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Unexplained Disappearances of Submarines After UFO Activity
There are many strange facts surrounding a number of missing submarines like the four submarines lost in 1968; The INS Dakar – Israelo, the USN Scorpion U.S., the S-647 Minery -French and the K-129 – Sovjet.
Joseph was on duty on an Ocean Station patrol on the Coast Guard Cutter Mellon. It was during this patrol that they had a number of unique UFO sightings that included radar and visual verification by a number of witnesses.
Three objects passed over the ship traveling at 3500 mph having approached the ship from the direction of where the sub was lost.
Flying time of note from OSV to that site at that speed recorded and verified was approximately 10 minutes. It is highly possible that the UFO phenomenon, and what could have been a very dangerous “rogue” operation gone array, possibly leading to what could have been one of the most significant event.
Even thought this may only be anecdotal data it may help penetrate the veil of secrecy and mystery surrounding submarines.
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Hi, I'm EmeraldRobinson. In this "What Is" video we're going to take a closer look at ice ages.
In 1840, Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz noticed glaciers--huge rivers of ice created by snowfall--occurred throughout northern Europe. As glaciers move they transport rocks and scour the ground beneath them, leaving evidence of their passing. Agassiz theorized glaciers were the remnants of a huge glacial ice field that once covered much of the continent. Geologic evidence of massive glacial activity also occurs in North America.
Agassiz had discovered evidence of the last ice age, a period of time when glacial ice fields extended across large sections of the planet. Geologists have evidence of three ice ages--more properly called glacial ages. The oldest occurred 275 million years ago. The second, which affected parts of Africa, India and Australia, occurred 275 million years ago.
The last glacial age, and the only one to occur since humans appeared, began 1.5 million years ago, and receded 15,000 years ago. During that time the Laurentide ice field covered all of Canada and extended as far south as Indiana.
Glacial ages have enormous effects on the plant's weather patterns, animals and plant life. Animals that cannot adapt to the colder environments die out. Similarly, animals that adapt to cold environments may not survive the change when glaciers recede.
The Milankovich theory, by astronomer Milutin Milankovich, suggests variations in the earth's orbit account for glacial ages. Instead of orbiting the sun in a constant pattern, the earth "wobbles." Over millions of years this "wobbling" affects global temperatures. As glacial ice fields spread, snow and ice reflect sunlight that would otherwise warm the earth, causing further drops in cold temperatures. Low levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can also contribute to a glacial age.
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We’re living in a brief window of time where our planet isn’t frozen underneath a giant layer of glaciers. How much longer will the moderate climate that we’ve come to know as “normal” continue? What causes these dramatic shifts in temperature that thaw our planet and then throw it back into a state of deep freeze? This episode looks at how the changes in our planet’s orbit and rotation impacts our climate.
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During the last 400,000 years, considerable parts of North America, Europe and Asia were covered by large ice-sheets. At the maximum of the glaciation about 21,000 years before present the sea level was approximately 120 m (394 ft) lower than today due to the large quantities of water locked in the ice-sheets, and surface temperatures in many regions of the Earth were significantly colder. The animation shows the extent of the continental ice-sheets and of sea-ice as well as the distribution of land and ocean that is altered by changes in sea-level.
A truly satisfactory explanation of the dynamics of glacial cycles remains elusive to this day. Even though there is compelling evidence that changes in the strength and distribution of solar insolation caused by variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun are mainly responsible for the build-up and melting of ice-sheets. However, the way in which these variations interact with e.g. winds, ocean currents and the terrestrial and marine biosphere is still a matter of current research.
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This video describes the characteristics of ice ages during the last billion years. We discuss why ice ages happened and how and why climate varies in short-term climate cycles during ice ages. We introduce the term "albedo" and use it to consider how the glacial system is affected by feedbacks that can either increase or reduce the volume of glacial ice.
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The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
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FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones region in the world on top of Lao mountain range, transfer it below via gravity by producing electricity, food, and goods, at the same time, distribute them to far-flung floating agricultural modules, to newly built megacities, and to industrial complex across the equator, between the tropical cyclones zone, connecting them to other continents, avoiding post ice age big melt danger. Once done, we can tap into the PrimaryWater Cycle for larger scale space programs, build Hyperloop transport system for universal distribution of drinking water, food, goods, electricity and heat, all year round. The heat and coldness redistribution across the world will minimize risks caused by Ice Age and post-Ice Age. Asteroids mining and universal commodity dispersion will allow humanity to progress beyond "Sustainability", and to solve other risks.
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Download full rez version here, it's better to just down load it, 350 mb. . https://archive.org/details/Dd000121052 , also check out the other version that has a closer perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yaJ_Ku2hCM, using blender software, and Nasa images, we can show much lower sea levels at the peak of the last ice age. The Mediterranean sea is land locked, Japan connects to China, no north sea and so on.
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This is a visualization of the last ice age using a global ice sheet model with pro-glacial lakes included.
The "Last Glacial Maximum" was the last period in the Earth's climate history during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension. Growth of the ice sheets reached their maximum positions 26,500 years ago. Deglaciation commenced in the Northern Hemisphere approximately 19,000 years ago, and in Antarctica approximately 14,500 years ago which is consistent with evidence that this was the primary source for an abrupt rise in the sea level 14,500 years ago. At this time, vast ice sheets covered much of North America, northern Europe and Asia. These ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate, causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels. It was followed by the Late Glacial Maximum.
The formation of an ice sheet or ice cap requires both prolonged cold and precipitation . Hence, despite having temperatures similar to those of glaciated areas in North America and Europe, East Asia remained unglaciated except at higher elevations. This difference was because the ice sheets in Europe produced extensive anticyclones above them. These anticyclones generated air masses that were so dry on reaching Siberia and Manchuria that precipitation sufficient for the formation of glaciers could never occur . The relative warmth of the Pacific Ocean due to the shutting down of the Oyashio Current and the presence of large 'east-west' mountain ranges were secondary factors preventing continental glaciation in Asia.
All over the world, climates at the Last Glacial Maximum were cooler and almost everywhere drier. In extreme cases, such as South Australia and the Sahel, rainfall could be diminished by up to 90% from present, with florae diminished to almost the same degree as in glaciated areas of Europe and North America. Even in less affected regions, rainforest cover was greatly diminished, especially in West Africa where a few "refugia" were surrounded by tropical grasslands. The Amazon rainforest was split into two large blocks by extensive savanna, and the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia probably were similarly affected, with deciduous forests expanding in their place except on the east and west extremities of the Sundaland shelf. Only in Central America and the Chocó region of Colombia did tropical rainforests remain substantially intact – probably due to the extraordinarily heavy rainfall of these regions.
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Ice age
An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Within a long-term ice age, individual pulses of cold climate are termed "glacial periods" (or alternatively "glacials" or "glaciations" or colloquially as "ice age"), and intermittent warm periods are called "interglacials". Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres. By this definition, we are in an interglacial period—the Holocene—of the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist.
Origin of ice age theory
In 1742 Pierre Martel (1706–1767), an engineer and geographer living in Geneva, visited the valley of Chamonix in the Alps of Savoy. Two years later he published an account of his journey. He reported that the inhabitants of that valley attributed the dispersal of erratic boulders to the glaciers, saying that they had once extended much farther. Later similar explanations were reported from other regions of the Alps. In 1815 the carpenter and chamois hunter Jean-Pierre Perraudin (1767–1858) explained erratic boulders in the Val de Bagnes in the Swiss canton of Valais as being due to glaciers previously extending further. An unknown woodcutter from Meiringen in the Bernese Oberland advocated a similar idea in a discussion with the Swiss-German geologist Jean de Charpentier (1786–1855) in 1834. Comparable explanations are also known from the Val de Ferret in the Valais and the Seeland in western Switzerland and in Goethe's scientific work. Such explanations could also be found in other parts of the world. When the Bavarian naturalist Ernst von Bibra (1806–1878) visited the Chilean Andes in 1849–1850, the natives attributed fossil moraines to the former action of glaciers.
Glacial period
A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances. Interglacials, on the other hand, are periods of warmer climate between glacial periods. The last glacial period ended about 15,000 years ago. The Holocene epoch is the current interglacial. A time when there are no glaciers on Earth is considered a greenhouseclimate state.
Quaternary ice age
Within the Quaternary glaciation (2.58 Ma to present), there have been a number of glacials and interglacials.
North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about 16.5% of the earth's land area and about 4.8% of its total surface.
North America is the third largest continent by area, following Asia and Africa, and the fourth by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.
In 2013, its population was estimated at nearly 565million people in 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's population, if nearby islands (most notably the Caribbean) are included.
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What is an Ice Age?
What is an Ice Age?
What is an Ice Age?
Hi, I'm EmeraldRobinson. In this "What Is" video we're going to take a closer look at ice ages.
In 1840, Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz noticed glaciers--huge rivers of ice created by snowfall--occurred throughout northern Europe. As glaciers move they transport rocks and scour the ground beneath them, leaving evidence of their passing. Agassiz theorized glaciers were the remnants of a huge glacial ice field that once covered much of the continent. Geologic evidence of massive glacial activity also occurs in North America.
Agassiz had discovered evidence of the last ice age, a period of time when glacial ice fields extended across large sections of the planet. Geologists have evidence of three ice ages--more properly called glacial ages. The oldest occurred 275 million years ago. The second, which affected parts of Africa, India and Australia, occurred 275 million years ago.
The last glacial age, and the only one to occur since humans appeared, began 1.5 million years ago, and receded 15,000 years ago. During that time the Laurentide ice field covered all of Canada and extended as far south as Indiana.
Glacial ages have enormous effects on the plant's weather patterns, animals and plant life. Animals that cannot adapt to the colder environments die out. Similarly, animals that adapt to cold environments may not survive the change when glaciers recede.
The Milankovich theory, by astronomer Milutin Milankovich, suggests variations in the earth's orbit account for glacial ages. Instead of orbiting the sun in a constant pattern, the earth "wobbles." Over millions of years this "wobbling" affects global temperatures. As glacial ice fields spread, snow and ice reflect sunlight that would otherwise warm the earth, causing further drops in cold temperatures. Low levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can also contribute to a glacial age.
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Is an Ice Age Coming? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
Is an Ice Age Coming? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
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We’re living in a brief window of time where our planet isn’t frozen underneath a giant layer of glaciers. How much longer will the moderate climate that we’ve come to know as “normal” continue? What causes these dramatic shifts in temperature that thaw our planet and then throw it back into a state of deep freeze? This episode looks at how the changes in our planet’s orbit and rotation impacts our climate.
Written and hosted by Matt O’Dowd
Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)
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The Last Four Glacial Cycles
The Last Four Glacial Cycles
The Last Four Glacial Cycles
During the last 400,000 years, considerable parts of North America, Europe and Asia were covered by large ice-sheets. At the maximum of the glaciation about 21,000 years before present the sea level was approximately 120 m (394 ft) lower than today due to the large quantities of water locked in the ice-sheets, and surface temperatures in many regions of the Earth were significantly colder. The animation shows the extent of the continental ice-sheets and of sea-ice as well as the distribution of land and ocean that is altered by changes in sea-level.
A truly satisfactory explanation of the dynamics of glacial cycles remains elusive to this day. Even though there is compelling evidence that changes in the strength and distribution of solar insolation caused by variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun are mainly responsible for the build-up and melting of ice-sheets. However, the way in which these variations interact with e.g. winds, ocean currents and the terrestrial and marine biosphere is still a matter of current research.
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Ice Ages & Climate Cycles
Ice Ages & Climate Cycles
Ice Ages & Climate Cycles
This video describes the characteristics of ice ages during the last billion years. We discuss why ice ages happened and how and why climate varies in short-term climate cycles during ice ages. We introduce the term "albedo" and use it to consider how the glacial system is affected by feedbacks that can either increase or reduce the volume of glacial ice.
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Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
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02 - 2 The Great Ice Age - Pleistocene Glaciation
02 - 2 The Great Ice Age - Pleistocene Glaciation
02 - 2 The Great Ice Age - Pleistocene Glaciation
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North America Ice age
North America Ice age
North America Ice age
FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones region in the world on top of Lao mountain range, transfer it below via gravity by producing electricity, food, and goods, at the same time, distribute them to far-flung floating agricultural modules, to newly built megacities, and to industrial complex across the equator, between the tropical cyclones zone, connecting them to other continents, avoiding post ice age big melt danger. Once done, we can tap into the PrimaryWater Cycle for larger scale space programs, build Hyperloop transport system for universal distribution of drinking water, food, goods, electricity and heat, all year round. The heat and coldness redistribution across the world will minimize risks caused by Ice Age and post-Ice Age. Asteroids mining and universal commodity dispersion will allow humanity to progress beyond "Sustainability", and to solve other risks.
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ice age sea levels
ice age sea levels
ice age sea levels
Download full rez version here, it's better to just down load it, 350 mb. . https://archive.org/details/Dd000121052 , also check out the other version that has a closer perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yaJ_Ku2hCM, using blender software, and Nasa images, we can show much lower sea levels at the peak of the last ice age. The Mediterranean sea is land locked, Japan connects to China, no north sea and so on.
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The Last Ice Age (120 000 years ago to Modern)
The Last Ice Age (120 000 years ago to Modern)
The Last Ice Age (120 000 years ago to Modern)
This is a visualization of the last ice age using a global ice sheet model with pro-glacial lakes included.
Last Glacial Maximum - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The "Last Glacial Maximum" was the last period in the Earth's climate history during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension. Growth of the ice sheets reached their maximum positions 26,500 years ago. Deglaciation commenced in the Northern Hemisphere approximately 19,000 years ago, and in Antarctica approximately 14,500 years ago which is consistent with evidence that this was the primary source for an abrupt rise in the sea level 14,500 years ago. At this time, vast ice sheets covered much of North America, northern Europe and Asia. These ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate, causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels. It was followed by the Late Glacial Maximum.
The formation of an ice sheet or ice cap requires both prolonged cold and precipitation . Hence, despite having temperatures similar to those of glaciated areas in North America and Europe, East Asia remained unglaciated except at higher elevations. This difference was because the ice sheets in Europe produced extensive anticyclones above them. These anticyclones generated air masses that were so dry on reaching Siberia and Manchuria that precipitation sufficient for the formation of glaciers could never occur . The relative warmth of the Pacific Ocean due to the shutting down of the Oyashio Current and the presence of large 'east-west' mountain ranges were secondary factors preventing continental glaciation in Asia.
All over the world, climates at the Last Glacial Maximum were cooler and almost everywhere drier. In extreme cases, such as South Australia and the Sahel, rainfall could be diminished by up to 90% from present, with florae diminished to almost the same degree as in glaciated areas of Europe and North America. Even in less affected regions, rainforest cover was greatly diminished, especially in West Africa where a few "refugia" were surrounded by tropical grasslands. The Amazon rainforest was split into two large blocks by extensive savanna, and the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia probably were similarly affected, with deciduous forests expanding in their place except on the east and west extremities of the Sundaland shelf. Only in Central America and the Chocó region of Colombia did tropical rainforests remain substantially intact – probably due to the extraordinarily heavy rainfall of these regions.
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Mini Ice age 2018 Episode 5 Cooling stages during a 1000year long solar minimum
Stage 1 colder winter
Do to less energy reaching the upper atmosphere from solar storms winters become colder.
Stage 2 air albedo drops
As the solar wind weakens more galactic energy enters the earth’s atmosphere ionising the atmosphere and leading to more cloud formations. These clouds reflex sunlight away from the planet’s surface cooling the earth.
Stage 3 wind driven storms gains more strength with every passing year.
The colder the earth becomes the greater the deferens in air pressure between the equator and the poles becomes, leading to ever growing powerful storms. The longer the cooling continues the stronger the wind driven storms become. The growing artic cyclones will become so large that it will bring rain as far south from the North Pole as the Sahara desert.
Stage 4 Air albedo drops in the north and south.
Coastal volcanoes around and above the 60th degree parallel north and south start to erupt one after the other due to the growing pressure of sea ice. This brings regional cooling. Example if an Iceland volcano has enough magma to erupt under the pressure of sea ice it will bring cooling to Europe, Chile volcanoes to Chile and ArgentinaAlaska volcanoes to Alaska and parts of Canada and so on. A large volcanic eruption cools the earth in 2ways. CO2 trapped in the troposphere absorbs solar energy before in can heat the surface SO2 combines with water vapour in the upper atmosphere forming sulphuric acid which reflex solar energy back in to space before it reaches the earth’s surface.
Stage 5 Surface albedo drops drastically year on year.
Powerful winds bring large amounts of water from the sub-tropics dropping it north east and south east from its source unless restricted by massive mountain ranges like the Himalayas. This grows massive glaziers at an average rate of 30meters every year.
Stage 6 Glazier rebound
The weight of the every growing glazier pushes the land mass down in to the magma pool below it, this triggers earthquakes all over the planet as the interlocking tectonic plates now have to adjust the new interacting angles. This pressure on the magma blow the ice leads to more volcanic eruptions below the 60th parallel. Most of the world’s super volcanoes are located in this area; if anyone of these super volcanoes has enough magma to erupt from the growing magma pressure the effects will not be regional like the volcanoes in stage 4 but global. The cooling effect of a super volcano is so powerful that not even a rise in solar activity will have any effect for at least 500yrs.
Stage 7Ocean current changes
The path the oceans conveyor belt follows changes, because it is restricted by a growing ice sheets at the poles and dropping ocean levels worldwide. This cooling effect will first be felt in Northern Europe then the east coast of Russia, as the cooling continues it will also bring sever cooling to west coast of South America and New Zealand when the gap between Chile and Antarctica freezes over.
Stage 8 the world deep ocean cools down
The world’s oceans are so deep that it takes +/- 800yrs to cool down. Cold water absorbs CO2 while warm water releases CO2. The world’s oceans are now sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere which has catastrophic effects on the plant life growing on land; however plankton and water plants are blooming at this point due to high levels of CO2 in the water. High levels of plankton is not always a good thing since when they die in large numbers the rotting plankton pushes CO2 levels even higher suffocating fish. The planets most imported greenhouse gas water vapour plummets, because cold water releases less water vapour then warm water. This cools the planet even more. The temperature different deep inland between night and day becomes extreme, because there is very little greenhouse gasses left to trap heat. The powerful winds which use to curry tons of water to the north and south become nothing more than a dry wind bringing very little precipitation if any. If solar activity does not increase at this point mass extinctions on land will follow and occasional dead spots in the ocean will become more frequent. This is also the peak of the cooling period and planet earth cannot cool any further unless a super volcano erupts, but these snowball earth events are very rare. In fact at this point most volcanoes are covered by glaziers; some more than a mile thick dropping the frequent of volcanic eruptions drastically.
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Ice Age/ Interglacial Cycle
Ice Age/ Interglacial Cycle
Ice Age/ Interglacial Cycle
Ice Age/Interglacial Cycle
During the last Ice Age, approximately one-third of all land was covered by glaciers. Glaciers reached as far south as New York City. This huge volume of ice reduced the amount of water in the oceans, which lowered sea level by several hundred feet. As a result, a land bridge joined Siberia to Alaska, making travel between the two continents possible.
For more information on global climate change, visit the Koshland Science Museum's exhibit "Global Warming: Facts and Our Future." http://www.koshlandscience.org/exhibitgcc/index.jsp
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What is an Ice Age?
Hi, I'm EmeraldRobinson. In this "What Is" video we're going to take a closer look at ice ages.
In 1840, Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz noticed glaciers--huge rivers of ice created by snowfall--occurred throughout northern Europe. As glaciers move they transport rocks and scour the ground beneath them, leaving evidence of their passing. Agassiz theorized glaciers were the remnants of a huge glacial ice field that once covered much of the continent. Geologic evidence of massive glacial activity also occurs in North America.
Agassiz had discovered evidence of the last ice age, a period of time when glacial ice fields extended across large sections of the planet. Geologists have evidence of three ice ages--more properly called glacial ages. The oldest occurred 275 million years ago. The...
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Is an Ice Age Coming? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
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We’re living in a brief window of time where our planet isn’t frozen underneath a giant layer of glaciers. How much longer will the moderate climate that we’ve come to know as “normal” continue? What causes these dramatic shifts in temperature that thaw our planet and then throw it back into a state of deep freeze? This episode looks at how the changes in...
