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Aug 24 2009
A Series of Michio Kaku Videos that Will Blow Your Mind
Published by Paul at 10:00 am under Oddly Enough
I know that this post differs from the usual theme of the site as it's not explicitly video game, TV or movie related. Rather, it's a series of videos featuring Harvard-educated physics theorist talking about all sorts of revolutionary scientific happenings, most of which you probably didn't even know existed.
This may sound boring, and to some it may be, but if you like science fiction as I do, you should be really interested in what Kaku has to say about aliens, time travel, teleportation, invisibility, artificial intelligence, black holes and our universe and perceptions of reality in general.
I spent the better part of the afternoon watching these videos, and by the end, I felt like A) I really should have studied more in school and B) I'm a very small piece of a massive universe (or multiverse as the case may be). I think if you watch a few, you'll be hooked for the rest like I was, and due to Kaku's plain spoken explanations, you'll be able to grasp concepts that have taken geniuses centuries to unearth and really feel like you've learned some truly cool shit.
Aliens and Physics
The Multiverse
The Three Types of Extraterrestrial Civilizations
Mini Black Holes and the Large Hadron Collider
Time Travel
The Fountain of Youth
Artificial Intelligence
More Unreal Posts
Kaku is great. I first read about him when I was reading something about civilizations and the energy they are able to consume. We're very low on the totem pole in that system.
If you like Kaku, you should check out some of the writings/lectures of Ray Kurzweil…
i LOVE Michio!!
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http://myredbmw.net Richard
I'm sorry, I want to be impressed by him, but I get the feeling he's talking about things where he is not an expert. For example, fountain of youth? Terrorism? When did he become an expert on what terrorists fear?
He states theories or ideas as fact, when they are currently beyond anyones expertise. For example, talking about type-1, 2 and 3 civilizations. Until we actually meet civilizations, no one knows what they do or what they are capable. Stating as fact that a type-2 civilization can stop a supernova is really pop pandering.
@ Richard
No offense, but I think you're really missing the point about the classifications of civilizations.
Do we really have to see something for ourselves to conceive it? If that were the case, we'd still be in the stone age.
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William H. Depperman
Materialist Analysis of Theoretical Astrophysics
The Capitalist Dictatorship Falsifies Basic Science!
Michio Kaku, Wendy Freedman, Dennis Overbye, Nicholas
Wade, Brian Greene, etc. Are Exposed as Liars!
Today basic medicine, science including climatology, astrophysics and even both Einstein's Special Theory and General Theory of Relativity are brazenly and routinely falsified at the direction of genuinely Fascist elements for political/religious reasons. These scientifically fabricated and bizarre distortions are mixed in with some actual science and are passed off as "the new science" in exhaustive falsifications lasting for hours on NOVA, FRONTLINE, National Geographic Channel, CUNY TV, and even the so-called "History Channel" In addition, the above-mentioned so-called "cosmologists" publish an endless stream of books, videos and magazine and newspaper articles to try to popularize this fiction and pass it off as good coin. Not to mention the new textbooks! The media, including the science media is simply a privatized arm of the U.S. "intelligence agency," a vast army of legions of professional liars in every area of politics and every academic discipline and includes even so-called "comedians" working in service to the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires. The U.S. media is very similar to Blackwater, Dyncorp, Custer Battles and Triple Canopy, etc. the armed military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, except that the media has always been privatized. Can you say Total Brainwash of the youth? Not to mention the adult population!
There is also a maximal attempt to confuse the masses in order to keep them susceptible to the constant stream of lies originating from NASA and the U.S. government, which have threatened to ram through a revisit of the Moon and have even tried to pump up support for a Mars mission! (?) There is no possibility that a manned trip to Mars would ever return. Rocketry is a primitive form of space travel and there is no acknowledged attempt of efforts to develop the nuclear powered electromagnetic motor used by so-called UFOs, which are documented to have visited the Earth for Millennia. Moon and Mars trips obviously make no sense except to keep NASA and its suppliers in business and one more pretext to divert money from social spending and to boost U.S. patriotism. Under public pressure the Obama Regime has recently supposedly cancelled the Moon and Mars ventures and states that it will privatize the role of NASA going even further than Bush in privatization schemes for the U.S. government. (See below.) The widespread academic opposition to these wide-scale falsifications of science and money wasting ventures is never given equal time! We demand and will take some time to refute the U.S.-led capitalist dictatorship's lies.
The Capitalist Dictatorship's Attempt to Falsify the
Age of the Universe to Help Provide False Belief in "god"
The capitalists have tried to falsify the actual age of the Universe and the infinite cycle of a Big Bang followed by a Big Crunch, meaning a closed rather than an open Universe, because the reality of a closed Universe does not fit with the religious brainwash of a single creation and belief in a supernatural fictitious "god." (The statecraft of capitalism's alliance with religion and belief in "god" and other superstition is exposed further below.) The reality is that the process of contraction of the Universe began soon after the Big Bang, which began the process of expansion. The process of contraction began with the first condensations of gas after the Big Bang. At first the process of expansion was dominant, but the processes of expansion and contraction exist simultaneously from shortly after the Big Bang until finally the process of contraction becomes dominant and all galactic matter is finally drawn into Supermassive Black Holes, which today form the centers of all spiral galaxies and elliptical galaxies in the process of becoming spiral galaxies. These Supermassive Black Holes, which are growing larger continuously, finally link up all existing matter of the Universe at one spot, one huge super-maximal Black Hole known as the Singularity in the Big Crunch, at which time critical mass in the true and ultimate sense is reached for another Big Bang Cycle and the beginning of another Universe.
Ninety-five Percent of Matter in the Universe Exists in the Form of Energy According
To Einstein's Formula E=mc2! Black Holes Completely Reverse that Relationship and
Solve the Equation for Mass: M=E/c2 thus Supplying the so-called "Missing Mass"!
The critical mass density required for the Big Crunch to occur is 1 x 10 to the negative 29th of a gram per cubic centimeter (approximately 5 hydrogen atoms per cubic meter), according to the calculation from the General Theory of Relativity, which predicted Black Holes. Neutrinos are now known to have mass which may be sufficient to supply the supposed "missing mass." (See below.) But probably even more significant is the recent paper in Science (November 21, 2008) which shows that 95% of matter in the Universe exists in the form of energy according to Einstein's formula E=mc2. This relationship would reverse in a Black Hole and the so-called "missing mass" would gradually appear as the contraction of the Universe allowed the energy-mass relationship to shift so that in a practical and real sense Einstein's formula would be solved for mass: m=E/c2. Though the authors of the paper fail to draw this conclusion that is the inescapable significance of those papers. See below. The fact that the expansion and contraction of the Universe occur simultaneously is one more example of the Law of Unity of Opposites, the Second Law of and Historical Materialism and the correctness of the scientific philosophy of Dialectical and Historical Materialism, as opposed to the false philosophies of idealism and metaphysics, which are the only philosophies permitted to be seriously taught in U.S. colleges and universities, and which form the underlying basis for all phony "cosmological" theory! See further below!
