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About the cover
The instrument superimposed with Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is a representation of an astrolabe made by Erasmus Habermel in about 1585 AD. Astrolabes are scientific instruments created and used over the past millennium to solve astronomical problems. You may see Habermel's beautiful design, and learn more about it and many others on the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford's Epact website, at http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact. The image has been incorporated with their kind permission.
An additional fact many readers may be unaware of is da Vinci based his illustration upon the writings of Vitruvius, a Roman architect of the first century BC. In those writings Vitruvius drew a parallel between the proportions of the human body and the measurements of ancient temples, giving that sketch an additional relevancy to the topics within these pages.
This work is dedicated to all our ancestors who created our wonderful myths and kept them alive throughout the ages, and especially Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend for fanning the embers of that mythological fire so vigorously I had to pay attention.
Also: To my mother. May she find peace.
Chapter 1: A Religious Departure
Chapter 2: Celestial Investigations – A Beginning
Chapter 3: Pillars of the Past
Chapter 4: Journey to Nibiru
Chapter 5: Samson – Perplexion and Facts
Chapter 6: An Ancient Outlook
Chapter 8: My God, What Art Thou?
Chapter 9: Heritage of Wanderers
Chapter 10: Jesus – A Jewish Savior
Chapter 11: Miscatto
Chapter 12: Reflexions To Beginnings
Appendix A – 'Stones' as God(s)
Appendix B – Nibiru
Appendix C – 'Sixty' Throughout The Ages
Appendix D – Samson: The Rest of the Story
Appendix E – Precession of the Equinoxes
Appendix F – 'New Age' Thinking
Appendix G – Entanglement
Repeated Sources
This book is for people who would like a better understanding of our scientific/religious heritage. Perhaps you are questioning, or have questioned religion. Or maybe your path is similar to mine: once told to believe religious teachings on faith, and a growing intellect made you unable to accept such ideas. Or you might just be curious—always a good thing to be.
The following pages reveal some forgotten thoughts of the priests two-thousand to six-thousand years ago. They were greatly influenced by their time spent watching 'heaven,' and encoded their ideas in mythical/religious terms which still echo in our society.
Although the topic required technical language in portions of this writing, I endeavored to make it as approachable as possible, and explained all the necessary concepts. The reward of the intellectual journey is great: a new comprehension of a lost aspect of our history. We will see how religion and science were once intimately connected.
I hope this knowledge helps those who are tired of religion to appreciate the subject from a fresh perspective, and helps religiously-oriented people regard science in a greater light. Our ancient searchers were trying to improve their world, and I like to think that clarifying their achievements will benefit us as we continue making improvements, and refining our own ideas about God and the nature of Reality.
Best wishes and happy creations,
October, 2012
Chapter 1
A Religious Departure
"There's a devil at my feet and he's trying to take me somewhere I don't want to go!"
Fuck you, Mom! I'm not a devil, but I do want to take you somewhere you don't want—a place where understanding replaces ignorance, and I can share my whole heart and the discoveries I've made, rather than just the surface platitudes I must currently limit myself to.
My mind roiled with disgust, hatred, and love that December night in 2010. For I was the person at her feet.
The call came in May that year. Mom was dying. Ovarian cancer.
What should I say about such a personal experience? I don't know.
Perhaps she had to go through that so I could get one of my dreams fulfilled. I certainly wish another way would have sufficed.
Many years ago, when I was six, going on seven, Mom grew disgusted with Dad and ran away with me and my four younger sisters to a fundamentalist Catholic group in Idaho.1A Dad tracked us down, staked out the boarding house we stayed in, and, with the help of the police, got us back.
Then everything became more complicated.
The church said my parent's marriage was invalid, but Mom wanted to be with us kids, so she lived with Dad as 'brother and sister' for a while. After two-and-a-half years my father had enough of the continual indoctrination and fights, and finalized the divorce he began in Idaho. The cult remained involved in our lives, so he sued them, but the lawyer didn't do his job, and lack of money (and interest in the case by other attorneys) resulted in Dad taking on those proceedings himself, as well as suing the attorney.
I witnessed several legal hypocrisies back then. For instance, a unanimous jury verdict for a million dollars was obtained in the church case. Upon hearing about it the courts found Dad hadn't been hurt by the lawyer's inaction, and awarded him nothing in spite of the contract. Of course the cult appealed the decision against them. That judge somehow determined the jurists lacked the information to make up their minds, overturned their findings, and—years later—Dad received a total of about $16,000. Each of us kids got $10,000.
Those times were difficult. Initially I believed the cult's teachings: a perfect, equitable, loving god who judged us from afar and created a sinful humanity. I even thought Dad was the son of Satan for a while, due to Mom and everyone else in the church saying so. But time changed my beliefs.
Part of the shift occurred because my views brought me difficulties. The greatest example is in the third grade I wanted to fit in. One day at lunch the kid across the table showed off his biceps, and, being kinda dumb in the friends department, I said something like, "Hey, yeah! Mine are big too!" Of course his next words were "Prove it!," and when I mirrored his pose he challenged me to a fight to determine who was stronger. I couldn't punch back during our showdown—my religious indoctrination interfered, so he became my bully and I remained on the outskirts of the social networks through high school.
Oddly, the distance that gave me from other kids acted as a buffer, and allowed me to work out my issues more easily. I became a dreamer, and wanted to understand the mind of God, and why He permitted things to happen like I witnessed. A traditional religious studies curriculum was out of the question—I had seen enough of that, and figured science might give some answers. After all, this world is a manifestation of God, therefore its intricacies must reveal at least a little of His mind.
When Dad finalized the divorce in 1977, Mom continued indoctrinating us, but for some reasons which I don't understand, her efforts tapered off. Perhaps the court cases played a role. She never gave up hope, though.
School demanded my attention, and work hers. The custody every other weekend wasn't enough to keep me loyal to the church, and evidently part of Mom understood. We grew separate.
One of my most precious memories is of Mom and me standing in the courthouse stairwell during a hearing in 1994. Both of us felt awkward, but the accusatory look in my eyes probably caused the tension. Why, Mom? I thought. Why did we have to go through all this crap for all these years?
I don't believe I mouthed the words, but she responded to them. "Oh, David! I never meant for what happened to occur! All I ever wanted was to be your mother, and I never wanted this! I wish we were far away from here."
She was choking as she talked, and when I looked at her, I just knew. I just knew she told the truth, and if she could, she would be anywhere but there. I just knew she had always done her best from her own viewpoint, and everything had been performed out of love.
Her response instantly dissolved my hatred, and uncovered my deeper love for her. "I know, Mom, I know." Tears now filled both our eyes. "I've missed you, and I also wish we weren't here. But why did you do what you did, and take us to the church?"
Through the tears she told me her relationship with Dad had become unbearable. "I felt I was becoming your father's whore," she said, and, being old enough, I could look back and understand her perspective. Everything started making sense.
Even though she hadn't said why we became involved in the church, I knew that, too. I recalled Dad's talks of World War III in my childhood, and the upcoming end of civilization. I also remembered Dad always seemed to be away working, and I started to comprehend the forces that pushed Mom to do what she did. (He wasn't having an affair, he really worked.)