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The Last Four Glacial Cycles
During the last 400,000 years, considerable parts of North America, Europe and Asia were covered by large ice-sheets. At the maximum of the glaciation about 21,000 years before present the sea level was approximately 120 m (394 ft) lower than today due to the large quantities of water locked in the ice-sheets, and surface temperatures in many regions of the Earth were significantly colder. The animation shows the extent of the continental ice-sheets and of sea-ice as well as the distribution of land and ocean that is altered by changes in sea-level.
A truly satisfactory explanation of the dynamics of glacial cycles remains elusive to this day. Even though there is compelling evidence that changes in the strength and distribution of solar insolation caused by variations in the Earth's orbit...
published: 21 Feb 2014
Ice Ages & Climate Cycles
This video describes the characteristics of ice ages during the last billion years. We discuss why ice ages happened and how and why climate varies in short-term climate cycles during ice ages. We introduce the term "albedo" and use it to consider how the glacial system is affected by feedbacks that can either increase or reduce the volume of glacial ice.
Visit our blog for free assessment questions about the content in this video: https://geosciencevideos.wordpress.com
published: 03 Nov 2014
Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
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published: 15 Jun 2016
02 - 2 The Great Ice Age - Pleistocene Glaciation
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North America Ice age
FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones r...
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ice age sea levels
Download full rez version here, it's better to just down load it, 350 mb. . https://archive.org/details/Dd000121052 , also check out the other version that has a closer perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yaJ_Ku2hCM, using blender software, and Nasa images, we can show much lower sea levels at the peak of the last ice age. The Mediterranean sea is land locked, Japan connects to China, no north sea and so on.
published: 30 Nov 2014
The Last Ice Age (120 000 years ago to Modern)
This is a visualization of the last ice age using a global ice sheet model with pro-glacial lakes included.
Last Glacial Maximum - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The "Last Glacial Maximum" was the last period in the Earth's climate history during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension. Growth of the ice sheets reached their maximum positions 26,500 years ago. Deglaciation commenced in the Northern Hemisphere approximately 19,000 years ago, and in Antarctica approximately 14,500 years ago which is consistent with evidence that this was the primary source for an abrupt rise in the sea level 14,500 years ago. At this time, vast ice sheets covered much of North America, northern Europe and Asia. These ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate, causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels. It was followed by the Late Glacial Maximum.
The formation of an ice sheet or ice cap requires both...
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Ice Age/ Interglacial Cycle
Ice Age/Interglacial Cycle
During the last Ice Age, approximately one-third of all land was covered by glaciers. Glaciers reached as far south as New York City. This huge volume of ice reduced the amount of water in the oceans, which lowered sea level by several hundred feet. As a result, a land bridge joined Siberia to Alaska, making travel between the two continents possible.
For more information on global climate change, visit the Koshland Science Museum's exhibit "Global Warming: Facts and Our Future." http://www.koshlandscience.org/exhibitgcc/index.jsp
Hi, I'm EmeraldRobinson. In this "What Is" video we're going to take a closer look at ice ages.
In 1840, Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz noticed glaciers--huge rivers of ice created by snowfall--occurred throughout northern Europe. As glaciers move they transport rocks and scour the ground beneath them, leaving evidence of their passing. Agassiz theorized glaciers were the remnants of a huge glacial ice field that once covered much of the continent. Geologic evidence of massive glacial activity also occurs in North America.
Agassiz had discovered evidence of the last ice age, a period of time when glacial ice fields extended across large sections of the planet. Geologists have evidence of three ice ages--more properly called glacial ages. The oldest occurred 275 million years ago. The second, which affected parts of Africa, India and Australia, occurred 275 million years ago.
The last glacial age, and the only one to occur since humans appeared, began 1.5 million years ago, and receded 15,000 years ago. During that time the Laurentide ice field covered all of Canada and extended as far south as Indiana.
Glacial ages have enormous effects on the plant's weather patterns, animals and plant life. Animals that cannot adapt to the colder environments die out. Similarly, animals that adapt to cold environments may not survive the change when glaciers recede.
The Milankovich theory, by astronomer Milutin Milankovich, suggests variations in the earth's orbit account for glacial ages. Instead of orbiting the sun in a constant pattern, the earth "wobbles." Over millions of years this "wobbling" affects global temperatures. As glacial ice fields spread, snow and ice reflect sunlight that would otherwise warm the earth, causing further drops in cold temperatures. Low levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can also contribute to a glacial age.
Hi, I'm EmeraldRobinson. In this "What Is" video we're going to take a closer look at ice ages.
In 1840, Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz noticed glaciers--huge rivers of ice created by snowfall--occurred throughout northern Europe. As glaciers move they transport rocks and scour the ground beneath them, leaving evidence of their passing. Agassiz theorized glaciers were the remnants of a huge glacial ice field that once covered much of the continent. Geologic evidence of massive glacial activity also occurs in North America.
Agassiz had discovered evidence of the last ice age, a period of time when glacial ice fields extended across large sections of the planet. Geologists have evidence of three ice ages--more properly called glacial ages. The oldest occurred 275 million years ago. The second, which affected parts of Africa, India and Australia, occurred 275 million years ago.
The last glacial age, and the only one to occur since humans appeared, began 1.5 million years ago, and receded 15,000 years ago. During that time the Laurentide ice field covered all of Canada and extended as far south as Indiana.
Glacial ages have enormous effects on the plant's weather patterns, animals and plant life. Animals that cannot adapt to the colder environments die out. Similarly, animals that adapt to cold environments may not survive the change when glaciers recede.
The Milankovich theory, by astronomer Milutin Milankovich, suggests variations in the earth's orbit account for glacial ages. Instead of orbiting the sun in a constant pattern, the earth "wobbles." Over millions of years this "wobbling" affects global temperatures. As glacial ice fields spread, snow and ice reflect sunlight that would otherwise warm the earth, causing further drops in cold temperatures. Low levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can also contribute to a glacial age.
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The Last Four Glacial Cycles
During the last 400,000 years, considerable parts of North America, Europe and Asia were covered by large ice-sheets. At the maximum of the glaciation about 21,...
During the last 400,000 years, considerable parts of North America, Europe and Asia were covered by large ice-sheets. At the maximum of the glaciation about 21,000 years before present the sea level was approximately 120 m (394 ft) lower than today due to the large quantities of water locked in the ice-sheets, and surface temperatures in many regions of the Earth were significantly colder. The animation shows the extent of the continental ice-sheets and of sea-ice as well as the distribution of land and ocean that is altered by changes in sea-level.
A truly satisfactory explanation of the dynamics of glacial cycles remains elusive to this day. Even though there is compelling evidence that changes in the strength and distribution of solar insolation caused by variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun are mainly responsible for the build-up and melting of ice-sheets. However, the way in which these variations interact with e.g. winds, ocean currents and the terrestrial and marine biosphere is still a matter of current research.
During the last 400,000 years, considerable parts of North America, Europe and Asia were covered by large ice-sheets. At the maximum of the glaciation about 21,000 years before present the sea level was approximately 120 m (394 ft) lower than today due to the large quantities of water locked in the ice-sheets, and surface temperatures in many regions of the Earth were significantly colder. The animation shows the extent of the continental ice-sheets and of sea-ice as well as the distribution of land and ocean that is altered by changes in sea-level.
A truly satisfactory explanation of the dynamics of glacial cycles remains elusive to this day. Even though there is compelling evidence that changes in the strength and distribution of solar insolation caused by variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun are mainly responsible for the build-up and melting of ice-sheets. However, the way in which these variations interact with e.g. winds, ocean currents and the terrestrial and marine biosphere is still a matter of current research.
Ice Ages & Climate Cycles
This video describes the characteristics of ice ages during the last billion years. We discuss why ice ages happened and how and why climate varies in short-ter...
This video describes the characteristics of ice ages during the last billion years. We discuss why ice ages happened and how and why climate varies in short-term climate cycles during ice ages. We introduce the term "albedo" and use it to consider how the glacial system is affected by feedbacks that can either increase or reduce the volume of glacial ice.
Visit our blog for free assessment questions about the content in this video: https://geosciencevideos.wordpress.com
This video describes the characteristics of ice ages during the last billion years. We discuss why ice ages happened and how and why climate varies in short-term climate cycles during ice ages. We introduce the term "albedo" and use it to consider how the glacial system is affected by feedbacks that can either increase or reduce the volume of glacial ice.
Visit our blog for free assessment questions about the content in this video: https://geosciencevideos.wordpress.com
Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growt...
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
www.seawapa.org/ice_age.html
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
www.seawapa.org/ice_age.html
FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones region in the world on top of Lao mountain range, transfer it below via gravity by producing electricity, food, and goods, at the same time, distribute them to far-flung floating agricultural modules, to newly built megacities, and to industrial complex across the equator, between the tropical cyclones zone, connecting them to other continents, avoiding post ice age big melt danger. Once done, we can tap into the PrimaryWater Cycle for larger scale space programs, build Hyperloop transport system for universal distribution of drinking water, food, goods, electricity and heat, all year round. The heat and coldness redistribution across the world will minimize risks caused by Ice Age and post-Ice Age. Asteroids mining and universal commodity dispersion will allow humanity to progress beyond "Sustainability", and to solve other risks.
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FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones region in the world on top of Lao mountain range, transfer it below via gravity by producing electricity, food, and goods, at the same time, distribute them to far-flung floating agricultural modules, to newly built megacities, and to industrial complex across the equator, between the tropical cyclones zone, connecting them to other continents, avoiding post ice age big melt danger. Once done, we can tap into the PrimaryWater Cycle for larger scale space programs, build Hyperloop transport system for universal distribution of drinking water, food, goods, electricity and heat, all year round. The heat and coldness redistribution across the world will minimize risks caused by Ice Age and post-Ice Age. Asteroids mining and universal commodity dispersion will allow humanity to progress beyond "Sustainability", and to solve other risks.
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ice age sea levels
Download full rez version here, it's better to just down load it, 350 mb. . https://archive.org/details/Dd000121052 , also check out the other version that has ...
Download full rez version here, it's better to just down load it, 350 mb. . https://archive.org/details/Dd000121052 , also check out the other version that has a closer perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yaJ_Ku2hCM, using blender software, and Nasa images, we can show much lower sea levels at the peak of the last ice age. The Mediterranean sea is land locked, Japan connects to China, no north sea and so on.
Download full rez version here, it's better to just down load it, 350 mb. . https://archive.org/details/Dd000121052 , also check out the other version that has a closer perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yaJ_Ku2hCM, using blender software, and Nasa images, we can show much lower sea levels at the peak of the last ice age. The Mediterranean sea is land locked, Japan connects to China, no north sea and so on.
The "Last Glacial Maximum" was the last period in the Earth's climate history during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension. Growth of the ice sheets reached their maximum positions 26,500 years ago. Deglaciation commenced in the Northern Hemisphere approximately 19,000 years ago, and in Antarctica approximately 14,500 years ago which is consistent with evidence that this was the primary source for an abrupt rise in the sea level 14,500 years ago. At this time, vast ice sheets covered much of North America, northern Europe and Asia. These ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate, causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels. It was followed by the Late Glacial Maximum.
The formation of an ice sheet or ice cap requires both prolonged cold and precipitation . Hence, despite having temperatures similar to those of glaciated areas in North America and Europe, East Asia remained unglaciated except at higher elevations. This difference was because the ice sheets in Europe produced extensive anticyclones above them. These anticyclones generated air masses that were so dry on reaching Siberia and Manchuria that precipitation sufficient for the formation of glaciers could never occur . The relative warmth of the Pacific Ocean due to the shutting down of the Oyashio Current and the presence of large 'east-west' mountain ranges were secondary factors preventing continental glaciation in Asia.
All over the world, climates at the Last Glacial Maximum were cooler and almost everywhere drier. In extreme cases, such as South Australia and the Sahel, rainfall could be diminished by up to 90% from present, with florae diminished to almost the same degree as in glaciated areas of Europe and North America. Even in less affected regions, rainforest cover was greatly diminished, especially in West Africa where a few "refugia" were surrounded by tropical grasslands. The Amazon rainforest was split into two large blocks by extensive savanna, and the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia probably were similarly affected, with deciduous forests expanding in their place except on the east and west extremities of the Sundaland shelf. Only in Central America and the Chocó region of Colombia did tropical rainforests remain substantially intact – probably due to the extraordinarily heavy rainfall of these regions.
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The "Last Glacial Maximum" was the last period in the Earth's climate history during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension. Growth of the ice sheets reached their maximum positions 26,500 years ago. Deglaciation commenced in the Northern Hemisphere approximately 19,000 years ago, and in Antarctica approximately 14,500 years ago which is consistent with evidence that this was the primary source for an abrupt rise in the sea level 14,500 years ago. At this time, vast ice sheets covered much of North America, northern Europe and Asia. These ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate, causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels. It was followed by the Late Glacial Maximum.
The formation of an ice sheet or ice cap requires both prolonged cold and precipitation . Hence, despite having temperatures similar to those of glaciated areas in North America and Europe, East Asia remained unglaciated except at higher elevations. This difference was because the ice sheets in Europe produced extensive anticyclones above them. These anticyclones generated air masses that were so dry on reaching Siberia and Manchuria that precipitation sufficient for the formation of glaciers could never occur . The relative warmth of the Pacific Ocean due to the shutting down of the Oyashio Current and the presence of large 'east-west' mountain ranges were secondary factors preventing continental glaciation in Asia.
All over the world, climates at the Last Glacial Maximum were cooler and almost everywhere drier. In extreme cases, such as South Australia and the Sahel, rainfall could be diminished by up to 90% from present, with florae diminished to almost the same degree as in glaciated areas of Europe and North America. Even in less affected regions, rainforest cover was greatly diminished, especially in West Africa where a few "refugia" were surrounded by tropical grasslands. The Amazon rainforest was split into two large blocks by extensive savanna, and the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia probably were similarly affected, with deciduous forests expanding in their place except on the east and west extremities of the Sundaland shelf. Only in Central America and the Chocó region of Colombia did tropical rainforests remain substantially intact – probably due to the extraordinarily heavy rainfall of these regions.
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Mini Ice age 2018 Episode 5 Cooling stages during a 1000year long solar minimum
Stage 1 colder winter
Do to less energy reaching the upper atmosphere from solar storms winters become colder.
Stage 2 air albedo drops
As the solar wind weakens more galactic energy enters the earth’s atmosphere ionising the atmosphere and leading to more cloud formations. These clouds reflex sunlight away from the planet’s surface cooling the earth.
Stage 3 wind driven storms gains more strength with every passing year.
The colder the earth becomes the greater the deferens in air pressure between the equator and the poles becomes, leading to ever growing powerful storms. The longer the cooling continues the stronger the wind driven storms become. The growing artic cyclones will become so large that it will bring rain as far south from the North Pole as the Sahara desert.
Stage 4 Air albedo drops in the north and south.
Coastal volcanoes around and above the 60th degree parallel north and south start to erupt one after the other due to the growing pressure of sea ice. This brings regional cooling. Example if an Iceland volcano has enough magma to erupt under the pressure of sea ice it will bring cooling to Europe, Chile volcanoes to Chile and ArgentinaAlaska volcanoes to Alaska and parts of Canada and so on. A large volcanic eruption cools the earth in 2ways. CO2 trapped in the troposphere absorbs solar energy before in can heat the surface SO2 combines with water vapour in the upper atmosphere forming sulphuric acid which reflex solar energy back in to space before it reaches the earth’s surface.
Stage 5 Surface albedo drops drastically year on year.
Powerful winds bring large amounts of water from the sub-tropics dropping it north east and south east from its source unless restricted by massive mountain ranges like the Himalayas. This grows massive glaziers at an average rate of 30meters every year.
Stage 6 Glazier rebound
The weight of the every growing glazier pushes the land mass down in to the magma pool below it, this triggers earthquakes all over the planet as the interlocking tectonic plates now have to adjust the new interacting angles. This pressure on the magma blow the ice leads to more volcanic eruptions below the 60th parallel. Most of the world’s super volcanoes are located in this area; if anyone of these super volcanoes has enough magma to erupt from the growing magma pressure the effects will not be regional like the volcanoes in stage 4 but global. The cooling effect of a super volcano is so powerful that not even a rise in solar activity will have any effect for at least 500yrs.
Stage 7Ocean current changes
The path the oceans conveyor belt follows changes, because it is restricted by a growing ice sheets at the poles and dropping ocean levels worldwide. This cooling effect will first be felt in Northern Europe then the east coast of Russia, as the cooling continues it will also bring sever cooling to west coast of South America and New Zealand when the gap between Chile and Antarctica freezes over.
Stage 8 the world deep ocean cools down
The world’s oceans are so deep that it takes +/- 800yrs to cool down. Cold water absorbs CO2 while warm water releases CO2. The world’s oceans are now sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere which has catastrophic effects on the plant life growing on land; however plankton and water plants are blooming at this point due to high levels of CO2 in the water. High levels of plankton is not always a good thing since when they die in large numbers the rotting plankton pushes CO2 levels even higher suffocating fish. The planets most imported greenhouse gas water vapour plummets, because cold water releases less water vapour then warm water. This cools the planet even more. The temperature different deep inland between night and day becomes extreme, because there is very little greenhouse gasses left to trap heat. The powerful winds which use to curry tons of water to the north and south become nothing more than a dry wind bringing very little precipitation if any. If solar activity does not increase at this point mass extinctions on land will follow and occasional dead spots in the ocean will become more frequent. This is also the peak of the cooling period and planet earth cannot cool any further unless a super volcano erupts, but these snowball earth events are very rare. In fact at this point most volcanoes are covered by glaziers; some more than a mile thick dropping the frequent of volcanic eruptions drastically.
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Mini Ice age 2018 Episode 5 Cooling stages during a 1000year long solar minimum
Stage 1 colder winter
Do to less energy reaching the upper atmosphere from solar storms winters become colder.
Stage 2 air albedo drops
As the solar wind weakens more galactic energy enters the earth’s atmosphere ionising the atmosphere and leading to more cloud formations. These clouds reflex sunlight away from the planet’s surface cooling the earth.
Stage 3 wind driven storms gains more strength with every passing year.
The colder the earth becomes the greater the deferens in air pressure between the equator and the poles becomes, leading to ever growing powerful storms. The longer the cooling continues the stronger the wind driven storms become. The growing artic cyclones will become so large that it will bring rain as far south from the North Pole as the Sahara desert.
Stage 4 Air albedo drops in the north and south.
Coastal volcanoes around and above the 60th degree parallel north and south start to erupt one after the other due to the growing pressure of sea ice. This brings regional cooling. Example if an Iceland volcano has enough magma to erupt under the pressure of sea ice it will bring cooling to Europe, Chile volcanoes to Chile and ArgentinaAlaska volcanoes to Alaska and parts of Canada and so on. A large volcanic eruption cools the earth in 2ways. CO2 trapped in the troposphere absorbs solar energy before in can heat the surface SO2 combines with water vapour in the upper atmosphere forming sulphuric acid which reflex solar energy back in to space before it reaches the earth’s surface.
Stage 5 Surface albedo drops drastically year on year.
Powerful winds bring large amounts of water from the sub-tropics dropping it north east and south east from its source unless restricted by massive mountain ranges like the Himalayas. This grows massive glaziers at an average rate of 30meters every year.
Stage 6 Glazier rebound
The weight of the every growing glazier pushes the land mass down in to the magma pool below it, this triggers earthquakes all over the planet as the interlocking tectonic plates now have to adjust the new interacting angles. This pressure on the magma blow the ice leads to more volcanic eruptions below the 60th parallel. Most of the world’s super volcanoes are located in this area; if anyone of these super volcanoes has enough magma to erupt from the growing magma pressure the effects will not be regional like the volcanoes in stage 4 but global. The cooling effect of a super volcano is so powerful that not even a rise in solar activity will have any effect for at least 500yrs.
Stage 7Ocean current changes
The path the oceans conveyor belt follows changes, because it is restricted by a growing ice sheets at the poles and dropping ocean levels worldwide. This cooling effect will first be felt in Northern Europe then the east coast of Russia, as the cooling continues it will also bring sever cooling to west coast of South America and New Zealand when the gap between Chile and Antarctica freezes over.
