling' works. … there is no exposition of the theory of aviation (let alone antigravity). In plain terms, the VS. never directly explains how Vimanas get up in the air. The text is top-heavy with long lists of often bizarre ingredients used to construct various subsystems. … There is nothing here which Jules Verne couldn't have dreamed up, no mention of exotic elements or advanced construction techniques. The 1923 technical illustration based on the text … are absurdly un-aerodynamic. They look like brutalist wedding cakes, with minarets, huge ornithopter wings and dinky propellers. In other words, they look like typical early 20th century fantasy flying machines with an Indian twist.
The proponents for the veracity of the texts will point out that the Vaimānika Śāstra is incomplete, and that these missing parts might fill in the blanks, as well as that these would be highly advanced machines beyond our understanding. We are left with these supposed ancient texts, given to us by a seer and medium, unleashed upon the world to try and explain these mysterious machines of the gods but coming up lacking by modern scientific standards. Whatever one makes of them, they add to the rich history of texts purporting to have secret ancient knowledge, which will always have a particular allure and effect on the imagination, whether they are real or not.
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Researchers Estimate There Are 36 Advanced Alien Civilizations In The Milky Way Galaxy
It's incredible to ponder the notion of there being over 30 advanced civilizations in our galaxy.
(TMU) – Few mysteries rile the imagination like the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. SETI and other groups have spent decades scanning the skies for signals from other worlds and have yet to confirm the existence of ET. While the majority of astrophysicists and astronomers believe there are almost certainly other advanced life forms out there somewhere, the science behind xenology – the study of extraterrestrial life – has been greatly limited by technological constraints.
A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, however, argues that a reasonable estimate can be deduced by using Earth-like planets as a variable in a mathematical equation. The research concludes that there are likely 36 active ET civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy alone.
Astrophysics professor Christopher Conselice, who was chief researcher for the study, says: "There should be at least a few dozen active civilizations in our Galaxy under the assumption that it takes 5 billion years for intelligent life to form on other planets, as on Earth."
First author Tom Westby explains further: "The classic method for estimating the number of intelligent civilizations relies on making guesses of values relating to life, whereby opinions about such matters vary quite substantially. Our new study simplifies these assumptions using new data, giving us a solid estimate of the number of civilizations in our Galaxy."
Conselice adds, "The idea is looking at evolution, but on a cosmic scale. We call this calculation the Astrobiological Copernican Limit."
The classic method Westby refers to is the Drake Equation, which was a 1960s-era probabilistic argument for how to calculate the number of alien species out there.
However, despite the initial optimism, in recent decades the confounding silence from the cosmos has led some to question whether we're alone. The Fermi Paradox uses its own probabilistic argument to question why, if life is so common in the universe, we haven't received any messages or seen a single artifact or probe.
Explanations for the Fermi Paradox abound: 1) Alien signals are out there but we can't decode them 2) Aliens more advanced than us have transcended physical space 3) Alien civilizations die off fairly quickly after gaining intelligence 4) Aliens have quarantined us in a kind of cosmic zoo so that they can study our development.
One of the most logical explanations – that the distance and time that must be overcome to convey a message or spaceship across the incredible gulfs of interstellar space – is touched upon by the new study. The researchers write that the average distance between civilizations is 17,000 light-years.
For context on how massive this distance really is, consider that the nearest star to Earth, Alpha Centauri, is only 4.3 light-years away. With our current fastest speeds, it would take a human probe 78,000 years to reach this star system.
The researchers also say it is exceedingly possible that these civilizations went extinct thousands of years ago.
While visiting even a nearby alien star is out of our reach for the foreseeable future, new technologies in the coming years may allow us to confirm the existence of an alien civilization.
For example, the James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled for deployment in the coming year or so, is so powerful it will be able to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and look for "biosignatures." In other words, we will be able to determine if an advanced species there is using industrial technology that alters the composition of the atmosphere.
The new study also considers how the search for ET reflects on the evolution of our own species:
"Our new research suggests that searches for extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations not only reveals the existence of how life forms, but also gives us clues for how long our own civilization will last. If we find that intelligent life is common then this would reveal that our civilization could exist for much longer than a few hundred years, alternatively if we find that there are no active civilizations in our Galaxy it is a bad sign for our own long-term existence. By searching for extraterrestrial intelligent life — even if we find nothing — we are discovering our own future and fate."