Mom had been raised as a Catholic. When her relationship with Dad degraded she needed something to hold on to, and upon fleeing to her mother she also took up the beliefs of her childhood. There was nowhere else to go, and, like many others before her whose relationship with their husbands became troubled, she turned to her family and her roots.
I don't recall much more from our courthouse conversation, except her telling me about parking in our driveway in the early morning, before it got light out, after Dad threw her out of the house. She did it simply hoping to see our faces through the window as we ate breakfast, because she missed us so much.
We remained there for about ten minutes, and both of us talked and cried. At the end we just stood, holding each other, looking out the glass panes at the lawn below, feeling more complete than either of us had for years.
And when I didn't give the settlement back to the church she disinherited me, and we grew apart once again. Later, because of a sibling's actions, Mom even said I wasn't allowed in her house.
We got over the incident, but were never close after that. She wanted what I couldn't give: acceptance and whole-hearted devotion to beliefs which no longer worked for me.
Throughout the separation I dreamed.
I don't know about other families, but my parents represent two different psychological aspects in my mind. Dad is the technician and logician, Mom was the Earth Mother—intuitive and kind. Plants grew for her.
For years I held a mental picture of me and her in a garden, silently sharing a link to Nature. I believed I might be able to communicate my love in the one way she would accept.
Eighteen-hundred miles and lack of funds dampens such dreams, but they never disappear.
After hearing she may not live long everyone made plans to visit and say their potential last goodbyes. I put my trip off for a bit, concerned about money.
A week or so later my gut kicked me. "Go! Tomorrow—Just GO!" So I got my car's oil changed and took off the next morning.
I arrived a day or two after her flowers, which I had not known about: my dream came true.
Some people will say those days toiling in her flowerbeds were simple coincidence, but I know otherwise. More synchronicities have happened in my life, and once you become aware, you simply know. They don't take place often, but they do occur.
And, once finished, I went back to Dallas, happy with the memory, and sad because of her health.
She lied when I left, saying the cancer was in remission. In reality she gave up. She wanted to go to the heaven she believed in, and be done with the suffering.
So six months later I returned, to her deathbed.
Again, what should I tell, and what should I keep to myself? Does it do anything to mention the hours of stroking her forehead with the gentlest of motions, noting the bald spot appearing there, and trying to be even gentler? Or purging the colostomy and ileostomy bags, and the vilest stench in the world? Sleeping less than three hours, waking to the sound of her faint cries, and bringing her sodas with lots of ice in them to quench her eternal thirst (doomed to flow right through, because most of her colon and intestines had been removed)?
I can also bring up the miraculous recoveries three times. Upon finding paperwork which required attention she pulled the energy out of somewhere and came back. Those bursts took their toll, though, and eventually we knew the end was near. So my aunt—a nun in the church—administered the prayers for the dying, and sprinkled huge dollops of 'holy water' on her, sending Mom into the only religious convulsion I've ever seen with my own eyes.
Then I found out I was a 'devil.'
I almost left.
But didn't.
All I remember is my mind racing in a cycle of profanity, sadness … and a little surprise. I didn't think she consciously knew I was at her feet, so I felt like she picked her statement telepathically. I'm certain subconscious imagery and her beliefs caused her words.
To Mom I suppose I did represent a devil. My dream is for a world where relationships are more important than religion, but religion was the center of her universe, and tearing that bandage off would have hurt as much as being in what she imagined to be hell.
So I knelt there, caught up in my own reality for ten minutes, deciding whether to get up and leave, or stay. Finally I chose the latter, sadness permeating me.
Her body stiffened quickly after that, and those were some of the last words she spoke. A week later she could hardly move, and only breathing noises and occasional groans came from her, although I sensed her consciousness still present.
Everyone else slept as I sat beside her that night, carefully caressing her temple. At 11:30 her rales worsened. The atropine didn't help. I woke up my sister at 12:45, and ten minutes later Mom passed away with one final crackling death scream. (They say those are myths, but I was there.) Curiosity will always haunt me, wondering what words she would have expressed that emotion with if she could.
I hope you never experience anything like that. I hope the following investigation into our religious roots helps us overcome difficulties such as Mom and I went through. I hope religions become encompassing, rather than exclusive. I hope.
For what it's worth, Mom changed her mind about the inheritance. Also, while I was in my own hell because of the 'devil' statement, my sister heard her say something I missed. "How could I have been so wrong for all these years?"
One last item: several people later told me her flowers that year were some of the most beautiful she ever grew. I cried.
Chapter 2
Celestial Investigations – A Beginning
My childhood church immersion left me dissatisfied with the religion of my youth. My evolving intellect made the other religions I tried equally unappealing. But I still wanted to understand the 'mind of God,' so I decided to study physics in college. An advisor convinced me more money could be made in mechanical engineering, so I did that instead, and graduated in 1990. Then I worked in the automobile air conditioning industry for a while, and also making pump systems to get water to the tops of buildings, and heat exchangers for industrial use.
Religious questions must have floated through my subconscious back then. I no longer remember why I went to the library one day in 1994, or why I ended up in the mythology section. All I recall is a book seemed to beckon me, and upon thumbing its pages I was hooked.
The authors claimed a deep link once existed between religion, science, and mythology, and I stood there for over thirty minutes, reading and looking at pictures. Being about two inches thick and hardbound, the weight and awkwardness of the tome soon made my hands numb, but the circulation desk rescued me and the secrets of the universe poured into my head for the next three weeks!
Well, not quite. I spent about four increasingly frustrating hours with their book. The writing was terrible—skipping from one topic to another without closure. Never making the connections between subjects understandable. And, worst of all, not clarifying the authors' point.
Perhaps that is why the title included the word "essay." Not an excuse, I know, but later the reason revealed itself: one of the writers was nearing the end of his life, and they must not have had the time or staff to perform the greatly-needed editing. Also, they didn't comprehend everything to the extent required for a well-written manuscript, and intended their work as a pointer for those who came after them.
If you look it up on Amazon under its new name, Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and its Transmission Through Myth,1 by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, you will find a general consensus confirming my 'hard to read' opinion.
So the book sat on the desk for a couple weeks, keeping the papers underneath from floating into space. And then it went back to the library, to perplex others in the future. Little did I know those four hours would eventually lead to many more being spent in study, and result in a much clearer understanding of the 'religion/science/mythology' connections touched upon by its authors. Some of their clues pointed the way to answer my own religious questions, and cast a bright light on a long-forgotten historical aspect which wasn't revealed by any writing I've come across.
I should mention the first attempt at reading Hamlet's Mill wasn't all wasted. For instance, I gleaned that Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, is somehow connected to the stars in the sky.
If you are like me you have never read Hamlet, so a brief overview is in order. In The Bard's story the king is killed by his own brother, who then assumes the throne. Hamlet, the rightful inheritor of the kingship, feigns lunacy, and, seeking revenge for his father's murder, eventually kills his uncle. Hamlet dies in the process, although in the myth upon which Hamlet was based, Amleth, Prince of Denmark, Amleth gains rulership and keeps his life.
De Santillana and von Dechend showed that Amleth is itself linked to a tale about a man named Amlodhi, who, in addition to having some characteristics similar to Hamlet, also possessed a mill. This mill was shown to date back to an Icelandic story of a god/man called Frodhi. In legend, Frodhi is the possessor of a magical mill which now lies broken at the bottom of the sea.
