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Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
Still factory sealed but the seal has split. Contains markings for all three air forces. Features full cockpit, wings that change angle and external weapons loads.
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
Rare 1950s issue showing a bottle of Coke next to the young builder's snack tray and a finished aircraft. Large scale issue with the 'Coke Bottle' box design. For rubber flight or easily converted to RC using today's tiny and light servos and receivers. Kit features traditional wood/tissue construction, very high quality printwood, stripwood and spars, clear window material, balsa block and other stock as required, completely preformed wheels, cardstock prop pitch former, hardwood nose button and tissue (still wrapped inside the plans as it came from the factory), a very large sheet of USAF insignia and markings especially for this kit and superb full size plans with extensive instructions and detail drawings. The model has not been started. The parts have been inventoried complete with all parts, plans and insignia sheet. Comet was a famous manufacturer of stick and tissue flying and static models. In the 1930s Great Depression, they lead the low-priced kit revolution with the "Dime Scale" kits and famous advertisements in Model Airplane News magazine and others. Comet reached it's peak in the 1930s when they acquired the services of Carl Goldberg. Goldberg was a highly accomplished modeler with articles in Model Airplane News and famous designs that won him several National level competitions in the 1930s and beyond. (Carl Goldberg went on to found his own company and produced well designed and popular free-flight and RC aircraft). Comet survived the post World War economic slump and continued kit production until they were bought out by long-time competitor Guillow's in 1998.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
Limited edition, now out of production. Very nicely molded and detailed with all fine recessed panel lines, detailed cockpit and radial engines and with decals and paint guide for the three aircraft listed above. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag including decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
Larger scale (1/48) Nick. Well molded and detailed kit. Features excellent full cockpit, detailed engines, rotating wheels and props and decals for two colorful aircraft as well as a painting guide. The kit has never been started. Some parts are still in the factory sealed bags. The parts that are not internally sealed sealed have been inventoried complete including decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
Very rare kit for the advanced collector. Charmore was located at 126 Market Street in Paterson, New Jersey. They issued a small line of kits in the early 1950s, at the dawn of US plastic kit production. All boxes have the same art - the name of the kit stamped on a side white panel. Inside, the kit has never been started. The contents are mint and complete in the original Charmore paper sacks. The main parts are the correct gloss silver (just one of the several colors that Charmore used), while the canopy, stand and stand arm are clear. Includes decals and instructions. From toy historians, we know that Charmore was created by the toy giant Louis Marx Company after 1945. Evidently Marx hope to obtain retail buyer-level advantages and tax breaks from the arrangement. The company was named for Louis' brother's (David) wife, Charlene. It has been shown that Charmore and Marx mixed molds and products when it came to toys; however, it seems that the model lines were separate. Please email me if you have more details.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
Hard-to-find kit from Revell of German, 1999. Large 1/72 scale is extensively detailed and well molded. Features one piece, full hull design, three props and three rudders, clear superstructure windows, detailed bridge, mast with full antennas, complete deck fittings, complete scale railings, detailed cabin lifeboat/rescue craft, rigging thread and rigging diagram, full decals and more. Also includes color DGzRS brochure and color four-inch sticker. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
Very rare kit with a fascinating history. Around 1958/59, Orange Crush of Mexico offered a promotion. They offered free, colorful, plastic model cars if you collected correctly-marked Orange Crush bottle caps. The models are 1/32 scale Revell Highway Pioneer series - although there is no mention of Revell or Lodela anywhere on the box. Orange Crush had the boxes and even the instructions specially made for them with no mention of a manufacture. They were never given numbers. The boxes were very thin and fragile cardboard. This has contributed to wear and you must be very cautious with them. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bag and the instructions are sealed in the bag as well. You could redeem your caps two ways - at the Orange Crush truck and at a Modelandia Hobby House. The box sides show the 18 cars in the series. Orange Crush also released two full-color booklets and a complete paint set for the cars. A colorful cardboard box held 7 colors of paint in glass bottles, complete with 'Orange Crush' screw-on caps! The entire promotion was done in coordination with Modelandia Hobby House which had up to 19 stores. Modelandia's name appears on each of the boxes and the paint as well. Robina S.A. was the bottler or distributor of Orange Crush in Mexico at that time. The box side lists the other 18 kits with small color pictures of each and shows three sizes of OC - Family Size (Familiar), Grand (Grande) and Normal. You could also obtain models with Titan bottle caps. Titan was also bottled by Robina and came in large (Titan) and smaller (Titancito) sizes and apparently more than one flavor. We do not know how Orange Crush had access to the plastic kits or who sealed the internal bags with the Crush instructions inside them. We can assume that it may have been Lodela, since they would have had access to the Revell molds. It is not know for how long the promotion lasted, but Orange Crush was one of the most dominant soft drinks in Mexico at that time. Here is one clue: some boxes claim that Modelandia had 13 locations; other boxes, which obviously came later on, claim 19 locations. This may indicate that this promotion went on for a significant amount of time.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
Still factory sealed. Same as the Testors kit as Italeri made and owns the molds. The Waco CG-4 was designed and initially built by Waco Aircraft Company of Troy, OH. It first saw action in Sicily and the operation was termed a disaster. This likely had more to do with planning than the actual glider. Missions in Europe, including D-Day, went much better. The glider was even deployed to Burma. It could carry up to 13 troops, or a jeep and four men, or a 75mm Field Gun.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
Single vertical stabilizer variant. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
From the late 1950s/very early 1960s. It was an excellent kit for that time and is still popular today. Molded in dark green and clear. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. The famous first bomber to sink a battleship under any circumstances. Billy Mitchell arranged to have the ex-WWI German Battleship Ostfriesland used as target practice for for 6 MB2s, and the ship sank in 25 minutes.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++
Second issue dated in 1962 with a hardbox and molded in yellow and clear plastic. (The first issue had a 98 cent price extension on the part number.) Brilliant color and gloss. Rare model of the 4 bladed prop 1946 Thompson Trophy Winner with a 'souped up' P-63 King Cobra Allison engine. Never started. The kit is like new inside with all parts still sealed in the factory bag. With decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG-
From quality Frog molds. Notice that the new manufacture simply used the Frog box but removed the Frog name. Nice but older model of the classic racer that paved the way for the Spitfire. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Good
Still factory sealed, but please note that that box has a split on the upper left under the seal. Dated 1958 with classic Jo Kotula box art; this issue is probably from the mid 1960s however from the logo variation. This is a rare kit of the prototype Thunderchief, with the long nose probe and early configuration nuclear weapons pod.
