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Topic: 9: DESERTS GREEN/MANIFEST
Here is prophecy I personally thought some way to happen:
Book 005, Number 2208:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) as saying: The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him and till the land of Arabia becomes meadows and rivers.
SAHIH MUSLIM, BOOK 25: The Book on General Behaviour (Kitab Al-Adab)
1.DESERTS GREEN? (Allah knows best)
If mankind is on earth during next ice age (signs from it already there, like Golf-stream slowing down 20% in last five years period, some scientist predict that Britain might have climate of Alaska in next 20 years), deserts of Arabs (Sahara+Middle-East) is going to be green, as they were during last ice age when black Africans inhabited even nowadays deserts of Libya. This has been mentioned in prophecy and hadith of prophet Mohammed (puh), as he said that "deserts of Arabs will once again be filled with rivers and gardens". Noticeably here is for example satellite pictures taken from Saudi-Arabian desert, In these pictures anyone can clearly see old river streams going under desert, and from there founded remains of gardens and agricultural activity. So Mohammed knew without proofs that during last ice age area was green, And so it will be during next ice age after change in climate and rainfalls. But this prophecy does not exclude possibility that humans themselves could make them green, as their actions would anyway be originated from Allah, and it could happen this way:
In Sahara there is these huge "pools", higher ground surrounded lower areas which are these huge "pools" on desert, that some has even big areas under sea-level in bottom of these "pools". These pools mostly are located very near coast-line, and with pumps and pipes of few hundred kilometers these "pools" could be filled with sea-water, until vaporizing (increasing while wideness of "pools" would expand) would match water flowing in, when surface of "pools" would stop rising and around them would be coming huge oasis?s (as sand filters salt from sea-water, when few meters from coast of these "pools" would be easy to get fresh water with dwells and pumps), and these oasis?s could reach kilometers inland as water travels far away in sand. For agricultural activities and inhabitation there would be huge areas to be used, these "pools" would be biggest lakes in the world.
But real meaning of these pools would be elsewhere, because vaporizing from those would be huge in world?s warmest areas with most heat radiation from sun (without clouds). Water-steam would for clouds filled with water, that would be going with major winds to south and east (for example as turned by coriolis-force) into mountains middle of Sahara and mountains west in Arabian peninsula, forming rains at least finally there. It would form rivers and lakes into area, from which there is obvious signs around mountains in middle of Sahara from past times (from last ice age, when Sahara was inhabited by black Africans).
Reason why these "pools" would change situation so radically is that air-masses rise to upper layers of atmosphere from equator, until arriving to north and coming down at 30'-line east-west (at coast of Libya/Egypt), and go from there as winds we notice to south and north, leaving winds going south without moisture from Mediterranean Sea, as winds going to north (Europe) will have all of it. So only way to get moisture to Sahara is to move water-masses from Mediterranean Sea to these "pools" under this 30'-line to vaporize (Mediterranean Sea will have water more through Gibraltar straits from Atlantic).
Only bad side this could have would be destruction of unhabited waste-land desert, when besides worthless deserts there would be lots of land suitable for agricultural and living use, providing living for millions of unemployment workers and people without land (believe me, deserts will be green as long as they get enough water, seeds for plants have come there by wind, in nature-document water was poured in top of dune and green plant rose from it, dying without water until it got more water and got back to life). Here would be huge opportunities for profits, buy worthless desert and change it for agricultural use, even possibly oil could be trilled from bottom of these pools and transported to coast by ships (cheaper than by trucks) or by underwater-pipes (no danger of sabotage). Also water pumping from under Libyan desert would get more fresh water below desert sand from these pools. These ideas can be expanded by even redirecting rivers just before it will end into oceans, so that fresh water of it will not be ?wasted? but used to water deserts. Examples from this kind of possibility is end of Euphrates and Tigris, that could go through Kuwait and eastern Saudi-Arabia by channel to south on low lands. Another example could be rivers of Siberia turned to water Central-Asia instead of flowing to north, as global warming is reducing risk that Ice-Sea could be frozen without these rivers flowing into it.