Hamlet's Mill argues that these, and many other myths, refer to events witnessed in the night sky over thousands of years. The authors left the connections pretty murky; for instance in the previous link between Frodhi and Hamlet, the workings of the mill remained a mystery. They revealed too many similarities and associations to the earlier tales to ignore, though, and showed those older stories were somehow connected to the celestial events in the night sky.
Another influential item upon my future studies was the biblical Samson figure—most famous for the story of Delilah 'shaving the hair off his head and making him weak'—seems to be astro/mythological in nature. That topic will be investigated more in the coming chapters.
Before continuing I should point out another problem with Hamlet's Mill. Poor scholarship prevailed in places, although someone who has never investigated our astronomical heritage would be unaware of this fact.
The best source I've seen on this topic is Gary Thompson's writings.2A An Australian with a keen interest in Mesopotamian history and our changing understanding of the night skies, he discusses how de Santillana and von Dechend uncritically accepted an idea called 'Panbabylonianism'—the belief that our constellations have had their current names for the past six-thousand years (or more). He also illuminates that those who have studied the subject—even before Hamlet's Mill was published—have pretty soundly refuted the idea.
Other issues may be discovered on Thompson's excellent website. Not everything is bad, though. Some praise is given: "…de Santillana was one of a handful of scholars [after World War II] who ensured the history of science as a discipline was established on a firm scientific footing." Also mentioned: he was usually an excellent writer.2B
Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, is somehow connected to the stars in the sky.
The exception in this case made me dismissive of de Santillana and von Dechend's work. I suspected their text contained some valid points, but was I tempted to go digging for them? Nope.
About six months later the compulsion struck me to search for Hamlet's Mill on the Internet, and see what others said. In my perusal a page popped up which outlined something I had missed in the book. Terry Alden also read it, and noticed a stress upon a sixty-year conjunction cycle between Jupiter and Saturn that had been important to the most knowledgeable of our ancestors. (A conjunction is simply a meeting of two planets in the night sky.) Alden was able to work out a logical method using the conjunction sequence to give an exact date to the end of what some people now call a 'world age.'
Chances are you have heard of these types of 'ages.' A musical group named "The 5th Dimension" released a popular medley in the late '60s titled Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In, suggesting a better world was on its way. Their lyrics indicate we live in the beginning of the Aquarian Age.
Several people predicting doom and gloom for December 21, 2012—based upon various interpretations of why the Mayans ended a calendar cycle on that date3—believe it concludes our current age. (If you are worried about this, don't be. December 22, 2012 will be much like the previous day. Snowfall towards the North Pole: Yes. Universal destruction: No.)
So what is a 'world age,' or, more specifically, a 'new age?'
In its simplest terms a 'world age' is an approximate two-thousand-year interval when the sun is located within the boundaries of a given constellation on a certain day of the year. The one which became most significant to our ancestors was the vernal equinox; when sunrise and sunset occur at due east and west, respectively (assuming a flat horizon), the amount of hours when the sun is visible equals the number of hours when it is below the horizon (again, same assumption), and—for those of us on the northern hemisphere—the days are becoming longer instead of shorter. This occurs about March 22 of each year.
The sun appears to slowly move on this date (and all others). Three-thousand years ago it was located in Aries, and a thousand years later it shifted into Pisces, where it still dwells. The year when the sun passed between constellations marked the 'new age' point.
But dating such an event is tricky. The sun's shift is very slow (about 1° every 71.7 years), and the constellation boundaries are so vague that without modern equipment and universally agreed upon borders one person's date will be much different than another's.
Alden saw this difficulty, and, using hints found in de Santillana and von Dechend's work, determined a method which overcomes this hardship. When I read his proposal a contradiction jumped out at me and made me disregard his claim that our ancestors used his technique for the past six-thousand years, but I wondered if—even with those problems—he might be on to something.
Curiosity drove me to get a planetarium program and start viewing the night skies over four-thousand years ago, to observe the events that occurred at the end the 'age of Taurus' by Alden's method. After about an hour of learning and playing around with the software I witnessed something which struck me to my core. A numb excitement ran through me, and I said "No Way!" Replaying those old celestial interactions I became convinced: in the eyes of our ancestors this could metaphorically be described as 'Samson pushing apart the pillars of the house of the Philistines.'
My religious investigations had begun!
The following is a small part of chapter 7, in which the astronomy behind the biblical Samson story is revealed for the first time in over 2,500 years. Of course the chapters before this illuminate why Samson is linked to the planet Mars, and introduce all the celestial concepts in a far less abrupt manner, but for those with basic astronomical knowledge, this glimpse provides an idea of the technical approach taken in the book.
One term not many will be familiar with is 'trigon.' It refers to the meetings of Jupiter and Saturn every twenty years. Three of them form an approximate triangle in the sky spanning sixty years.
Chapter 7
Samson Deciphered
In order to understand the astronomy behind this ancient tale, forget everything you know about modern science. Pretend telescopes won't be invented for another 2,600 years. Chemistry? Physics? They weren't even concepts, although the groundwork for the second was being laid with some rather monumental building projects.
In this chapter the major items of each biblical section will be illuminated. The remaining verses are covered in Appendix D, beginning on page 161.
To start, the story chronicles the proceedings of Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn around the trigonal conjunctions between 1416 to 980 BC. The following is a diagram outlining the interactions the Canaanite/Israelite priests witnessed in the skies throughout 557 years. (The outer two trigons are not recorded in the writing for a reason to be discussed at the end of the chapter.)
1476 to 920 BC Trigonal Overview
This illustration shows the celestial observations recorded in the Samson saga,1 with an extra trigon on each end (the reason for doing so will become clear in the upcoming pages). The grayed area represents the vernal equinox sunset horizons during those times, and does not indicate where the Jupiter/Saturn meetings occurred with respect to the horizon, although conjunctions within about a month of the equinoxes would have been near the elevations portrayed here.
The top and bottom astronomical dusk horizon range lines correspond to the April 3, 1476 and March 30, 920 BC sunsets, respectively. (Jerusalem is the viewing location used for this, and all other celestial depictions in this chapter.)
Another item worth noting is the graphic dates the first day of spring around March 31 of each year, instead of March 22 as stated earlier. This discrepancy is due to planetarium programs specifying ancient times using the Julian system. The church originally utilized that calendar before adopting the Gregorian one in 1582 AD, and software manufacturers use the earlier method for pre-1582 dates in order to keep their users sane.
The last item is letters have been assigned to each conjunction to make referencing them slightly easier.
While going through this keep the ancient authors in the back of your mind. Generation after generation, looking at the heavens in awe, trying to understand their gods and the universe around them. Samson, and stories like it in other cultures (although I haven't seen any others which are as good as this) are the seeds of modern society.
The journey begins during a period of great desire for our priestly scientists: they wanted to understand sixty's ramifications so much, the inner core was dedicated to observing those heavenly transactions. When the priests' time on earth was finishing, the quest was given to their children.