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: Bagged
SPECIAL ORDER vacuform kit. Not shipped from stock. Kit is molded upon receipt of payment. Time from receipt to shipping your kit is usually 8 to 10 weeks. Kit includes resin and/or metal details -clear canopy and full size plans/instructions. Details included will vary from kit to kit but may contain landing struts - wheels - props - engines (not jets) - some cockpit parts - seats - etc. Other parts will need to be scratch built or from your spares box. Decals not furnished. Vacuform kits are only recommended for modelers who are experienced with this type of model. Special skills and scratch building experience are required. If you are curious, I highly recommend that you read the article 'How To Build Vacuform Model Kits' which is located on this website.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
Box and artwork is in excellent condition. Classic Cold War East German/USSR airliner in Interflug markings. KVZ was the logo used by this East German kit manufacturer from 1969 to 1973. During this time, some fantastic Cold War kits were produced of Russian Airliners and Military Helicopters and Aircraft. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. NOTE: two prop blades are broken but present.
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
Very high quality wood and metal kit from the Golden Age of HO Craftsman kit. Builds a very accurate and highly detailed prototype of this Wooden Reefer. Kit features pre-cut and pre-scribed hardwood sides that are factory painted gray and decorated with white, red and black lettering for the Greenbay Route, cut and pre-milled hardwood roof and floor, hardwood pre-cut and scribed car ends, wood and metal stock as required, metal ladders, reefer doors, ice hatches and other parts as needed metal grab irons, brake details and more. The model has never been started. The detail envelope is still factory sealed, and the parts that were never sealed have been inventoried complete and includes full size plans/instructions. If you have an interest in these kits and the revolution they created in modeling, please read the article about their history located on this website. Please cut and paste this link in your browser to see it - http://www.oldmodelkits.com/blog/plastic-model-kit-history/the-ho-scale-model-railroading-revolution-of-the-1940s/
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
From the mid to late 1930s. New old stock from a closed down hobby shop. Because they are in 'new' condition, the end flaps and tabs are in great condition with no tears or rips. Features 15 inch wingspan, quality balsa printwood and wood stock, fully carved hardwood wheels, partially carved prop blank (needs sanding), balsa blocks as required, covering paper, color insignia sheet and detailed, full size plans that include instructions. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
Includes markings for the two aircraft listed. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: No Box
Bagged kit - no box. The box is shown for reference only. From about 1965. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed
Very high quality vacuform kit. The moldings are of higher quality than most injection molded kits. Features full interior, shaped strut material, metal details, full color decals and optional parts and decals for the Navy OL-6. One in the line of Grover Loening's famous 1920's amphibians. In 1928 five OA-1As were chosen for the 'Pan American Cruise' that began in San Antonio Texas, flew to the southern most spot in South America, then returned north to Washington, DC for a total of 22,000 miles. An OA-1B (Army version) could be built with minor scratch modifications. Never started. Factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.


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All of my weddings I shoot are seriously unforgettable but this one replays in my head constantly as one of the most fun weddings I've shot.
I flew out to my hometown in California to shoot Sarah and Zack's wedding and my dad and grandma dropped me off at Sarah's aunts house where Sarah was getting ready. I definitely felt like an adult being hugged and kissed goodbye by my grandma. Melissa, Sarah's sister came out and gave me a hug and then showed me where all of the girls were. Sarah + 10 bridesmaids makes for a full house but such a great time. I haven't seen the Ahlf family in a few years and their wedding date, May 7th, was particularly special because it is Sarah's moms birthday, who unfortunately passed away from breast cancer a couple years ago. I was really good friends with Tommy, Sarah's younger brother, and I remember always spending my summers over their house so being able to be apart of their day was such an honor. Sarah and Zack both had people who are really close to them with them the whole day. Zack on his boutonniere, Sarah on her bouquet.
The way it was slightly raining, the gasps from the bridesmaids, the tears from her dad, and the smile on Zack's face, when they all saw her for the first time made the mood filled with so many intimate moments. The whole day was special, but intimate, yet so much fun. A beautiful ceremony and some cake and donuts later, the reception was one huge celebration and dance party.
A truly, truly unforgettable day.
Venue: Lone Tree Golf Course
Florist: Beautys Blossoms
2nd photographer: Jordyn Khan (check out her photos of sarah and zack here)

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- (? -1925)UK writer on rural themes whose post- HOLOCAUST novel, The Collapse of Homo Sapiens (1923), written in the apocalypse-obsessed aftermath of WWI, identifies the fall of mankind with the defeat of the UK by an alliance of coloured powers, which themselves soon disintegrate, leaving the world to shrink and degenerate. The traveller who is moved through time to witness this disaster puts much of the blame for the UK's unreadiness upon trade-union nihilists.JC
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Peer to peer futures at Alt-cph 14 Assemble
Furtherfield has brought Play Your Place to Alt_cph Assemble Open Art Fair in Copenhagen. Visitors are drawing for a game where everything is decided and organized between peers. No state, no corporations. It's down to us.
We have to deal with
- global epidemic
- waste everywhere
- everything we could ever want
- no more electricity
10th-13th Sept they set the themes, and their ideas shape the game designs.
Their drawings will form the building blocks of the game – avatars, background settings, obstacles, rewards etc
See the latest drawings here https://www.flickr.com/photos/localplay/sets/72157647313916552/
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Play Your Place is an ongoing open artwork based on a collaboration between Ruth Catlow and Mary Flanagan in which social drawing activities with local residents form the basis of computer platform games about the locality.
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Article by CSP Today : 2010 CSP innovations that top Tex Wilkin's list
2010 CSP innovations that top Tex Wilkin's list
14 May 2010
Frank 'Tex' Wilkins, Solar Thermal R&D Team Leader, U.S Department of energy, talks to CSP Today about what he believes are the most promising CSP innovations for 2010 and about which US government policies might break the current log-jam of CSP projects.
By Rikki Stancich in Paris
CSP Today: In your view, what are the notable technologies that have entered pilot phase this year? Are there any in particular that have caught your attention, and if so, why?
Frank Wilkins: The Maricopa plant is a good example of technology that has evolved to the point of generating clean solar power for people in Arizona. However, there are many other CSP R&D projects, albeit at smaller scale that also have my attention.
The Department of Energy has 27 contracts with industry and universities looking at a broad range of technology improvements in troughs, power towers, dishes, and linear Fresnel systems. We are working on improvements to solar collectors, receivers, glass and polymer reflectors, and storage.