2.ISLAMIC MANIFEST? (Allah knows best)
How would sound like successful society without need and poverty with prospering corporations and business, where one could get rich also by normal work? This is what prophecy of Mohammed told us above. I thought about ideal society, and realized where it could be done first: In Saudi-Arabia. Basics is oil, (In Saudi-Arabia about 80% of worlds oil reserves), so that system can be made running. Saudi-Arabia was able to offer each of its citizens "citizen?s salary" even at 1990's, that was back then around 330 euro per citizen. Now oil prices have gone five or six times higher from that, so why not pursue for more?
What if government would pay for corporations and business-makers all products and services bought by citizens (in certain limits of reason perhaps in the beginning, maybe favoring domestic companies)? So every citizen would get basic living standards (basic commodities like food, clothes, medicine, education health care, etc..) completely free of charge, and car and apartment with certain limits from which more expensive part they should pay with money coming from their own work/business/investments/savings (for example apartments 1/citizen, car each 10 years, and if you want to buy more or more expensive going beyond limits agreed, then you need to make your own money for it or sell old ones in exchange).
This kind of explosive increase in spending (when nobody would need to think in shops what they can afford, just what they want and need) would get companies, employment and economics to prosper, and so on as people would not need to use even their smallest incomes into basic living, they would have change to invest by them selves (into foreign countries/domestically) or to found (even small bazaar) business that they could larger with even more investments and risks, as there would not be risk from total collapse of living standards even in case of bankruptcy (that would be unlikely due to higher domestic spending). There would neither be any "traps" preventing from taking jobs with lower salary, as all one could earn would be only plus (when staying only on social security could achieve only certain level of living without hope for better, but almost all people are so greed that they always want more). This way working would come REAL way to wealth and even for getting rich if salary is invested right. Founding business would be easy as government would pay expenses in the beginning.
Of course this system could be risked by some efforts to take use of this system, like that (foreign) companies would try to sell too expensively with rip-off prices increasing inflation (to regulate prices government could found own government businesses into all areas of economics, with 50% of shares distributed evenly to all citizens, and took government payment-guarantee from companies trying to exploit system, then ordinary people should favor state-companies getting some money back instead of government losing it, and they too through government/government-companies shares loosing, and favor other their favorite companies so that those selling with too high prices would be forced to lower their prices and not to lose governments payment-guarantee, when customers would have to pay from their favorite commodities/services from their own money, salary), until this system would expand even further to other countries (first to other oil-countries like Iraq and Libya). From these countries wealth and investments would spread by through totally welcomed workers from other countries (with their families), who would be given from (at least for quite regular) working same benefits, when they again could invest their money further (into own countries for example), increasing wealth there too.
Soon situation could be that state and people would have got so rich even only from their investments in shares and owning in foreign companies/lands, that state would make so much profit they would not have to stop system even when oil runs out, and so positive circle of investments and increased spending would go on. This system would work in political multiparty-system, where people would monitor state actions in putting recommended reasonable prices and policies in running people-owned business (if state would try to make prices too low, income from shares for people would suffer, and their other own/favorite privately owned businesses might end).
As a sign from "Judgment Day" is given also (in hadiths) that sun goes from west to east (and said that after that "no repentance will be accepted", from those who die in chosen state of non-Muslim or after abandoning Islam [twice], except "people without knowledge" who will not be punished from their sins according to Islam, mentioned for example in 16:25, 9:6 and also indirectly in 2.120 "...Wert thou to follow their desires after the knowledge which hath reached thee, then wouldst thou find neither Protector nor helper against Allah."), and that is exactly what it does in the north summer time as "midnight sun", when it does not even set on all days but can be seen over north pole on opposite side of earth whole night, going from west to east. Muslims have reached this north only recently (I, as local-born Finnish male accepting Islam from Rovaniemi, first known case in mosque, in 2003), and we have to remember that Koran and hadiths have been written and given for Muslims, so this is a new "sign" for Muslims (sign is sign only after somebody who it has been meant will see and understands it). Maybe new period of more demanding in people living north has began, as knowledge has reached also us. If it is a sign, it can also mean time when there is Muslim-dominant nation in the north (of midnight sun), perhaps in Siberia after oil runs out/comes obsolete and Russia has no use for this area, if they care to make a deal.