In this story the Philistines are the antagonists. Celestially, they were imaginary beings roaming the skies who liked to be near Jupiter and Saturn. A historical group by this name did exist—they seem to have come from around Greece before 1100 BC and slowly been absorbed into the Canaanite/Israelite population. An indication of their heavenly association in this instance is they are said to have ruled the Israelites for 'forty' years (Judges, 13:1).
People familiar with the Bible will recognize this number. Jesus fasted in the desert for that amount of days and nights; the flood poured down for the same period; Moses and his wanderings, and his time spent on the mountain with God… These references indicate our ancestors were fascinated by this quantity long ago.
The original reason for their obsession can only be guessed at. Others claim it is because of the forty conjunctions between Jupiter and Saturn which were thought to make up a full revolution of the trigonal pattern (see the diagram on page 155, and the corrected one showing forty-seven meetings on page 157). The Appendix C investigations reveal that number probably wasn't associated with that timeframe before Hipparchus (and more likely came into being much closer to our own time).
But '40' is linked to the heavens in at least one way: the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is 'Mem' (מ), and its number value is forty. Furthermore, the glyph's name comes from the Phoenician word for 'water.' Sources on this subject are scanty, but Wikipedia indicates a Hebraic book, the Sefer Yetzirah, written over two-thousand years ago, titles Mem as "King over Water, Formed Earth in the Universe, …"2 This points to the 'celestial waters' thought to surround the earth at one time.
Another reference attests to an even earlier age for our ancestors' fascination: Gilgamesh. Per de Santillana and von Dechend, "[t]he circumstances of his fabled birth make him two-thirds god and one-third man, which makes him—in the sexagesimal system of Mesopotamia—two-thirds of 60 (= Anu) = 40, the number which characterized Enki-Ea, whence the latter's denomination of 'Shanabi' (= %, i.e., of 60), and Nimin (Sumerian = 40)."3
Could these usages be linked to the two minor trigonal conjunctions of the sixty-year cycle? Or a belief that humans don't really mature before their fortieth birthday, which somehow makes us more connected to the heavens? Certainly Venus's passage behind the sun every eight years, with the fifth event occurring in the same area of the zodiac as the first is not the cause.4 Knowledge of that cycle came much later.
It might be that five of Venus's eight-year cycles semi-meshes with the forty-year trigon points. For instance, Jupiter and Saturn conjunct between Capricorn and Sagittarius on December 21, 2020 AD, with Venus in the claws of the scorpion (247° ecliptic coordinates). Exactly forty years later, on December 21, 2060, Venus will be close to the initial position (250.5°), after the trigonal conjunction which occurred on April 5. Venus, with an almost exact eight-year cycle extending to a forty-year period, is more consistent than the trigon!
Of course the reason could also be linked to our ancestor's view of the vigesimal 'twenty,' discussed in Appendix C on page 160. In that system twenty was niš and two was min; forty was nimin. With the added association of twenty being 'self,' the emphasis on forty may partly be sexual: amazement at the ability of two people to join together and reproduce.
Regardless of why 'forty' became prominent, the Philistines as imaginary celestial wanderers will make sense by the end of this investigation. (Interestingly, one of the meanings of 'Philistine' is 'migrant.'5)
Getting to the Samson tale, it is comprised of three main sections, and what could be called a 'prequel.' Judges, chapter 13 tells the story of his birth to Manoah and an unnamed mother. An interesting stellar characteristic is behind the fatherly figure. According to Strong's Bible Concordance 'Manoah' means 'rest.'6 Another biblical hero has this same connotation: Noah.7 (Although the concordance doesn't say so, the first may indicate something more along the lines of 'to cause to rest' versus pure 'rest' for the flood figure.8)
During my work sense was made of the father allusions by viewing him as Saturn, the most 'restful' of the visible wanderers. The references to his mother are explained by picturing her as Jupiter. If these, and the following associations, seem too fanciful, remember that the authors were trying to cast the celestial events in terms they understood. Our current planetary comprehension came much later.
With that, the heavenly basis of this ancient hero can finally be presented.
Judges, chapter 14
So another book isn't necessary, Young's Literal Translation9 of the Bible will be quoted. The major event of this section is Samson and the lion. As previously stated, the entire biblical chapter records events around a single Jupiter/Saturn trigonal conjunction in 1416 BC, marked 'B' in the prior overview diagram.
1 And Samson goeth down to Timnath, and seeth a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines,
In the narrative the woman is simply Venus. Venus is also 'Delilah' and 'an harlot.' This corresponds to the red planet 'seeing' Venus before appearing in the morning sky, on December 15, 1418 BC. The goddess of dawn had dropped below the sunrise horizon on the 11th, giving our ancestors four days during which neither celestial being could be observed.
Why 'Timnath' (which means 'portion')? Probably to give the story a local feel. Other myths from different cultures contain gods and goddesses coming to earth at various places, and this is most likely an extension of the same tendency.
The 'down' in this verse simply refers to Mars and Venus being 'down' near the horizon.
2 and cometh up and declareth to his father, and to his mother, and saith, 'A woman I have seen in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines; and now, take her for me for a wife.'
Afterwards Mars rose into heaven, day by day. The two outermost visible planets followed suit, with Jupiter appearing on May 4, 1417 BC, and Saturn twenty days later, on the 24th.
Remember the two-year retrograde pattern of Mars (page 39)? The same orbital motion also causes the red planet to travel the sky in two years. By this I mean from the time Mars becomes visible above the sunrise, to the following sunrise appearance, two years transpire. Earlier I said Jupiter and Saturn retrograde annually, and, correspondingly, they also traverse the horizons once a year (although they do not move as far against the background stars). So after the gods of time showed themselves they caught up to Mars; Jupiter on July 1 and Saturn on July 8. This is where Samson was made out to 'talk' to his mother and father.
Buy a copy of Laughing at the Devil for yourself, and discover the rest of the observations behind this great tale! Find out what Samson's 'hair' referred to, and why he was said to be 'blinded.' 'Foxes,' 'pillars,' 'jawbone,' and many other mythical constructions become clear within its pages.
Repeated Sources
9. Hamlet's Mill—An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time, Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, Boston, MA: Gambit, 1969.
26. The Samson Saga and its Place in Comparative Religion, Smythe Palmer, New York: Arno Press, 1977.
Jump to: Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C, Appendix D, Appendix E, Appendix F, Appendix G
Chapter 1
1. If you would like to learn more about the religion I was exposed to, Wikipedia has a fairly decent page on its founder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schuckardt. For an even more enlightening study see the website his followers put up at http://www.bishopschuckardt.com/. On it you may read the following logical perplexity (as of Nov. 27, 2011):
…Furthermore, even if the accusations [of sexual impropriety] were true, the authority given to the Church by Christ is not contingent upon the personal sanctity or impeccability of the hierarchy exercising that authority. …This is because the Church's clear teaching is that one does not lose his authority upon the commission of personal sin, but rather by schism, heresy, apostasy, or by removal from office by someone of even higher authority. If it were otherwise, the Catholic Church would have ceased to exist centuries ago. Therefore Bishop Schuckardt's authority and role as a Bishop of the Church would not be affected even if the accusations were true.
In other words, the higher authority which church leaders are held to doesn't exist if those at the top aren't vigilant. Also, Bishop Schuckardt wasn't accountable to any higher priests—when he disagreed with them they were no longer worth listening to.