Storage has become a major effort. We are looking at improvements in salt mixtures (for example, lowering the melting point and increasing the heat capacity), exploring latent heat options in phase change materials, as well as storage in solid materials and through chemical reactions.
These projects all offer the potential for lowering the cost of CSP technology and are indicative of the industry's interest in improving its product.
CSP Today: How many CSP projects are currently in the pipeline in the US and of these, how many are likely to become operational?
Frank Wilkins: The Solar Energy Industries Association keeps an up to date account of CSP projects that are being planned in the United States. The number keeps changing, of course, but the last time I checked there were nearly 40 projects that totaled over 10,500 MW.
Most of these have power purchase agreements or some contractual agreement that shows intent to build a project. Even with a power purchase agreement, however, there is no guarantee that a project will be built. Utility-scale CSP plants cost hundreds of millions of dollars and require a lot of land.
In addition to having a utility or other organization buy the power, developers need to attain a number of permits and project financing before they can begin construction. The state of the current financial market makes it very difficult for developers to find banks willing to lend large amounts of money on technology that has does not have many years of proven performance and which they have little experience.
Even so, I expect that there will be a number of projects that will begin construction in the next year. The Department of Interior has committed to help 14 CSP projects obtain the environmental permits required to build plants on Federal land by December 2010. These projects would occupy 60,000 acres and have a total capacity of over 6,000 MW.
There are additional projects being planned to be built on private land that also appear situated to begin construction by the end of 2010.
CSP Today: What needs to happen in order for more CSP projects to break ground?
Frank Wilkins: The developers that are working to get CSP projects under construction by the end of 2010 are having an unusually hard time because regulators and bankers are not familiar with their technology. Officials at the Federal, state, and local levels have to determine how CSP technology fits into regulations designed for fossil fueled power plants. New regulations are required or existing ones need to be modified.
Before that can happen, they have to understand all the details of CSP. The same is true for the financial community, which must understand the technology in sufficient detail to accurately assess the risk that would be associated with their investment.
In a sense, the developers have become educators. The education process and the development of new regulations take time. However, as the regulations are written specifically for CSP projects and bankers become familiar and comfortable with the technology, the next round of projects will get through the hurdles faster. As more and more projects are built, the cost of the power from CSP technology will decrease. That will also make it easier for future projects to get into the ground.
CSP Today: Obtaining a DoE loan guarantee seems to be a prohibitively expensive and time-intensive exercise in itself. What other (more accessible) government support is available to CSP project developers?
Frank Wilkins: Government support is doing a lot to support CSP project developers. State governments have created renewable portfolio standards which created a market for the technology.
The Department of Energy has a $50M research and development program that is directly helping developers improve the performance and reduce the cost of their technology. Through last year's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, DOE provided $50M to a number of CSP companies to help them improve and/or expand their manufacturing facilities.
DOE and the Bureau of Land Management are conducting a Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement that has identified 24 solar study zones encompassing 676,000 acres (over 1,000 square miles) on Federal land that may be suitable for utility-scale solar projects.
As you mentioned, DOE also has established a Loan Guarantee Program to help developers obtain financing during this economic downturn. One CSP award has been announced ($1.377 billion to BrightSource Energy for 3 CSP plants totaling nearly 400 MW) and others are expected.
There is a Treasury grant program that could be worth 30% of the basis of the project to the developer. Although the Treasury program is scheduled to end at the end of 2010, there is a 30% investment tax credit for CSP projects that will be in effect until the end of 2016.
CSP Today: Is there any evidence of a CSP components supply chain growing in the US? Aside from the manufacturing tax credits are there any other incentives to kick-start the green economy?
Frank Wilkins: Schott built a facility to produce solar thermal receiver tubes in Albuquerque that began operation in 2009. As seen by the DOE manufacturing assistance awards, several glass companies are also anticipating a growing market for CSP components.
I expect that once the log-jam breaks and developers start building, there will be a number of components suppliers responding to the market.
Hear more from Frank Wilkins at the 4th concentrated solar power summit US, June 23-25, San Francisco.
For more information on how to attend, please visit the following website: www.csptoday.com/usa2010
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CelebrityNews:It was long rumored that 'Transformers: The Last Knight' could be Bay's last film as director. But it seems that now Mark Wahlberg is also adding to the boat of abandonment, as both have confirmed that it will be his last Transformers movie.
The Transformers franchise is about to be expanded significantly with 'The Last Knight'. The film will reveal the hidden past of the Autobots on Earth, giving rise to many new stories to tell about alien robots. Stories that, in this occasion, will not count with Michael Bay, director of the saga, nor with Mark Wahlberg, the star signing from Transformers 4.
Wahlberg revealed in a recent interview that 'The Last Knight' would be his last film within the franchise. "This is the last one. This is it — so I can get my life back!" said the actor when asked about his future in the saga. It seems that the actor wants to leave the ship now to dedicate himself to new projects. And being part of a mega-franchise is not an easy task.
Just to get in shape for the role of Cade Yeager the actor needed five months of hard physical training, not to mention rehearsing, shooting and promoting the film. Wahlberg, who took over from ShiaLabeouf after his third outing, has been one of the great drivers of the franchise in recent years, but it seems that it is time to make way for new faces.
And he is not the only one who wants to visit more fertile pastures, because of the great ideologist behind Transformers, Michael Bay, also have confirmed rumors that this could be his last film. The successful director of the explosions as a personal signature has revealed that, since each Transformers film takes about two years of preparation, he is tired and wants to dedicate himself to other projects.
"These movies that I've done, they are massive movies. They take a lot out of you," Bay said "I've done it enough, and I've had a great time doing it. I'm going out with a bang on this one, and I feel like you gotta go out while you're ahead, you know. I think I've had a good run, and I've got a lot of other movies I want to do."
Of course, Bay already said this after making the third film, and again after "Transformers: Age of Extinction", but it seems now the director is serious. But what other projects does Bay speak? After taking over the first three Transformers films almost without a break, the director had time to do "Pain & Gain" (also with Mark Wahlberg), and the marching tape for the show.
Now, it seems that the filmmaker wants to recover that adult tone for his next projects. "I just read a very bloody hitman movie that was a page turner. That seems like a fun one to do," he said. "I love doing 13 Hours, I love doing Pain & Gain — I think it'll be something more serious and more adult, I guess ".


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A woman, trained in martial arts, recently got a man arrested after she spotted him clicking her pictures at Dahisar railway station. Upon going through his cellphone, the GRP found that he had clicked photos of numerous women. He was booked under section 509 of IPC.