And when Koran says that on "Judgment Day" (different than "Judgment"? Same as "Hour"? Does Judgment come at some point of that "Day"? Length of that "Day"? Is Earth destroyed before universe on that "Day"?) Islam will be "only religion accepted", does it mean on the judgment or after some time limit (after beginning of "Judgment Day"-period, that could be period of prophet Jesus coming back and more challenging future for humans after his death, when Koran has been made easy to understand and accept after progress in science and information)? It means anyway (according to 3:85) that to be punished you have to "desire/seek other religion than Islam", meaning that you had opportunity to receive Islam (and compare its message for example founding?s on modern science, and found it proven as truth) but you did not, as Allah says in Koran that He will punish only those who have been given Islam but then refused it. Allah does not punish without warning, and that is why Allah says in Koran (Sura number 2) that "good People of the Book" (f.ex. Jews and Christians) will be saved (+in Islam also "people without knowledge"), because before 20th century opportunities even to read Koran translated into own language (if even knew how to read) were few. But now might be time when Jews and Christians should at least accept Islam, now when in 20th century lived more people than on all earlier centuries put together (in 21st century even quicker), Allah still would have spoken true if He meant by punishing non-believers (democratically) majority of them.
In Islam is prophecy that "light of Islam" will penetrate every land (/country) before Judgment. In Asia Islam has entered every country, even (communist North-) Korea has had numerous Korean Muslims as refugees in (northern) China for centuries. It has now done it also outside Asia and Africa (where refugees spread Islam), and through internet. Latin Americans have had prosperous Islamic history of Andalusia for hundreds of years in Spain, and Portugal, and after expulsion of Muslims (at same time when America were founded) there were small part of Muslims from slaves brought to America, and after that Iberians had to choose religion of the slaves to find Truth (in Cuba Muslims are even now prisoners in Guantamo-base of USA, that has been part of Cuba). In Latin America there is also possibility that Muslims found it first, as there has been found old Arabic writing (for example "Allah") from Brasilia, and signs in what Christians did to Indians in whole continent. Big sign for them is also that Catholism with its praying for saints is also closer to Hinduism than monotheism, Hindus just did not conquer another continents.
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HOUSTON – Ricardo Clark put his full game on display Saturday night.
The Houston Dynamo midfielder was all over the place in the club's 2-0 win over D.C. United. That itself is not unusual, but what was more noticeable was the time the midfielder spent up the field.
Clark, traditionally a defensive-minded midfielder, was not shy with his runs forward, getting into the attack whenever possible and creating chances for the Dynamo when they needed them most. The result was him putting his stamp on a game that he helped pull out in the final 10 minutes.
"That's just him. He's all about energy and covering ground," Houston head coach Dominic Kinnear said. "I think in the first half he was going forward a little bit too early and caught that one run but was the run you want from him. To see the amount of work he puts in, he probably covers more ground than anybody out there and it's on a daily basis."
READ: Recap: Houston Dynamo 2, D.C. United 0
If you are looking for tangible evidence of Clark's impact, just cue the highlight reel. Clark was the box-to-box midfielder that many have said the Dynamo will need this year, making runs linking with forwards Giles Barnes and Will Bruin and making regular runs past the D.C. defense, including the run that drew the foul for a first-half penalty kick.
He also played a pivotal role on Houston's fortuitous winner. Clark was the player D.C. defender James Riley was tracking when he headed an own goal on an 80th-minute corner kick.
The Dynamo veteran blasted home a strong finish nine minutes later to seal the victory.
CHALKBOARD: Ricardo Clark covers acres of ground for the Orange
"I was trying to get my body in the way and create as much havoc as possible," Clark said of Riley's own goal. "I think I had a case for a foul, but to be honest I don't think the refs going to call a foul in that instance. I don't think he's going to give a PK away. I was just happy to see the ball hit the back of the net."