Black Holes Have Mass and a Size, Which
Can Be Calculated, and Rotate on an Axis!
In addition, in the Big Crunch matter most certainly does NOT collapse to "a single point less than the size of a single molecule," a totally ridiculous assertion by the so-called "string theorists" (see below) designed to try to discredit the Theory of the Big Bang/Big Crunch Cycle of the Universe. Black Holes are formed exclusively of condensed nuclear material; protons and neutrons (composed of quarks) and electrons (composed of leptons) devoid of their orbits and all motion, all collapsed together. The end point of all matter in the Big Crunch is a Single Black Hole, the so-called "singularity." All Black Holes have the same mass density, which is said to be infinite, and which vary only in actual mass depending on how many stars and how much nuclear material they contain. The only difference is the difference in mass, which is constantly increasing as matter changes from its energy form when entering a Black Hole. See above cited article in Nature, November 21, 2008. Note that while some of the information provided below may appear to be somewhat technical it is necessary for any subsequent challenges which might be made of this dialectical and historical materialist analysis. An educated reader should be able to understand most of it and follow for the most part the explanations, which have in turn vast political implications. A few key references are provided and the reader can research the area independently.
Black Holes have mass and size just as neutron stars (pulsars) also have mass!! All Black Holes, both Stellar Black Holes and Supermassive Black Holes (the result of combination of millions of solar masses) which form the center of evolving elliptical galaxies and all spiral galaxies, also rotate extremely rapidly just like neutron stars, some of which are estimated to be only 8 to 20 miles in diameter, and rotate in 1.4 milliseconds to 30 seconds! All stars rotate on a central axis to some degree due to the angular momentum of gas approaching the center of the proto-star prior to the ignition of hydrogen fusion. In other words the gravitational collapse of gas in star formation is not uniform just as its opposite, an explosion such as the Big Bang is not uniform. When the radius of the star is reduced drastically in stellar collapse the angular momentum remains the same but the momentum of inertia is sharply reduced. The standard example is that of a figure skater spinning with outstretched arms who speeds up by pulling in his/her arms. Black Holes are formed from the collapse of the largest Blue Giant stars 5 to 20 or more solar masses. Neutron stars are formed from the explosion of stars with 1.35 to 2.1 solar masses in a Type II, Type Ib or Type Ic supernova explosion. The rapid rotation of Supermassive Black Holes is in fact the reason Spiral Galaxies exist in the flattened disk form they do with spiral arms—because of the huge gravitational force exerted by the rapid rotation of Supermassive Black Holes which form their galactic centers! As the rotating Supermassive Black Hole in the galactic center gradually increases in size through accumulation/accretion of more stellar material and gas, the elliptical galaxy, which is in the process of becoming a spiral galaxy, first flattens due to the rapid rotation of the Supermassive Black Hole in its center. It should also be noted that as would be expected there exist a high number of stellar black holes in the galactic center drawn by their strong gravitational fields on their way to join the central Supermassive Black Hole. According to observations of the Chandra X-Ray Telescope released in a July 16, 2005 report there are 10,000 stellar black holes along with numerous neutron stars orbiting the Supermassive Black Hole in the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy, officially designated Sagittarius A (SGR A)! The Supermassive Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy has a mass of 3.7 million solar masses, while a Supermassive Black Hole in the constellation Virgo 50 million light years distant contains a Supermassive Black Hole with the mass of 3 billion solar masses.
The spiral arms comprised of outlying stars are formed by the combination of the gravitational force coming from the rapidly rotating galactic center and the relative gravitational attraction of one outlying star to another based on their actual distances from one another. As the outlying stars approach neighboring stars due to gravity this leaves other areas where stars are much less concentrated giving rise to the appearance of usually 2 major spiral arms originating from each end of the central bar often found in the galactic center, as well as several minor spiral arms, all of which are actually in the process of being gradually drawn inexorably toward the galactic center. The gravitational force of the Black Hole, the mass of which is steadily increasing, gradually overcomes the outward centripetal force caused by its rapid rotation.
Central bars form after the Supermassive Black Hole in the center of a large spiral reaches a certain size and are therefore found more prevalently in more massive galaxies where the required mass is reached sooner. Central bars form when stellar orbits in a spiral galaxy become unstable and deviate from a circular path. The tiny elongations in the stars' orbits grow and become locked into place, forming a bar. The bar becomes even stronger as it locks more and more of these elongated orbits into place. Eventually a high fraction of the stars in the galaxy's inner region join the bar. The galactic center thus attracts both gas and stars. This concentration of gas at the center of spiral galaxies does result in the formation of new stars but does not represent the primary or original source of star formation, which occurs in the beginning of formation of galaxies from gravitational condensation and collapse of primordial gas clouds. The central bars draw a large amount of gas towards the galactic center, fueling this new star formation, building central bulges of stars, and feeding the Supermassive central black hole. The formation of a bar may be one of the last stages in the evolution of a spiral galaxy prior to its eventual total collapse entirely into its central Supermassive Black Hole.
Information Overload by NASA and U.S. Government Propagandists is used to Distract
Focus Away from the Significance and Central Role Black Holes Play in the Process
Of Contraction of the Universe which Finally Becomes Dominant in the Big Crunch!
In the interest of accuracy and it is also important to mention that this information is being misused by NASA and other U.S. government propagandists to try to distract from and obscure the significance of black holes and the central role black holes play in the process of contraction of the Universe, which ultimately becomes dominant over the simultaneous process of expansion. First, it is a fact that matter generally enters a black hole through a combination of both gravitation and magnetism. Matter in the accretion disk, which spins around the black hole, can only enter the black hole after it loses its angular momentum. The inertia of the material in the accretion disk keeps it spiraling in a disk rather than falling straight into the black hole. The inertia in turn is due to the mass of the material in the disc and the gravitational field caused by the extremely rapid rotation of the black hole itself. An accretion disc is a rotating disk of gas, dust and other matter that may form around any of a variety of stars or other massive objects from protostars to white dwarfs to neutron stars to stellar black holes and Supermassive Black Holes and even quasars (see below). While the accretion disc of a young star or protostar usually contains dust which later consolidates or accretes to form planets and other objects, the accretion disk of a black hole, which may also contain stars, feeds matter directly into the black hole.
According to a report in the July 22, 2006 Nature, and another 2008 paper by F. Casse Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 50 124020 (9pp) confirming the 1973 theory of Starobinsky and Churilov, the spinning gas in an accretion disc generates its own magnetic field which powers a wind of charged particles directed away from the black hole. The wind of charged particles transfers angular momentum from the inner regions of the disk outward in a twin jet phenomenon perpendicular to the plane of the accretion disk allowing angular momentum to be conserved, meaning to remain balanced or constant. This transfer of angular momentum outward slows down the spinning gas near the center, allowing gravitation to draw matter into the black hole. The magnetic field also causes turbulence and friction to build up within the disk. The friction heats up the gas to millions of degrees, causing it to glow brilliantly in the ultraviolet and X-ray bands. In Supermassive Black Holes large jets of plasma flow away from the accretion disc perpendicular to its center at almost the speed of light. These jets of plasma travel outward along the magnetic field lines which are twisted by the rotating accretion disk. It should be noted that the material which flows outward in the jets represents only a tiny amount of material extracted from the accretion disk. (Plasma, which is found in the accretion disk closest to the black hole, is a partially ionized gas, where a certain proportion of electrons are free, not being bound to atoms or molecules, unlike the gas form of matter. This permits electrical conduction of magnetic fields. Plasma is considered the fourth state of matter in addition to solid, gas and liquid.