- Two communities clash in Hathras over harassment of minor girl
A clash broke out between OBC and upper caste Thakur in Hathras on Wednesday following an incident of alleged harassment of a minor girl. According to police the girl from Kushwaha family informed her parents that an upper caste Thakur had been passing lucid comments at her.
- Woman jumps in canal with two kids, kin claim she was harassed by in-laws
A 25-year-old woman jumped into a canal along with her two children in Jasrana area of Firozabad district on Monday evening. While the victim's relatives have alleged that she was being harassed by her in-laws, police are yet to file an FIR in the case and are currently trying to recover the bodies.
- Chandigarh stalking case: Will move court if charges diluted, says harassed girl's father
"We will not interfere with the investigation or the prosecution, just as we do not want the accused to influence the investigation in any way. The police and prosecution should be allowed to do their job," he said in a social media post.
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An IAS officer in Haryana has in a touching Facebook post told his daughter he's "proud" of her for taking on "the worst form of chauvinism" in society, after they made public she was allegedly "harassed and stalked" by a Haryana BJP leader's son in Chandigarh.
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New Delhi, Aug 6 () Falling in line after repeated diktats from the government and regulators, most of the top listed companies have begun making public some basic data of sexual harassment at workplace and the disclosed numbers show a disturbing uptick.
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Sought after from ancient times until present day, Boswellia carterii oil and its aroma can help to uplift many areas of your life, and can also be added to your beauty routine, since it can help support healthy, radiant skin.†
There are other forms of frankincense to know about, too, including Boswellia frereana, which is a highly pleasant fragrant form which is typically used for burning and fragrances.
Additionally, Boswellia serrata possesses a clean, citrus aroma and contains many of the same therapeutic and medicinal uses that other varieties of frankincense exhibit, while also providing significant skincare benefits.†
Boswellia serrata is often used by yoga instructors to help inspire mindfulness and to set the stage for balanced moods.†
For centuries, people have touted frankincense for its health-giving properties. It's mentioned in the New Testament and was discovered in the remains of ancient Egyptian civilizations.
Today, it's benefits are as far-reaching as ever. You can use it as an all-natural household cleaner, as a natural deodorizer, and so much more.
And that's just the beginning.
While frankincense is an amazing household ingredient and has many cosmetic uses, it's also noted for its numerous health benefits and rich history:
The Best Recipes and Ways to Use Frankincense Essential Oil
There are tons of uses and DIY recipes for frankincense essential oil thanks to all the health benefits. Here are some of my favorites.
This homemade frankincense soap bar recipe is great for supporting your skin. It's hydrating and provides vitamins. It's easy to make and free of harmful chemicals (that other soaps can sometimes have). Try it today:
Another great way to enjoy frankincense essential oil is my homemade Frankincense and Myrrh Body Lotion. It brings hydration, essential vitamins and nutrients to the skin. Check it out:
Organic Lavender Essential Oil: Calming, Relaxing & Provides a Refreshing Scent
Lavender oil is a favorite addition to perfumes, soaps and candles because of its pleasant floral scent.
But it's more than just a charming smell. It also has a whole host of health-giving benefits that date back thousands of years. Many believe it's even referenced throughout the Bible.†
Do you remember when Mary breaks a bottle of spikenard on the ground and then washes Jesus' feet with her hair? The oil in that bottle was lavender, chosen specifically for its elegant, soothing support.†
And that's just one piece of lavender oil's incredible history.
Another amazing story developed over 100 years ago when a French researcher named René-Maurice Gattefossé suffered chemical burns all over his arm. He soaked his arm in a vat of lavender oil and — by accident — he rediscovered the benefits lavender oil can have for the skin.†
In fact, he believed his third-degree burns were greatly helped, thanks to the calming and relaxing support lavender oil provides. Since then, lavender essential oil has been shown to support even more aspects of healthy skin.†
When I get a scrape, burn or struggle with skin issues, lavender oil is my go-to. I just mix a few drops with a little bit of coconut oil and rub it right onto my skin.
But it's not just great for healthy skin. Lavender oil is also relaxing and delivers all of these benefits to your overall health:
My Favorite Recipes For Lavender Essential Oil
As you may expect, there are tons of uses and DIY recipes thanks to all the health benefits in lavender essential oil. Here are some of my favorites.
Try my recipe for a homemade natural shaving cream:
Another great way to enjoy lavender essential oil is to use it in a lip balm. Check out my simple recipe for a powerful, all-natural lip balm here:
And those are just a few of the many ways you can enjoy lavender essential oil.
About NUMA Organic Essential Oils
I co-founded NUMA with Jordan Rubin, the New York Times best-selling author of The Maker's Diet, founder of Garden of Life, and Beyond Organic.
Together, we traveled the world looking for purest and highest quality essential oils available. In all, we tested more than 300 different varieties. And from that testing, we hand-selected just 12 oils that made the cut.
Those 12 hand-selected oils became the foundation of our line of NUMA essential oils.
NUMA comes from the ancient Greek word pneuma, meaning "breath of life."
Both Jordan and I firmly believe that essential oils are a vital component of any health journey.
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The Winter Wonders Christmas Market in Brussels attracted between 10% and 15% fewer visitors in 2009 than it did in 2008.
Around 1.5 million people from home and abroad visited the market which was open from 27 November until 3 January.
The Brussels City Alderman Philippe Close (Francophone socialist) told journalists that the poor weather and the economic crisis are to blame for the fall in visitor numbers.
Nevertheless, Mr Close stressed that the Brussels Christmas Market remains one of the top five Christmas markets in Europe.
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Men of the Jampijinpa/Jangala skin groups and women of the Nampijinpa/Nangala skin groups are the 'kirda' (custodians) for the Emu Yankirri Jukurrpa (emu Dreaming) at Ngarna. Ngarna is an important men's ceremonial place and much of the story is kept secret from the uninitiated.
Emus survive on a diet of native vegetation found in the area, including the 'yakajirri' (bush currant [Solanum centrale]) and 'mukaki' (plumbush [Santalum lanceolatum]). In Warlpiri paintings tradtional iconography is used to
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Title : LEED Patterns and Surface Perfection.
Descriptive Note : Research rept. 1968-1969,
Corporate Author : POST OFFICE RESEARCH DEPT LONDON (ENGLAND)
Personal Author(s) : Heckingbottom,R.