Clark's play was an example of the energy that went into a physical match that Kinnear aptly termed a "man's game." It may also be a look at the type of attacking contribution he can deliver in the coming season.
"We kind of worked on it. At some points I thought he was too high, but that was ironic because he ended up scoring the goals," centerback Bobby Boswell said. "He's a workhorse, he's a beast."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.


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A shocker of a jobs report has increased the odds of a cut in the official cash rate, economists say, but it's still not a sure thing.
The unemployment rate jumped half a percentage point to 7.3 per cent in the September quarter, a 13-year high.
Drill down and the numbers stay bad: The jump in the unemployment rate was not the result of a lot more people suddenly looking for work, the labour force participation rate was unchanged.
Full-time employment dropped even more than employment overall - by 13,000 and 8000 respectively.
Outside of Canterbury, employment fell by 20,000 or 1 per cent and the unemployment rate jumped from 6.8 per cent in June to 7.6 per cent.
Over the year ended September the number of unemployed people rose 19,000 or 12.5 per cent and more than half of the increase (10,000) was among the long-term unemployed - those who say they have being looking for work for more than a year.
The unemployment rate was much worse than the 6.7 per cent the market consensus and the Reserve Bank expected.
The New Zealand dollar immediately dropped 0.8c against the US dollar and wholesale interest rates fell four to five basis points across the curve.
ANZ economist Mark Smith said the markets were pricing an 80 per cent chance of a cut in the OCR by June next year, up from 60 per cent before the release.
"Were it not for the Christchurch rebuild, we would be calling 50 points of cuts," Smith said.
"But the rebuild effort is set to put huge strain on the economy, and the Reserve Bank will require more information on the implications for the pricing side of the economy before they are willing to cut."
Economists' eyebrows were raised by the drop in construction sector employment recorded in the quarter - down 4700 nationwide and 400 even in Canterbury.
That is at odds with other indicators, like building consents and cement production, pointing to a pickup in building activity.
Statistics NZ has warned that the household labour force survey (HLFS), which only surveys people in established households and not temporary accommodation, might not pick up much of the increase in construction work in Christchurch.
Economists pointed to inconsistencies between the HLFS, a survey of households, and Tuesday's quarterly employment survey (QES), which surveys firms. The HLFS recorded a 4 per cent drop in construction employment over the past year; the QES a 6.2 per cent increase.
Bank of New Zealand economist Doug Steel was surprised by the weakness of the Auckland numbers, with employment down 2 per cent on a year ago and the unemployment rate jumping to 8.6 per cent from 7.3 per cent in June.
"That is difficult to reconcile with what is occurring in the housing market. Can the power of low interest rates be that strong? Another reason to be a bit careful on moving them even lower," Steel said.
Westpac economist Felix Delbruck said the HLFS had a history of offering wild, false signals.
"Other labour market data we follow - Tuesday's quarterly employment survey, Westpac McDermott Miller employment confidence [a survey of households], businesses' employment intentions - are saying that things are weak, but not quite this weak," he said.
While it was clear the Reserve Bank would not consider raising the OCR any time soon, and there was a risk of an OCR cut, Delbruck said, it was more likely the OCR would remain firmly on hold.


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The Four Stages of Getting to Know Your In-Laws
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The Four Stages of Getting to Know Your In-Laws
You can't walk before you crawl. In the same way, you have to pass through four stages on your way to developing a satisfying relationship with your in-laws. The four stages are:
|1. Greeting
|Saying "Howdy" to the new in-laws
|2. Meeting
|Figuring out how things are done
|3. Seating
|Becoming part of the family
|4. Completing
|Feeling that you really belong to the family
Even though each stage in getting to know your in-laws brings its own special challenges, there's no reason for stage fright. After all, you have plenty of time to settle in. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither is your relationship with your in-laws. Let's take a look at each stage more closely.
Greeting: Putting on a Happy Face
Family Matters
Most in-laws want the process to work as much as you do, because they do want their precious baby to be happy. At the beginning, assume the best of your in-laws; you're more likely to be pleasantly surprised.