Stage 8 the world deep ocean cools down
The world’s oceans are so deep that it takes +/- 800yrs to cool down. Cold water absorbs CO2 while warm water releases CO2. The world’s oceans are now sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere which has catastrophic effects on the plant life growing on land; however plankton and water plants are blooming at this point due to high levels of CO2 in the water. High levels of plankton is not always a good thing since when they die in large numbers the rotting plankton pushes CO2 levels even higher suffocating fish. The planets most imported greenhouse gas water vapour plummets, because cold water releases less water vapour then warm water. This cools the planet even more. The temperature different deep inland between night and day becomes extreme, because there is very little greenhouse gasses left to trap heat. The powerful winds which use to curry tons of water to the north and south become nothing more than a dry wind bringing very little precipitation if any. If solar activity does not increase at this point mass extinctions on land will follow and occasional dead spots in the ocean will become more frequent. This is also the peak of the cooling period and planet earth cannot cool any further unless a super volcano erupts, but these snowball earth events are very rare. In fact at this point most volcanoes are covered by glaziers; some more than a mile thick dropping the frequent of volcanic eruptions drastically.
ICE AGE BEASTS!!! || Jurassic World - Cenozoic Series - Ep1 HD
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Jurassic WorldThe Game has just released it's latest update. The Cenozoic creatures have arrived in the park. Although right now only obtainable through packs they will be released in events very soon.
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Ice Age/Interglacial Cycle
During the last Ice Age, approximately one-third of all land was covered by glaciers. Glaciers reached as far south as New York City. This huge volume of ice reduced the amount of water in the oceans, which lowered sea level by several hundred feet. As a result, a land bridge joined Siberia to Alaska, making travel between the two continents possible.
For more information on global climate change, visit the Koshland Science Museum's exhibit "Global Warming: Facts and Our Future." http://www.koshlandscience.org/exhibitgcc/index.jsp
Ice Age/Interglacial Cycle
During the last Ice Age, approximately one-third of all land was covered by glaciers. Glaciers reached as far south as New York City. This huge volume of ice reduced the amount of water in the oceans, which lowered sea level by several hundred feet. As a result, a land bridge joined Siberia to Alaska, making travel between the two continents possible.
For more information on global climate change, visit the Koshland Science Museum's exhibit "Global Warming: Facts and Our Future." http://www.koshlandscience.org/exhibitgcc/index.jsp
GLACIAL PERIODS - CASUES OF GLACIAL AGES AND GLACIAL EUSTASY - PART 1
Evidence For the Ice Age - Proof of the Glacial Period
This film examines many features of today's landscapes which cannot be explained by processes at work around them, and explains that observation of the work of modern glaciers establishes that these anomalies could only have been caused by a massive sheet of moving ice. It is evidence that glacial ice moved south at least four times in geologic history, and that its shape and size correspond approximately with the distribution of glacial features.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0LHEYTEAyndlUqRJYtBZEg
published: 14 Nov 2017
3 reasons not to expect a 'mini ice age' in 2030
3 reasons not to expect a 'mini ice age' in 2030
https://youtu.be/7Lizg7xOOZ4
Even thoughEarth is already in an ice age, a surplus of ice is the least of our worries.
You can probably keep your igloo-building skills on ice for a while longer. Despite a recent flurry of news reports suggesting Earth is just 15 years away from a "mini ice age," we're still in far more danger from global warming than global cooling.
The source of those reports is a new model of the sun's solar cycle, released last week by Northumbria University mathematics professor Valentina Zharkova. The model offers fresh details about irregularities in the sun's 11-year "heartbeat," the same cycle that influences solar storms and the northern lights. Specifically, it predicts a substantial decrease in solar activity over...
North America Ice age
FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones r...
published: 06 Jul 2016
Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
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published: 15 Jun 2016
02 - 2 The Great Ice Age - Pleistocene Glaciation
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Last Glacial Maximum - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The "Last Glacial Maximum" was the last period in the Earth's climate history during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension. Growth of the ice sheets reached their maximum positions 26,500 years ago. Deglaciation commenced in the Northern Hemisphere approximately 19,000 years ago, and in Antarctica approximately 14,500 years ago which is consistent with evidence that this was the primary source for an abrupt rise in the sea level 14,500 years ago. At this time, vast ice sheets covered much of North America, northern Europe and Asia. These ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate, causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels. It was followed by the Late Glacial Maximum.
The formation of an ice sheet or ice cap requires both...
Earth's History of Glaciation and Deglaciation
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There have been five known ice ages in the Earth's history, with the Earth experiencing the QuaternaryIce Age during the present time. Within ice ages, there exist periods of more severe glacial conditions and more temperate referred to as glacial periods and interglacial periods, respectively. The Earth is currently in such an interglacial period of the Quaternary Ice Age, with the last glacial period of the Quaternary having ended approximately 11,700 years ago with the start of the Holocene epoch. Based on climate proxies, paleoclimatologists study the different climate states originating from glaciation.
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Glacial/Interglacial Periods Quiz (GCSE Geography AQA A)
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Ice Ages & Climate Cycles
This video describes the characteristics of ice ages during the last billion years. We discuss why ice ages happened and how and why climate varies in short-term climate cycles during ice ages. We introduce the term "albedo" and use it to consider how the glacial system is affected by feedbacks that can either increase or reduce the volume of glacial ice.
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The History of Climate Change and the Ice Ages
The history of Climate Change from the earliest known Ice ages up to the start of the current Holocene Epoch that began around 11 thousand 5 hundred years ago.
In doing so the video will cover the definitions of Ice Ages,
Glacial periods and inter-glacial periods. We will also look at what is known of the potential causes of Ice ages, and how life on the planet hs Changed and developed over millions of years alongside the changing climate.
A team of local researchers may have found the key to understanding glacial-interglacial cycles, or in layman's terms why the earth goes through ice ages.
They've found clues that might explain the phenomenon in stalagmites in Korea's northern Gangwon-doProvince.
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Local researchers have analyzed the growing process of stalagmites found in Baekryong cave, located in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do province.
These rock formations, which are formed by materials deposited on the floor from ceiling drippings, revealed that growth surged in interglacial periods when temperatures were warmer, than during glacials, or cold periods.
This finding closely relates to the Intertropical Convergence Zone - an area near the equator where trade winds converge and drastically affect ra...
Evidence For the Ice Age - Proof of the Glacial Period
This film examines many features of today's landscapes which cannot be explained by processes at work around them, and explains that observation of the work of ...
This film examines many features of today's landscapes which cannot be explained by processes at work around them, and explains that observation of the work of modern glaciers establishes that these anomalies could only have been caused by a massive sheet of moving ice. It is evidence that glacial ice moved south at least four times in geologic history, and that its shape and size correspond approximately with the distribution of glacial features.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0LHEYTEAyndlUqRJYtBZEg
This film examines many features of today's landscapes which cannot be explained by processes at work around them, and explains that observation of the work of modern glaciers establishes that these anomalies could only have been caused by a massive sheet of moving ice. It is evidence that glacial ice moved south at least four times in geologic history, and that its shape and size correspond approximately with the distribution of glacial features.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0LHEYTEAyndlUqRJYtBZEg
3 reasons not to expect a 'mini ice age' in 2030
3 reasons not to expect a 'mini ice age' in 2030
https://youtu.be/7Lizg7xOOZ4
Even thoughEarth is already in an ice age, a surplus of ice is the least of our w...
3 reasons not to expect a 'mini ice age' in 2030
https://youtu.be/7Lizg7xOOZ4
Even thoughEarth is already in an ice age, a surplus of ice is the least of our worries.
You can probably keep your igloo-building skills on ice for a while longer. Despite a recent flurry of news reports suggesting Earth is just 15 years away from a "mini ice age," we're still in far more danger from global warming than global cooling.
The source of those reports is a new model of the sun's solar cycle, released last week by Northumbria University mathematics professor Valentina Zharkova. The model offers fresh details about irregularities in the sun's 11-year "heartbeat," the same cycle that influences solar storms and the northern lights. Specifically, it predicts a substantial decrease in solar activity over the next couple decades.
Many news outlets — especially those with a less-than-stellar track record of reporting about climate change — have seized on a particular line from a press release about the model. "Predictions from the model suggest that solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during the 2030s," the release states, "to conditions last seen during the 'mini ice age' that began in 1645."
Also known as the "Little Ice Age," this was a period of a few centuries marked by unusually cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere. It was not a true "ice age" in scientific terms, but it was really cold — and it correlated with a big dip in solar activity. So if the solar cycle is about to experience another big dip, that means the ongoing growth of global warming will screech to a halt and we'll all freeze, right?
Maybe. But very probably not. Here are three important points to keep in mind:
1. Technically, Earth is already in an ice age.
The phrase "ice age" gets thrown around a lot, so its exact meaning is understandably muddled. But it's worth noting that Earth has been in an ice age for about 3 million years, while modern humans have only been around for about 200,000. It's also worth noting that most people don't really mean ice age when they say "ice age."
The current ice age is one of at least five in Earth's history. Each ice age is punctuated by shorter cycles of relatively warm weather when glaciers retreat (interglacial periods) and cold cycles when glaciers advance (glacial periods). Sometimes people refer to these glacial periods as "ice ages," which can be confusing. The current interglacial — which includes the Little Ice Age, aka Maunder minimum — began about 11,000 years ago. Research suggests it may last another 50,000 years.
Even if the predicted drop in solar activity does significantly affect Earth's climate, no one is saying it would usher in a new glacial period. At most, a "mini ice age" would likely resemble the Little Ice Age of 1645, which didn't involve globally advancing glaciers but did involve local glaciation as well as agricultural hardship for Northern Europe. Still, there's ample reason to doubt even this milder outcome.
2. The link between sunspots and global cooling is hazy.
The new solar-cycle model is not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, as the Washington Post points out, meaning it's still a bit preliminary. But even the scientists who created it didn't predict a mini ice age in their press release; the "conditions" they mentioned are on the sun, not Earth. Those conditions were "last seen during the 'mini ice age,'" as the press release notes, but the researchers stop short of explicitly blaming the cooler climate on a scarcity of sunspots.
Still, they do seem to imply a connection. And they wouldn't be the first — the correlation between solar activity and the Little Ice Age is notable, and it's often touted by those who doubt the proven influence of carbon dioxide on climate. Scientists acknowledge the Little Ice Age may have been partly caused by low solar activity, but few believe that was the only cause. The period also correlated with a series of major volcanic eruptions, which are known to block solar heat.
And even if the Little Ice Age was partly due to the solar cycle, that correlation hasn't held up in modern times. Solar activity has been generally declining since the mid-20th century, yet Earth's average temperature has been notoriously soaring at a pace unprecedented in human history (see graph below). While the recent solar maximumwas the weakest in a century, 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history.
3 reasons not to expect a 'mini ice age' in 2030
https://youtu.be/7Lizg7xOOZ4
Even thoughEarth is already in an ice age, a surplus of ice is the least of our worries.
You can probably keep your igloo-building skills on ice for a while longer. Despite a recent flurry of news reports suggesting Earth is just 15 years away from a "mini ice age," we're still in far more danger from global warming than global cooling.
The source of those reports is a new model of the sun's solar cycle, released last week by Northumbria University mathematics professor Valentina Zharkova. The model offers fresh details about irregularities in the sun's 11-year "heartbeat," the same cycle that influences solar storms and the northern lights. Specifically, it predicts a substantial decrease in solar activity over the next couple decades.
Many news outlets — especially those with a less-than-stellar track record of reporting about climate change — have seized on a particular line from a press release about the model. "Predictions from the model suggest that solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during the 2030s," the release states, "to conditions last seen during the 'mini ice age' that began in 1645."
Also known as the "Little Ice Age," this was a period of a few centuries marked by unusually cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere. It was not a true "ice age" in scientific terms, but it was really cold — and it correlated with a big dip in solar activity. So if the solar cycle is about to experience another big dip, that means the ongoing growth of global warming will screech to a halt and we'll all freeze, right?
Maybe. But very probably not. Here are three important points to keep in mind:
1. Technically, Earth is already in an ice age.
The phrase "ice age" gets thrown around a lot, so its exact meaning is understandably muddled. But it's worth noting that Earth has been in an ice age for about 3 million years, while modern humans have only been around for about 200,000. It's also worth noting that most people don't really mean ice age when they say "ice age."
The current ice age is one of at least five in Earth's history. Each ice age is punctuated by shorter cycles of relatively warm weather when glaciers retreat (interglacial periods) and cold cycles when glaciers advance (glacial periods). Sometimes people refer to these glacial periods as "ice ages," which can be confusing. The current interglacial — which includes the Little Ice Age, aka Maunder minimum — began about 11,000 years ago. Research suggests it may last another 50,000 years.
Even if the predicted drop in solar activity does significantly affect Earth's climate, no one is saying it would usher in a new glacial period. At most, a "mini ice age" would likely resemble the Little Ice Age of 1645, which didn't involve globally advancing glaciers but did involve local glaciation as well as agricultural hardship for Northern Europe. Still, there's ample reason to doubt even this milder outcome.
2. The link between sunspots and global cooling is hazy.
The new solar-cycle model is not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, as the Washington Post points out, meaning it's still a bit preliminary. But even the scientists who created it didn't predict a mini ice age in their press release; the "conditions" they mentioned are on the sun, not Earth. Those conditions were "last seen during the 'mini ice age,'" as the press release notes, but the researchers stop short of explicitly blaming the cooler climate on a scarcity of sunspots.
Still, they do seem to imply a connection. And they wouldn't be the first — the correlation between solar activity and the Little Ice Age is notable, and it's often touted by those who doubt the proven influence of carbon dioxide on climate. Scientists acknowledge the Little Ice Age may have been partly caused by low solar activity, but few believe that was the only cause. The period also correlated with a series of major volcanic eruptions, which are known to block solar heat.
And even if the Little Ice Age was partly due to the solar cycle, that correlation hasn't held up in modern times. Solar activity has been generally declining since the mid-20th century, yet Earth's average temperature has been notoriously soaring at a pace unprecedented in human history (see graph below). While the recent solar maximumwas the weakest in a century, 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history.
FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones region in the world on top of Lao mountain range, transfer it below via gravity by producing electricity, food, and goods, at the same time, distribute them to far-flung floating agricultural modules, to newly built megacities, and to industrial complex across the equator, between the tropical cyclones zone, connecting them to other continents, avoiding post ice age big melt danger. Once done, we can tap into the PrimaryWater Cycle for larger scale space programs, build Hyperloop transport system for universal distribution of drinking water, food, goods, electricity and heat, all year round. The heat and coldness redistribution across the world will minimize risks caused by Ice Age and post-Ice Age. Asteroids mining and universal commodity dispersion will allow humanity to progress beyond "Sustainability", and to solve other risks.
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FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones region in the world on top of Lao mountain range, transfer it below via gravity by producing electricity, food, and goods, at the same time, distribute them to far-flung floating agricultural modules, to newly built megacities, and to industrial complex across the equator, between the tropical cyclones zone, connecting them to other continents, avoiding post ice age big melt danger. Once done, we can tap into the PrimaryWater Cycle for larger scale space programs, build Hyperloop transport system for universal distribution of drinking water, food, goods, electricity and heat, all year round. The heat and coldness redistribution across the world will minimize risks caused by Ice Age and post-Ice Age. Asteroids mining and universal commodity dispersion will allow humanity to progress beyond "Sustainability", and to solve other risks.
http://SEAWAPA.org
Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growt...
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
www.seawapa.org/ice_age.html
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
www.seawapa.org/ice_age.html
The "Last Glacial Maximum" was the last period in the Earth's climate history during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension. Growth of the ice sheets reached their maximum positions 26,500 years ago. Deglaciation commenced in the Northern Hemisphere approximately 19,000 years ago, and in Antarctica approximately 14,500 years ago which is consistent with evidence that this was the primary source for an abrupt rise in the sea level 14,500 years ago. At this time, vast ice sheets covered much of North America, northern Europe and Asia. These ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate, causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels. It was followed by the Late Glacial Maximum.
The formation of an ice sheet or ice cap requires both prolonged cold and precipitation . Hence, despite having temperatures similar to those of glaciated areas in North America and Europe, East Asia remained unglaciated except at higher elevations. This difference was because the ice sheets in Europe produced extensive anticyclones above them. These anticyclones generated air masses that were so dry on reaching Siberia and Manchuria that precipitation sufficient for the formation of glaciers could never occur . The relative warmth of the Pacific Ocean due to the shutting down of the Oyashio Current and the presence of large 'east-west' mountain ranges were secondary factors preventing continental glaciation in Asia.
All over the world, climates at the Last Glacial Maximum were cooler and almost everywhere drier. In extreme cases, such as South Australia and the Sahel, rainfall could be diminished by up to 90% from present, with florae diminished to almost the same degree as in glaciated areas of Europe and North America. Even in less affected regions, rainforest cover was greatly diminished, especially in West Africa where a few "refugia" were surrounded by tropical grasslands. The Amazon rainforest was split into two large blocks by extensive savanna, and the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia probably were similarly affected, with deciduous forests expanding in their place except on the east and west extremities of the Sundaland shelf. Only in Central America and the Chocó region of Colombia did tropical rainforests remain substantially intact – probably due to the extraordinarily heavy rainfall of these regions.
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The "Last Glacial Maximum" was the last period in the Earth's climate history during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension. Growth of the ice sheets reached their maximum positions 26,500 years ago. Deglaciation commenced in the Northern Hemisphere approximately 19,000 years ago, and in Antarctica approximately 14,500 years ago which is consistent with evidence that this was the primary source for an abrupt rise in the sea level 14,500 years ago. At this time, vast ice sheets covered much of North America, northern Europe and Asia. These ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate, causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels. It was followed by the Late Glacial Maximum.
The formation of an ice sheet or ice cap requires both prolonged cold and precipitation . Hence, despite having temperatures similar to those of glaciated areas in North America and Europe, East Asia remained unglaciated except at higher elevations. This difference was because the ice sheets in Europe produced extensive anticyclones above them. These anticyclones generated air masses that were so dry on reaching Siberia and Manchuria that precipitation sufficient for the formation of glaciers could never occur . The relative warmth of the Pacific Ocean due to the shutting down of the Oyashio Current and the presence of large 'east-west' mountain ranges were secondary factors preventing continental glaciation in Asia.
All over the world, climates at the Last Glacial Maximum were cooler and almost everywhere drier. In extreme cases, such as South Australia and the Sahel, rainfall could be diminished by up to 90% from present, with florae diminished to almost the same degree as in glaciated areas of Europe and North America. Even in less affected regions, rainforest cover was greatly diminished, especially in West Africa where a few "refugia" were surrounded by tropical grasslands. The Amazon rainforest was split into two large blocks by extensive savanna, and the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia probably were similarly affected, with deciduous forests expanding in their place except on the east and west extremities of the Sundaland shelf. Only in Central America and the Chocó region of Colombia did tropical rainforests remain substantially intact – probably due to the extraordinarily heavy rainfall of these regions.
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The "Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements" comprise a geological feature between Kimberley and Barkly West, South Africa, pertaining to the Palaeozoic-age Dwyka Ice Age, or Karoo Ice Age, where the glacially scoured ancient bedrock was used, substantially more recently, during the Later Stone Age period in the late Holocene as panels for rock engravings.
Some 300-290 million years ago, during Dwyka times, what is now Southern Africa was, as a result of plate tectonics, near the South Pole and large ice sheets or glaciers covered high-lying areas. Geologists term this upland the Cargonian Highlands, stretching from what is now the Northern Cape through Gauteng to Mpumalanga. As the Dwyka glaciers moved, grinding their way southwards, the rocks and rubble that became embedded in their belly smoothed the underlying Andesite rock pavements and scoured out scratch marks, known as striations. As the ice shaped the landscape, the continent of Gondwanaland continued to drift slowly northwards, ultimately bringing this area into warmer latitudes. As the glaciers melted, a mixture of clay and rock was left behind which eventually consolidated into a rock called Tillite – the lower-most layer in the Karoo sequence. Quite large erratics or drop stones carried here by glacial action are found at Nooitgedacht. The changing local environment also created conditions conducive for the burgeoning of life, reflected in the rich fossil record of the Karoo.