Report Date : 04 MAR 1969
Pagination or Media Count : 10
Abstract : It is now well established that many types of surface imperfection have only a marginal effect on LEED patterns. This is shown here to be, in many cases, a consequence of the limited coherence width of electrons in typical LEED beams. In the light of these observations, the departures from surface perfection which have a marked effect on LEED patterns, and those that do not, are delineated more clearly than hitherto. (Author)
Descriptors : (*ELECTRON DIFFRACTION, PATTERN RECOGNITION), (*CRYSTAL DEFECTS, SURFACES), GERMANIUM, SILICON, RESOLUTION, GREAT BRITAIN
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aphrodite -Greek; Holy being of transport, sexual love. Aphrodite command sponsor you in pulling strong energy toward yourself.
aradia -Italian; Emperor of the Witches, kid of Diana. Aradia is an totally powerful personage and a protectress of Witches in nationalized.
arianrhod:Welsh; Holy being of the stars and revival. Fame on Arianrhod to help with beyond life memories and difficulties as well as for contacting the Mark Ethnic group.
artemis:Greek; Holy being of the Moon.
astarte:Greek; Value Holy being. Whether you wish to sustain children or surround a terrible garden, Astarte command sponsor in your hunger.
athena:Greek; Fighter Holy being and Protectress. Hang loose input you a rough time at work? Fame on Athena to help you.
bast:Egyptian; Holy being of Defenses and Cats. Bast is potent for trade travel as well as walking down a dark corridor. Fame on her essence in the form of a enormous panther to see you before to your destination.
brigid:Celtic; Fighter Holy being and Protectress. Brigid is also a "Triple Holy being". She is strong and careful. Fame on her to help protect your children in a vigorous justification.
ceres:Roman; Holy being of the Food.
cerridwen:Welsh; Moon and Food Holy being. Both associated with the Miserable Close relative aspect of the Crone.
demeter:Greek; Search Close relative sort. Groovy Holy being everywhere birthing or low point children are involved.
diana:Roman; Moon Holy being and Holy being of the Search. Diana is copious faceted. She is a seductress (as she tricks her brother Lucifer to produce Aradia in the form of a cat) as well as a mother present for Witches.
dryads:Greek; female spirits of the plants.
flora:Roman; Holy being of Announce and Sunrise. For sweet flowers, brood and all bounties of Close relative Search.
fortuna:Roman; Holy being of Fatal outcome.
freya:Scandinavian; Moon Holy being and wife/lover of Odin. Both cammander of the Valkryies.
hathor:Egyptian; Protectress of women in tidiness. A Hathor's Mirror is very substantial for the Witch. Hathor was cunning as well as sweet.
hecate:Greek; Moon Holy being as in Crone or Miserable Close relative.
hera:Greek; Holy being of Nuptial. If handfasting or some type of devotion is the issure, Hera is the Holy being to poll. Establish lift up that she has a merciless gather together.
hestia:Greek; Holy being of Home and Furnace. Arrange a house, remodeling, or pied-?-terre hunting. Fortification in the home and board unit.
inanna:Sumarian; Holy being motion picture of the Close relative.
isis:Egyptian; represents the space Holy being or the Triple Holy being connotation in one brute.
kali:Hindu; Creative/Destructive Holy being. Protectress of abused women. Kali Ma necessary be called if a animal is in dread of physical turmoil. Her power is rigorously terrific.
lilith:Hebrew; Adam's first next of kin and said to be turned participating in a demoness, immobile, if you surround ever read any of Zacharia Sitchin's work, you may power your caution. In my mop the floor with, Lilith was a Mark animal bred with Adam. This would make her a Holy being of A cut above Education or a motion picture of the Mark Ethnic group.
maat:Egyptian; Holy being of Fair play and Somersaulting Organize. Maat is the true combination of any justification. She acting no favorites and command distribute truth to all parties involved. Be permanent your own rebuke is clean in the justification via you cell phone her.
morgan:Celtic; Holy being of Water and Magick. Morgan was said to be connubial to Merlin. It was from him she studious her magick. She was also doubled with The Noble Of The Bring together.
muses:Greek; Goddesses of Intent who moderate in part depending upon the pantheon used.
nephtys:Egyptian; Holy being of Surprises, Sisters and Midwives.
noras:Celtic; the three sisters of the Wyrd. Liable for weaving good fortune - beyond, present and superior.
nuit:Egyptian; Sky Close relative. On a regular basis seen depicted in circular mode cradling the stars.
persephone:Greek; Holy being of the Criminal world as well as Food. Youngster of Demeter.
selene:Greek; Holy being of the Moon and Solutions. Jerk to Selene to bring a logical arrange to any count.
valkyries:Scandinavian; women warriors who carried the souls of the men slain in a work to heaven.
venus:Roman; Holy being of Costly and Romance.
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Determination of the place, size, growth rate, commitment, and faction of early Christian communities remains problematic if not impossible. Population Estimates, sets forth a summary of some recent attempts to quantify population figures for Jews and Christians in the Roman world for the Late Roman Period.
Such estimates involve a certain degree of speculation and lack of precision. Moreover, in an overall population sense the term "Christians" refers to its membership in an all-inclusive way. The deeply committed or observant probably would have been significantly less. Perhaps at most no more than 10% of the total were actually practicing Christians. At best, based upon today�s knowledge, developing reasonable projections of Christian population growth are not plausible beyond the dyad of Christians of Jewish stock and Christians of Gentile stock. Developing these projections, however, has some probative value in considering the matter of the Greco-Roman Gentile Church overtaking and eventually overwhelming Judeo-Christianity.
Of the Jews on the Temple Mount on that first Christian Pentecost in CE 30 there were, according to Luke, "Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs" (Acts 2:9-10 NASB). This diverse group came from all over the Roman empire, except Britain, and beyond.
Above, Visitors at the Temple Mount on Pentecost CE 30, lists the various peoples in attendance at the Temple Mount at Pentecost CE 30 as reported in Acts 2. As Christianity spread, furthered by some of these visitors taking the Judeo-Christian message back to their homelands, it moved first through settlements of Jews throughout the Diaspora.F1
In CE 30 there were perhaps as many as 8 million Jews worldwide with at least 6 million living within the Roman empire. Significant Jewish centers in the Diaspora existed all over the Roman world and east as far as India and south into Ethiopia. The first-century CE Jewish population of the Roman empire, as understood by Martin Gilbert, was over 6 million, of whom 1 million lived in Egypt, mostly in Alexandria (Gilbert 1992:12; see also Johnson 1976:11).