Don't Go There
Under normal circumstances, the Greeting stage takes place before marriage. In some rare situations, however, you may not meet your future in-laws until after the wedding. In these instances, the Greeting and Meeting stages can get compressed, putting extra strain on everyone.
Family Matters
If something they do upsets you, address it as soon as possible. They'll be more likely to stay calm and listen.
Stage #1: Introductions. This stage begins with the First Encounter, when your honey takes you to meet his or her folks. Depending on the number of siblings involved, this stage can stretch on longer than a tax audit. Here are occasions where you're likely to undergo the greeting ritual:
Informal family functions
Formal family functions
Business functions involving family members
How can you make this stage go more smoothly? Start by recognizing that there will be differences in viewpoints and culture between you and your in-laws. Unless these differences are abusive, keep an open mind. And remember: Because you love your honey, there are bound to be some aspects of your in-laws that you can respect and admire as well. After all, they did raise your beloved, so how bad could they be?
Second, recognize that first impressions can be misleading, especially when so much is at stake. What you perceive as phoniness might just be nervousness; ditto for what you take to be standoffishness.
You can make the Greeting stage easier by doing things together that you all find mutually enjoyable, such as dining out, playing sports, or dancing. Get to know your in-laws as people, and give them a chance to get to know you.
Here are tips and tricks for getting along with your in-laws.


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It is always my goal to give the perfect present even if it's just a little gift. That's why I'm forever buying my best friend Lucy's husband, Chet, these bizarre pickles you can only get at the gas station.
It's also why I keep a constant running list on my phone of potential gifts. If you mention wanting something around me -- something big or something little -- chances are that I am jotting it down.
(And if you're my sister, Meg, chances are that you're running out to buy it for yourself before I can buy it for you. She burns me on that. Regularly.)
If I don't have any ideas, I'm in a constant state of anxiety as I am brainstorming your gift. The anxiety lifts the moment that I finally come up with a winning idea.
A gift card, unless it's for something really specialized like to a favorite restaurant or somewhere you've mentioned always wanting to try, is not going to cut it.
|Not Anna's baby.
Anther exception to my gift card rule: the gift certificate for baby photos that we got for my cousin Anna and her husband. I am so excited to give it to them at her shower on Saturday. Nearly as excited as I am to meet their daughter!
Currently, I'm mulling over my mom's birthday present. I have until the end of August and I have a few good ideas but nothing that I'm really passionate about and can also afford. But I have plenty of time.
I have also recently tucked away two amazing ideas for gifts based on presents I've received lately.
Lucy sent me a Julep Maven box completely out of the blue as a thank you for watching her dog while she was on vacation with her family. It was something that I would never buy for myself but that I totally love. All that nail polish and some extra products, too! Plus it's packaged adorably. I am totally going to send this to one of my nail polish loving cousins for her birthday.
I was also recently gifted a Starbucks Pour‑Over Iced Coffee Brewer. LOVE IT. So would the coffee lover in your life. It's not a huge kitchen appliance or at all pricey and, yes, you can totally make iced coffee without it but it's still quite handy. My cousin Emma used it when she last visited and she was totally enthralled, so she might need to have one in her life, too. Like, say, maybe come October when she has a birthday.
Have you given or received any good gifts lately? Please share! I can always use more on my list of ideas.


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Three college friends of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that they helped cover his tracks when the FBI was trying to find the people responsible for the April 15 attack.
All three are charged with going to Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the bombing and removing a laptop and a backpack containing empty fireworks shells after receiving a text message from him telling them to "go to my room and take what's there," according to court papers.
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both 19-year-old exchange students from Kazakhstan, pleaded not guilty to the charge of obstruction of justice and could face 25 years in prison or deportation.
Kadyrbayev's lawyer, Robert Stahl, said after the hearing that his client did not understand what Tsarnaev had done.
"There was no criminal intent to obstruct justice, to assist Dzhokhar in any way," Stahl told reporters.
Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, pleaded not guilty to charges of lying to investigators and could face up to 16 years in prison. Lawyers and supporters of Phillipos ushered him out of the courthouse and into a sports utility vehicle.