Redshift Measurement of Quasars puts
The Age of the Universe at 28 Billion Years!
The process where matter enters a black hole from its accretion disk may be greatly expanded during the formation of quasars where a Supermassive Black Hole at a galactic Center accretes a huge amount of matter in the order of billions of stars. When two black holes combine or a stellar black hole enters a Supermassive Black Hole in a galactic center the process causes the emission of radio waves and even visible light. When hundreds of millions to billions of stars and enormous amounts of gas first combine to create a Supermassive Black Hole in the center of a galaxy the energy released is exponentially increased and is known as a quasar. In a quasar this radiation is emitted across the entire spectrum almost equally, from X-rays to the far-infrared with a peak in the ultraviolet-optical bands, with some quasars also being strong sources of radio emission and of gamma-rays. Quasars are the most visibly luminous objects in the Universe and are also the strongest energy source in the Universe. A quasar is simply an accelerated process of formation of a Supermassive Black Hole in an early galaxy. The release of gravitational energy by matter falling towards a massive black hole in the formation of a quasar is the only process known that can produce such high power continuously, energy far greater than the fusion process which powers stars. Quasars easily outshine their host galaxies. (The light we see is from the huge superheated accretion disk, which is greatly enlarged due to the high density of matter in such galaxies. Stellar explosions such as Supernovas and gamma-ray bursts can create the same level of energy, but only for a few minutes.
All observed quasar spectra have red shifts between 0.06 and 6.5. Applying Hubble's law to these red shifts, it can be shown that they are between 780 million and 28 billion light-years away, a measurement which is NOT due to gravitational lensing, although this has been reported for some extremely bright quasars. This is proof that the Universe itself is at least 28 billion years old! So the most recent "estimates" of the Hubble Constant and the actual age of the Universe by NASA, Wendy Freedman and company and the media (a privatized arm of the U.S. "intelligence community") are obviously totally false! (See below.) The process of quasar formation occurred regularly in the early Universe in the formation of galaxies with huge densely concentrated gas and stars. It should be obvious that the first galaxies to form in the Universe generally contained the highest volume and concentration of gas, which in turn created the highest concentration and densities of stars. The Supermassive Black Holes at the center of those early galaxies became quasars. Galaxies without such high densities of matter develop more along the lines of our own Milky Way Galaxy and Andromeda, for example. Formation of galaxies is still occurring but generally they do not become quasars because the volume and density of gas is insufficient. An exception is 3C 273 in the constellation Virgo which is only 33 light years away with a luminosity equal to 2 trillion times that of our sun or about 100 times the total light of the Milky Way. Their discovery by Maarten Schmidt in 1967 was early strong evidence against the totally discredited steady state theory of Fred Hoyle, and in favor of the Big Bang Theory. Blazers, incidentally are the same as quasars but have their perpendicular jets in direct alignment with our galaxy, while quasars have their jets pointed away in another direction.
As part of the escalating campaign of Big Lies, in March 2009 NASA made the totally disingenuous statement on a National Geographic Channel so-called "Naked Science" show that "while black holes are associated with galaxies we (who we?) do not yet know what that relationship is!" The motive for that feigned ignorance/Big Lie is to try to obscure the documented reality that the matter of all galaxies is entering black holes as part of the ongoing contraction of the Universe, which begins shortly after the Big Bang and takes places simultaneously with the process of expansion and finally becomes dominant. As explained herein expansion of the Universe has slowed down enormously since the Big Bang and will be overtaken by the process of contraction until all mass in the Universe has again entered the final Black Hole, the so-called final singularity in the Big Crunch. At that point there will be another Big Bang and another Universe will begin. In addition, NASA and other government propagandists have attempted to overemphasize the accretion disk/jet phenomenon and the huge energy produced as matter enters a black hole or quasar, almost to make it appear that black holes and quasars are "expelling" matter as much as drawing it in, virtually standing black holes on their head and falsely ascribing all sorts of "observations" to black holes, in order to divert focus from the primary role of black holes as the mechanism or engine of contraction of the Universe and the beginning of the Big Crunch!
One example is the false claim by the fraudster, James Geach, hyped in the July 7, 2009 New York Times by the determined "intelligence community" propagandist Dennis Overbye, that black holes fueled so-called Lyman alpha "blobs," glowing clouds of gas in the early universe. But that lie was immediately refuted with the obvious explanation that cold gas streaming into a protogalaxy would heat up and glow from the gravitational energy alone! (See: "Lyman Alpha Blobs as an Observational Signature of Cold Accretion Streams into Galaxies" by Mark Dijkstra and Abraham Loeb, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, June 5, 2009.) These fraudulent NASA/U.S. government propagandists hope that most viewers know absolutely nothing and will believe virtually anything that they are told by someone claiming to be a "scientist" or "professor" and that most people will not do their own research, or will remain at least confused and vulnerable to their next bizarre fantastical claim. That is why the information which appears here should be forwarded by email and networked in every possible way nationally and internationally in order to counter the U.S. capitalist dictatorship's Big Lies. The objective of the capitalist dictatorship is to render the population more susceptible to their lies in every area including politics and economics, which also have little to no basis in reality. The capitalist dictatorship now resorts to the come on of "naked science" in order to try to sex-up their Big Lie propaganda in theoretical astrophysics, while simultaneously presenting truthful "Naked Science" reports in other areas and in other National Geographic programs in order to help their Big Lies blend in.
In response to the heavy push on the so-called "History Channel," etc. it should be noted that the Theory of the Big Bang was first proposed by Georges-Henri Lemaître, who had both a PhD in physics and was an ordained priest. Lemaître studied at the University of Leuven, the University of Cambridge, Harvard and MIT. The little read report was first published in 1927 in the Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles (Annals of the Scientific Society of Brussels) and later in Nature: G. Lemaître, The Beginning of the World from the Point of View of Quantum Theory, Nature" 127 (1931), n. 3210, pp. 706. Lemaître called it "the hypothesis of Primeval Atom" and also referred to it as "the Cosmic Egg exploding at the moment of the creation," with the word "creation" obviously reflecting his religious bias. As explained above the Universe did not originate from a single point less than the size of a single molecule as falsely proposed by the string theorists, who now are pushing Lemaître. As explained above the end point of all matter in the Big Crunch is a Single Black Hole, the so-called "singularity." As mentioned all Black Holes have the same mass density, which is said to be infinite, and which vary only in actual mass depending on how many stars and how much nuclear material they contain. The only difference is the difference in mass, which is constantly increasing as matter changes from its energy form when entering a Black Hole according to E=M/c2, Einstein's formula from the Special Theory solved for mass. See cited article in Nature, November 21, 2008. The singularity contains the combined mass of all nuclear material from all stars and gas in the Universe. The designation: "Big Bang Theory" first derived from a derogatory reference to the theory of an expanding Universe by Fred Hoyle on the BBC on March 1949 over 20 years after it was first proposed. The truth as explained above and herein is that the processes of expansion and contraction of the Universe coexist from shortly after the Big Bang until finally the process of contraction becomes dominant and there is a Big Crunch followed by another Big Bang and formation of another Universe.