Along this portion of its course, the adjacent Vaal River, and earlier generations of rivers and erosion processes, have cut through and swept away a vast mass of Karoo rock and sediment, to re-expose the volcanic Andesite landscape formed 2.7 billion years ago and shaped by glacial action 300 million years ago. At one time – when the diamondiferous pipes penetrated to the surface between 120 and 90 million years ago – it is estimated that about 1 km of Karoo sediment overlay the Kimberley-Barkly West area. Diamonds were eroded out of these pipes and caught in pockets of sediment and gravels which, once discovered, changed the course of modern South African history.
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The "Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements" comprise a geological feature between Kimberley and Barkly West, South Africa, pertaining to the Palaeozoic-age Dwyka Ice Age, or Karoo Ice Age, where the glacially scoured ancient bedrock was used, substantially more recently, during the Later Stone Age period in the late Holocene as panels for rock engravings.
Some 300-290 million years ago, during Dwyka times, what is now Southern Africa was, as a result of plate tectonics, near the South Pole and large ice sheets or glaciers covered high-lying areas. Geologists term this upland the Cargonian Highlands, stretching from what is now the Northern Cape through Gauteng to Mpumalanga. As the Dwyka glaciers moved, grinding their way southwards, the rocks and rubble that became embedded in their belly smoothed the underlying Andesite rock pavements and scoured out scratch marks, known as striations. As the ice shaped the landscape, the continent of Gondwanaland continued to drift slowly northwards, ultimately bringing this area into warmer latitudes. As the glaciers melted, a mixture of clay and rock was left behind which eventually consolidated into a rock called Tillite – the lower-most layer in the Karoo sequence. Quite large erratics or drop stones carried here by glacial action are found at Nooitgedacht. The changing local environment also created conditions conducive for the burgeoning of life, reflected in the rich fossil record of the Karoo.
Along this portion of its course, the adjacent Vaal River, and earlier generations of rivers and erosion processes, have cut through and swept away a vast mass of Karoo rock and sediment, to re-expose the volcanic Andesite landscape formed 2.7 billion years ago and shaped by glacial action 300 million years ago. At one time – when the diamondiferous pipes penetrated to the surface between 120 and 90 million years ago – it is estimated that about 1 km of Karoo sediment overlay the Kimberley-Barkly West area. Diamonds were eroded out of these pipes and caught in pockets of sediment and gravels which, once discovered, changed the course of modern South African history.
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There have been five known ice ages in the Earth's history, with the Earth experiencing the QuaternaryIce Age during the present time. Within ice ages, there exist periods of more severe glacial conditions and more temperate referred to as glacial periods and interglacial periods, respectively. The Earth is currently in such an interglacial period of the Quaternary Ice Age, with the last glacial period of the Quaternary having ended approximately 11,700 years ago with the start of the Holocene epoch. Based on climate proxies, paleoclimatologists study the different climate states originating from glaciation.
Deglaciation is the uncovering of a region of land from beneath a glacier or ice sheet by the retreat of it due to shrinkage by either melting or calving of the ice sheet or glacier.
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There have been five known ice ages in the Earth's history, with the Earth experiencing the QuaternaryIce Age during the present time. Within ice ages, there exist periods of more severe glacial conditions and more temperate referred to as glacial periods and interglacial periods, respectively. The Earth is currently in such an interglacial period of the Quaternary Ice Age, with the last glacial period of the Quaternary having ended approximately 11,700 years ago with the start of the Holocene epoch. Based on climate proxies, paleoclimatologists study the different climate states originating from glaciation.
Deglaciation is the uncovering of a region of land from beneath a glacier or ice sheet by the retreat of it due to shrinkage by either melting or calving of the ice sheet or glacier.
Ice Ages & Climate Cycles
This video describes the characteristics of ice ages during the last billion years. We discuss why ice ages happened and how and why climate varies in short-ter...
This video describes the characteristics of ice ages during the last billion years. We discuss why ice ages happened and how and why climate varies in short-term climate cycles during ice ages. We introduce the term "albedo" and use it to consider how the glacial system is affected by feedbacks that can either increase or reduce the volume of glacial ice.
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This video describes the characteristics of ice ages during the last billion years. We discuss why ice ages happened and how and why climate varies in short-term climate cycles during ice ages. We introduce the term "albedo" and use it to consider how the glacial system is affected by feedbacks that can either increase or reduce the volume of glacial ice.
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The History of Climate Change and the Ice Ages
The history of Climate Change from the earliest known Ice ages up to the start of the current Holocene Epoch that began around 11 thousand 5 hundred years ago.
...
The history of Climate Change from the earliest known Ice ages up to the start of the current Holocene Epoch that began around 11 thousand 5 hundred years ago.
In doing so the video will cover the definitions of Ice Ages,
Glacial periods and inter-glacial periods. We will also look at what is known of the potential causes of Ice ages, and how life on the planet hs Changed and developed over millions of years alongside the changing climate.
The history of Climate Change from the earliest known Ice ages up to the start of the current Holocene Epoch that began around 11 thousand 5 hundred years ago.
In doing so the video will cover the definitions of Ice Ages,
Glacial periods and inter-glacial periods. We will also look at what is known of the potential causes of Ice ages, and how life on the planet hs Changed and developed over millions of years alongside the changing climate.
A team of local researchers may have found the key to understanding glacial-interglacial cycles, or in layman's terms why the earth goes through ice ages.
They...
A team of local researchers may have found the key to understanding glacial-interglacial cycles, or in layman's terms why the earth goes through ice ages.
They've found clues that might explain the phenomenon in stalagmites in Korea's northern Gangwon-doProvince.
SohnJung-in reports.
Local researchers have analyzed the growing process of stalagmites found in Baekryong cave, located in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do province.
These rock formations, which are formed by materials deposited on the floor from ceiling drippings, revealed that growth surged in interglacial periods when temperatures were warmer, than during glacials, or cold periods.
This finding closely relates to the Intertropical Convergence Zone - an area near the equator where trade winds converge and drastically affect rainfall.
The Intertropical Convergence Zone that hovers over the southern hemisphere moves up north when the glacial period ends, reaching the subtropical region in the northern hemisphere, resulting in better growth of stalagmites there, due to increased rainfall.
However, when the I-T-C-Z moves south, precipitation concentrates in the southern hemisphere.
The interhemispheric migration of this water cycle was known to be limited to just some tropical and subtropical regions.
But local researchers have discovered that the impacts of this system reached temperate regions as well, based on a new 550-thousand-year record of the growth frequency of stalagmites in South Korea.
"The research showed a contrasting result from the stalagmites made in the caves in the southern hemisphere. This result could help us explain more in detail the change in glacial and interglacial period in the past."
The researchers said the study can prove that an interglacial period starts when mass precipitation in the intertropical convergence zone that moves northward, melts glaciers in the northern hemisphere, marking the end of a glacial period.
The research was featured in the scientific journal Nature.
Sohn Jung-in, Arirang News.
A team of local researchers may have found the key to understanding glacial-interglacial cycles, or in layman's terms why the earth goes through ice ages.
They've found clues that might explain the phenomenon in stalagmites in Korea's northern Gangwon-doProvince.
SohnJung-in reports.
Local researchers have analyzed the growing process of stalagmites found in Baekryong cave, located in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do province.
These rock formations, which are formed by materials deposited on the floor from ceiling drippings, revealed that growth surged in interglacial periods when temperatures were warmer, than during glacials, or cold periods.
This finding closely relates to the Intertropical Convergence Zone - an area near the equator where trade winds converge and drastically affect rainfall.
The Intertropical Convergence Zone that hovers over the southern hemisphere moves up north when the glacial period ends, reaching the subtropical region in the northern hemisphere, resulting in better growth of stalagmites there, due to increased rainfall.
However, when the I-T-C-Z moves south, precipitation concentrates in the southern hemisphere.
The interhemispheric migration of this water cycle was known to be limited to just some tropical and subtropical regions.
But local researchers have discovered that the impacts of this system reached temperate regions as well, based on a new 550-thousand-year record of the growth frequency of stalagmites in South Korea.
"The research showed a contrasting result from the stalagmites made in the caves in the southern hemisphere. This result could help us explain more in detail the change in glacial and interglacial period in the past."
The researchers said the study can prove that an interglacial period starts when mass precipitation in the intertropical convergence zone that moves northward, melts glaciers in the northern hemisphere, marking the end of a glacial period.
The research was featured in the scientific journal Nature.
Sohn Jung-in, Arirang News.
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Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
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North America Ice age
FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones r...
The History of Climate Change and the Ice Ages
The history of Climate Change from the earliest known Ice ages up to the start of the current Holocene Epoch that began around 11 thousand 5 hundred years ago.
In doing so the video will cover the definitions of Ice Ages,
Glacial periods and inter-glacial periods. We will also look at what is known of the potential causes of Ice ages, and how life on the planet hs Changed and developed over millions of years alongside the changing climate.
ICE AGE BEASTS!!! || Jurassic World - Cenozoic Series - Ep1 HD
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published: 16 Feb 2017
The Advanced Pre Ice Age Civilizations that Vanished From Earth [FULL VIDEO]
A physical and intellectual journey, a worldwide exploration looking for the ancient ruins of a lost civilization, this video follows clues in ancient scriptures and mythlogy and in the scientific evidence of the flood that swept the Earth at the end of the last Ice Age. This video explores the question of early humans swept away by the catastrophe. Who were these populations - pre-civilised hunter-gatherers or more sophisticated peoples altogether?
Some 6,000 or 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, civilisation has been with mankind for many millennia longer. Examines which coastal areas vanished beneath the sea as the ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age, a catastrophic inundation we find in the Flood myths of most of the world's traditional religions. Goes diving and finds, in some ca...
published: 28 Jan 2017
Earth System Science 21. On Thin Ice. Lecture 21. Ice Age World and Past Impact of Ice on Humans
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Description: In recent decades we have observed a significant reduction of the cryosphere due to anthropogenic climate change. The observed and predicted changes in the extent and amount of snow and ice will have major impacts on climate, ecosystems and human populations both at a local and global scale. This course will introduce students to the science behind climate change as well as the physical and chemical processes that g...
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Last glacial period
The last glacial period, popularly known as the Ice Age, was the most recent glacial period, which occurred from c.110,000 to 12,000 years ago.This most recent glacial period is part of a larger pattern of glacial and interglacial periods known as the Quaternary glaciation .From this point of view, scientists consider this "ice age" to be merely the latest glaciation event in a much larger ice age, one that dates back over two million years and is still ongoing.
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Underworld - Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age I
Plato's Story of Atlantis
In 360 BC, the famous Greek philosopher Plato wrote about a battle between his city Athens and a great empire named Atlantis. He described this war, which ended when Atlantis disappeared in the ocean due to "violent earthquakes and floods," in two of his books: "Timaeus" and "Critias" (https://sites.google.com/site/11000vchr/plato-s-kritias).
According to Plato, all this happened 9,000 years before his time which would be at least 9,400 BC, some 12,400 years ago. Intriguingly, this also corresponds to the period when the geological age of the Younger Dryas suddenly ended with an abrupt warming of more than 10°C in only a few years. This event marked the beginning of the Holocene, the era in which we are still living today.
Sea levels must have risen rapidly an...
published: 28 Dec 2014
Top 10 things you should know about the Ice Age
Top 10 things you should know about the Ice Age
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Also known as glacial age, the ice age represents an unprecedented period of long lasting dip in global temperatures and major glacial expansions around the world. During such expansion, a major part of the earth gets covered in an ice sheet for an extended period of time (on occasions, for millions of years). Even though we knew that the humans were able to survive the last ice age, any further detail on the nature of such glacial era was a mystery to us. But the efforts of geologist Louis Agassiz and mathematician Milutin Milankovitch have helped us to understand the very nature and cycle of such ice ages. Now we know at certain periods of time in the history of the earth, massive glaciations had occurred on a g...
published: 02 Jan 2018
GLACIAL PERIODS - CASUES OF GLACIAL AGES AND GLACIAL EUSTASY - PART 1
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In Randall’s engaging circuitous speaking style, he loops around linking various fascinating factors to foster comprehension of real, natural, sudden and serious climatic shifts, including: how the ‘Little Ice Age’ gave clues that there was a ‘Big’ ice age; that catastrophic events tend to erase evidence of prior catastrophes; the difficulties with explaining glacial/inter-glacial cycles; the message of the Greenland ice cores; societies that don’t adapt go extinct like during the literally ‘Dark’ Ages; the ‘Titanic Effect’ and preparing for the inevitable next catastrophe; what effect the entire nuclear arsenal would have on Antarctica; the u...
published: 20 Apr 2016
Underworld - Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age II
Dragons and winged serpents appear in myths and legends told by people all over the world. Could a comet impact that happened at the end of the ice age, some 12,900 years ago, have been the inspiration for all those stories?
The onset of the Younger Dryas, a geological period that lasted from 10,900 BC to 9,700 BC, is one of the most well-known examples of abrupt climate change. This near glacial period of about 1,200 years was named after Dryas Octopetala, a small flower that grows in cold, artic conditions and became common in Europe during this time. The end of the Younger Dryas, about 11,700 years ago, was particularly abrupt. In Greenland, temperatures rose 10°C in just a few years time.
The Younger Dryas return to a cold, glacial climate was first considered to be a regional even...
published: 28 Dec 2014
GLACIAL PERIODS - CASUES OF GLACIAL AGES AND GLACIAL EUSTASY - PART 2
Are We Seeing the New Ice Age ? - 2017
An ice age, or more precisely, a glacial age, is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the .
An ice age, or more precisely, a glacial age, is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the .
With so much cold weather and world temperatures falling more Scientists now see global cooling occurring, and warn of a new ice age.
RobertFelix, a former architect, became interested in the ice-age cycle back in 1991. He spent the next eight and a half years, full-time, researching and writing .
published: 14 Apr 2017
Birth of Britain 2of3 Ice Age
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Ice age
An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Within a long-term ice age, individual pulses of cold climate are termed "glacial periods" , and intermittent warm periods are called "interglacials". Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres. By this definition, we are in an interglacial period - the holocene, of the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist.
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Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growt...
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
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The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
www.seawapa.org/ice_age.html
FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones region in the world on top of Lao mountain range, transfer it below via gravity by producing electricity, food, and goods, at the same time, distribute them to far-flung floating agricultural modules, to newly built megacities, and to industrial complex across the equator, between the tropical cyclones zone, connecting them to other continents, avoiding post ice age big melt danger. Once done, we can tap into the PrimaryWater Cycle for larger scale space programs, build Hyperloop transport system for universal distribution of drinking water, food, goods, electricity and heat, all year round. The heat and coldness redistribution across the world will minimize risks caused by Ice Age and post-Ice Age. Asteroids mining and universal commodity dispersion will allow humanity to progress beyond "Sustainability", and to solve other risks.
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FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones region in the world on top of Lao mountain range, transfer it below via gravity by producing electricity, food, and goods, at the same time, distribute them to far-flung floating agricultural modules, to newly built megacities, and to industrial complex across the equator, between the tropical cyclones zone, connecting them to other continents, avoiding post ice age big melt danger. Once done, we can tap into the PrimaryWater Cycle for larger scale space programs, build Hyperloop transport system for universal distribution of drinking water, food, goods, electricity and heat, all year round. The heat and coldness redistribution across the world will minimize risks caused by Ice Age and post-Ice Age. Asteroids mining and universal commodity dispersion will allow humanity to progress beyond "Sustainability", and to solve other risks.
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The History of Climate Change and the Ice Ages
The history of Climate Change from the earliest known Ice ages up to the start of the current Holocene Epoch that began around 11 thousand 5 hundred years ago.
...
The history of Climate Change from the earliest known Ice ages up to the start of the current Holocene Epoch that began around 11 thousand 5 hundred years ago.
In doing so the video will cover the definitions of Ice Ages,
Glacial periods and inter-glacial periods. We will also look at what is known of the potential causes of Ice ages, and how life on the planet hs Changed and developed over millions of years alongside the changing climate.
The history of Climate Change from the earliest known Ice ages up to the start of the current Holocene Epoch that began around 11 thousand 5 hundred years ago.
In doing so the video will cover the definitions of Ice Ages,
Glacial periods and inter-glacial periods. We will also look at what is known of the potential causes of Ice ages, and how life on the planet hs Changed and developed over millions of years alongside the changing climate.
ICE AGE BEASTS!!! || Jurassic World - Cenozoic Series - Ep1 HD
Jurassic WorldThe Game has just released it's latest update. The Cenozoic creatures have arrived in the park. Although right now only obtainable through packs ...
Jurassic WorldThe Game has just released it's latest update. The Cenozoic creatures have arrived in the park. Although right now only obtainable through packs they will be released in events very soon.
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So what is there to say about it? Well it appears to be very similar to jurassic park builder but has better graphics and better mechanics, things have been tweaked for better game play and it seems like Ludia has spent a lot of time evaluating what it takes to make a good App Game.45
Jurassic WorldThe Game has just released it's latest update. The Cenozoic creatures have arrived in the park. Although right now only obtainable through packs they will be released in events very soon.
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So what is there to say about it? Well it appears to be very similar to jurassic park builder but has better graphics and better mechanics, things have been tweaked for better game play and it seems like Ludia has spent a lot of time evaluating what it takes to make a good App Game.45
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The Advanced Pre Ice Age Civilizations that Vanished From Earth [FULL VIDEO]
A physical and intellectual journey, a worldwide exploration looking for the ancient ruins of a lost civilization, this video follows clues in ancient scripture...
A physical and intellectual journey, a worldwide exploration looking for the ancient ruins of a lost civilization, this video follows clues in ancient scriptures and mythlogy and in the scientific evidence of the flood that swept the Earth at the end of the last Ice Age. This video explores the question of early humans swept away by the catastrophe. Who were these populations - pre-civilised hunter-gatherers or more sophisticated peoples altogether?
Some 6,000 or 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, civilisation has been with mankind for many millennia longer. Examines which coastal areas vanished beneath the sea as the ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age, a catastrophic inundation we find in the Flood myths of most of the world's traditional religions. Goes diving and finds, in some cases, incontrovertible ruins; in other cases the piles of stone might well be natural rock formations, but Hancock argues for their human origins.
A physical and intellectual journey, a worldwide exploration looking for the ancient ruins of a lost civilization, this video follows clues in ancient scriptures and mythlogy and in the scientific evidence of the flood that swept the Earth at the end of the last Ice Age. This video explores the question of early humans swept away by the catastrophe. Who were these populations - pre-civilised hunter-gatherers or more sophisticated peoples altogether?
Some 6,000 or 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, civilisation has been with mankind for many millennia longer. Examines which coastal areas vanished beneath the sea as the ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age, a catastrophic inundation we find in the Flood myths of most of the world's traditional religions. Goes diving and finds, in some cases, incontrovertible ruins; in other cases the piles of stone might well be natural rock formations, but Hancock argues for their human origins.
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Earth System Science 21. On Thin Ice. Lecture 21. Ice Age World and Past Impact of Ice on Humans
UCIESS 21: On Thin Ice (Winter 2014)
Lec 21. On Thin Ice -- Ice AgeWorld and PastImpact of Ice on Humans --
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Description: In recent decades we have observed a significant reduction of the cryosphere due to anthropogenic climate change. The observed and predicted changes in the extent and amount of snow and ice will have major impacts on climate, ecosystems and human populations both at a local and global scale. This course will introduce students to the science behind climate change as well as the physical and chemical processes that govern components of the cryosphere, including snow, permafrost, sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. Particular emphasis will be placed on the important role that each component plays in the larger climate system and potential feedbacks. We will also examine some of the social, economic and political impacts that the melting cryosphere will have on countries around the Arctic and also worldwide, such as access to new petroleum reserves, infrastructure damage due to melting permafrost, sea level rise and decreases in freshwater availability.
Recorded on February 26, 2014.1
Required attribution: Ferguson, Julie. On Thin Ice 21 (UCI OpenCourseWare: University of California, Irvine), http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/ess_21_on_thin_ice__climate_change_and_the_cryosphere.html. [Access date]. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike3.0United States License. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US).
UCIESS 21: On Thin Ice (Winter 2014)
Lec 21. On Thin Ice -- Ice AgeWorld and PastImpact of Ice on Humans --
View the complete course:
http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/ess_21_on_thin_ice__climate_change_and_the_cryosphere.htmlInstructor: Julie Ferguson, Ph.D.License: Creative Commons CC-BY-SA
Terms of Use: http://ocw.uci.edu/info.