Reasoning similar to this quotation is probably responsible for the actions the Catholic Church took during the child molestation scandal. Return to A, B
Chapter 2
1. See Hamlet's Mill in Repeated Sources. The older editions had the better subtitle listed there. Return
2. See http://members.westnet.com.au/Gary-David-Thompson/page9j.html. Return to A, B
3. Actually, there is a good possibility December 21 is not the date which corresponds to the end of the Mayan cycle. For more see http://www.livescience.com/11053-earth-postponed.html. Return
Chapter 7
1. The graphic's tilt is mainly for space efficiency, but is partially caused by being derived from equatorial observations rather than horizon sightings. Observant readers will note that ten trigons are represented, but only nine vernal equinox suns appear to be visible. This was (probably) caused by the screen captures used to create the graphic being too low-resolution (although they were 1600x900 pixels, but the 140° field of view meant a lot of information was portrayed), and two of the suns seemed to be in the same place. The culprits occurred in 1297 and 1238 BC.
Also, some may question why the suns aren't equally spaced in the horizon ranges. I haven't taken the time to confirm, but I believe this is caused by the fact that planetarium programs pinpoint vernal equinoxes to within a second. If that always occurred at sunset (for this illustration), they would be equi-distant, but when they take place earlier or later in the day, the sun travels more (or less) than an exact sixty-year increment. I don't know if leap-year calculations also have an effect, but I doubt they do.
An additional FYI is not all the trigonal meetings are depicted. A single representation was selected for years in which double and triple conjunctions occurred. Return
2. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mem, accessed August 14, 2011). W. W. Wescott's 1887 translation of this text is available at http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/yetzirah.htm.
For an additional mind bend read John L. Sorenson, "A Complex of Ritual and Ideology Shared by Mesoamerica and the Ancient Near East," Sino-Platonic Papers, Philadelphia, PA: Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, p. 8. There, Sorenson touches upon the fact that 'mayim/mēm' is Hebrew for 'water,' and '*mēme-t' is Uto-Aztecan for 'ocean.' Other parallels also exist between those languages. Return
3. Hamlet's Mill, p. 289. This is attributed to E. Weidner, Reallexikon der Assyriologie, vol. 2, p. 379. Return
4. This isn't the same as the Transits of Venus you may have heard about. Those occur whenever Venus is located between the earth and the sun, whereas the eight-year pattern involves the goddess of dusk and dawn being behind Sol from our perspective. Return
5. This was derived from a Web version of the fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary which is no longer available. Another source is http://www.answers.com/topic/philistines. (Search for 'migrant' on that page.) Return
6. See http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4495&t=KJV. For more on Manoah being linked to 'rest,' read The Samson Saga and its Place…, pp. 191–98. Return
7. See http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5146&t=KJV. Return
8. Per conversation with Dr. Frolov January 21, 2011. Return
9. Robert Young, The Holy Bible: consisting of the Old and New Covenants, translated according to the letter and idioms of the original languages, Edinburgh: G. A. Young, 1898. Revised edition. In the public domain, and may be found on various websites. This was obtained from biblegateway.com, a very useful tool for comparing several Bible versions. Earlier editions of this book used the King James translation, and the liberalness of that work led to problems, at least one of which will be discussed further on. Return


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Braden Holtby turned aside all 30 shots he faced while Jon DiSalvatore scored for the second straight game and added an assist. Ryan Potulny chipped in with a pair of helpers.
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St. John's could not muster any offence in the third either, despite firing 13 shots on Holtby. The club went 0-for-2 on the power play while Hershey went 2-for-5 with the man advantage.
The IceCaps now hit the road for eight straight games beginning Saturday in Springfield to take on the Falcons at MassMutual Center. The club does not return home until January 4 and 5 when the Manchester Monarchs visit Mile One Centre.
Catch all the action with broadcaster Brian Rogers at stjohnsicecaps.com and on 930AM This Is Newfoundland Labrador, or watch online at ahllive.com. Puck drop is set for 8:30 p.m. with the pregame show getting underway at 7:00 (all times Newfoundland).
Wednesday's game was the 54th consecutive sellout at Mile One Centre, tying the AHL's second longest sellout streak set by the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins… The fifth straight loss is a new franchise record, breaking a four-game mark set last December… St. John's is just 3-10-0-0 when outshooting its opponent and 3-10-0-1 when allowing the first goal… Fans will be able to see several IceCaps road games over the holidays on television. The club's Dec. 21 and 28 contests against the Hamilton Bulldogs from Copps Coliseum can be seen live on Sportsnet (all regions) beginning at 9:00 p.m. NT, while the Dec. 22 matchup against the Toronto Marlies from Ricoh Coliseum will be shown on Rogers TV Cable 9 with a start time of 4:30 p.m.
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
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|Family and Coping Oriented Palliative Homecare Nursing as a Supplement to Standard Homecare Nursing Aimed at Advanced Cancer Patients - a Randomized Intervention Trial
- Patient reported health related quality of life [ Time Frame: Baseline, week 9, week 16 and week 24 ]The change in mean scores from baseline to each follow up as measured in the Quality of life questionnaire EORTC QLQ-C30 scale score(Developed by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer)in relation to the Global health status scale.
- Patient reported symptoms and problems [ Time Frame: Baseline, week 9, week 16 and week 24 ]The change in mean scores from baseline to each follow up as measured in the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire scale score in relation to its functional scales and symptom scales/items.
- Patients symptoms of anxiety and depression [ Time Frame: Baseline, week 9, week 16 and week 24 ]The change in mean scores from baseline to each follow up according to the HADS questionnaire (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) Scores are self-reported.
- Family members symptoms of anxiety and depression [ Time Frame: Baseline, week 9, week 16, week 24 and 12 months ]The change in mean scores from baseline to each follow up according to the HADS questionnaire. Scores are self-reported.
- Family members health related quality of life [ Time Frame: Baseline, week 9, week 16, week 24 and 12 months ]The change in mean scores from baseline to each follow up. Scores are self-reported and measured in the SF36 v1 questionnaire.
- Family satisfaction with the health care services provided to the patient [ Time Frame: Baseline, week 9, week 16, week 24 and 12 months ]The change in mean scores from baseline to each follow up. Scores are self-reported and measured in the FAMCARE questionnaire
- Acute readmission to hospital [ Time Frame: week 16 and 24 ]The change in mean number of acute readmissions and mean period of hospitalizations (measured in days) from inclusion to the study to week 16 and 24. Readmissions must be related to the patients cancer disease
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|Study Start Date:
|October 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Palliative homecare nursing group
In addition to the standard homecare nursing the families will receive six home visits from a research nurse with at least 1 year specialised palliative care experience. During the first 2 hour visit a family assessment is obtained containing identification of family roles, resources and coping strategies. The first home visit takes place no later than one week after randomization. The visits continues every third week up to 16 weeks, each visit with a duration of 1,5 hours. At every visit the EORTC-QLQ-C30 patient administered questionnaire is used to identify the nature, frequency and intensity of the patients physical and psychosocial problems.