It is a fact that Lemaître applied Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity to Cosmology, but was NOT a spearhead of religion supposedly leading physics as Lemaître is presently falsely being portrayed on the so-called "History Channel." Lemaître also preceded Edwin Hubble in deriving what became known as Hubble's Law and even calculated the Hubble Constant but was not able to prove the linear relation which Hubble did in 1929. Lemaître has rarely been given the credit he is due for first proposing the Big Bang Theory for 3 reasons: 1.) The theory of an expanding Universe was opposed at the time he first proposed it by Einstein and others, 2.) For political-religious reasons explained herein the capitalist dictatorship has always opposed the Big Bang Theory because the natural logic of a Big Bang implies a Big Crunch and a cyclic nature of the Universe rather than a single creation which leaves the most room for "a creator" and 3.) U.S. nationalism/jingoism, where the U.S. capitalist dictatorship always prefers that whenever possible credit be given to an American. Edwin Hubble was an American lawyer. Although Lemaître had received numerous Belgian and international scientific honors only recently have the capitalists been pushing Lemaître in order to focus on the fact that he was a priest and that his theory speaks of a moment of "creation." The so-called "History Channel" focuses on this language in an attempt to inject the sophisticated form of creationism/intelligent design also espoused by Francis Collins, Obama's new choice for head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). See below.
The Hubble Constant is a calculation of the speed at which the Universe is expanding and is crucial in calculating the age of the Universe. Four methods have been used to estimate the Hubble Constant and age of the Universe. The most recent method employed by Allan Sandage, et al measures: 1.) the distances to Type 1a Supernovae explosions in distant galaxies and then 2.) confirms those measurements by comparing the relative luminosities of Cepheid variable stars as so-called "standard candles," while Wendy Freedman's NASA team uses Cepheid Variable stars alone, which is a lot less accurate. Freedman's method especially is an easy method in which to either err or to deliberately falsify results as she and her NASA team have clearly done. (See below.) The typical errors in calculating the Hubble Constant include: 1.) "the universal, yet unjustified Period-Luminosity relation of Cepheid (variable stars), 2.) neglect of selection bias in magnitude-limited samples or 3.) the errors which are inherent to the adopted models, which cause most values of the Hubble Constant and corresponding estimates of the age of the Universe to be incorrect as explained in detail in the most comprehensive review which has yet been published, which also includes the Sandage team's most recent calculation of the Hubble Constant to date of 62.3 +or–1.3, which is based on measurements to 279 galaxies: "The expansion field: the value of the Hubble Constant," by G.A Tammann, A. Sandage and B. Reindl, Astron Astrophys Rev (2008), 8 July 2008, 15:289-331, DOI 10.1007/s00159-800-9912-y.
This value of the Hubble Constant corresponds to an age of the Universe of approximately 13.7 billion years, which should be sufficient to permit the Big Crunch. However even this method of calculation of the Hubble Constant, which as exhaustively explained and documented by Allan Sandage et al, is fraught with potential errors cited above, which Sandage takes account of and systematically avoids. As mentioned above Wendy Freedman and Co. on the other hand use only Cepheid variable stars in their "calculations" and deliberately include faulty (fraudulent) data in their calculations as explained to this writer personally by Allan Sandage, therefore making Freedman & Co.'s method of determination of the Hubble Constant even easier to falsify. Such data is systematically excluded by Sandage, et al., as explained above. In response to the withering but suppressed critique by Sandage et al, known primarily only to other astrophysicists who follow these matters, Freedman has published a slew of pathetic papers addressing such topics as "correction of errors involving optical extragalactic background light (EBL), sampling-induced errors, magnitude errors, and random and optimal sampling," etc. where she always comes up with ridiculously high (fraudulent) values for the Hubble Constant. Fraudulent data was necessary for Freedman & Co. to reinvent the entirely fictitious so-called "dark energy," Einstein's "Cosmological Constant," ("My greatest blunder!" See below), which is declared to be "the opposite of gravity" and which has no scientific explanation whatsoever, but is proffered as "the reason" the capitalist dictatorship and its media (and textbook) propagandists now say that the expansion of the Universe has unexplainably "speeded up," a "finding" which violates all previous findings not to mention all known rules of physics including the General Theory of Relativity! In other words this finding is totally invented, totally fabricated, a Big Lie to end all Big Lies! All designed to achieve political-religious-propagandistic objectives. See below. Legitimate opposing viewpoints are simply ignored and in practice not permitted to be heard! How jolly!
Regarding the most recent results given above for the Hubble Constant, this writer would still prefer to accept Sandage's previous calculation of 55 +or-5, which has been repeatedly established in papers from 1975, 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1995, although it may certainly be possible that the 62.3 +or-1.3 value is the most accurate and it is certainly can be argued that 55 +or-5 is not that far removed from the new figure. The reason for this caution is that Allan Sandage is now 82 years old and although he is 100% intellectually intact and in control of all of his faculties his name is listed second in the above paper indicating that he himself may not have collected the data used in the calculation giving 62.3 +or-1.3 for the Hubble Constant. This writer has not spoken or corresponded with the other members of his team, as this writer has, with Allan Sandage. Sandages's team also often includes A. Saha who was not included in the above paper, so this writer can not rule out alteration of the raw data to give a falsely high Hubble Constant by certain personnel who might be bribed by the NASA forces in charge of the Key Project, which was set up determined to achieve a certain result come hell or high water. This issue is important enough to the capitalist dictatorship so that they would leave no stone unturned to tweek the results in their direction for reasons explained further below. In addition, we are reminded that the Redshift of some quasars actually puts the age of the Universe at 28 billion years! See above.
The U.S. so-called "intelligence community" organized the so-called "Key Project" in order to cover up the cyclic nature of the Universe from Big Bang to Big Crunch. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was built primarily for the "Key Project." This is an important point. The capitalist dictatorship chose Wendy Freedman to lead the project rather than the obvious choice, Allan Sandage, the legendary, most preeminent and world-renowned astrophysicist as well as the number one authority on the Hubble Constant along with his internationally renowned group of astrophysicist colleagues. See above. The reason was that Sandage's studies up to that point had shown the Universe to be "between 14 and 18 billion years old, depending on what is assumed about the mass of the Universe." This corresponds to a Hubble Constant, which he and colleagues had repeatedly calculated to be 55 +or-5 as cited above. An older age and smaller Hubble Constant, of course, would mean that the Universe contained easily enough matter to permit the Big Crunch, which is the key point the capitalist propagandists want to discredit because that would rule out a single creation and make the existence of a god, for which there is no scientific evidence whatsoever, even more unlikely! This is the actual statecraft behind the "Key Project." See further below.