While exact figures do not exist, Paul Johnson suggests that Diasporan Jews outnumbered the settled Jews of Palestine by perhaps 4.5 million to 1 million (Johnson 1976:12). Meeks holds that in the first century some 5 to 6 million Jews lived in the Diaspora, that is, more or less permanently outside the Levant, with a substantial Jewish population of about 10 to 15 percent of the total population in virtually every town of any size in the lands of the Mediterranean (Meeks 1983:34). Moreover, if other early Judeo-Christian evangelists followed the pattern of the apostle Paul, by preaching first in the synagogues of the Jews before going to the Gentiles, then the implication is that small Judeo-Christian Churches of God arose all around the Mediterranean. Wherever a Jewish settlement existed one should expect to find a Judeo-Christian presence as well.
F1This appears to be the origin of the congregations in Italy referred to in the apostle Paul's CE 56 epistle to the Romans and references to his trip to Rome ca. CE 60.
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The people. The clients. The nature of the challenges.
Most of all though, it's the people. Most people go into management consulting with the intention of moving onto different industries / sectors, and the network of exceptional people you build is the most valuable part of the job.
Lower compensation relative to peer companies, and a lack of focus on this as the most critical issue facing the firm. If top consulting compensation is your goal, Monitor is probably not the right fit, given its hiring competitiveness relative to firms that pay better.
There is a bit of a "star" mentality for HR at Monitor. While it's good to reward your "stars" more, its the middle and middle-top that does the bulk of the good work Monitor is known for.
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Monitor Group needs to focus on profitability, and distributing those profits as compensation to retain and recruit top people. The firm sometimes has trouble focusing on economic/commercial success vs. other goals (e.g., breadth of clients, new client acquisition, "sexy" new ideas, etc.).
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I worked at Monitor Group full-time (More than a year)
Exposure to challenging, intellectually stimulating work
While the firm is not diverse in absolute numerical terms, it's extremely accommodating of diversity (e.g., LGBT, ethnicity)
Quirkier and more cerebral than most
Poor work/life balance
Unstable portfolio of clients
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- People are incredibly smart, supportive, and down to earth
- Flexible career paths allow you to take on new responsibilities/roles when you are ready for them and offer good opportunities for career advancement
- Effective performance evaluation system helped you understand your progress and identify opportunities for further growth & development
- Strong emphasis on upward and downward feedback throughout the firm
- Interesting variety of cases and clients
- Communications from management not always clear
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Wonderful, quirky, brilliant and passionate people who care deeply about each other and their work.
Most cases require limited time at the client.
Poor work/life balance; high variability in management competencies across regions.
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The incentive system needs to be restructured at the sales level to ensure that cases are scoped properly (e.g, that CTLs have the support they need, that junior consultants aren't overburdened and burnt out). Allocations needs to be incentivized to take the initiative in ensuring good, well-rounded experiences for consultants, as otherwise the tendency is for the more amicable / less assertive consultants (often the better workers) to consistently receive worse allocations, eventually burning them out faster.
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*Great opportunity to see many elements of business, if you're doing well and working hard you can attempt most anything you inquire about
*Highly interesting and engaging work, lots of opportunities for high level interaction with clients and partners once you've established yourself on a couple cases
*The informal networks are very strong, and very powerful if you're willing to establish them
*The company has a very unpolitical and merit based feel at the lower ranks
*The PD adviser system in place is usually very helpful in dealing with questions and comments
*Most of the people are very hard working, empathetic, self effacing, and love to have fun. This leads to a great culture at the lower levels and a lot of fun can be had at company outings
*Interviewing process is amazing, and very different. It puts candidates in very realistic situations and is a good indication of what work is like as a consultant
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*The great diplomacy skills preached and practiced within the company sometimes go too far. The intent behind nearly all messages is obscured, and only the bare minimum of information is passed down from above concerning the firm
*Human asset decisions can feel very random because of the lack of communication from above
*Confidentiality policies have run amok. They have gone beyond protecting clients and have started to cut into productivity within the company
*Benefits staff (one person for the whole company) is heavily strained, forcing people to deal with an ineffective third party benefits group
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It would appear a spot more autumnal rain is due in The Canary Islands today. The Spanish State Meteorological Agency AEMET have warned of rain from Tuesday afternoon on the islands that could be heavy at times in some localisties with snow expected to fall on Tenerife's mount Teide. Temperatures are set to drop with predominantly north westerly winds.
Check out the latest forecast and satellite imagery for Gran Canaria and The Canary Islands on our Weather page (TheCanarynews.com/Weather)
Minimum temperatures are expected to reach 22ºC in Las Palmas and 21º in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with maximums of 26º and 29º, respectively.
At sea north winds of force 3 are expected to dominated veering to northwesterly force 4 with areas of swell to the north and waves of 1-2 meters.
Over the next few days, AEMET expect cloudy skies with a chance of weak showers, mainly on the north of the islands, temperatures will remain as today perhaps dropping slightly with weak northerly winds.
Gran Canaria is predicted to see cloudy spells today and a fair chance of precipitation generally weak and in the north, and possibly in the south by the afternoon. Temperatures will drop, most significantly in the midlands and highlands, with coastal temperatures ranging between 20º and 28ºC.
Loose winds from the north; expected to be more intense on the east and west coasts, ranging between 20 and 35 km / h; on the summits, gradually turning northwest to loose.
Minimum and Maximum TEMPERATURE FORECAST:
Las Palmas 22º – 26º
Maspalomas 15º – 24º
Puerto Rico 20º – 28º


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You know when you want to act like you're strong and act like you don't need any help?
For example: You are about to carry that HUGE BOX up the stairs...without help! In your mind, you are thinking, "I don't know. I don't want to ask for help though. It'll make me seem kind of weak," but out loud, you seem to be screaming that you can do it! You've got 'guns'... lol
In Exodus 18, it seems like it...Moses sat down to judge the people. He was doing it by himself when his father in law, Jethro, came up to him and said that he could not do this alone. He would get burnt out. He wouldn't have enough time and energy to talk and solve all the problems these people had. SURELY he couldn't do it on his own!
(Exodus 18)
"(14)And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said What [is] this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?"
Why does he do it??
Moses answered saying, "(15)...Because the people come unto me to enquire of God, (16)When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make [them] know the statutes of God, and his laws."
What does Jethro have to say about it??
"(17)...The thing that thou doest [is] not good. (18)Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that [is] with thee: for this thing [is] too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone."
It is NOT GOOD...