Other: Palliative homecare nursing
The nurse helps the family assess the identified problems. Written coping strategies according to each problem is produced including actions of the patient, family member, nurse or others. At the same time the nurse keeps attention to the family members specific needs of knowledge and support when handling direct or indirect care, understanding and coping with the disease, treatment, physical, psychosocial and economical problems and the family members own physical and mental health. The nurse provides knowledge to the family on how to prevent and/or cope with problems that may occur or re-occur and/or accepts or adapt to unsolvable problems.
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No Intervention: Standard homecare nursing group
Patients continue to receive the standard homecare nursing. They can contact municipality services for visitation to homecare nursing if they feel that additional homecare is needed or if they do not yet receive this service and feel they need homecare nursing.
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Screening for patients will take place in the oncological, gynecological medical, surgical departments of three hospitals in Copenhagen, Denmark among patients diagnosed with cancer. Patients eligible for the study will be informed about the study during hospital admission and asked to participate together with a close relative/family member. When written informed consent has been obtained from both patient and relative they will be asked to fill in questionnaires with background information about sociodemographic data, their physical and psychosocial functioning and quality of life EORTC (QLQ-C30/patient and SF36/relative), their symptoms of anxiety and depression (HAD Scale/patient and relative) and family satisfaction with health care professionals(FamCare/relative). When patients have been discharge from hospital to their own home the families are randomized to control or intervention group. First visit from the research nurse takes place no later than one week after randomization. Visits takes place week 1,4,7,10,13 and 16 after randomization. The questionnaires EORTC QLQ-C30 (patient), HAD Scale (patient and relative), SF 36 (relative) and FamCare (relative) are mailed by post to the families to be answered at week 9, 16 and 24 after randomization. Information about the amount of care the family receives from the municipality (standard homecare) will be obtained from municipal registers. Information about readmissions to hospital are obtained from hospital registers.
The research nurses has a minimum of one year experience within specialised palliative care. The nurses has also participated in a two day course on how to produce and utilise family assessment and have been introduced to the background theory on coping and family nursing.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
At least one of the following
- Cancer stage 3 or 4 (according to hospital journal)and at least one treatment after relapse without satisfying effect on the disease
- The patient is aware that further treatment is of palliative or life prolonging nature
And also all of following inclusion criterions
- The patient has a family member that would like to participate (The family member must be involved in the patients care at least two times a week)
- At least 18 years old (patient and family member)
- Understand and speak danish (patient and family member)
- Live in the area of the municipalities of Copenhagen or Frederiksberg
- Discharge from hospital to own home
- Written informed consent (patient and family member)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Terminal fase of disease
- Contact with specialised palliative care
- Incapable of co-operating with trial protocol
- Participant in another behavioral intervention study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01444157
|Frederiksberg Hopsital
|Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark, 2000
|Bispebjerg Hospital
|Copenhagen, NV, Denmark, 2400
|Copenhagen, Denmark, 2100
|Study Director:
|Susan Rydahl Hansen, Cand.cur, PhD
|Research Unit of Clinical Nursing, Bispebjerg Hospital
|Principal Investigator:
|Anne Birgitte Hjuler Ammari, Cand.scient.san
|Research Unit of Clinical Nursing, Bispebjeg Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Anne Birgitte Hjuler Ammari, Principal investigator, Bispebjerg Hospital
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|NCT01444157 History of Changes
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|September 29, 2011
|Last Updated:
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FREE MIX Workshop: Creating a Sustainable and Flourishing Workplace
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EDT)
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Creating a Sustainable and Flourishing Workplace: Managing Towards a Triple Bottom Line and Beyond!
Workshop Description: Businesses and organizations of all sizes and types are implementing innovative approaches to improve sustainability and resiliency in the workplace. In doing so, they are realizing that doing good works for people and the planet also can improve their financial bottom line. Developing creative strategies for managing this triple bottom line of people, planet and profits is the focus of this workshop.
The field of sustainability is vast, so this workshop will distill some of the key teachings from the sustainability classes offered in Marlboro Graduate School's "Managing for Sustainability" MBA Program. After discussing what it means to have a sustainable and flourishing workplace, we will explore some of the exciting and hopeful trends in business and organizational sustainability, focusing on practical examples that you can apply to your own situation. We will present some easy to use tools and practices that you can take back to your home and business. We'll talk about ecological and carbon footprints and other ways to measure sustainability progress. We'll explore the real cost of products using everyday examples. We will also address the all-important topic of personal sustainability and provide techniques to support your overall well-being in the workaday world.
You'll have time to ask questions, share your experiences, and explore some local and regional case studies. Cary Gaunt will share insights from her extensive research on sustainability leaders and her background as a sustainability consultant, professor, and wilderness guide. This hands on, highly interactive workshop will help you begin to develop a (or augment your existing) sustainability toolkit for personal and organizational flourishing.
Presenter Bio: Dr. Cary Gaunt focuses her leadership, management, and academic lens on supporting the cultivation of sustainable and thriving people and places. For more than 22 years she led sustainability and watershed management initiatives as a consultant to governmental and non-governmental organizations under the auspices of JRB Associates/Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). She built an award-winning team known for developing integrative and innovative solutions to complex environmental/sustainability management challenges. This team, with Cary's leadership, accomplished leading-edge tasks around the country including preparing one of the nation's first comprehensive watershed planning guides, facilitating development of Nutrient Trading Guidelines for the Chesapeake Bay, and researching and writing Community Culture and the Environment: A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place, which was selected by the American Library Association as "Notable Government Document in 2003." For these and other efforts, Cary was awarded the prestigious Environmental Excellence Award for Project Management by SAIC.
Presented by the Marlboro College School of Graduate and Professional Studies management programs: MBA in Managing for Sustainability, MS in Managing Mission Driven Organizations, MS in Health Care Administration
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Our hearts may be "overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares."
"Not in surfeiting and wantonness, not in causality and uncleanness," with what follows.
I hear the voice of my God commanding, Let not your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness.
By surfeiting many have perished, but he that is temperate, shall prolong life.
But there ought to be a mean between a ferocious disdain of all modern writing and a surfeiting on all that is published.
So he lived for some days, and the daily surfeiting began to tell on his constitution.
Take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness.
I am the same as when you knew me, almost to a surfeiting identity.
There is but little danger of surfeiting him with kindness and advantages, so long as he is deprived of his freedom.
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FAPHN provides excellant opportunities for continued education, advanced education, and service to the community. We had the opportunity to assist our Hispanic community OB patients thru a $1000.00 grant FAPHN offers yearly. My co-workers and I assesed the need of diabetic education in our Hispanic clients of which there was an increasing number of Gestational Diabetics. There were limited choices of teaching aids and books available in Spanish. There were teaching obstacles for those clients who could not read. We were awarded the grant and were able to buy books, pamphlets and teaching aids. We were able to prepare a teaching DVD re Gestational diabetes ( including diet thru our WIC dept.) in English and Spanish. This DVD was used in all 3 of our offices in the county. Furthermore, we were able to prepare a take home information package in Spanish. Consequently, we have had good birth outcomes in those high risk patients. Lynda Camomilli
I have had the pleasure of working with FAPHN during the past two years to promote public health in the state of Florida. Its members hail from around the state, and are the front line professionals assuring the health and well-being of all of the residents of the state. Many have experienced first-hand cuts to their budgets and programs during these difficult financial times, but all work tirelessly to minimize the effects of these cuts on the people they serve. They assist infants and young mothers, make certain that our water is clean, our children are immunized, and our neighborhoods are safe. They come together through FAPHN to share ideas, to support one another, and to recognize excellence in the field. They make a difference every day.