More courses at http://ocw.uci.edu
Description: In recent decades we have observed a significant reduction of the cryosphere due to anthropogenic climate change. The observed and predicted changes in the extent and amount of snow and ice will have major impacts on climate, ecosystems and human populations both at a local and global scale. This course will introduce students to the science behind climate change as well as the physical and chemical processes that govern components of the cryosphere, including snow, permafrost, sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. Particular emphasis will be placed on the important role that each component plays in the larger climate system and potential feedbacks. We will also examine some of the social, economic and political impacts that the melting cryosphere will have on countries around the Arctic and also worldwide, such as access to new petroleum reserves, infrastructure damage due to melting permafrost, sea level rise and decreases in freshwater availability.
Recorded on February 26, 2014.1
Required attribution: Ferguson, Julie. On Thin Ice 21 (UCI OpenCourseWare: University of California, Irvine), http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/ess_21_on_thin_ice__climate_change_and_the_cryosphere.html. [Access date]. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike3.0United States License. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US).
Last glacial period
The last glacial period, popularly known as the Ice Age, was the most recent glacial period, which occurred from c.110,000 to 12,000 years ago.This most recent ...
The last glacial period, popularly known as the Ice Age, was the most recent glacial period, which occurred from c.110,000 to 12,000 years ago.This most recent glacial period is part of a larger pattern of glacial and interglacial periods known as the Quaternary glaciation .From this point of view, scientists consider this "ice age" to be merely the latest glaciation event in a much larger ice age, one that dates back over two million years and is still ongoing.
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The last glacial period, popularly known as the Ice Age, was the most recent glacial period, which occurred from c.110,000 to 12,000 years ago.This most recent glacial period is part of a larger pattern of glacial and interglacial periods known as the Quaternary glaciation .From this point of view, scientists consider this "ice age" to be merely the latest glaciation event in a much larger ice age, one that dates back over two million years and is still ongoing.
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Plato's Story of Atlantis
In 360 BC, the famous Greek philosopher Plato wrote about a battle between his city Athens and a great empire named Atlantis. He described this war, which ended when Atlantis disappeared in the ocean due to "violent earthquakes and floods," in two of his books: "Timaeus" and "Critias" (https://sites.google.com/site/11000vchr/plato-s-kritias).
According to Plato, all this happened 9,000 years before his time which would be at least 9,400 BC, some 12,400 years ago. Intriguingly, this also corresponds to the period when the geological age of the Younger Dryas suddenly ended with an abrupt warming of more than 10°C in only a few years. This event marked the beginning of the Holocene, the era in which we are still living today.
Sea levels must have risen rapidly and dramatically, and as a result entire civilizations, if any existed, would have disappeared under water. It's still unclear what caused the extreme climate change that ended the Younger Dryas around 9,700 BC, although some evidence seems to point to solar activity.
Whether Atlantis really existed is hard to say. In that time, sealevels were at least 80 to 100 meters lower than today. Therefore, if there were any archeological evidence, one would have to look deep in the bottom of the sea, but nothing has been found sofar.
Plato's main concern was probably with illustrating his political views rather than being historically accurate. He was very much opposed to Athen's new democracy and held the opinion that it would inevitably lead to dictatorship and tyranny. Indeed, Atlantis owed its greatness, according to Plato, to the oligarchy that happened to govern the city-empire exactly the way he propagated in his work “The Republic.” Moreover, only the first 20 pages of Plato's narrative have been preserved.
It remains remarkable though, how Plato's story reflects climatic events and other facts of which he could not have had any direct knowledge. For instance, he explains how in ancient times, the higher and less fertile areas were inhabited by primitive pastoral peoples, while the more advanced civilizations lived in the coastal regions, which is why they could escape the catastrophic rise in sea levels that struck the coastal regions and destroyed everything that lived there. Plato tells us that only the Egyptian culture was saved from this due to its special location further inland in the Nile valley.
Other intriguing issues, such as the frequent use of “orichalcum” in Atlantis, are mentioned in the “Critias” as well. This mysterious metal is very reminiscent of tumbaga, an alloy of gold and copper in varying proportions which was much used by the Inca and other peoples in the New World. This, however, became known only 2,000 years later after Columbus discovered America.
Plato wasn't the first to mention Atlantis as it is often believed. In Herodotus' time, the sea outside Gibraltar was on occasion called the Atlantis Sea. In theGreat Hall of the temple of Ramses at Karnak a column shows a depiction of a great festival, along with an accompanying text memorializing “the loss of a drowned continent in the WesternOcean.” Plato described Atlantis as being ruled by ten kings and Egyptian king-lists going back thousands of years before Plato also talk of ten god-kings called “Atlanteans.”
The Sanskrit writings of ancient India contain several descriptions of Atlantis, and even assert that Atlantis was destroyed as the result of a war between the gods and Asuras (giant and sometimes demonic creatures). The Vishnu Purana, one of the oldest of the Hindu Puranas, speaks of "Atala, the White Island," one of the seven islands belonging to Patala. The Mahabharata also refers to "Atala, the White Island," which is described as an "island of great splendour."
Megalithic structures like the Sphynx in Egypt, Göbekli Tepe in Turkey and maybe even Yonaguni in Japan that were build more than 10.000 years ago, point to the existence of advanced cultures in ancient times. But wether Atlantis is more than just a myth, and where it was located, remains a mystery.
(2014)
Created in 2002 by Graham Hancock. In 2015 he published his latest sequel ‘Magicians of the Gods’: https://youtu.be/KcPgIphDWGY
http://www.grahamhancock.com
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Plato's Story of Atlantis
In 360 BC, the famous Greek philosopher Plato wrote about a battle between his city Athens and a great empire named Atlantis. He described this war, which ended when Atlantis disappeared in the ocean due to "violent earthquakes and floods," in two of his books: "Timaeus" and "Critias" (https://sites.google.com/site/11000vchr/plato-s-kritias).
According to Plato, all this happened 9,000 years before his time which would be at least 9,400 BC, some 12,400 years ago. Intriguingly, this also corresponds to the period when the geological age of the Younger Dryas suddenly ended with an abrupt warming of more than 10°C in only a few years. This event marked the beginning of the Holocene, the era in which we are still living today.
Sea levels must have risen rapidly and dramatically, and as a result entire civilizations, if any existed, would have disappeared under water. It's still unclear what caused the extreme climate change that ended the Younger Dryas around 9,700 BC, although some evidence seems to point to solar activity.
Whether Atlantis really existed is hard to say. In that time, sealevels were at least 80 to 100 meters lower than today. Therefore, if there were any archeological evidence, one would have to look deep in the bottom of the sea, but nothing has been found sofar.
Plato's main concern was probably with illustrating his political views rather than being historically accurate. He was very much opposed to Athen's new democracy and held the opinion that it would inevitably lead to dictatorship and tyranny. Indeed, Atlantis owed its greatness, according to Plato, to the oligarchy that happened to govern the city-empire exactly the way he propagated in his work “The Republic.” Moreover, only the first 20 pages of Plato's narrative have been preserved.
It remains remarkable though, how Plato's story reflects climatic events and other facts of which he could not have had any direct knowledge. For instance, he explains how in ancient times, the higher and less fertile areas were inhabited by primitive pastoral peoples, while the more advanced civilizations lived in the coastal regions, which is why they could escape the catastrophic rise in sea levels that struck the coastal regions and destroyed everything that lived there. Plato tells us that only the Egyptian culture was saved from this due to its special location further inland in the Nile valley.
Other intriguing issues, such as the frequent use of “orichalcum” in Atlantis, are mentioned in the “Critias” as well. This mysterious metal is very reminiscent of tumbaga, an alloy of gold and copper in varying proportions which was much used by the Inca and other peoples in the New World. This, however, became known only 2,000 years later after Columbus discovered America.
Plato wasn't the first to mention Atlantis as it is often believed. In Herodotus' time, the sea outside Gibraltar was on occasion called the Atlantis Sea. In theGreat Hall of the temple of Ramses at Karnak a column shows a depiction of a great festival, along with an accompanying text memorializing “the loss of a drowned continent in the WesternOcean.” Plato described Atlantis as being ruled by ten kings and Egyptian king-lists going back thousands of years before Plato also talk of ten god-kings called “Atlanteans.”
The Sanskrit writings of ancient India contain several descriptions of Atlantis, and even assert that Atlantis was destroyed as the result of a war between the gods and Asuras (giant and sometimes demonic creatures). The Vishnu Purana, one of the oldest of the Hindu Puranas, speaks of "Atala, the White Island," one of the seven islands belonging to Patala. The Mahabharata also refers to "Atala, the White Island," which is described as an "island of great splendour."
Megalithic structures like the Sphynx in Egypt, Göbekli Tepe in Turkey and maybe even Yonaguni in Japan that were build more than 10.000 years ago, point to the existence of advanced cultures in ancient times. But wether Atlantis is more than just a myth, and where it was located, remains a mystery.
(2014)
Created in 2002 by Graham Hancock. In 2015 he published his latest sequel ‘Magicians of the Gods’: https://youtu.be/KcPgIphDWGY
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Top 10 things you should know about the Ice Age
Top 10 things you should know about the Ice Age
https://youtu.be/u6_1DKA10mo
Also known as glacial age, the ice age represents an unprecedented period of long l...
Top 10 things you should know about the Ice Age
https://youtu.be/u6_1DKA10mo
Also known as glacial age, the ice age represents an unprecedented period of long lasting dip in global temperatures and major glacial expansions around the world. During such expansion, a major part of the earth gets covered in an ice sheet for an extended period of time (on occasions, for millions of years). Even though we knew that the humans were able to survive the last ice age, any further detail on the nature of such glacial era was a mystery to us. But the efforts of geologist Louis Agassiz and mathematician Milutin Milankovitch have helped us to understand the very nature and cycle of such ice ages. Now we know at certain periods of time in the history of the earth, massive glaciations had occurred on a global scale. Following the suit, here is a list of top 10 things you should know about the ice age.
10. The Glaciers
The massive glaciers found around the world are not only the biggest resource of fresh water on planet earth, but they are also relics left from previous ice ages. In the simplest terms, once ice ages subside and every sheet of ice melts away, the glacial ice in most parts of the world still remains intact. At present, around 10% of the earth’s surface is covered in glaciers. But not so long ago, in the last ice age, the glacier covered as much as one third of the entire earth’s surface.
The glaciers were of different sizes – many were about the size of a football field and some huge ones span over the length of hundreds of miles. In fact, the ice sheet that surrounds Antarctica is actually a glacier itself and it has been in existence for the last 40 million years.
9. Rise of Himalayas and Ice Age
The occasional avalanches in the Himalayas may be a routine affair, but these majestic mountains are generally not associated with weather change on a global scale. The extensive researches made by geologist show that the rise of Himalayas might also have led to the rise of major ice ages in earth’s history. The Indian and Tibetan plates had been at each other for millions of years, giving rise to the colossal Himalayas, and the majestic Tibetan plateaus.
This constant drive not only changed the earth’s topography, but it might had also initiated massive monsoons in Asia about 8 million years ago. Furthermore, when fresh stones were added to the topography as the mountain range rose, the chemical erosion took away a significant amount of greenhouse carbon from the atmosphere. This directly led to a number of ice ages that began about 2.5 million years ago, along with the rise of the Himalayas.
8. GiganticFauna
During the Pleistocene Era, which started somewhere around 1.8 million years ago, a series of ice ages occurred. The ice age also saw the rise of giant sized animals and birds – modern biologists call them Megafauna. Some of these prehistoric megafauna survive to this day in form of Elephants, Giraffes and so on. There were many other gigantic animals that thrived during the previous ice ages, but eventually died out. For instance, Glyptodon looked like a super-giant iteration of present day armadillos. Mastodons, Mammoths and the Saber tooth tigers that not so long ago reigned in the plains of North America.
The fact that a thriving population of such majestic megafauna went extinct of a sudden around 10,000 years ago still puzzles scientists today. Extended researches have attributed their disappearance to rapid warming periods that occurred towards the end of last ice age. At the same time, the rise of human population and their hunting spree on surrounding megafauna for food and leather also further paved the path to their extinction.
7. MiniIce AgesIn between large scale ice ages, several ‘little’ ice ages appear from time to time. These mini ice ages were not as destructive as the major ones, but they are still capable of causing famine over a significant area of habitable land. The last of such mini ice was recorded in the 14th century – especially in Nordic regions of Europe. This mini ice age was responsible for an unprecedented period of extremely cold dips in temperature over the Northern Hemisphere.
It also brought with it repeated plagues, famines and general gloom among inhabitants. In fact, there were extended periods of time without any summer and adverse climatic conditions only further dampened daily life. This might explain why the general aura of the dark ages is so gloomy. The universal cause behind such mini ice ages is yet to be proposed, but scientists attribute the last mini ice age to a sudden drop in solar energy.
Top 10 things you should know about the Ice Age
https://youtu.be/u6_1DKA10mo
Also known as glacial age, the ice age represents an unprecedented period of long lasting dip in global temperatures and major glacial expansions around the world. During such expansion, a major part of the earth gets covered in an ice sheet for an extended period of time (on occasions, for millions of years). Even though we knew that the humans were able to survive the last ice age, any further detail on the nature of such glacial era was a mystery to us. But the efforts of geologist Louis Agassiz and mathematician Milutin Milankovitch have helped us to understand the very nature and cycle of such ice ages. Now we know at certain periods of time in the history of the earth, massive glaciations had occurred on a global scale. Following the suit, here is a list of top 10 things you should know about the ice age.
10. The Glaciers
The massive glaciers found around the world are not only the biggest resource of fresh water on planet earth, but they are also relics left from previous ice ages. In the simplest terms, once ice ages subside and every sheet of ice melts away, the glacial ice in most parts of the world still remains intact. At present, around 10% of the earth’s surface is covered in glaciers. But not so long ago, in the last ice age, the glacier covered as much as one third of the entire earth’s surface.
The glaciers were of different sizes – many were about the size of a football field and some huge ones span over the length of hundreds of miles. In fact, the ice sheet that surrounds Antarctica is actually a glacier itself and it has been in existence for the last 40 million years.
9. Rise of Himalayas and Ice Age
The occasional avalanches in the Himalayas may be a routine affair, but these majestic mountains are generally not associated with weather change on a global scale. The extensive researches made by geologist show that the rise of Himalayas might also have led to the rise of major ice ages in earth’s history. The Indian and Tibetan plates had been at each other for millions of years, giving rise to the colossal Himalayas, and the majestic Tibetan plateaus.
This constant drive not only changed the earth’s topography, but it might had also initiated massive monsoons in Asia about 8 million years ago. Furthermore, when fresh stones were added to the topography as the mountain range rose, the chemical erosion took away a significant amount of greenhouse carbon from the atmosphere. This directly led to a number of ice ages that began about 2.5 million years ago, along with the rise of the Himalayas.
8. GiganticFauna
During the Pleistocene Era, which started somewhere around 1.8 million years ago, a series of ice ages occurred. The ice age also saw the rise of giant sized animals and birds – modern biologists call them Megafauna. Some of these prehistoric megafauna survive to this day in form of Elephants, Giraffes and so on. There were many other gigantic animals that thrived during the previous ice ages, but eventually died out. For instance, Glyptodon looked like a super-giant iteration of present day armadillos. Mastodons, Mammoths and the Saber tooth tigers that not so long ago reigned in the plains of North America.
The fact that a thriving population of such majestic megafauna went extinct of a sudden around 10,000 years ago still puzzles scientists today. Extended researches have attributed their disappearance to rapid warming periods that occurred towards the end of last ice age. At the same time, the rise of human population and their hunting spree on surrounding megafauna for food and leather also further paved the path to their extinction.
7. MiniIce AgesIn between large scale ice ages, several ‘little’ ice ages appear from time to time. These mini ice ages were not as destructive as the major ones, but they are still capable of causing famine over a significant area of habitable land. The last of such mini ice was recorded in the 14th century – especially in Nordic regions of Europe. This mini ice age was responsible for an unprecedented period of extremely cold dips in temperature over the Northern Hemisphere.
It also brought with it repeated plagues, famines and general gloom among inhabitants. In fact, there were extended periods of time without any summer and adverse climatic conditions only further dampened daily life. This might explain why the general aura of the dark ages is so gloomy. The universal cause behind such mini ice ages is yet to be proposed, but scientists attribute the last mini ice age to a sudden drop in solar energy.
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In Randall’s engaging circuitous speaking style, he loops around linking various fascinating factors to foster comprehension of real, natural, sudden and serious climatic shifts, including: how the ‘Little Ice Age’ gave clues that there was a ‘Big’ ice age; that catastrophic events tend to erase evidence of prior catastrophes; the difficulties with explaining glacial/inter-glacial cycles; the message of the Greenland ice cores; societies that don’t adapt go extinct like during the literally ‘Dark’ Ages; the ‘Titanic Effect’ and preparing for the inevitable next catastrophe; what effect the entire nuclear arsenal would have on Antarctica; the unresolved ‘EnergyParadox’ and other simultaneous shifts that comprise the ‘HoloceneMystery’
Music by David Walen Jr: http://www.soundcloud.com/davi-w-jr
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In Randall’s engaging circuitous speaking style, he loops around linking various fascinating factors to foster comprehension of real, natural, sudden and serious climatic shifts, including: how the ‘Little Ice Age’ gave clues that there was a ‘Big’ ice age; that catastrophic events tend to erase evidence of prior catastrophes; the difficulties with explaining glacial/inter-glacial cycles; the message of the Greenland ice cores; societies that don’t adapt go extinct like during the literally ‘Dark’ Ages; the ‘Titanic Effect’ and preparing for the inevitable next catastrophe; what effect the entire nuclear arsenal would have on Antarctica; the unresolved ‘EnergyParadox’ and other simultaneous shifts that comprise the ‘HoloceneMystery’
Music by David Walen Jr: http://www.soundcloud.com/davi-w-jr
Underworld - Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age II
Dragons and winged serpents appear in myths and legends told by people all over the world. Could a comet impact that happened at the end of the ice age, some 12...
Dragons and winged serpents appear in myths and legends told by people all over the world. Could a comet impact that happened at the end of the ice age, some 12,900 years ago, have been the inspiration for all those stories?
The onset of the Younger Dryas, a geological period that lasted from 10,900 BC to 9,700 BC, is one of the most well-known examples of abrupt climate change. This near glacial period of about 1,200 years was named after Dryas Octopetala, a small flower that grows in cold, artic conditions and became common in Europe during this time. The end of the Younger Dryas, about 11,700 years ago, was particularly abrupt. In Greenland, temperatures rose 10°C in just a few years time.
The Younger Dryas return to a cold, glacial climate was first considered to be a regional event restricted to Europe, but later studies showed that it happened worldwide. Besides the Younger Dryas cooling, several other shorter cooling/warming events, now known as Dansgaard-Oerscher events, have been revealed by data from ice cores that were drilled in Antarctica and Greenland.
The GRIP (Greenland Ice Core Project) ice core has been especially important because the age of the ice at various levels in the core has been determined by the counting down of annual layers in the ice, giving a very accurate chronolgoy. Oxygen isotope data from the GISP2Greenland ice core, used to determine temperature fluctuations, suggest that Greenland was more than 10°C colder during the Younger Dryas and that the sudden warming of 10° ±4°C that ended the Younger Dryas occurred in a very short time.
It is now generally accepted that the Younger Dryas was caused by a comet impact that hit the Laurentide Ice Sheet, a kilometers thick sheet of ice that 12.900 years ago covered most of North America. This must have been an enormous global disaster. When the celestial object smashed into earth, in an estimated number of 7 fragments, an enormous heat was released and large amounts of dust and ashes were blown into the atmosphere, eclipsing the Sun for years.
As a result of the energy released by the impacts, parts of the Laurentide Ice Sheet melted which may have caused huge tidal waves. The sudden influx of fresh water from North America caused a shutdown of the North Atlantic 'Conveyor', which circulates warm tropical waters northward. This process, which formed the Great Lakes, may have contributed to the sudden drop in temperature.
The Younger Dryas Boundary, sometimes referred to as the 'Black Mat', has long been recognized in sediments around the world as marking the beginning of the Younger Dryas. It also corresponds to the sudden disappearance of the North AmericanClovis people and many large animals including mammoths, mastodons, american camel, dire wolf, and giant ground sloth in North America.