Freedman's initial claim that the Universe was only 8 billion years old was obviously fraudulent, as have been all of her subsequent "estimations." All of Freedman's estimations of the age of the Universe and the Hubble Constant have been designed to try to fraudulently invalidate (!) the Big Bang, the Big Crunch especially and the cyclic nature of the Universe in particular. The preposterous claim of an 8 billion year age is a direct attack on the Big Bang, which has been verified worldwide. In her initial unrestrained enthusiasm to falsify and misinterpret her own data (see above) Freedman forgot about the 1.) Red shift discovered by Edwin Hubble (see below) and 2.) the detection of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is the residual effect of the Big Bang both of which exist as irrefutable evidence for the Big Bang origin of the Universe! In January 2003 Freedman was made the Director of the Carnegie Observatories located in Pasadena, California where Allan Sandage works thereby placing her above him as a maneuver to make her fraudulent estimates of the Hubble Constant appear more authoritative in the public eye!
Note that even AFTER the 1965 discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Penzias and Wilson and its confirmation by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite in 1989 that its measurement produced a curve precisely matching a Planck curve, which most scientists have accepted as proof that the radiation is indeed from the beginning of the universe, the capitalist dictatorship has still made efforts to continue to try to deny the existence of the Big Bang, even publishing books with 466 pages (!) attacking the Big Bang such as the 1991 rubbish: "The Big Bang Never Happened" (!) by the totally discredited Eric Lerner. Anyone using simple inductive reasoning would immediately begin to smell a rat! Since the capitalist dictatorship and its media have not been able to refute the Big Bang they have now focused all their efforts in trying to refute the Big Crunch. The capitalist dictatorship has a long history of political meddling and sabotage in virtually all fields of scientific and medical research and a history of using scientific advances against the masses in order to control them and also to reduce the population according to their own perceived needs, e.g. from Bio-warfare to Bio-fuels (through enforced starvation, falsely portrayed as seeking "energy independence" and "clean energy.").
NASA Propagandists Have Now Concocted the Fraudulent "theory of the
Big Rip" In Order to Try to Counter the Reality of the Big Crunch and
The Information which Appears Here now Found All Over the Internet!
NASA in a new propaganda blitz using their standard Big Lie technique in order to try to refute the information, which appears here and all over the Internet, has pushed back hard with the totally discredited claims on the National Geographic Channel March 2009 that 1.) "dark matter" forms a supposed "superstructure" of the universe from the very beginning of the Big Bang until the present 2.) the fictitious "dark energy" will eventually "become so strong" that it will overcome all 4 primary forces including the strong force, which holds quarks and gluons together to form protons, neutrons and other particles, and falsely claiming that the entire Universe will supposedly "fly apart ripping apart galaxies, stars, planets and eventually every speck of matter in a fantastical end to time" in what the fraudulent propagandist Robert Caldwell describes as "the Big Rip." This is also known as the theory of the flat universe. Such brainwash already appears in the astrophysics textbooks of the capitalist dictatorship! We recommend that it be exposed as a Big Lie whenever and wherever it is encountered.
The capitalist cosmologists/propagandists have demonstrated that they can not coherently reply to any of the arguments advanced in this Materialist Analysis of Theoretical Astrophysics except through contrived, feigned ignorance, information overload and totally bizarre Big Lies, which require a religious-like faith (in dark energy and dark matter, for example) to actually believe them—their overall objective in the first place as explained here, so do not be intimidated by the doctoral degrees which they award themselves or the exalted positions held by these above-mentioned frauds in order to try to legitimize their lies and to try to control and monopolize this field as they try to do with all others. These false propagandists/"cosmologists" keep up a relentless barrage of lies in the major media and even physics journals to try to prove the existence of "dark matter," for example, which they laughably claim is so dominant that it forms the "superstructure of the universe" but which they supposedly have only been able to detect as "two tiny pulses of heat deposited over the course of two years…" New York Times, December 18, 2009, a frankly pathetic false "finding" which the article admits is "no proof" but "tantalizing" (?) an adjective carefully chosen to try to make it appear as if everyone were are all rooting to try to prove their Big Lie. The reality is that there is no "dark matter." And it can be predicted that the capitalist dictatorship will take over the science, if they have not already done so, of the new Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest energy particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland, when it finally goes on line in order to try to continue to concoct the existence of "dark matter" and "dark energy" as well as the "Higgs Boson," the so-called "god particle," which is reputed to be the particle which may impart mass to all other particles after the Big Bang. The Higgs Boson is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model in particle physics. At present there are no known elementary scalar particles in nature. There are numerous Higgsless models, which do not depend on the Higgs Boson or Higgs Field. The top contender presently is the Three-Site Higgsless model. Whether or not the Higgs Boson exists or does not exist, its importance has been completely overstated in any case, in order that in the event of its discovery the media may falsely claim to have "proved" the existence of god! In any case, the Higgs Boson has absolutely nothing to do with "god" and no reputable physicist has ever made such a claim. The capitalist dictatorship is desperate and reeeediculous! So do not be intimidated by their Big Lies.
Through brazen false arguments and bizarre false analogies these phony "cosmologists" have even attempted to up the ante and generate maximum confusion by trying to brainwash people into believing that the laws of physics and theoretical astrophysics, such as the Laws of Quantum Mechanics, the Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity, etc. are "not immutable" and are in a process of "constant evolution" supposedly like species of animals in Charles Darwin's "The Evolution of Species." The laws of physical science are thus directly compared to the evolution of species of animals! Einstein therefore supposedly only has "temporary relevance" giving virtually every kind of science fiction a basis in "reality." (See: "Beyond Einstein," Discover Magazine, April 2010). Einstein is also falsely quoted as believing in god: "learning to read the laws of physics is like reading the mind of god." See comprehensive section on Einstein below.
The author of the Discover Magazine article moreover disingenuously announces: "physicists should not spin any theories that require the existence of things such as multiverses, that cannot be disproved." This carefully contrived statement implies that because "multiverses," etc. supposedly cannot be disproved these fraudsters do not have to actually PROVE any piece of science fiction currently being passed of as "science." They imply that is the duty of genuine theoretical physicists to disprove every false theory used to bombard the public domain by the misnamed, so-called "intelligence community" led by heavily hyped characters such as Michio Kaku. The Materialist Analysis of Theoretical Astrophysics disproves their primary concoctions and it is a rule of the Court that a witness caught in one lie in testimony does not merit any further credibility by the Jury. This is especially true in science where it is clear that, above all else, Kaku & Co., are straining at the leash to inject confusion into basic physics and are forced to tell many lies in order to try to achieve their objectives. Their motives to create confusion are explained above. The title of the Discover Magazine article was incidentally borrowed from the title of a 1987 book by "intelligence community" fraudster, Michio Kaku, wherein Kaku tried to popularize so-called "String Theory," concocted in the effort to supplant Quantum Mechanics. See below. It should be noted that Kaku, who hides his specious, bogus so-called "Beyond Einstein science," behind a phony glib slick presentation, is equally at home spinning science fiction e.g. "parallel universes, time warps, time travel and the tenth dimension," as he is relentlessly fabricating false theories designed to compete with and supplant the natural laws of physics and confuse as many people as possible behind a mantle of genuinely false knowledge.