"(19)Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: (20)And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. (21) Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over them, [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: (22)And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, [that] every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear [the burden] with thee."
Moses' father in law told him to GET HELP!!!
Wait!! WHAT!?! He told MOSES!? The one who led the people out of Egypt!?
Yes, him...
Don't you think that if Moses couldn't do it by himself, that we can't do it by ourselves either? We can't bear these huge loads upon us without help. No matter how strong you think you are, there will always come a time when you need help...either physically lifting THAT box or spiritually bearing a burden.
Ask for help. Don't try to ACT tough...sooner or later, you are going to be burnt out because of your foolishness :p
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The Road to Acceptance
May 26, 2016
Filed under National Opinion, Opinion
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) issues have been dominating our cultural landscape for the past couple of months with stories of the Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage and the string of stories that we all know too well of discrimination and violence against the queer community. North Carolina and Mississippi are even suing the Justice Department over their controversial anti-LGBTQ laws. Seeing these major problems affecting the country as a whole I decided to see how LGBTQ students felt at school and how we can do better to make them feel more comfortable in their day to day.
From diving into the topic, most of the feedback I received revealed that there was no real outward push back of queer students, but that discrimination was more covert or unaware. On speaking with the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) the main problem seems to be that lack of acceptance of the problems themselves; students will often understand and acknowledge the existence of queer students but may continue to engage in behavior that is still considered offensive. One of the largest sources of contention comes from the over casual use of the word "faggot." It seems to go unnoticed by the school although the word is widely used among students. This is evident of a larger problem that the GSA has in that the school does not have an outright stance on hate speech towards members of the LGBTQ community. Although not all uses of the word are directed at queer students, the casual use of the word gives a general idea to the lack of knowledge or lack of caring on the part straight cis gendered students.
Lack of information is another problem that the GSA is a contributor to the casual homophobia that occurs within the school. Some students are just not aware that what they might be saying could be seen as offensive. Offering some kind of general knowledge such as a pamphlet in a first day packet can go a long way in bettering the situation within the school.
One of the largest undertakings of the GSA this year was securing a gender-neutral bathroom. This was a large step forward for allowing students who do not align with the traditionally gendered bathrooms a place to use the restroom. However, the GSA is having a hard time letting queer and transgender students know about the bathroom as they have not been allowed to air a promo letting students know it exists. According to the GSA, the school administration is concerned that the bathroom can be a target for violence and thus wants to keep it under the radar. While that is a problem that could arise, that idea doesn't sit well with me; if students know about the bathroom then it just opens up the door for queer and transgender students to find a place that makes them more comfortable. If violence does occur then deal the students responsible instead of restricting a place that is greatly needed by members of the school.
In my mind, for Yorktown to really better their stance on LGBTQ students they should take an official stance on the problems that students face and publically implement information and policies to make their situation at the school better. Simply allowing the GSA to talk to faculty at a meeting for a couple minutes is not enough to get across the information needed. Understanding and learning pronouns and finding a way to not always constrict the standard gender binary are both things that are imperative for teachers to understand so they don't they leave out a section of the student body. Establishing a concrete knowledge of the LGBTQ community is a much needed step for the betterment of public education and inclusion of a population of students who have been left to the wayside for far too long.
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It is a bit of surprise the National Football League scheduled it in the middle of the season instead of making it a week one game.
The Jets will not open at home this year, as they did in 2016 and in the six seasons before that.
On Oct. 2, the Chiefs host the Washington Redskins on Monday Night Football, the first of two Monday Night contests.
Cancel all your plans Thursday night.
Super Bowls Redux - The Jets will meet last season's Super Bowl LI participants at home in a three-week span. Carr is expected to make a full recovery in time for training camp, and with him the Raiders are probably the best team in the AFC West.
The league announced the details for global games way back in December, so none of these will be a surprise when the schedule is officially released.
The Patriots will play at Denver the week before the Mexico City trip, so Bill Belichick may be tempted to take the entire operation on a high-altitude road trip to prepare for playing two games in a row at altitude. The Falcons ran away with a blowout victory in last season's NFC championship game.
The Browns, on the other hand, are scheduled to kick off all but one of their games at 1 p.m. ET or earlier.
If the pattern holds true, expect Thursday night games to mean something right off the bat. A mini-bye to start the season, in the middle of the season and the real bye. Teams would prefer to have a bye later in the season like this. And in the middle, there's a game featuring the Los Angeles Chargers, who went 5-11 a year ago, and the Cowboys, who went 13-3. The bye came in Week 5 previous year. Three of those come in October versus the Texans, the Raiders and the Broncos. This in addition to their annual inner-division games against the Patriots, Dolphins and Bills.


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The Associahedra and Permutohedra Yet Again
Lectures on Affine, Hyperbolic and Quantum Algebras
The publication of an article on "the amplituhedron" in Quanta Magazine, a journal put out by the Simons Foundation, apparently marks the entry of twistor polytopes into the media pantheon of theoretical physics concepts. The article is being discussed in popular Internet forums, and the amplituhedron already has its own Wikipedia page too.
So spare a thought for Marni Sheppeard, who truly suffered for many years, waiting on tables while she did a PhD on twistor polytopes in a country at the very edge of the global physics map, who blogged openly about her ideas and was excoriated as a crackpot for her efforts, who starved herself in order to keep working on physics – and who now has to live with the spectacle of this media celebration, in which already well-paid and well-connected physicists dwelling in the elite institutions of the northern hemisphere are feted for their discoveries, while she remains as unknown and vulnerable as ever, and required to keep enduring whatever grim circumstances she is currently dwelling in.
There are many examples of people who were ahead of their time; who only got belated credit or no credit at all for their work; who anticipated a big discovery, either in a broad way or a highly specific way. The phenomenon comes in many forms. In this instance, here are some of the questions I would like to see answered: What is the relationship between Sheppeard's body of work, and the new twistor physics now in the headlines? Is there anything that the twistor researchers with salaries and academic appointments can learn from the work that Sheppeard has managed to produce? And, is it still possible to get her into a position where she can work properly, make further contributions, and communicate with her peers?
I still do not know how to turn on comments for older posts, but hopefully the comment section for this one is open and working.
For a long time, I wanted to do a post here on Louise Riofrio's cosmology, because it was part of Sheppeard's synthesis, but I felt I couldn't do it justice. It's a varying speed-of-light cosmology, in which there is no dark energy or accelerating expansion; light is just slowing down, because of the mass of the universe, according to the formula "GM=tc3".