His lawyers said in a statement that Phillipos "had nothing to do whatsoever with the Boston Marathon bombing or destroying any evidence afterwards … in the end, it will be clear that this prosecution should never have been brought in the first place."
None of the men is charged with involvement in the bombing.
Prosecutors said that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, now 20, and his older brother, Tamerlan, killed three people and injured 264 others with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the crowded finish line of the marathon on April 15.
Federal prosecutors said they planned to present about 20 witnesses in a trial they estimated would take two weeks.
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, who are being held in federal custody, were brought separately into the courtroom in shackles, wearing orange prison jumpsuits. Phillipos, who is under house arrest, was dressed in a suit and tie for his court appearance.
Tazhayakov's lawyer, Nicholas Woolridge, said after the hearing that his client was being unfairly targeted because of the severity of the attack.
"You mention the word 'terrorism,' everybody gets scared, everybody is ready to burn somebody at the stake," Woolridge said. "That's basically what's happening here."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was found hiding in a boat days after the blasts, left a handwritten message describing the attack as retribution for U.S. wars in Muslim countries, according to court documents.
The Tsarnaev brothers' ethnic homeland of Chechnya, a mainly Muslim province that saw centuries of war and repression, has become a breeding ground for a form of militant Islam and may have inspired the radicalization of the Tsarnaev brothers.
Kadyrbayev's lawyer, Stahl, said his client had not known Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to hold radical views and "had no way to know that he would be involved in something like this."
On April 18 the FBI released pictures of the duo, then known only as suspects 1 and 2, standing near the finish line and asked the public for help in identifying them.
That night, after communicating with the younger Tsarnaev via text message, the three college friends entered Tsarnaev's room and removed evidence, prosecutors said. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov later threw out the backpack, while Phillipos lied about his involvement, prosecutors said.
Later that night, the Tsarnaev brothers went on to shoot and kill a university police officer, prosecutors charge, before engaging in a gun battle with police in Watertown, Massachusetts, that ended when Dzhokhar fled, running over his 26-year-old brother in the process.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died of his injuries, while Dzhokhar evaded arrest for most of a day, leading to a lockdown of much of the greater Boston area. Dzhokhar, badly wounded, was found hiding in a boat in a backyard the evening of April 19.
Source : Reuters


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Dr. Pyro wrote:I want to thank everyone who was at the work party this weekend in Placerville. There was indeed a small army there, probably 20 or more Barbiebarians. Everyone got a chance to meet Minxy which was nice indeed. Cap'n Joe's humongous art vehicle is taking shape, we have the Barbie foosball table not only painted pink but all of the foosmen have been replaced by Barbies. We are in need of at least one new sofa as we emptied out the silver trailer and found one, perhaps two, in an advanced state of blight. Also the shower absolutely positively needs to be replaced. We have 10 people with 10 different ideas and sometime soon we'll need to come to a consensus. One thing is for certain: We will have a terrific shower that runs electrically so you can actually get clean. We even supply the loufas; you need to supply your shower partner. We were well fed, well "watered" (who knew mojitos were so damn addicitive?), and the camaraderie shows me that we will again be the best damn theme camp on the playa. Thank you everyone, you should be proud.
Hey, I'm available as a stand-in shower partner. Never shower alone.. it's a waste of valuable water!!


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The long-awaited official reveal of Warhawk sequel Starhawk brought with it just as many questions as it did answers. For instance, where are those outer space battles we've been hoping for? Oh, they're in there!
Dylan Jobe, president of Starhawk dev Lightbox Interactive, takes to the official PlayStation blog to answer the most burning of Starhawk questions. And it's all good news for the Warhawk fan looking for more out of the PlayStation 3 follow-up.
"The outer space environment set that the art team here at LightBox Interactive has put together is really awesome," Jobe explains. "Super fun to play on and looks great. Some of the elements are still being worked on and we don't want to show it untill we're 100% happy with it."
Starhawk is definitely "not just about terrain battles," Jobe adds. The Starhawk lead also shines a light on other aspects of the game, like matchmaking and server list browsing (It'll have both), flight modes (A revamped "arcade mode" and "pro mode" are options) and much, much more.