There is no such thing as "Dark Energy" and the Universe has not suddenly increased its rate of expansion as falsely claimed by these frauds, as supposed "proof of its existence." Just the opposite! The rate of expansion of the Universe has continued to slow since the Big Bang! All previous observations have indicated that is the case! While the Red Shifts of the most distant galaxies does indicate they are receding much more rapidly than closer galaxies this is because their light originated closer to the time of the Big Bang when the expansion rate was greater, but that is not the situation today. It should therefore be noted that although we may be able to receive light from galaxies which started its journey virtually at the beginning of the Universe, that light does not portray the reality at this point in time of that galaxy which was the source of that light. The reality is that today most of the Universe is undoubtedly relatively uniform in its development today except where there are huge clouds of gas from super novae explosions and where there are huge accumulations of matter such as the Great Wall of galaxies, the latter of which formed due to the irregularities which occurred in the Big Bang just as in any other explosion. In other words the light from our own galaxy, the Milky Way, would appear to an observer from the most distant galaxies to be receding at the same rate that their light is receding from our own galaxy! This should be a no-brainer but is rarely if ever mentioned. The only viewpoint which is ever mentioned is from the Earth as if it were the center of creation. Which it is not!
The Universe is not open! Just like the Earth itself the spatial curvature of the Universe is NOT flat! It is closed. In reality there are no "multiple universes," which "pop out of Black Holes" or by any other explanation. The reason for this is that although in a Black Hole mass is infinite (see above), Critical Mass does not exist! Critical Mass is attained only in the Singularity, when all matter in the Universe comes together in one spot in the Big Crunch. See above. This is why the Large Hadron Collider cannot reproduce either the Big Bang or even a Black Hole. The reason for this is that even a Black Hole can form only when a Blue Giant star of sufficient mass collapses. See above. There is also no "time travel" either in a practical sense despite the phenomena of time dilation described in Einstein's Special Theory and gravitational time dilation described in Einstein's General Theory, which was actually confirmed in the Pound-Rebka experiment. And there are no "worm holes." For worm holes to exist just within the known Universe would require changing space-time topology and would require regions of negative energy, which do not actually exist. There are no "strings." "String theory" is a mathematical attempt to try to refute and supplant, not explain, the Theory of Quantum Mechanics, the foundations of particle physics which were established during the first half of the twentieth century by Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Albert Einstein, etc.! See below for the most likely ready solution to the Grand Unified Theory.
I think you need to be on a government watch list. You sound like a blow hard who like the sound of his own voice.. You too are stating theory after theory and sound frankly unstable. I think what brings these people to the for front isn't a new world order or some crazy Illuminati conspiracy, its the ability to speak your opinion and not sound like a fucking crazy person. Thank god for the Optimistic Futurists that help humanity transcend. Don't contribute to the negatives, and cynicism… You would think if you knew so much about this subject then you would use your knowledge to better the argument not babble about your so called facts..If your angry at the world then its your fault for buying into the false hoods as well.


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i am working to get the second hand diapers i got this week up and running. i checked if they needed to be stripped and they were in dire need. so after stripping them 2 ways... i am still rincing and rincing ..... and rincing!! we are talking like 10 rince cycles at this point. what is going on??
also,,,, the bumgenius dipes i got are the old style and say to wash them in warm water only... how do i go about stripping them if all the stripping procedures require HOT HOT water?
any tips from a seasoned CD veteran would be helpful!!!
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check this site http://www.pinstripesandpolkadots.com/detergentbasics.htm#Stripping%20Diapers
That is how I strip my diapers ......One time I used too much dawn when I was stripping my diapers and it was built up in my inserts (the smell would knock you down) I had to strip them start to finish 7-8 before it was better and another 2-3 reg. washings before it was gone......So it may just take alot of times to get them free of everything built up. Also make sure you use the correct detergent when you wash them.
ok. that makes me feel better. i was following the directions on pinstripesandpolkadots..... but i thought it was so strange that i was still getting a few bubbles and some residue on the water in the washer. i guess i am doing it right and i just have a lot of junk to get out of there.
yesterday i did the dawn inthe sink strip and the hot water wash with calgon strip. and since then i have just been washing and washing trying to get completely clear water. i think this final wash will be my last. even if i still have a tiny amount of residue on the top of the water im going to go ahead and dry them and test them and then try restriping if i need to.
so G4M~ do you have any idea about stripping the BG's i have? they say warm water wash only..... and all the recommended stripping tecniques on PSNPD require hot water. what would you do?
I think what you have done is good enough. Are they AIO's or pockets? If they are pockets you should be fine....all you need to do is the insert and you could boil the insert if you wanted. If they are AIO's I would give them a try and if they smell really bad right after she pees they need to be stripped again .......now I dont want to recommend you wash in hot but that is what I would do if it is not getting better or I would try to soak them overnight.
actually it is not the smell.... DD has yet to even try them out LOL! it is that when i test them with a squirt of water.... the watter rolls off of the fleece (pocket diaper) instead of going through like it is supposed to. PSNPD says that is b/c the fibers of the fleece is clogged with detergent (or something else). so im now entering my 3rd day of stripping !! LOL! and after this last wash i am officially quitting. i really hope what i did today does the trick.
im starting to think i should have just bought these diapers new!~~~ too bad i cant afford that
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Ok..what is stripping? Maybe we use a different term Down Under lol.Your nappy' sound different to ours..I know my old cloth nappies were just that...a white square terry toweling cloth nappy. Maybe that is why your work better than my ones did lol xo
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ok, i am getting close to fed up !!!! all the stripping i h ave been doing (LOL, yes i get it ... very funny) has not helped at all!!! now im pissed! i should have spent my money and just got new diapers instead! SO PISSED !!! i wish i knew why this wasnt working?
im going to try one more time... turn the diapers inside out. but that is it. if they still dont absorb water... then im done!