It's incredible to ponder the notion of there being over 30 advanced civilizations in our galaxy. Then, when you consider that the Milky Way is just one out of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe, human comprehension begins to fail.
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On March 17, Atlantic Cape was represented at the 43rd Annual Jersey Shore Science Fair held at Stockton University. Sixth- through twelfth-grade students from Cape May, Atlantic, Ocean and Monmouth counties competed for prizes and a chance to move on to the Delaware Valley Science Fair. Project categories included: behavioral and social science, biochemistry, botany, chemistry, computer science, earth and space science, engineering, environmental, math, medicine, microbiology, physics, zoology, team and consumer science.
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New breakthrough in photocatalyst development
A research group led by Associate Professor TACHIKAWA Takashi of Kobe University's Molecular Photoscience Research Center has succeeded in developing a strategy that greatly increases the amount of hydrogen produced from sunlight and water using hematite photocatalysts.
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In addition to boosting the high efficiency of what is thought to be the world's highest performing photoanode, this strategy will also be applied to artificial photosynthesis and solar water-splitting technologies via collaborations between the university and industries.
These results will be published in the German online chemistry journal 'Angewandte Chemie International Edition' on April 30. This work was also featured in the inside cover.
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With the world facing increasing environmental and energy issues, hydrogen has gained attention as one of the possible next generation energy sources. Ideally, photocatalysts could be used to convert water and sunlight into hydrogen. However, a solar energy conversion rate of over 10% is necessary to enable such a system to be adopted industrially. Utilizing Japan's strengths in new materials discovery, it is vital to establish a common foundation technology that can unlock the potential of photocatalysts in order to achieve this aim.
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Research methodology
Mesocrystal technology
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Photocatalyst formation and performance
Mesocrystal photoanodes were produced by coating the transparent electrode substrate with hematite mesocrystals containing titanium and then annealing them at 700°C. A co-catalyst (*8) was deposited on the surface of the mesocrystals. When the photocatalysts were placed in an alkaline solution and illuminated with artificial sunlight, the water-splitting reaction took place at a photocurrent density of 5.5mAcm-2 under an applied voltage of 1.23V (Figure 1). This is the highest performance achieved in the world for hematite, which is one of the most ideal photocatalyst materials due to both its low cost and light absorption properties. In addition, the hematite mesocrystal photoanodes functioned stably during repeated experiments over the course of 100 hours.
The key to achieving a high conversion rate is the size of the nanoparticles that make up the mesocrystal structure. It is possible to greatly increase the amount of oxygen vacancies that form during the sintering process by making the nanoparticles as small as 5 nm and increasing the connecting interfaces between the nanoparticles. This boosted the electron density, and significantly increased the conductivity of the mesocrystal
The high electron density is connected to the formation of a large band bending (*9) near the mesocrystal surface. This promotes the initial charge separation as well as making it easier for holes to accumulate on the surface. This result was optimized due to the tiny nanoparticle structure of the mesocrystals, and boosted the water oxidation reaction that had been a bottleneck for efficient water-splitting
Further Research
This study revealed that mesocrystal technology is able to significantly minimize the recombination issue, which is the main cause of low efficiency in photocatalysts, and exponentially accelerate the water splitting reaction.
It is hoped that this strategy can be applied to other metal oxides as well. Next, the researchers will collaborate with industries to optimize the hematite mesocrystal photoanodes and implement an industrial system for producing hydrogen from solar light. At the same time, the strategy developed by this study will be applied to various reactions, including artificial photosynthesis.
These successful results were achieved thanks to support from the following:
The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)'s A-STEP (Adaptable and Seamless Technology transfer Program through target-driven R&D)'s industry-academia collaboration phase: 'Development of highly efficient hematite mesocrystal photoelectrodes toward social implementation of solar-hydrogen production systems' (Company: KANEKA Corporation, Researcher: TACHIKAWA Takashi).
'Creation of efficient light conversion systems based on highly-ordered nanoparticle superstructures.' (Researcher: TACHIKAWA Takashi), as part of JST's Strategic Basic Research Program 'Presto' in the research area 'Hyper-nano-space design toward Innovative Functionality' (Research Supervisor: KURODA Kazuyuki, Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University).
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Journal article Open Access
Giorgos Dimitriadis
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