Your Starhawk Questions Answered [PlayStation.blog]


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It's global warming, stupid. And how. In an extensive study published in today's issue of Science, researchers report that today's global temperatures are warmer than any point in at least the last 4,000 years, and show no signs of declining: analyses of weather patterns since the end of the last Ice Age presage that the coming century will see Earth's average surface temperatures soar to intensities greater than any point in human history.
The study, led by Oregon State University paleoclimatologist Shaun Marcott, provides us with the most detailed climate reconstruction ever produced for the last 11,300 years, and accounts for all but a sliver of the modern geological era. That era, called the Holocene, kicked off roughly 12,000 years ago, and has been witness to a host of monumental global changes, including the rise of human civilization around 8,000 years ago. Point being: this reconstruction is absolutely unprecedented in scope. Previous studies have rarely examined beyond the last 2,000 years of Earth's climatic history. Marcott and his colleagues have pushed back our knowledge of global climate by thousands and thousands of years.
Climate data can be derived from many sources — ice cores, cave formations, coral reefs, even the shells of marine organisms — but all of them carry chemical and physical signatures that provide researchers with a reliable record of the planet's past climate. Marcott and his team worked by combining climate record data from around the globe into one vast stockpile of information. The patterns that emerged were extremely telling of a modern spike in global temperatures.
Worldwide temperatures are higher today than at any point in the last 4,000 years, and warmer than about three quarters of anything we've seen in the last 11,000. The study reports that, on the heels of the last Ice Age, global temperatures rose gradually until around the middle of the Holocene, at which point a cooling trend (also gradual) dominated the planet for roughly five millenia. But that all ended around two-hundred years ago. Ever since, temperatures have risen. Steadily at first, then rapidly over the course of the last century or so.
Climate scientists have been communicating the last century's global temperature spike with variations of the so-called "hockey stick" graph for around a decade now (imagine a line graph, fluctuating gradually over the course of many years, only to rise sharply in the shape of a hockey stick's blade — see below). The results of Marcott's team corroborate the shape of the hockey stick, while placing it in a much more extensive historical context. In doing so, they've demonstrated that the warming we're curently experiencing is, in fact, unique — and over an even longer period that previously believed. [Below: Comparison of several different methods and reconstructions of global and hemispheric temperature anomalies, via Marcott et al.. Notice a pattern? Spoiler: it's the vertical spike at the right hand side of each graph.]
That context demonstrates two things pretty unambiguously. One: it shows that there are, in fact, points in the Holocene when humans endured temperatures warmer than they are today; taking the flipside of the 75% statistic cited earlier, roughly 25% of the last 11,300 years (all of them earlier than 4,000 years ago) have been warmer than they are today.
Two: By the end of the century, that will no longer be the case. If the planet continues to warm in the fashion that Marcott's team's data suggests, surface temperatures will almost certainly surpass any and all record-highs from the last 11,300 years. "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change model projections for 2100 exceed the full distribution of Holocene temperature under all plausible greenhouse gas emission scenarios," write the researchers. Translation: even if our planet's temperature increases wind up being on the low end of estimates, Marcott and his colleagues say the planet will be at least as warm as the Holocene's absolute toastiest periods. (In an interview with the NYT, climate expert Michael E. Mann, who was not involved in the research, said Marcott's team "made conservative data choices in [its] analysis.")
The models presented by Marcott's team suggest that, in the absence of human-induced climate change, the Northern Hemisphere would likely freeze over in a few thousand years. But he and other climatologists believe that humanity's continued impact on global temperatures will almost surely prevent that from happening.
As for the temperature increases projected to occur in the coming centuries, it's important to note that as we approach, and exceed, climate records set all the way back at the beginning of the Holocene, the temperatures themselves are not nearly as problematic as the rate at which we are reaching them — a point aptly summarized by Mann in his interview with the Times:
"We and other living things can adapt to slower changes," he said. "It's the unprecedented speed with which we're changing the climate that is so worrisome."
The researchers' findings are published in today's issue of Science.


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