MO4B~ at this point i kind of wish i had just gone with the old style rectangles
The fleece is not going to absord you just want it to wick the moisture away quickly. If when you squirt water on it and it beads up they have prob. used fabric softener which is very waxy and maybe try to soak in very warm water and alot of vinegar ( I would do 50/50 water/vinegar ) I would soak them for a very long time. I think I would use a small amout of dawn on a scrub brush and scrub only the fleece inside and out. If that does not work I would be asking for my $$ back!!!.........Sorry hun I wish this was working out for you.
i havent tried vinegar yet. i guess i will give that a go too. yesterday i did the scrub brush/dawn on the outside of the fleece and currently i am doing the scrub brush/dawn on the inside of the fleece. i am going to soak them for quite a while today, then maybe go back and scrub brush the outside fleece again... and try the vinegar. and then if they still dont work... i will be contacting the lady! FOR SURE!!
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Oab+g, how did you get on with your stripping?, I have also read that white vinegar is good, hope you get your reusables usable!!
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thanks for asking... unfortunately, not good i gave up. i emailed the lady asking for a refund... of couse i havent heard back from her... B*tch!!!!!
i really havent tried a 50/50 vinegar/water soak yet. i just used what vinegar i had so it was probably more like 5/95 vinegar water.
honestly, i got really PO'd and decided i needed a break from stripping for a while. maybe i will try again this weekend. it just sucks... b/c 85 bucks is a lot of money to me why do people have to be so sneaky and malicious????
I was thinking about you.....too bad they did not work out......I hope you get your $$$ back and just buy new diapers.
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that is just crazy. i have bought used 3 times now and been happy all 3 times. but i know there was a lady on diaper swappers selling diapers that didnt exist. some people just suck. have you even tried them? maybe its not as bad as you think. i hope the vinegar does the trick.
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Having spent yesterday afternoon watching some Rugby with some old colleagues and a beer glass in hand, and then moving via a pub where all the old Fenian songs were being sung to an "all you can eat" Chinese, my brain is not sharp enough this morning to use a rapier wit to dissect the irony of Mandy, a man who appears to understand nothing about "trade" lecturing Gordon, who probably actually has read and understood the theory. So instead I will go for the cheap laugh and ask for your caption for this photo!
And anyway The Worstall says it better at The ASI "It's easy enough to get irate with Peter Mandelson in his role as the European Union's Trade Commissioner. It's a difficult job trying to persuade protectionists to go for free trade, but it is apparent from this piece penned by him for the Guardian he still hasn't quite managed to get wholly on top of his subject."


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Buenos Aires Local History
Europeans first arrived in the 16th century but were discouraged by the local Indians to settle. Spanish forces established Buenos Aires around 1580 and secured large areas of the best land for agriculture and cattle. Thereafter, for almost 2 decades, the people of Buenos Aires followed a highly contraband trade with Brasil (Portuguese) and European powers.
British troops came and went in the early 19th century and the people of Buenos Aires celebrated this by the revolution of May 25th 1810. The Spanish were expelled by the 1820's and formal independence was declared in 1816. By 1880, Argentina became a major producer of cereal crops for export, and by 1890, the economy was dominated by British capital which went towards building infrastructure such as roads and railways. In the 20th century Eva and Juan Peron ruled Argentina up to 1955 when Juan was expelled to Spain. Evita died in 1952.
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Recoleta a district of Buenos Aires, the place for luxury, art, culture, and good food. Do visit the historic cemetery (where Eva Peron is interred), the National Fine Arts Museum, Palais de Glace. And Recoleta Cultural Centre. Recoleta is also the place to visit for it's tango shows, mime artists, and street performers. The tango shows are about one and a half hours in length and are a must to see.
Puerto Madero recycled docks facing the River Plate where you can find first-line shops and restaurants, together with the most modern buildings in the city. Crystal Towers is where the most important companies, both national and international, are located.
San Telmo here you get to know the city's origins; narrow and cobble-stoned little streets, colonial buildings with wrought-iron railings, constructions of different styles French, English, Art Nouveau etc. Here, you will find Plaza Dorrego, where you can see a couple dancing the tango whilst you sip a cool beer or two.
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Broccolino located on Esmeralda 776; it offers a bewildering variety of pasta sauces, with service delivered by polite and English-speaking staff.
Pizzirea Guerrin found in Corrientes 1372; they sell very inexpensive slices of great fugzetta, fugaza, as well as superb empanadas, cold lager, and many desserts, all of which are mouth-watering.
Cervantes II located in Peron 1883; they serve huge portions of standard Argentinean food, beef, chicken, at really low, low, prices and it's very popular.
Morocco found in Hipolito 851; a popular place for Argentinean and other Spanish-speaking pop stars. A great place for eating and drinking at a very reasonable price.
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Remember located on Av. Corrientes; it's basically a pub, very informal, but has great jazz bands, and sometimes, occasional live theatre.
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Pakistan suffers every year from flash floods caused by monsoonal rains.
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I finally got the job offer! I stupidly thought that they had done the background check and accepted it. Of course, I find out that they haven't run it yet, and after talking to the recruiter, I'm not as positive about it as I... Read More
- 0Aug 5, '12 by NurseNiki17Well Pattycake, I wish I could say my update was awesome, but instead I'm left miserable. I truly do feel my nursing dream will be crushed as well, and trust when I say I want to give up too, but that can't happen...for you either!!
They let me know (only 5 days before my start date) that they "couldn't hire people with pending charges". Why, oh why, did that not get brought to my attention sooner? Surely the recruiter knew that (i would think it's happened b4), which makes me feel like it was just *my* personal situation they couldn't take a chance on, even tho all it showed was underage drinking 5 years ago and pending DUI. GOOD NEWS IS The recruiter did, however, tell me THAT particular position had to be filled, but since everything else was in order, once I get the final outcome to call and have her try to place me within the system. Since I told her the officer is willing to talk to the DA to lower it, and it was a good possibility, I'm wondering if that offer was only if it's reduced, or if they would be ok to hire me with the charge as long as it isn't pending. I'll let ya know when that happens.
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Guillermo del Toro-led 'Pinocchio' May Still Become Real, But Here's a 'Little Mermaid' Trailer While We WaitIn Development By Scott Beggs on February 5, 2013 | Be the First To Comment
There was a moment of concern when one of the writers behind Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion Pinocchio said that the project wasn't moving forward, but now Gris Grimly has updated Bleeding Cool on the situation, and things don't seem near as dire anymore. "I'm writing to clear up the rumor that has gotten started," said Grimly. "It all started with misconstrued information that I passed along through my networks. But it has come to my knowledge that Pinocchio is indeed still kicking with interest from the studios. Although I thought it was going to lay quiet for a little while, I never thought it would be canceled. It's too good." The animated project is still in pre-production through The Jim Henson Company. For now. Del Toro always has a lot on his plate, so even as this particular fantasy becomes a reality, it might be a while. They still need a distributor to ensure success, and that might be tricky. Of course, Disney has the honor of owning the most popular telling of the story (complete with a singing cricket with a bold sense of ethics), and while children born in 2010 will always see Disney as "the company that makes Star Wars," their classic properties still command massive respect. And since one of those icons is getting the Blu-ray treatment, they've released a new trailer for it. See if it can convince you to fall in love with The Little Mermaid all over again:
Screenwriter Jane Goldman May Make Tim Burton's 'Pinocchio' RealMovie News By Jack Giroux on November 16, 2012 | Be the First To Comment
Early this year Tim Burton said he wouldn't know a good script if it was thrown at him. Based on some of his recent works, that self-deprecation rings a little too true, especially considering how all over the place Dark Shadows was. Frankenweenie was a return to form for clean, simple, if slight, storytelling, but now it appears that Burton's attempting to step up his game on the script front. Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller took a crack at Burton and Robert Downey Jr.'s potential Pinocchio project early on, and now another screenwriter of equal talent is getting involved. Frequent Matthew Vaughn collaborator Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass, The Woman in Black) is close to signing on to pen a new draft for Warner Bros.' live-action version of the classic puppet tale. According to THR, Goldman's involvement may seal the deal with Burton and Robert Downey Jr., who both have yet to officially sign on. Burton and Goldman have had ties before, so her involvement makes sense beyond her talent for genre films. If the project moves forward, we'll see Downey playing Geppetto, who goes on a journey to find the missing Pinocchio. This isn't the only Pinocchio film in the works either, as Fox has The Three Misfortunes of Geppetto and Guillermo del Toro is working on a stop-motion animated picture. I would usually take a del Toro interpretation over a Burton one, but with his project drawing in such reliable screenwriters, it's hard not to gain interest in a Burton film which may actually have a story.