The cataclysmic event may well have formed the basis for the many myths and legends about a winged serpent or fire-breathing dragon. Snakes had already been in use as religious and archetypical symbols long before, but the appearance of a havoc wreaking serpent in the sky might have been the reason to add the image of a flying dragon to that.
A comet approaching earth under an angle would be stretched out into a long string of fiery fragments and debris due to Earth's gravitational pull. This happens because, unlike asteroids, comets are mainly composed of dust and ice. To the people at that time it must have looked like a big fire-spitting serpent flying through the sky. Other impact events, like the one that according to some theories caused the Great Flood around 2,700 BC, might also have served as an inspiration for this image.
In "The Vala's Prophecy" from the Edda, a collection of ancient Norse myths and sagas, we seem to catch traditional glimpses of a terrible catastrophe: "Hrym steers from the east, the waters rise, the mundane snake is coiled in the rage of the fire-giant. The worm beats the water, and the eagle screams: the pale of beak tears carcases... The stony hills are dashed together, the giantesses totter, men tread the path of Hel, and heaven is cloven...The sun darkens, earth in ocean sinks, fall from heaven the bright stars, fire's breath assails the all-nourishing tree, towering fire plays against heaven itself."
The image of a dragon is usually explained by pointing to the skeletons of dinosaurs that were found in earlier times as well. The ancient Greeks, for example, were well aware of their existence. However, this doen't explain why dragons fly through the sky spitting fire and smoke. Of course all this remains just a hypothesis but in any case, even today the arrival of a comet in the sky is considered to be a bad omen.
(2016)
Video created in 2002 by Graham HancockWatch Graham Hancock's "Magicians of the Gods," Snapshots of a Work in Progress: https://youtu.be/KcPgIphDWGY
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Dragons and winged serpents appear in myths and legends told by people all over the world. Could a comet impact that happened at the end of the ice age, some 12,900 years ago, have been the inspiration for all those stories?
The onset of the Younger Dryas, a geological period that lasted from 10,900 BC to 9,700 BC, is one of the most well-known examples of abrupt climate change. This near glacial period of about 1,200 years was named after Dryas Octopetala, a small flower that grows in cold, artic conditions and became common in Europe during this time. The end of the Younger Dryas, about 11,700 years ago, was particularly abrupt. In Greenland, temperatures rose 10°C in just a few years time.
The Younger Dryas return to a cold, glacial climate was first considered to be a regional event restricted to Europe, but later studies showed that it happened worldwide. Besides the Younger Dryas cooling, several other shorter cooling/warming events, now known as Dansgaard-Oerscher events, have been revealed by data from ice cores that were drilled in Antarctica and Greenland.
The GRIP (Greenland Ice Core Project) ice core has been especially important because the age of the ice at various levels in the core has been determined by the counting down of annual layers in the ice, giving a very accurate chronolgoy. Oxygen isotope data from the GISP2Greenland ice core, used to determine temperature fluctuations, suggest that Greenland was more than 10°C colder during the Younger Dryas and that the sudden warming of 10° ±4°C that ended the Younger Dryas occurred in a very short time.
It is now generally accepted that the Younger Dryas was caused by a comet impact that hit the Laurentide Ice Sheet, a kilometers thick sheet of ice that 12.900 years ago covered most of North America. This must have been an enormous global disaster. When the celestial object smashed into earth, in an estimated number of 7 fragments, an enormous heat was released and large amounts of dust and ashes were blown into the atmosphere, eclipsing the Sun for years.
As a result of the energy released by the impacts, parts of the Laurentide Ice Sheet melted which may have caused huge tidal waves. The sudden influx of fresh water from North America caused a shutdown of the North Atlantic 'Conveyor', which circulates warm tropical waters northward. This process, which formed the Great Lakes, may have contributed to the sudden drop in temperature.
The Younger Dryas Boundary, sometimes referred to as the 'Black Mat', has long been recognized in sediments around the world as marking the beginning of the Younger Dryas. It also corresponds to the sudden disappearance of the North AmericanClovis people and many large animals including mammoths, mastodons, american camel, dire wolf, and giant ground sloth in North America.
The cataclysmic event may well have formed the basis for the many myths and legends about a winged serpent or fire-breathing dragon. Snakes had already been in use as religious and archetypical symbols long before, but the appearance of a havoc wreaking serpent in the sky might have been the reason to add the image of a flying dragon to that.
A comet approaching earth under an angle would be stretched out into a long string of fiery fragments and debris due to Earth's gravitational pull. This happens because, unlike asteroids, comets are mainly composed of dust and ice. To the people at that time it must have looked like a big fire-spitting serpent flying through the sky. Other impact events, like the one that according to some theories caused the Great Flood around 2,700 BC, might also have served as an inspiration for this image.
In "The Vala's Prophecy" from the Edda, a collection of ancient Norse myths and sagas, we seem to catch traditional glimpses of a terrible catastrophe: "Hrym steers from the east, the waters rise, the mundane snake is coiled in the rage of the fire-giant. The worm beats the water, and the eagle screams: the pale of beak tears carcases... The stony hills are dashed together, the giantesses totter, men tread the path of Hel, and heaven is cloven...The sun darkens, earth in ocean sinks, fall from heaven the bright stars, fire's breath assails the all-nourishing tree, towering fire plays against heaven itself."
The image of a dragon is usually explained by pointing to the skeletons of dinosaurs that were found in earlier times as well. The ancient Greeks, for example, were well aware of their existence. However, this doen't explain why dragons fly through the sky spitting fire and smoke. Of course all this remains just a hypothesis but in any case, even today the arrival of a comet in the sky is considered to be a bad omen.
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Are We Seeing the New Ice Age ? - 2017
An ice age, or more precisely, a glacial age, is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the .
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An ice age, or more precisely, a glacial age, is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the .
An ice age, or more precisely, a glacial age, is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the .
With so much cold weather and world temperatures falling more Scientists now see global cooling occurring, and warn of a new ice age.
RobertFelix, a former architect, became interested in the ice-age cycle back in 1991. He spent the next eight and a half years, full-time, researching and writing .
An ice age, or more precisely, a glacial age, is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the .
An ice age, or more precisely, a glacial age, is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the .
With so much cold weather and world temperatures falling more Scientists now see global cooling occurring, and warn of a new ice age.
RobertFelix, a former architect, became interested in the ice-age cycle back in 1991. He spent the next eight and a half years, full-time, researching and writing .
Ice age
An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental an...
An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Within a long-term ice age, individual pulses of cold climate are termed "glacial periods" , and intermittent warm periods are called "interglacials". Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres. By this definition, we are in an interglacial period - the holocene, of the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist.
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An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Within a long-term ice age, individual pulses of cold climate are termed "glacial periods" , and intermittent warm periods are called "interglacials". Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres. By this definition, we are in an interglacial period - the holocene, of the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist.
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What is an Ice Age?
Hi, I'm EmeraldRobinson. In this "What Is" video we're going to take a closer look at ice ages.
In 1840, Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz noticed glaciers--huge rivers of ice created by snowfall--occurred throughout northern Europe. As glaciers move they transport rocks and scour the ground beneath them, leaving evidence of their passing. Agassiz theorized glaciers were the remnants of a huge glacial ice field that once covered much of the continent. Geologic evidence of massive glacial activity also occurs in North America.
Agassiz had discovered evidence of the last ice age, a period of time when glacial ice fields extended across large sections of the planet. Geologists have evidence of three ice ages--more properly called glacial ages. The oldest occurred 275 million years ago. The second, which affected parts of Africa, India and Australia, occurred 275 million years ago.
The last glacial age, and the only one to occur since humans appeared, began 1.5 million years ago, and receded 15,000 years ago. During that time the Laurentide ice field covered all of Canada and extended as far south as Indiana.
Glacial ages have enormous effects on the plant's weather patterns, animals and plant life. Animals that cannot adapt to the colder environments die out. Similarly, animals that adapt to cold environments may not survive the change when glaciers recede.
The Milankovich theory, by astronomer Milutin Milankovich, suggests variations in the earth's orbit account for glacial ages. Instead of orbiting the sun in a constant pattern, the earth "wobbles." Over millions of years this "wobbling" affects global temperatures. As glacial ice fields spread, snow and ice reflect sunlight that would otherwise warm the earth, causing further drops in cold temperatures. Low levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can also contribute to a glacial age.
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We’re living in a brief window of time where our planet isn’t frozen underneath a giant layer of glaciers. How much longer will the moderate climate that we’ve come to know as “normal” continue? What causes these dramatic shifts in temperature that thaw our planet and then throw it back into a state of deep freeze? This episode looks at how the changes in our planet’s orbit and rotation impacts our climate.
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The Last Four Glacial Cycles
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The Last Four Glacial Cycles
During the last 400,000 years, considerable parts of North America, Europe and Asia were covered by large ice-sheets. At the maximum of the glaciation about 21,000 years before present the sea level was approximately 120 m (394 ft) lower than today due to the large quantities of water locked in the ice-sheets, and surface temperatures in many regions of the Earth were significantly colder. The animation shows the extent of the continental ice-sheets and of sea-ice as well as the distribution of land and ocean that is altered by changes in sea-level.
A truly satisfactory explanation of the dynamics of glacial cycles remains elusive to this day. Even though there is compelling evidence that changes in the strength and distribution of solar insolation caused by variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun are mainly responsible for the build-up and melting of ice-sheets. However, the way in which these variations interact with e.g. winds, ocean currents and the terrestrial and marine biosphere is still a matter of current research.
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Ice Ages & Climate Cycles
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Ice Ages & Climate Cycles
This video describes the characteristics of ice ages during the last billion years. We discuss why ice ages happened and how and why climate varies in short-term climate cycles during ice ages. We introduce the term "albedo" and use it to consider how the glacial system is affected by feedbacks that can either increase or reduce the volume of glacial ice.
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Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global tem...
Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
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North America Ice age
FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones region in the world on top of Lao mountain range, transfer it below via gravity by producing electricity, food, and goods, at the same time, distribute them to far-flung floating agricultural modules, to newly built megacities, and to industrial complex across the equator, between the tropical cyclones zone, connecting them to other continents, avoiding post ice age big melt danger. Once done, we can tap into the PrimaryWater Cycle for larger scale space programs, build Hyperloop transport system for universal distribution of drinking water, food, goods, electricity and heat, all year round. The heat and coldness redistribution across the world will minimize risks caused by Ice Age and post-Ice Age. Asteroids mining and universal commodity dispersion will allow humanity to progress beyond "Sustainability", and to solve other risks.
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ice age sea levels
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ice age sea levels
Download full rez version here, it's better to just down load it, 350 mb. . https://archive.org/details/Dd000121052 , also check out the other version that has a closer perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yaJ_Ku2hCM, using blender software, and Nasa images, we can show much lower sea levels at the peak of the last ice age. The Mediterranean sea is land locked, Japan connects to China, no north sea and so on.
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The Last Ice Age (120 000 years ago to Modern)
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Last Glacial Maximum - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The "Last Glacial Maximum" was the last period in the Earth's climate history during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension. Growth of the ice sheets reached their maximum positions 26,500 years ago. Deglaciation commenced in the Northern Hemisphere approximately 19,000 years ago, and in Antarctica approximately 14,500 years ago which is consistent with evidence that this was the primary source for an abrupt rise in the sea level 14,500 years ago. At this time, vast ice sheets covered much of North America, northern Europe and Asia. These ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate, causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels. It was followed by the Late Glacial Maximum.
The formation of an ice sheet or ice cap requires both prolonged cold and precipitation . Hence, despite having temperatures similar to those of glaciated areas in North America and Europe, East Asia remained unglaciated except at higher elevations. This difference was because the ice sheets in Europe produced extensive anticyclones above them. These anticyclones generated air masses that were so dry on reaching Siberia and Manchuria that precipitation sufficient for the formation of glaciers could never occur . The relative warmth of the Pacific Ocean due to the shutting down of the Oyashio Current and the presence of large 'east-west' mountain ranges were secondary factors preventing continental glaciation in Asia.
All over the world, climates at the Last Glacial Maximum were cooler and almost everywhere drier. In extreme cases, such as South Australia and the Sahel, rainfall could be diminished by up to 90% from present, with florae diminished to almost the same degree as in glaciated areas of Europe and North America. Even in less affected regions, rainforest cover was greatly diminished, especially in West Africa where a few "refugia" were surrounded by tropical grasslands. The Amazon rainforest was split into two large blocks by extensive savanna, and the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia probably were similarly affected, with deciduous forests expanding in their place except on the east and west extremities of the Sundaland shelf. Only in Central America and the Chocó region of Colombia did tropical rainforests remain substantially intact – probably due to the extraordinarily heavy rainfall of these regions.
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Evidence For the Ice Age - Proof of the Glacial Period
This film examines many features of today's landscapes which cannot be explained by processes at work around them, and explains that observation of the work of modern glaciers establishes that these anomalies could only have been caused by a massive sheet of moving ice. It is evidence that glacial ice moved south at least four times in geologic history, and that its shape and size correspond approximately with the distribution of glacial features.
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3 reasons not to expect a 'mini ice age' in 2030
3 reasons not to expect a 'mini ice age' in 2030
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3 reasons not to expect a 'mini ice age' in 2030
3 reasons not to expect a 'mini ice age' in 2030
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Even thoughEarth is already in an ice age, a surplus of ice is the least of our worries.
You can probably keep your igloo-building skills on ice for a while longer. Despite a recent flurry of news reports suggesting Earth is just 15 years away from a "mini ice age," we're still in far more danger from global warming than global cooling.
The source of those reports is a new model of the sun's solar cycle, released last week by Northumbria University mathematics professor Valentina Zharkova. The model offers fresh details about irregularities in the sun's 11-year "heartbeat," the same cycle that influences solar storms and the northern lights. Specifically, it predicts a substantial decrease in solar activity over the next couple decades.
Many news outlets — especially those with a less-than-stellar track record of reporting about climate change — have seized on a particular line from a press release about the model. "Predictions from the model suggest that solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during the 2030s," the release states, "to conditions last seen during the 'mini ice age' that began in 1645."
Also known as the "Little Ice Age," this was a period of a few centuries marked by unusually cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere. It was not a true "ice age" in scientific terms, but it was really cold — and it correlated with a big dip in solar activity. So if the solar cycle is about to experience another big dip, that means the ongoing growth of global warming will screech to a halt and we'll all freeze, right?
Maybe. But very probably not. Here are three important points to keep in mind:
1. Technically, Earth is already in an ice age.
The phrase "ice age" gets thrown around a lot, so its exact meaning is understandably muddled. But it's worth noting that Earth has been in an ice age for about 3 million years, while modern humans have only been around for about 200,000. It's also worth noting that most people don't really mean ice age when they say "ice age."
The current ice age is one of at least five in Earth's history. Each ice age is punctuated by shorter cycles of relatively warm weather when glaciers retreat (interglacial periods) and cold cycles when glaciers advance (glacial periods). Sometimes people refer to these glacial periods as "ice ages," which can be confusing. The current interglacial — which includes the Little Ice Age, aka Maunder minimum — began about 11,000 years ago. Research suggests it may last another 50,000 years.
Even if the predicted drop in solar activity does significantly affect Earth's climate, no one is saying it would usher in a new glacial period. At most, a "mini ice age" would likely resemble the Little Ice Age of 1645, which didn't involve globally advancing glaciers but did involve local glaciation as well as agricultural hardship for Northern Europe. Still, there's ample reason to doubt even this milder outcome.
2. The link between sunspots and global cooling is hazy.
The new solar-cycle model is not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, as the Washington Post points out, meaning it's still a bit preliminary. But even the scientists who created it didn't predict a mini ice age in their press release; the "conditions" they mentioned are on the sun, not Earth. Those conditions were "last seen during the 'mini ice age,'" as the press release notes, but the researchers stop short of explicitly blaming the cooler climate on a scarcity of sunspots.
Still, they do seem to imply a connection. And they wouldn't be the first — the correlation between solar activity and the Little Ice Age is notable, and it's often touted by those who doubt the proven influence of carbon dioxide on climate. Scientists acknowledge the Little Ice Age may have been partly caused by low solar activity, but few believe that was the only cause. The period also correlated with a series of major volcanic eruptions, which are known to block solar heat.
And even if the Little Ice Age was partly due to the solar cycle, that correlation hasn't held up in modern times. Solar activity has been generally declining since the mid-20th century, yet Earth's average temperature has been notoriously soaring at a pace unprecedented in human history (see graph below). While the recent solar maximumwas the weakest in a century, 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history.
North America Ice age
FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones region in the world on top of Lao mountain range, transfer it below via gravity by producing electricity, food, and goods, at the same time, distribute them to far-flung floating agricultural modules, to newly built megacities, and to industrial complex across the equator, between the tropical cyclones zone, connecting them to other continents, avoiding post ice age big melt danger. Once done, we can tap into the PrimaryWater Cycle for larger scale space programs, build Hyperloop transport system for universal distribution of drinking water, food, goods, electricity and heat, all year round. The heat and coldness redistribution across the world will minimize risks caused by Ice Age and post-Ice Age. Asteroids mining and universal commodity dispersion will allow humanity to progress beyond "Sustainability", and to solve other risks.
http://SEAWAPA.org
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Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global tem...
Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
www.seawapa.org/ice_age.html
Last Glacial Maximum - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The "Last Glacial Maximum" was the last period in the Earth's climate history during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension. Growth of the ice sheets reached their maximum positions 26,500 years ago. Deglaciation commenced in the Northern Hemisphere approximately 19,000 years ago, and in Antarctica approximately 14,500 years ago which is consistent with evidence that this was the primary source for an abrupt rise in the sea level 14,500 years ago. At this time, vast ice sheets covered much of North America, northern Europe and Asia. These ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate, causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels. It was followed by the Late Glacial Maximum.
The formation of an ice sheet or ice cap requires both prolonged cold and precipitation . Hence, despite having temperatures similar to those of glaciated areas in North America and Europe, East Asia remained unglaciated except at higher elevations. This difference was because the ice sheets in Europe produced extensive anticyclones above them. These anticyclones generated air masses that were so dry on reaching Siberia and Manchuria that precipitation sufficient for the formation of glaciers could never occur . The relative warmth of the Pacific Ocean due to the shutting down of the Oyashio Current and the presence of large 'east-west' mountain ranges were secondary factors preventing continental glaciation in Asia.
All over the world, climates at the Last Glacial Maximum were cooler and almost everywhere drier. In extreme cases, such as South Australia and the Sahel, rainfall could be diminished by up to 90% from present, with florae diminished to almost the same degree as in glaciated areas of Europe and North America. Even in less affected regions, rainforest cover was greatly diminished, especially in West Africa where a few "refugia" were surrounded by tropical grasslands. The Amazon rainforest was split into two large blocks by extensive savanna, and the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia probably were similarly affected, with deciduous forests expanding in their place except on the east and west extremities of the Sundaland shelf. Only in Central America and the Chocó region of Colombia did tropical rainforests remain substantially intact – probably due to the extraordinarily heavy rainfall of these regions.
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Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The "Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements" comprise a geological feature between Kimberley and B...
Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The "Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements" comprise a geological feature between Kimberley and Barkly West, South Africa, pertaining to the Palaeozoic-age Dwyka Ice Age, or Karoo Ice Age, where the glacially scoured ancient bedrock was used, substantially more recently, during the Later Stone Age period in the late Holocene as panels for rock engravings.
Some 300-290 million years ago, during Dwyka times, what is now Southern Africa was, as a result of plate tectonics, near the South Pole and large ice sheets or glaciers covered high-lying areas. Geologists term this upland the Cargonian Highlands, stretching from what is now the Northern Cape through Gauteng to Mpumalanga. As the Dwyka glaciers moved, grinding their way southwards, the rocks and rubble that became embedded in their belly smoothed the underlying Andesite rock pavements and scoured out scratch marks, known as striations. As the ice shaped the landscape, the continent of Gondwanaland continued to drift slowly northwards, ultimately bringing this area into warmer latitudes. As the glaciers melted, a mixture of clay and rock was left behind which eventually consolidated into a rock called Tillite – the lower-most layer in the Karoo sequence. Quite large erratics or drop stones carried here by glacial action are found at Nooitgedacht. The changing local environment also created conditions conducive for the burgeoning of life, reflected in the rich fossil record of the Karoo.