But I could never quite grasp the logic whereby the density fractions were being predicted, and that was the big empirical claim to success. I also thought I saw a similarity to the Milne universe, but again, I never quite got it clear in my own head.
Much later I came to understand that the model was empirically problematic, because dark matter and dark energy density fractions evolve with time, so any numerology based on present-day observations is just picking out one moment in the history of the universe. It remains possible that the present-day values are special, e.g. perhaps they are the asymptotic values. One should also bear in mind that for Sheppeard, Riofrio's handful of equations are a classical ansatz to be derived from a theory of quantum gravity.
The Planck satellite has in any case given us new values for the density fractions, that are no longer close to Riofrio's numbers, so it's an open question as to whether Riofrio's ideas are still part of Sheppeard's thinking. However, Sheppeard continues to champion another item of astrophysical numerology, which I believe was co-discovered by her collaborator Graham Dungworth – that the temperature of the cosmic microwave background equals the rest mass of a certain "mirror neutrino", as predicted by a version of Brannen's formula for Koide mass triplets.
This would be even more "problematic" than Riofrio's numbers. The CMB temperature varies with the expansion, but that's not fatal to the idea; quintessence models show that it's possible to have mirror neutrino masses evolving with the size of the universe. The real difficulty lies in explaining the connection between CMB photons and mirror neutrinos at the level of particle physics and cosmic history.
One normally supposes that the CMB photons are simply photons which decoupled from the primordial plasma, once it had thinned out enough for neutral atoms to form, and which, ever since that time, have been travelling without scattering again. Neutrinos, mirror or otherwise, feature nowhere in this story, and yet they ought to, if the posited relationship is supposed to be real. Either the mirror neutrino ought to play a role in photon decoupling, or a completely different origin must be ascribed to the CMB photons, one with room for the mirror neutrinos to play a role. (Or the connection is spurious, which is what I think; but the ideas are still interesting to play with.)
This is a challenging document to assimilate because it mixes unfamiliar mathematics with unfamiliar physics. But here is a rough outline.
Chapters 2 through 5 are spent defining many simple combinatorial objects in the not-so-simple language of category theory. There are numbers, sets, trees, braids, polytopes, and matrices, among other objects.
In chapter 6, we make contact with current applications of twistors to quantum field theory. This is already an area in which combinatorial objects and simple symbolic calculi are playing a role, and Sheppeard wants to interpret the subject using concepts and results introduced in the preceding chapters.
In chapter 7, some of this apparatus is employed to introduce an extended version of Bilson-Thompson's correspondence (of braids and Standard Model particles) and an explanation of Koide formulae in terms of circulant matrices associated with the braids.
So to summarize, chapter 6 is about the frontier of current theory and chapter 7 is about phenomenology, and in both cases there is an attempt to make the categorical combinatorics of chapters 2 through 5 relevant.
Chapters 8 and 9 return to pure math – knots, polytopes, and categorical diagrams.
Chapter 10 is about black holes – the "black hole / qubit correspondence" – and chapter 11 is about cosmology – the dark sector and cosmic time.
New paper! – 168 pages.
We should soon be hearing again, any day|month|year now, from Nima Arkani-Hamed's group, about the new motivic twistorial basis of quantum field theory that they and others are unearthing. While we wait, the reader may wish to puzzle over Sheppeard's thoughts on the matter, as expressed in her thesis and preprint.
Sheppeard brings together a number of correspondences and formal schemes in her attempt to recreate the standard model. Here I will touch on Sundance Bilson-Thompson's braids, Carl Brannen's circulant matrices, and Michael Rios's Jordan algebras of observables for quantum gravity. In a nutshell, the fermions of a single generation are represented by braids, the circulants encode information about the generations, and the Jordan algebras associate the braids with the circulants.
In Bilson-Thompson's braid correspondence, the fermions of a single standard model generation are represented by braidings of three "ribbons". A ribbon may itself contain a twist; the electric charge of a braid containing m twists and n antitwists is (m–n)/3. The correspondence suggests a topological realization of the rishon model; but Bilson-Thompson's correspondence still lacks a counterpart to the Harari-Seiberg hypercolor lagrangian. That is, no-one has put together a well-defined dynamical theory in which the braids interact as they should.
Carl Brannen is working on an algebraic preon model which seeks to explain the Koide mass formula. It turns out that masses satisfying the formula are eigenvalues of a 3×3 circulant matrix. Brannen and Sheppeard have worked on expressing all the standard model mass matrices in terms of circulants.
Finally, Michael Rios has written a series of papers in which he aspires to have M-theory emerge from a matrix model based on the exceptional Jordan algebra. Here he defines the algebra of observables in terms resembling loop quantum gravity; here he claims the result resembles an octonionic twistor string. Loop quantum gravity is the framework within which Bilson-Thompson's correspondence is usually pursued, and it seems that Sheppeard hopes to motivate an association between braids and circulants via something like Rios's constructions.
This effort has been going on since 2005 or so, and features in several of Sheppeard's recent papers.
Sheppeard's latest paper is very ambitious. It is a paper of many firsts. It is the first paper anyone has written that mentions Alejandro Rivero's "new Koide tuple", discovered in November 2011. It is the first paper which addresses and tries to explain Louise Riofrio's observation that the dark energy fraction of the energy density of the universe is about three times the dark matter fraction. It appears to be the first paper extending Sundance Bilson-Thompson's braid scheme for the standard model to the dark sector.
The paper undoubtedly looks strange by ordinary standards. There is no hint of a dynamical framework. Mathematically, it only contains simple algebraic formulas. There are leaps of logic and many peculiar statements. Combined with the general unfamiliarity of Koide tuples, Riofrio cosmology, and even Bilson-Thompson braids (which, despite having been the subject of a New Scientist cover story, are a fringe topic within theoretical physics), I think that most physicists, even if they somehow found themselves reading the paper, would quickly give up and put it aside.
I've had a few weeks to think about it, and for me, the jury is still out. The basic empirical facts – the various Koide relations, now extending to all the standard model fermions; Riofrio's observations – are certainly worth thinking about. There is a 3:1 ratio appearing in both domains (Koide relations, dark sector fractions), and it is not beyond imagining that in both cases it is a manifestation of the 3:1 ratio of colored quark states versus colorless lepton states. It is even conceivable that the specific algebraic relations that Sheppeard proposes (qutrit path counts, sums of 2π/27 phases) are part of the explanation. But it is also very conceivable that they are not.
This blog will serve to record occasional thoughts and observations about the work of the physicist Marni Sheppeard.