FAPHN is truly composed of those who care about people. FAPHN members are professionals, who work for public entities rather than for-profit ones. While the members could individually make more money in the private sector, they sacrifice monetary gain for the honor of providing free service to those in need. FAPHN very much needs contributions to further its goals of helping others. There are few other organizations that do so much with so few financial assets. My then-97-year-old mother (who since passed away) was excited to be a speaker at their annual meeting, where she related her experiences working in public health in the early days. Help FAPHN, if you can.
FAPHN (Florida Association of Public Health Nurses) is a great organization, spreading the word on the importance of public health to improving the health of the citizens of Florida. Its members all share a common interest in public/community health and believe in its' value and necessity. In a time when funds are being cut it is vital that those concerned with the public sector of health care work together to ensure its survival.
The Florida Assocation of Public Health Nurses is an organization who provides to the community and health agencies information to help make communities medically healthy. It uses many avenues to serve the public. Our organization received a grant from them to improve educational offertings to the local Medical Reserve Corp (MRC). I am proud of the work they do in the state.
This icharity has established itself as organization which promotes nursing and an advocate for all the "little People" often forgotten in the health care system. It helps nurses pursue advanced education, trains existing nurses with the goal of helping them improve their practice.
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This organization promotes public health nursing and the benefits to the public from the services that they offer. They put their money where it counts--educating nurses both in undergraduate and post graduate education. Public health as a speciality in nursing is little understood. The passion and committment of this organization does much tto educate the public and others as to what we would be without this group. My experience is first hand as a former board member and current president-elect. Even tough I have retired,I am committed to continuing the fire and passion of this organization which can be found no where else in Florida.
I have been a member of this group since it was fromed from another PHN group. Having been a Board member at first and now a supporting member, this goup has been a positive influence for PHNursing in Florida. The mini grants given to nurses to work on those small dreams that develop into big changes in people's lives.
The Florida Association of Public Health Nurses (FAPHN) Is an outstanding organization. I am proud to say that I have entered my second year of membership. The continuing education programs put on each year by FAPHN are exceptional and quite reasonable. They enable public health nurses to network with colleagues from around the state and beyond. I would highly encourage any nurse interested in public health to join this wonderful organization.
FPHN is the voice for Public Health Nursing in Florida. The organization provides continuing education, community service, practice references and promotes community health needs. I attended the annual convention which was well organized and beneficial. The newsletters provide timely information on public health issues.


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This infographic tells the life story of Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs in a series of photographs that retrace his steps from his birthplace in San Francisco to his final resting place in Alta Mesa.
Many of Jobs's milestones happened in California, but his company made its way across the U.S. before becoming a global phenomenon. Apple's main campus has been in Cupertino, California since 1993; the first retail store actually opened in Tysons Corner, Virginia in May 2001.
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root finding routine
I'm trying to find the roots of the following fourth order equation in
w and k:
eq = w^4 -a w^2 k +b k^4 /. k -> (kx^2 + ky^2)^0.5;
eq1 = eq /. {w -> w1, kx -> k1x, ky -> 0};
eq2 = eq /. {w -> w2, kx -> k2x, ky -> k2y};
eq3 = eq /. {w -> w3, kx -> k3x, ky -> k3y};
given w1 and teta, and that the roots for w and k should satisfy
these linear conditions:
sol = FindRoot[{eq1 == 0, eq2 == 0, eq3 == 0, k3x == k1x - k2x,
w3 == w1 - w2, k2y == k2x*Tan[teta], k3y == -k2y}, {w1,
10}*), {k2x, .81}, {k2y, -.5}, {k3x, 1.83}, {k3y, -10}, {w3,w1/2},
The above system has four sets of solutions.The findroot routine gives
one of the acceptable sets of solutions but could not get the others.
I played alot with the initial values but it seems that the routine
cannot converge to the other roots even if I put the actual other root
values as the initial guess. I would appreciate it if anyone could
provide helpful suggestions on the problem.


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Axl Rose issued a letter earlier last week saying he would "respectfully decline my induction as a member of Guns N' Roses to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame" and Saturday night when his former band mates stepped onstage to accept their awards the crowd booed when this was brought to their attention.
Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, asked the crowd "who's missing" and that's when the crowd let it be known they were not happy with Axl's decision to skip out on the induction ceremony.
I'm sure Axl would have been in attendance if The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame had decided to induct him by himself, which they have done before in the past.
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Fashion FAILs & FTWs Of The 2010 ESPY Awards (PHOTOS)
Would you just look at how adorable Kendra Wilkinson is at the ESPY Awards? She's so pretty, and fashionable, and chic, and fresh, and CLASSY. Yes, she's so classy. And she's nailed it, right down to the handful of rings gracing her fingers. Go ahead, use that zoom feature, and while you're at it, scan right on down to the shoes too. We're so glad you're back, K.
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By Sean Wardwell
Killeen Daily Herald
Water and power are not only essential in modern society; they're also interdependent, which is why power experts are watching the state's climate with a wary eye.
"The risks of water scarcity to the power sector are real, severe and dangerous," said Michael Webber, associate director for international energy and environmental policy at the University of Texas at Austin. "Droughts and other water extremes expose important vulnerabilities in the Texas power sector."
Webber made those comments Jan. 10 during a Texas Senate hearing on the availability of water for power generation.
He also told members of the Committee on Business and Commerce that power plants account for 40 percent of water usage statewide.
In order to plan ahead, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas - which oversees the majority of the state's power grid - will sponsor a best-practices workshop Monday in Austin with water and power stakeholders.
"The recent rains have improved the current situation, and given our latest information, we don't expect to have significant generation loss due to the drought this summer," said Dottie Roark, ERCOT spokesperson.
"However, if the drought continues into 2013, we could have more severe losses of generation," said Roark. "We think it's important to host this workshop ... to share best practices for managing drought conditions to lessen the chance of generation loss should the drought continue into next year."
Last summer's record drought caused the council to issue 13 warnings to encourage conservation or predict impending blackouts.
Additionally, demand for electricity last summer set new records for usage twice, the latest being 68,379 megawatts in a one-hour period on Aug. 3.
One megawatt of power is enough electricity to power about 200 homes in Texas during hot weather, officials said.
John Fainter, president of the Association of Electric Companies of Texas, told the Senate committee on Jan. 10 that power companies using water in the cooling process of electrical generation are among the largest private holders of water rights and water contracts in the state.
He said power companies continue to secure additional water rights, build pipelines to remote water sources and increase pumping capabilities to maintain generation of electricity. But without rain, he said, it won't be enough.
"In short, we need to ensure that continued access to adequate water is available for electric generating units to maintain reliability, especially in times of drought or water shortage."
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Aug 25, 2010 Chris Catling, Features 0
Recent discoveries such as the Dorset Ridgeway mass grave and the Vale of York Viking Hoard remind us that we still have much to learn about the Vikings and their place in our island story.