Along this portion of its course, the adjacent Vaal River, and earlier generations of rivers and erosion processes, have cut through and swept away a vast mass of Karoo rock and sediment, to re-expose the volcanic Andesite landscape formed 2.7 billion years ago and shaped by glacial action 300 million years ago. At one time – when the diamondiferous pipes penetrated to the surface between 120 and 90 million years ago – it is estimated that about 1 km of Karoo sediment overlay the Kimberley-Barkly West area. Diamonds were eroded out of these pipes and caught in pockets of sediment and gravels which, once discovered, changed the course of modern South African history.
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Animating Irish Ice Sheet during the last Glacial Period
An animation showing the growth and retreat of the Irish Ice Sheet during the last glaciat...
Mini Ice Age, Long Ice Age Glaciation explained
The Earth is about to begin a steep drop in global temperatures off its present global temperature plateau. This plateau has been caused by the absence of growth in global temperatures for 18 years, the start of global cooling in the atmosphere and the oceans, and the end of a short period of moderate solar heating from an unusually active secondary peak in solar cycle #24.
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North America Ice age
FROM SHORT MINI ICE AGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowl...
North America Ice age
FROM SHORTMINIICEAGE TO LONG ICE AGE GLACIATION
Global warming peaked in 1988 and slowly ending the Interglacial WarmHolidays to begin the short MiniIce Age affecting all spectrum. After a return to short warming period, we expect a U-turn to long sleep of Ice Age Glaciation. It happened many times in the past, each time resetting Human evolution.
During this shortcoming Ice Age, there won't be enough space to grow food and for comfort living, except between the two 33° latitudes north and south of the equator which is not enough lands, and there won't be enough cheap and fresh drinking water neither for mass survivals.
Our SEAWAPA project is to harvest fresh drinking water from the 7 month monsoons and rains, the melting ice from Tibet and from the most abundant tropical cyclones region in the world on top of Lao mountain range, transfer it below via gravity by producing electricity, food, and goods, at the same time, distribute them to far-flung floating agricultural modules, to newly built megacities, and to industrial complex across the equator, between the tropical cyclones zone, connecting them to other continents, avoiding post ice age big melt danger. Once done, we can tap into the PrimaryWater Cycle for larger scale space programs, build Hyperloop transport system for universal distribution of drinking water, food, goods, electricity and heat, all year round. The heat and coldness redistribution across the world will minimize risks caused by Ice Age and post-Ice Age. Asteroids mining and universal commodity dispersion will allow humanity to progress beyond "Sustainability", and to solve other risks.
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The History of Climate Change and the Ice Ages
The history of Climate Change from the earliest known Ice ages up to the start of the current Holocene Epoch that began around 11 thousand 5 hundred years ago.
In doing so the video will cover the definitions of Ice Ages,
Glacial periods and inter-glacial periods. We will also look at what is known of the potential causes of Ice ages, and how life on the planet hs Changed and developed over millions of years alongside the changing climate.
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The Advanced Pre Ice Age Civilizations that Vanished From Earth [FULL VIDEO]
A physical and intellectual journey, a worldwide exploration looking for the ancient ruins...
The Advanced Pre Ice Age Civilizations that Vanished From Earth [FULL VIDEO]
A physical and intellectual journey, a worldwide exploration looking for the ancient ruins of a lost civilization, this video follows clues in ancient scriptures and mythlogy and in the scientific evidence of the flood that swept the Earth at the end of the last Ice Age. This video explores the question of early humans swept away by the catastrophe. Who were these populations - pre-civilised hunter-gatherers or more sophisticated peoples altogether?
Some 6,000 or 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, civilisation has been with mankind for many millennia longer. Examines which coastal areas vanished beneath the sea as the ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age, a catastrophic inundation we find in the Flood myths of most of the world's traditional religions. Goes diving and finds, in some cases, incontrovertible ruins; in other cases the piles of stone might well be natural rock formations, but Hancock argues for their human origins.
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Earth System Science 21. On Thin Ice. Lecture 21. Ice Age World and Past Impact of Ice on Humans
Earth System Science 21. On Thin Ice. Lecture 21. Ice Age World and Past Impact of Ice on Humans
UCIESS 21: On Thin Ice (Winter 2014)
Lec 21. On Thin Ice -- Ice AgeWorld and PastImpact of Ice on Humans --
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Description: In recent decades we have observed a significant reduction of the cryosphere due to anthropogenic climate change. The observed and predicted changes in the extent and amount of snow and ice will have major impacts on climate, ecosystems and human populations both at a local and global scale. This course will introduce students to the science behind climate change as well as the physical and chemical processes that govern components of the cryosphere, including snow, permafrost, sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. Particular emphasis will be placed on the important role that each component plays in the larger climate system and potential feedbacks. We will also examine some of the social, economic and political impacts that the melting cryosphere will have on countries around the Arctic and also worldwide, such as access to new petroleum reserves, infrastructure damage due to melting permafrost, sea level rise and decreases in freshwater availability.
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Required attribution: Ferguson, Julie. On Thin Ice 21 (UCI OpenCourseWare: University of California, Irvine), http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/ess_21_on_thin_ice__climate_change_and_the_cryosphere.html. [Access date]. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike3.0United States License. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US).
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Last glacial period
The last glacial period, popularly known as the Ice Age, was the most recent glacial perio...
Last glacial period
The last glacial period, popularly known as the Ice Age, was the most recent glacial period, which occurred from c.110,000 to 12,000 years ago.This most recent glacial period is part of a larger pattern of glacial and interglacial periods known as the Quaternary glaciation .From this point of view, scientists consider this "ice age" to be merely the latest glaciation event in a much larger ice age, one that dates back over two million years and is still ongoing.
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Underworld - Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age I
Plato's Story of Atlantis
In 360 BC, the famous Greek philosopher Plato wrote about a bat...
Underworld - Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age I
Plato's Story of Atlantis
In 360 BC, the famous Greek philosopher Plato wrote about a battle between his city Athens and a great empire named Atlantis. He described this war, which ended when Atlantis disappeared in the ocean due to "violent earthquakes and floods," in two of his books: "Timaeus" and "Critias" (https://sites.google.com/site/11000vchr/plato-s-kritias).
According to Plato, all this happened 9,000 years before his time which would be at least 9,400 BC, some 12,400 years ago. Intriguingly, this also corresponds to the period when the geological age of the Younger Dryas suddenly ended with an abrupt warming of more than 10°C in only a few years. This event marked the beginning of the Holocene, the era in which we are still living today.
Sea levels must have risen rapidly and dramatically, and as a result entire civilizations, if any existed, would have disappeared under water. It's still unclear what caused the extreme climate change that ended the Younger Dryas around 9,700 BC, although some evidence seems to point to solar activity.
Whether Atlantis really existed is hard to say. In that time, sealevels were at least 80 to 100 meters lower than today. Therefore, if there were any archeological evidence, one would have to look deep in the bottom of the sea, but nothing has been found sofar.
Plato's main concern was probably with illustrating his political views rather than being historically accurate. He was very much opposed to Athen's new democracy and held the opinion that it would inevitably lead to dictatorship and tyranny. Indeed, Atlantis owed its greatness, according to Plato, to the oligarchy that happened to govern the city-empire exactly the way he propagated in his work “The Republic.” Moreover, only the first 20 pages of Plato's narrative have been preserved.
It remains remarkable though, how Plato's story reflects climatic events and other facts of which he could not have had any direct knowledge. For instance, he explains how in ancient times, the higher and less fertile areas were inhabited by primitive pastoral peoples, while the more advanced civilizations lived in the coastal regions, which is why they could escape the catastrophic rise in sea levels that struck the coastal regions and destroyed everything that lived there. Plato tells us that only the Egyptian culture was saved from this due to its special location further inland in the Nile valley.
Other intriguing issues, such as the frequent use of “orichalcum” in Atlantis, are mentioned in the “Critias” as well. This mysterious metal is very reminiscent of tumbaga, an alloy of gold and copper in varying proportions which was much used by the Inca and other peoples in the New World. This, however, became known only 2,000 years later after Columbus discovered America.
Plato wasn't the first to mention Atlantis as it is often believed. In Herodotus' time, the sea outside Gibraltar was on occasion called the Atlantis Sea. In theGreat Hall of the temple of Ramses at Karnak a column shows a depiction of a great festival, along with an accompanying text memorializing “the loss of a drowned continent in the WesternOcean.” Plato described Atlantis as being ruled by ten kings and Egyptian king-lists going back thousands of years before Plato also talk of ten god-kings called “Atlanteans.”
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Enlightenment Through Understanding
The China Test
July 21
You can predict one’s ideology and overall perspective on the world by their opinion of China. Those who are optimistic about China tend to be more successful financially, and or subscribe to a neocon or neoliberal worldview. They tend to be optimistic about technology, markets, and human nature, although this is not the same as being pro-democracy; rather is is congruent to technocracy. Those who are pessimistic and antipathetic about China tend to subscribe to a traditionalist and or isolationist worldview, and are likely not as financially successful, and may have either authoritarian or populist ideological beliefs.
It would seem billionaires, being the most financially successful of all, have a very positive outlook about China. They love the China, and the rich Chinese love them too. There is a sort of symbiosis between America’s financial, political, and tech elite and China’s elite, that is unique and does not extend to the elites of other countries. For example, China’s rich keep buying up expensive homes in Silicon Valley, much to the chagrin of the left and the populist right. They, these rich Chinese, choose Silicon Valley out of all possible locations, due to cultural similarities, among other factors. The tech rich and the Chinese-rich have a lot in common: high IQ, industriousness, a pro-capitalism and Laissez-faire worldview, and a lot of money.
During the 2016 campaign Trump played to anti-China sentiment to help secure votes from the populist right, but I think in private he’s much more conciliatory.
Here is Elon Musk praising China effusively:
With my team after a profoundly interesting discussion of history, philosophy & luck with Vice President Wang in 中南海紫光阁 pic.twitter.com/pHd52YTZD2
A lot of potential consumers. China’s has 1.4 billion people, which means a lot of consumer spending. Hollywood pulled itself out of a slump in the early 2000′s, due to foreign ticket sales, which have surged despite stagnant domestic sales. As discussed in the post Sorry Middle Class, You’re Just Not That Important Anymore, wealthy Chinese consumers are overtaking US consumers, and that’s a reason why elites aren’t too concerned about the so-called ‘decline of the middle class.’
A source of credit. Wealthy people need somewhere to store their wealth, such as bonds, and the Chinese by buying up these bonds, helps bondholders.
Cultural blank slate. There is no Chinese-equivalent of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant or Catholic culture. There is no official ‘Chinese religion’. Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism have a much smaller cultural grip on contemporary China than Christianity or evangelicalism does on contemporary America. There are millions of these people that can be molded to whatever value system exerts the biggest influence, and major corporations have the resources to shape culture. The overthrow of the imperial regime, and then a generation later, the end of Mao, all in the in the span of just fifty years, left the Chinese culturally adrift and torn between two extremes. This could explain why Chinese immigrants, and the Chinese, overall, assimilate so well with American culture abroad and seek to emulate it domestically. | {
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Sharp Eyeing Dell for U.S. Partner
Consumer electronics giant Sharp is on the hunt for a U.S. partner and has approached Dell, among others, about an equity stake, according to a report by TheWall Street Journal.
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The Japanese company has offered an equity stake to Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and is discussing a similar offer for Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) as its talks with Taiwanese contract manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry slow ahead of the March deadline, according to the report.
A Dell spokesperson said the Round Rock, Texas-based company does not comment “on rumor and speculation.” An Intel spokesperson echoed similar comments, while Sharp did not immediately respond.
Sources close to the matter told the Journal that Sharp is hoping for an investment of as much as 20 billion yen, or $240 million, from both Dell and Intel, with talks over a possibly smaller investment from Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM). San Diego-based Qualcomm would not comment.
The capital injection would help Sharp bolster its balance sheet, enabling it to grab a bigger chunk of the burgeoning display technology market.
While speculation regarding Sharp's talks with Qualcomm and Intel has brewed for months, the Dell news first reported by the Journal seems to be fresh in Sharp's ongoing equity-stake saga.
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Shares of Sharp closed up just over 3% on Thursday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, while those of Dell edged up slightly to $9.74 and Intel's fell 2% to $19.68. | {
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14 Pleasing Open Concept Kitchen Living Room Stock
14 Pleasing Open Concept Kitchen Living Room Stock – Although a lot of people find it not appropriate to use colourful paints for his or her homes, an artist know for her illuminated furnishings line pushed individuals to make a room for vivid colors inside the house. In right now’s abode, colour plays a substantial function in accentuating interiors and design areas of significance in rooms which are out of proportion.
Structural features can be used to be effective with a view to create a space via the usage of color. Bookcases, doorways and home windows can sum up more interest to partitions full of colours.
To emphasize significance, in accordance with a Sherwin-Williams worker, she discloses that it’s good to color doorways a little more mild or darkish than the wall.It perhaps fairly a metamorphosis however it offers consideration to element.One other instance can be to make use of cooper finish for translucency thus offering good reflection to the construction.
If you want to be daring, one can use two completely different colors. For example, a bookcase will be painted in green and placed in a room with blue partitions. Nonetheless, there may be additionally continuity all through the home if identical colors are used.
Find out how to Choose the Right Shade for Your open concept kitchen living room
One of the first rooms that most individuals get to see once they enter your home is your open concept kitchen living room. Is your living room inviting? Does it actually have your personal contact incorporated into it? What type of temper does it display when first coming into? These are some vital things you need to be aware of earlier than making any decisions. One way to really define you and your open concept kitchen living room is by the color paint you select to use. The color you choose is very important. It creates mood, effects lighting and says lots about your personal type.
So what would you like to do, play it safe with neutral colors or be a bit bolder? One method to get new and contemporary ideas is to look in recent magazines. This can be a good way to study in regards to the new tendencies and styles of immediately’s interior decorators. Some in style paint firm websites also feature wonderful concepts for you to imitate or study from.
Shade is a really powerful thing and the usage of sure colors might be discovered all over the place. It may well change our temper or stimulate the senses. In case you are outgoing, daring front room colours swimsuit you best. On the same time if you’re the shy sort, passive colours are your factor. You will need to use the right combination of colours to make your room more inviting and stress-free.
In case you can, don’t use more than two colors in any given room. One color as the primary colour and the opposite because the trim. If you happen to really need to choose the most effective mixture of colours on your open concept kitchen living room it’s best to try using a shade palette. They’ll easily be discovered at an area paint retailer and someone is at all times willing to help you if wanted. | {
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Matches Book Review
Matches – Carlie Pettitt
Blurb: Victoria is broken, lost and neglected. Her philandering older husband, Ralph, has spiralled out of control. The multimillionaire tycoon is on a journey of self-destruction, destroying everything in his way.
Ultra-cool Kim doesn’t do love – until she meets Omar. But her unconventional arrangement and a dark secret, turns her world upside down.
James is naive, and too nice for his own good. Married to the neurotic and psychopathic Amanda, who will stop at nothing to satisfy her desire to destroy Victoria, taking all that she has.
From mansions in Wimbledon Village, exclusive parties in Mayfair, to penthouses in Knightsbridge and first class travel across the world. Matches sizzles with passion, jealousy, greed, betrayal, sexual hedonism and secrets. Dramatic events rock their moral compasses. Explosive living leaves many wounded. Their decisions and actions will dictate who can forgive and who will get out alive.
Review: I purchased this e-book on Amazon. Carlie seems like a lovely person, and it has been great following her self-pub writing journey. I read the book in a few consecutive days. A great first book. The characters lifestyles, and emotions are explained in depth. The reader gets to read both the good and the bad side of each character, keeping you guessing what will happen, and how they develop throughout the story. The book ends on a cliffhanger, to which Carlie is releasing a sequel. If you enjoy drama, diva attitudes and the lives of the upper class of Wimbledon, then this is for you. | {
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IMPORTANT NOTICE - DISCLAIMERAll characters are 18 years old or older.
This is an entirely fictional work based on
cartoon characters for adult entertainment. It shows no real people or events.
The characters are shown participating in CONSENSUAL role-play for their own
personal satisfaction, simulating activities which involve sexual dominance and
submission. No actual toons were harmed in the making of this comic.
TRAPPED
WITH OTHER MISSING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, LINZIE AND CAROLE WILL SOON FIND
OUT HOW DEEP THE RABBIT HOLE GOES: IN THE DARK LAUNDRY ROOM THEY ARE ALL
ABOUT TO KNOW HOW TO WASH THEIR DIRTY LINEN IN PUBLIC!
Every
bad joke has its risk and teasing a sexually repressed janitor is no
exception…
Being
one of the most desired girls in the whole UCLA, Linzie Davidson is not
aware of the consequences of her arrogant attitude, until a sudden
blackout wipes away her shining smile, turning her beautiful life into a never ending
nightmare!
But
she will not walk alone this hideous path: some other students have
disappeared lately in the University, and Linzie and her best friend
Carole are about to discover why...and where!
In
the meantime, their descent into desolation is being carefully planned by
the janitor and his partner in crime: with a clever but scary trick, the
couple of skunks can manipulate their victims and lead them to act in the
most depraved ways.
With
endless lust and a deep-buried hunger for vengeance, they both don't seem
to be satisfied until every last bit of these high-class students'
reputation is blown away!
Day
alter day the desperate group of young women will learn what’s hidden
behind the glossy surface, as well as under UCLA corridors.
Looking
up from the bottom of despair, they are all going to forget the meaning of
words like Confidence, Pride and Shame.
No
mercy, no rules, no friends: everybody's in danger. But who's the final
victim?
AONE-WAY TRIP TO HELL FOR A GROUP OF BEAUTIFUL UCLA STUDENTS
IN THE PERVERTED HANDS OF UNFORGIVING SADISTS…
LOOK
OUT FOR THIS EXPLOSIVE MIX OF PAIN, PRIVATE & PUBLIC HUMILIATION FROM
CAGRI!
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THE
LOST LAWYER
UNITED
NATION SENT THEIR BEST LAWYER,RACHEL
SCOTT, TO INVESTIGATE
THE ABUSES AT THE ANGOLA PRISON, JUST TO DISCOVER THAT JUSTICE IS
BLINDER THAN SHE EVER IMAGINED…
General
Adrian Kimbacala is the ruthless dictator who took the government of the
once democratic Republic of Angola, in the south-central Africa.
Now
that Kimbacala is in charge, he’s finally the one who make the rules and
things start to change in the most dramatic ways.
His
word is the only law, and he’s not going to tolerate any critic or
different view from his own. Every media is under control, dissidents are
arrested and taken to the Angola Prison, where nobody knows what happen to
them…
That’s
the fate of the young and beautiful journalist Zowa Savimbi. whose only
guilt was “abusing” of freedom of speech, and got caught by Colonel
Mkombo, Kimbacala’s right-hand man, in dreadful trap with no way out.
When
Rachel Scout, UN best lawyer, arrives to Angola Prison to help her and dissuade
General Kimbacala and his military staff from their totalitarian delirium,
both girls start to face a reality that looks VERY different from what
they were used to…
Not
only Kimbacala broke democracy in his Country, but he’s also trying to
break the young women’s spirit by any necessary means: and if United
Nations fail, who’s going to stop him?
FIGHTING
FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE FORBIDDEN CORNERS OF A WILD CONTINENT
COULD BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS: BUT IF YOU ARE A YOUNG AND INVITING WOMAN,
THINGS CAN GET EVEN WORSE…
DON’T
MISS THIS DREADFUL SAFARI INTO SUBMISSION FROM THE SAVAGE MIND OF CAGRI!
TWO
HOT TALES OF DOMINATION AND HUMILIATION
BY AN UNDISPUTED MASTER OF THE CRAFT: CAGRI! | {
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16th Annual Take a Bite Out of Hunger Auction – tickets on sale now
The 16th annual Take a Bite out of Hunger Auction is coming up this year on Saturday, October 1st at St. Demetrios Hall, benefitting the University District Food Bank.
This year, the food bank hopes to raise $125,000 at the event with about 300 people in attendance. While they are still gathering together items for the auction, they already have some great donations – including a Cape Cod vacation and a Husky Football Sideline Pass.
If you purchase your tickets to the event in August, they are $65 per person or $520 for a full table (seats 8). After September 1st, ticket prices will go to $75. You can purchase tickets online here.