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What is Movie News After Dark? It ain't playin', yo. This is about movin' news, slingin' editorial quips and makin' bank. Whatever 'bank' is… Tonight we begin with some lovely artwork from Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, a gothic retelling of the classic fairy tale about a puppet who just wanted to be a real boy. If any of you have watched the Disney animated version of Pinocchio recently (or in general, with adult eyes), you'll know that there's some seriously spine-tingling creepitude in that story. It's got puppets from The Jim Henson Company and co-direction from Fantastic Mr. Fox animation director Mark Gustafson. Get excited about this one, kids.
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It's been a long time since we've talked about producer Dan Jinks trying to get a live action version of Pinocchio together over at Warner Bros. So long that many people probably assumed that the project was dead. That's not the case though. As a matter of fact, it's probably about to get quite a bit of attention. THR is reporting that none other than Tim F'n Burton has taken an interest in the Pinocchio script, which was written by Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller. And I know what you're thinking already…who wants to see a version of Pinocchio starring Johnny Depp as the puppet and Helena Bonham Carter as Geppetto in drag? Don't be so quick to judge. Early reports don't say anything about Depp or Carter at all. As a matter of fact, apparently Burton wants Robert Downey Jr. to come on board to be his Italian puppeteer. How's that for a switch?
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Deadline Celebration reports that a new 3D stop-motion animated Pinocchio, based on the images from a Gris Grimly illustrated version of Carlo Collodi's classic fairy tale and co-directed by Grimly and The Fantastic Mr. Fox's Mark Gustafson, is in the works. The script was written By Del Toro and his frequent collaborator Matthew Robbins (Don't Be Afraid of the Dark), and every pain seems to have been taken by everyone involved to come up with something that is going to scare the bejesus out of your kids. When explaining why he wants to make little girls cry, Guillermo del Toro said, "There has to be darkness in any fairy tale or children's narrative work, something the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson and Walt Disney understood. We tend to call something Disney-fied, but a lot of people forget how powerfully disturbing the best animated Disney movies are, including those kids being turned into donkeys in Pinocchio. What we're trying to do is present a Pinocchio that is more faithful to the take that Collodi wrote. That is more surreal and slightly darker than what we've seen before." Okay, so read that again. People tend to forget how "powerfully disturbing" the Disney version of Pinocchio is; yet he feels that they must make something even more dark and surreal. As somebody that was completely freaked out by the concepts of donkey children and starving in the belly of a whale when I was five or so, I say hell yeah. This generation […]
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At first glance, the idea that Warners would want to make a movie about the little wooden boy whose nose grows when he tells a lie seems moronic. Not only has the tale been tried before to disastrous results, it's also been tried before to transcendent results – giving the world a Disney version that continues to act as the prime example of the story's existence on film. However, with Dan Jinks producing, it's a bit of a different story. Jinks (funny name, serious producer) was on board for Pushing Daisies and for Big Fish, as well as Milk and American Beauty. The point? He has been involved in some great projects so dismissing him outright for shooting for the wishing star here is a bit premature. He's going to need help. That's where this handy guide comes in. If you're thinking about making a movie about Pinocchio, here's a simple way to make it great.
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No, the Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth director isn't making gay porn. Yes, he is set to create a darker version of the classic tale, Pinocchio.
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Star Secret: Strengthening the backside of your body is so important, especially for a new mom like Jessica Simpson who may be breastfeeding, says explains trainer Harley Pasternak, who's shaped up such stars as Lady Gaga and Alicia Keys. Larger breasts post-pregnancy can pull the shoulders forward, tightening and closing the muscles across the chest. Simpson does this move during their circuit workouts to develop a strong back to balance her chest and improve her posture. And the movement of the row itself helps open up and stretch the chest. "Nothing gives you better posture while simultaneously elongating your midsection than a back row," says Pasternak. "Additionally, it will really tone your back muscles -- great if you want to wear a backless dress!"
Stand with your feet together, your shoulders back, your abs tight and each hand holding a 3 to 5 pound dumbbell at your sides. Take a large step forward (approximately 2 feet) with your right leg, slightly bending your right knee but keeping your left leg straight while allowing your torso to angle forward about 40 degrees as you reach your hands towards either side of your knees. Then, holding this lunge position, pull your elbows back (keeping them close to your body) to bring the weights towards your hips squeezing your shoulder blades together as you move. Hold the "up" position for two counts before slowly releasing the weights back down towards your knees. Repeat 30 times.
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Help! Most days I feel like I barely have the energy to make myself a sandwich let alone all the stuff I need to do. I haven't cut caffeine out completely (I sometimes have one small cup reg. coffee a day), I try to get more protein through protein smoothies and some meat when I feel up to it, but I just can't find the energy to do anything. Just the thought of cleaning or running errands is exhausting.
There has to be some way I can beat this, even just a little. Suggestions?
I find myself falling asleep by 8:00 every night! I'll take it though... I had NO symptoms with my 2 previous pregnancies (both ended in m/c) I look at my fatigue and nausea as good signs!
I am not only feeling exactly the way you do, but I'm also 6 weeks and 2 days pregnant, just like you! I too can't bring myself to do anything. I get out of bed, shower, put clothes on, and then I sit on the couch in the new apartment that we just moved into, surrounded by boxes that aren't go to unpack themselves. I'll open a box, look at the contents inside, close the lid, and sit back down again.
It's all too overwhelming! It takes everything I have to go to the grocery store to stock up on healthy snacks... and I can barely carry the dang grocery bags anymore! My husband works full-time, so I'm on my own during the day.
The hormones and hard on us, too. The littlest thing kind of sets me off. I went on a crying spree this morning and I knew fully that it wasn't THAT bad... but, I just couldn't stop! Sigh.