Traditionally, Vikings have been portrayed as heathen raiders picking on the easy prey of monasteries around the coastlines of Britain and Ireland, carrying off hostages and mountains of treasure, leaving blood and mayhem in their wake. Archaeologists love to challenge such settled convictions, and modern Viking studies stress another side to them: as a cultured people with developed metalworking traditions, a love of storytelling and navigational skills sophisticated enough to take them as far as Canada, deep into Russia and south to Istanbul.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is in part responsible for the traditional image of Vikings as pirates, extortionists and warlords. One version of the Chronicle (which survives as several different fragments and variants) records the attack that took place on 8 June AD 793, when 'the ravages of heathen men miserably destroyed God's church on Lindisfarne, with plunder and with slaughter'. This raid is traditionally taken to mark the start of the Viking Age. Two years later, Vikings raided the monastery on Iona, and before long there were few monasteries along the coasts and rivers of northern Europe that had not received a visitation from the rapacious men from the north. One of the most poignant testimonies to the atmosphere at the time was the marginal note penned by a monk writing in an isolated monastery in south-west Ireland, giving thanks to God for a stormy night, for 'on such nights the Vikings do not set out for sea'.
This characterisation of the Vikings as murderous villains is now recognised as being one-sided, based on a selective interpretation of the nearly 300 years during which the Vikings played a prominent role in northern European history. Were the activities of Vikings so different to everyone else's at the time? Today's Viking historians emphasise that Viking raids formed only a small part of the general violence and banditry that characterised the 8th century, as kings, princes and chieftains, local lords and rulers fought each other for supremacy. The Irish Annals, for example, record 113 attacks on monasteries during the period from AD 795 to 820; of these, just 26 were carried out by Vikings, with 87 raids recorded as having been carried out by Irish kings or monks from rival monasteries.
The Vikings have had bad press in part because they were heathens. Written sources present Viking expeditions as a punishment visited by God upon the sinful, or as motivated by barbarism and cruelty, for which conversion to Christianity is the prescribed cure. In his re-appraisal of Irish-Norse relationships, A T Lucas wrote there was nothing 'new, unusual or unique' in the Viking predilection for pillage and slaughter in an Ireland where violence and raiding had been part of the culture for 1,000 years or more. What was new, striking and disturbing about the Vikings was their lack of scruple in attacking even the holiest of relics. Scandinavian literature, by contrast, tells us that the Vikings were motivated by a warrior ideology and the desire for honour and prestige as fighting men. They saw themselves as heroic — even if others saw them as opportunists, picking on the sacred, the weak and the defenceless.
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To the battery of traditional archaeological and place-name evidence for Viking settlement, we can now add the new science of genetic analysis. Researchers — including Mark Jobling of the University of Leicester and Steve Harding of the University of Nottingham — reported in a paper in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution in 2007 that 50 per cent of men with family roots in Liverpool, the Wirral and West Lancashire have gene signatures similar to those of men in modern Orkney and Norway. These conclusions were based on samples of DNA donated by people chosen because they had surnames distinctive to the region or derived from local place-names. This filtered out new arrivals in a region that saw a huge population influx at the Industrial Revolution. For more information see Steve Harding's website.
The Vale of York Hoard will form the focus of a new display in the Yorkshire Museum when it reopens on 1 August 2010 after major refurbishment.
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Add the butter, chicken stock, salt, bay leaf, thyme, and tarragon and bring to a simmer.
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Put in roasting pan with a small sliced onion, one-fourth cup each of turnip and carrot, season with bay leaf and parsley.
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Hulu finally sent me an invitation to sign up for Hulu Plus yesterday, and I wasted no time in taking them up on their offer. I'm mostly interested in the service as a way to get Hulu on my Playstation 3 (due out later this month) but figured I could use my iPad or my PC in the interim. I wanted to know if Hulu Plus was worth $9.99/month. I should admit upfront that I'm not normally a Hulu user. The idea of sitting at a computer watching TV isn't really appealing to me; I spend enough hours in my office chair as is. I want to flop on the couch and watch the big screen when it's TV time. (Yeah, I know I could connect a PC to the TV but I haven't gotten around to that yet.)
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My first surprise with Hulu Plus was that, just by browsing, it took me a good ten minutes to find a show that was available on Hulu Plus and not available on regular Hulu. All the shows I was interested in seemed to be available for both. Did you know you can watch the entire Stargate SG-1 series on Hulu? You can! But you know what's even stranger? You can't watch it on Hulu Plus. Yes, that's right. You pay $9.99/month to get less (in some cases) content then you would using the free service. Now to clarify, if you're accessing Hulu from the web you can watch these 'missing' shows whether you're signed on as a Hulu Plus member or not. But the iPad application (and presumably any non-PC device that supports Hulu Plus) is missing some content. Another show I looked at was The Royal Pains (I grew up in the Hamptons so I get a kick of this quirky dramedy about a 'concierge doctor' living among the rich and famous). Hulu on the web offered the 4 most recent episodes, but the Hulu Plus app on the iPad doesn't offer the show at all. So You Think You Can Dance is another example. Seven episodes available to non-members on the web, zero on the iPad. Eventually I did find some content that was exclusive to Hulu Plus. Dancing With the Stars (49 episodes on standard Hulu, 93 on Plus), Desperate Housewives (32 standard, 119 Plus), Cougartown (5 standard, 24 Plus) and so on. So there is some reason to pay for Hulu Plus. I'd just really expect Plus to have everything that standard Hulu offers, plus more. That just makes sense, right? But nope, that's not the case. I understand that all of this is due to licensing issues, but as an end user I really don't care; Hulu needs to go back to work and get 'device licensing' for all the content it offers on the PC. I also need to point out that the iPad app is pretty rough. I couldn't find a way to add shows to my Queue from the iPad app (though if you add them from the web they do sync over) and the search form is a black hole. Once you open search you can't leave it except by following a search result. If you get no results, you're stuck until you search again for something that returns results. That's just sloppy. If you use Netflix Streaming on a variety of devices you might be used to watching half a show on one device, then going to a second device and picking up right where you left off. Hulu doesn't offer this, either (though it will save your place on the iPad). In addition to all these shortcomings, remember that you're still going to be seeing ads when you tune into Hulu Plus. On the bright side, there are over 150 TV series on offer on the iPad Hulu Plus app. Sadly the only 'Browse' option shows you all 150+, or you can browse by network. But if you're looking for categorizations like "Drama" or "Comedy" you need to head back to the web. In addition to Browse you've got "Featured," "Most Popular," and "Recently Added" listings. In the Movies section you'll find over 130 titles, mostly indie films and some full length anime features. Whether or not Plus is worth it depends a lot on your taste in TV. My sister-in-law would go nuts at having all those episodes of Dancing With The Stars at hand! Most of the Plus content is listed on the Hulu site, so you should start by checking there. Personally I was disappointed to find that there's still some great Hulu content that I can only watch on my computer, even though I'm shelling out $9.99/month. For me, I have to say Netflix Streaming is a far better deal at this point. Content there isn't as timely, but there's more of it, it's ad-free and it's easier to find something to watch. In our house, Hulu Plus isn't anywhere near ready to replace Netflix. I'll be watching to see how quickly Hulu adds new content in order to determine if it's worth keeping Plus as a second service. If things don't improve, I don't believe that it is.