The University District Food Bank provided groceries to of $54,200 families in 2010, and distributed 2.2 million pounds of food. Naturally, they hope to do even better for 2011. | {
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Rising from a community based drumming group, the colourful thirty-plus member drum group know simply as Samba Squad, performs a variety of samba-based West African, Caribbean and Afro-Cuban styles of Carnival rhythms on t... more »raditional Brazilian percussion instruments and has become one of the most sought after Canadian World and Latin music acts thrilling audiences from coast to coast with their unique live music experience. Samba Squad is led by percussionist Rick Shadrach Lazar who has devoted a life to making music, involving himself in a wide variety of innovative projects and collaborating with other Canadian and international artists, including Bruce Cockburn, the Blues Brothers, Moe Koffman, Jesse Cook, Jane Bunnett, Jeff Healy, Montuno Police, Loreena McKennitt and Great Big Sea. With these notable projects it is easy to see why he was voted Percussionist of the Year five times by Canada's Jazz Report magazine. Samba Squad has performed over 200 festivals (Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, Roots & Blues Festival Salmon Arms B.C., London's Sun Fest, Ottawa Jazz Festival and Muhtadi's International Drum Fest in Tobago) concerts, benefits, special events, sporting events (Toronto Raptors, Toronto Argos and Blue Jays half-time shows) and television appearances (Governor General Awards CBC Television, The Toronto Show Toronto 1, Breakfast Television CITY TV, Open Mike with Mike Bullard, CTV). In addition, Samba Squad have also opened for Grammy and Juno award winning singer Sarah Mclaughlin and are a regular guest performer for Canadian flamenco phenomenon Jesse Cook. For the first time on DVD, Drums We Love captures Samba Squad at their best with the unique live and impromptu performance the group has become known for. Drums We Love is a look into the creation and evolution of Samba Squad through the words of group members and students as well as interviews with lead percussionist Rick Shadrach Lazar, and special guests Jesse Cook, Bruce Cockburn, Loreena McKennitt and Paul Shaffer. For fans and percussionists alike this DVD is a must have, for in the end it all comes down to the Drums We Love.« less | {
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These are a family favorite. Being New Englanders we always called them ‘dirty snowballs.” I don’t think that needs much explanation. They are simple and elegant and most of the work can be done ahead of time.
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/4 cups white granulated sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs, room temperature (takes about 20-30 minutes)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups AP flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon espresso powder diluted in warm water (optional)*
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup confectioners’ sugar
Note: If you would prefer a peppermint flavor substitute espresso powder for 1 teaspoon peppermint extract.
Step 1
In a bowl measure out the AP flour, baking powder and salt.Set aside.
Step 2
Combine in a mixing bowl the cocoa powder, about 2 teaspoons of the espresso liquid (if using), granulated sugar and vegetable oil. It should be well-mixed and glisten, shiny (means the oil is integrated with the dry stuff).
Step 2
Add the eggs one at at time — wait about 30 seconds after adding one before adding the next one. Finish this step by adding the vanilla.
Step 3
Mix the dry ingredients ever so slowly into the chocolate mixture on low speed until just combined–do not overmix. Go gentle into the batter of night folks. Keep the batter in the bowl, or transfer into a smaller one and wrap the bowl in plastic wrap. Chill for 4 hours or overnight. This batter is better if made the day before and chills for 8 hours. It never hardens completely it is firm with give.
Step 4
Preheat the oven to 350°F, line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or baking mats. Place confectioner’s sugar in a wide bowl as you need space to roll many at a time. Using two spoons get about a rounded teaspoon of the chilled dough and roll them into 1-inch sized balls using your hands Work quick as you want these firm and cool. Roll the balls in the confectioner’s sugar and place on the cookie sheets (you should be able to get a dozen or so on each baking sheet.
Bake for 10-12 minutes. Cool a few minutes, transfer to a wire rack to cool.
…or bread and butter pickles….I do about 80% pickling cucumbers and the balance is zucchini because they are everywhere in the summer. This recipe is the essentially the variation from the Ball Complete book of Home Preserving which if you are doing any measure of canning or pickling would be of endless value. This is the British variation which swaps out, in equal measure, white vinegar and white sugar with cider vinegar and brown sugar. The taste will be sharper if you go the traditional route. Regarding the brining spices you can go with this variation here or purchase a pickling spice. The bay leaf adds a crispy bite to the final pickle so if you like the crunch keep the bay leaf. And that brine makes an excellent addition to cocktails especially a dirty martini.
You can scale this down or make a whole lot of pickles and skip the canning process as when done they will keep in the fridge for a few weeks.
At least two hours ahead in a large glass, ceramic, or stainless steel bowl combine in alternating layers cucumbers/zucchini, onions and salt. Mix well. Let stand for two hours and up to four hours. This process removes excess water which leads to good texture. After it’s been sitting for that period rinse with cool water in a colander to remove the salt.
While the vegetables are sitting prepare canner, jars and lids for processing. This part I am assuming you know how to do if not see this over at the Ball website. Note I do the dishwasher technique for sterilization in pickling but not for jam. I haven’t lost any friends or family yet. I also experimented via a recommendation of placing washed jars on a cookie sheet in a 225 degree oven for 20 minutes. Leave them in there to keep warm.
Put a large pot on the stove and combine vinegar, sugar and spices. bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. Add vegetables and return to a boil.
Fill jars and process. My method–Using a ladle for the vegetables I first add fresh dill to the jar, then the cooked vegetables, then a little more dill, THEN I add top off with additional brine, leaving about a 1/4″ head space before placing the two-part lid.
If there’s not quite enough for a jar place in glass or ceramic storage bowl and pop in the fridge. The flavor improves over a few weeks but after a week–so good.
*Upon selecting your cukes keep in mind the presentation of your sliced cucumber–I like a medium to small width for a pickle. Also, if you want to do the zucchini just replace 2 cups of cukes with the zukes.
Farmers markets at this time of year can be overwhelming, in the best kind of way. Corn is in super abundance and at a very good value. I easily over bought. So what does one do with corn for many and you dine as one? Time to turn out a summer favorite of mine–corn chowder.
After steaming and removing the kernels I decided to simmer the corn ears by just covering with water and adding a few sprigs of fresh basil, garlic, and dried chili peppers for about 50-60 minutes. I portioned off enough to replace the water called for in the recipe.
Recipe is a variation from a lobster fisherman as published in Yankee Magazine. In advance, I steamed the lobster versus a par-boil and could not see using all that butter as I have plans next week! Find the master version over here. And no, I do not know why his is red and mine is not. Hmmm.
Overall a win in taste as the lobster was sweet; the broth possessed a slight heat. I froze the remaining corn.
Note: The corn stock method is from the August issue of Bon Appetit. Photo is mine and taken with the one that is never far, the i-device.
While rooting around for ideas for a simple summer fruit dessert for a dinner party I came across a peach pound cake in Southern Living. Frankly, it made me anxious. Not the ingredients, although peach schnapps is a little out of the ordinary. It was the methodology. Pound cake is simple but there are small tips that will guarantee success.
Cream the butter and sugar together so the finished cake is fluffy and light.
And the final step that I take is one that will probably make many wonder. Start the baking time in a cold oven. That’s right, fill the pans, pop in the oven then turn the oven on. Bake for about an hour, test with a toothpick and when clean pull out from the oven. There are many bakers who say this is true with older ovens or less professional-quality ovens (apartment ovens!) as the heating begins at the bottom. Others say it forms a better crust. All I need to know is that since I started using these tips and this technique my results are consistent. It was shared by Tom Hudgens and his “The Commonsense Kitchen” during a butter making class.
So while I liked the idea of the original magazine recipe, I needed to make it my own by altering the method, adding honey, pecans (how Southern is that?) and cinnamon. Inspiration arrives in many forms.
Peach Pecan Pound Cake
Ingredients
2 cups AP flour
2 cups cake flour
2 2/3 cups sugar
2 cups butter, softened, cubed
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup peach schnapps
6 large eggs
2 teaspoons honey
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups diced fresh peaches (skins can remain)
2/3 cup pecans broken into smaller pieces
Method
Do not preheat oven. Butter and flour dust 2 loaf pans or a large bundt pan. Tap the pan/s to remove excess flour.
In a bowl combine flour, cinnamon and mix together. Set aside. Take a generous pinch or two of the flour mix and sprinkle and toss over the diced peaches. This will prevent the fruit from sinking to the bottom.
In separate bowl combine peach schnapps, milk, vanilla and honey.
Using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar together, until the mixture is cohesive, light in color and fluffy.
Using a rubber spatula or a wooden spoon alternately mix in the eggs. Now add the milk-peach schnapps liquids and the flours by hand in 3-4 additions, blending in each addition only partially before adding the next one. Mix until just combined so as not to overmix.
Scrape the batter into the prepared pans, speading evenly. Each pan/s should be filled about two-thirds full.
Place in cold oven. Turn oven on to 325F. Bake for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cook in pan for 15 minutes; turn out cake on to a rack.
notes:
~if you don’t have cake flour just use AP flour instead.
~to finish the cake dust with confectioner’s sugar or make a lemon icing and drizzle over the top (mix 1 cup confectioner’s sugar with 2-4 teaspoons lemon juice depending on the consistency sought).
Preheat the oven to 350 °F. Grease and lightly flour with cornmeal an 8″ round cake pan or an 8″ springform pan, tapping out any excess flour. Set aside.
In a small bowl, toss the cornmeal, all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, beat the butter and granulated sugar together with an electric mixer, until pale yellow and creamy, about 5 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula adding the egg yolks, one at a time, beating after each addition. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add the whole eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Mix in the lemon zest and almond extract. Add the dry ingredients and blend by hand until just combined. Don’t use mixer as that’s will probably cause the batter to toughen. Gentle fold the dry ingredients into the batter.
Spread the batter in the prepared pan. It’ll be thick so use the back of a soon to spread it out to the edges. Place the apricot halves, skin side down, at even intervals on top of the batter. Sprinkle the slivered almonds over the top of the cake followed by the brown sugar on top of the fruit and batter. I placed them just enough apart that when cut into 8 pieces everyone had a piece of apricot. You could leave use more fruit. Bake until the cake is golden brown on top and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 40-45 minutes.
Notes
Original recipe calls for plums, you could also use peaches with the skins on.
Although I haven’t tried this I am pretty confident that replacing the AP flour with almond meal flour would taste quite good–and gluten free.
A short little documentary for coffee lovers providing a window into the soul of being an artisan coffee roaster. All of the featured roasters are based in California: LAMILL Coffee and Handsome Coffee in Los Angeles, and Blue Bottle Coffee in Oakland. The documentary is the latest in the Subculture Club series by Thrash Lab.
Tis the season for eggnog. Creamy, rich and well, eggy. The origin of the holiday drink varies. One story says that the word nog derives from an Old English word for strong beer, hence “noggin;” another tale states that the name in Colonial America refers to when colonists referred to thick drinks as “grog” and eggnog as “egg-and-grog”.
Whatever the story may be we drink it once a year mostly in lattés it seems. In Puerto Rico the drink is known as coquitowhich involves, baking, cracking and draining coconuts. Ambitious for sure. Rompope, from Mexico, features almonds and lots and lots of eggs.
I don’t have a particular desire to drink eggnog but I do like the taste of it–rum, cinnamon, cloves–perfect for holiday baking. Over the weekend I had lunch with friends and decided to surprise them with this holiday cake as dessert. Super easy, and the taste was as seasonal as you need. Oh, and if you are like me you may need this Leftover Eggnog: 10 Delicious Uses.
Slice butter into tablespoons and beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer about 2 minutes or until creamy. Gradually add granulated sugar, beating 5 to 7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until yellow disappears.
Combine flour, baking powder, spices and salt. Add to butter mixture alternating with 1 cup eggnog, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla and, if desired, brandy.
Bake at 350° for 50 to 55 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. The mini loaves will take about 7 minutes longer. Cool in pan on a wire rack 15 minutes. Remove from pan; cool on wire rack.
Pie crust, often the cue of a strong baker, is seemingly simple and at the same time elusive for many. And while ingredients used are important, technique is also quite primary. There are many recipes that play with the amount of flour and the types of fats in ratios and type (lard, Crisco, butter etc.) it is a quest. I think spending time on the method is a bit more important, as it is in making biscuits. Over handle the dough and it will toughen. Go lightly and quickly. The following recipe is one that my long-time friend S. has begun using over the last year. He is a very good pie baker. He made the honey-pumpkin pie pictured above for Thanksgiving. The secret here is the amount of butter revealing a very flaky pie crust.
Ingredients:
Adapted slightly from the Ad Hoc cookbook.
2 1/2 cups AP flour, plus additional for rolling
1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
2 1/2 sticks unslated butter, cut inot 1/2″ pieces and chilled
4-5 tablespoons ice water
Instructions:
Combine the flour and salt in a large bowl.
Add the butter and toss to coat with flour.
With two forks or a pastry blender, cut the butter into the flour until the butter pieces are small pieces resembling grains.
Drizzle 4 tablespoons of the ice water over the top and with a fork mix dough until it just comes together when pinched. If it is dry add a bit more of the ice water (not the cube) until it does stay together.
Quickly, using your hands or a combination of the forks and hands, bring the dough together until it is smooth and the butter is integrated. The less you touch it with the warmth of your hands, the better.
Divide the dough in half, shaped each into a 1″ thick round, wrap well in plastic wrap, refrigerate for at least 1 hour or up to a day.
Lightly flour the work surce and a rolling pin.
Dust one of the rounds with flour and roll out to a 13″ or 14″ round and about 1/8″ thick. This will be the top of the pie. If making a one crust pie roll out an an inch or more beyond the size of your pie pan so that a crust can be formed.
A few weeks back I met up with friends for lunch at St. Vincent where they recently began offering casual one-pot lunches. Lucky for us we were able to experience a very simple yet satisfying Italian Wedding soup that day as the rain fell in almost a monsoon manner. I rather liked the addition of country bread with an egg salad. While there are many variations for a lunchbox-meal-at-the-desk type of lunch or quick mid-week supper. In this recipe I made the meatballs with turkey for health reasons but equal parts beef and pork would be equally good. By preparing the essentials in advance, in particular, the cooked pasta, broth and meatballs it’s quick and you’ll feel almost virtuous.
Line a baking pan with parchment paper and place the meatballs onto the baking pan. Bake for 25 minutes or until lightly browned.
Bring the chicken stock to a gentle boil . Add the cooked pasta. Add meatballs, and simmer for 1 minute. Add the spinach and return to a gentle boil. Cook for an additional minute. Taste for enough salt, and adjust the seasoning if necessary. Ladle into bowls, sprinkle with parmesan.
Back in October, while in Massachusetts for business, I toured a cranberry farm. This outing was one that had long been on my list of adventures since I was a girl growing up in New England. The bonus was that I was able to see an in-progress bog harvest. I also think that I was luck due to the patience and knowledgeable guide who was also the assistant operations manger. Unfortunately, his name is not in my notes.
A.D. Makepeace, the “Cranberry King”, has been in the business of growing cranberries in southeastern Massachusetts since the 1800s. In 1930 the family joined two other cranberry companies in creating what would become Ocean Spray Cranberries, an ag cooperative that has become synonymous with the fruit.
A few highlights I did salvage from my scribblings:
The name for the fruit, comes from the Pilgrims” lexicon”crane berry,” as the vine blossoms resembled the neck, head and bill of a crane.
Massachusetts was the first site of the first documented cranberry cultivation in 1816.
Along with Concord grapes and blueberries, cranberries are are one of only three native fruits grown commercially in North America.
Thanksgiving trivia bonus: 440 cranberries in one pound; 4,400 cranberries per gallon of juice; 440,000 cranberries in a 100-pound barrel
A common misperception is that the cranberries grow in water. They are grown in sandy bogs or marshes. If the fruit is to be processed for juice or other use the bog is flooded and corralled (as shown above). What I didn’t know was that these bogs are more than watery fields. They are classified as state wetlands requiring environmental controls and allows for protected designation for the grower. And the other challenges are long, springs in Massachusetts have become increasingly warmer meaning it is getting tougher to grow cranberries due to higher incidences of pests and fungus. Come autumn, which have been warmer the berries need a few consecutive evenings of cooler temperatures to turn from white to red. All of these factors add to cost and yield. Makepeace takes this sustainability responsibility seriously. It is also extended beyond the bogs to the community.
Combine the cranberries, maple syrup, and orange juice in a 3-quart saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Lower the heat to medium low to a simmer while stirring every now and then. After five minutes in the cranberries will begin to burst. Let this happen for about 1-2 minutes. Remove from the heat, stir in the zest, and cinnamon. Allow to cool to room temperature, at least an hour, as this will allow the sauce to thicken up.
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Scientists develop new instruments to study microbes at the center of the ocean food web
Microbes. They are invisible to the naked eye, but they play a critical role in keeping our planet habitable. They are everywhere, in abundant numbers, but are still difficult to find. They come in a multitude of varieties, but too often are difficult to distinguish from one another.
Wherever there is water (fresh or salt), there are usually microbes—microscopic, single-celled organisms. In the ocean, they form an unseen cornucopia at the center of a food web that ultimately nourishes larger organisms, fish, and people.
Their fundamental role in the ocean’s food supply makes them critical targets for study, and scientists would like to know much more about them. They would like to identify them and count them. They would like to learn more about how marine microorganisms (part of what we call plankton) eat, grow, reproduce, and interact with other organisms. They would like to determine how changes in the ocean might affect the microbial communities’ vitality and viability.
Finding minuscule life forms in a seemingly infinite ocean isn’t trivial. But in recent years, oceanographers have been developing new techniques and instruments to identify and count marine microorganisms. Year by year, we are learning more and more about them and discovering that they are even more numerous, varied, and important than we previously thought.
A diverse microbial community
Some marine microbes are bacteria, or prokaryotes—simple cells with no specialized organelles, which are among the smallest of living things. Others are eukaryotes—larger and more complex cells with a nucleus, mitochondria, and other organelles.
Eukaryotic microbes, also called protists, include both producers, such as algae, and consumers, such as protozoa. They thrive in a variety of habitats—living suspended in the water, in bottom sediments, or on other objects. They form communities, or assemblages, of different species that photosynthesize, consume each other, and are, in turn, consumed by other things in the ocean’s food web.
In the last few years, we have considerably advanced our knowledge of the structure and function of these assemblages—particularly planktonic assemblages that we sample by collecting the water they inhabit. We now know that these plankton assemblages are diverse, composed of species with widely different sizes, growth rates, and nutrition. Not surprisingly, we know more about the larger protists (greater than 100 microns) than the smaller ones (under 20 microns). Larger protists are easily visible using light or electron microscopes. They have features that remain intact throughout procedures to sample, preserve, and examine them, which can break or distort cells. These features are often lacking in the smaller organisms; and if they are present, they are harder to see and characterize.
Identifying protists has always involved some type of microscopic analysis, with someone looking at the shapes, or morphology, of the cells. But now we also use molecular methods—techniques that give scientists the ability to detect and identify the presence of even small protists based upon their DNA in water samples. Scientists have begun to describe the genetic composition of communities of species that live and interact in the same water. Our next objective is to overcome several technical challenges so that we can routinely monitor changes in protist populations over time.
Sampling the invisible
So far, all of our detection and identification techniques, both morphologic and molecular, have relied on collecting samples from remote sites and analyzing them in laboratories. But these techniques don’t give us all the information we need.
Collecting samples from ships means physically taking separate water samples, at separate times, in separate places. Samples taken this way are, quite literally, just single samples—of one location at one time. They don’t provide a continuous picture of protists in a given area of the ocean. And they don’t allow us to detect how the protists respond to rapidly changing environmental conditions.
What researchers want is the ability to collect and analyze samples over long time periods in the ocean, to have a continuous sampling and recording procedure, and to obtain data in as close to real time as possible.
Overcoming engineering hurdles
Several technical challenges, however, still make it difficult to remotely detect and count microbes in their own environment. One is the number of organisms, or microscopic cells, in a given water sample. In most marine planktonic environments, microbes are present in low numbers and organisms targeted for study may only be a small proportion of the total population. To overcome this low density, researchers in the laboratory must often concentrate several liters of water into a much smaller volume for analysis by passing it through filters designed to retain the protists, then resuspending them in smaller volumes for analysis.
Once water samples are collected and concentrated, microbes can be analyzed in several ways, so automated systems must be designed to accommodate the analysis method. For instance, if scientists want to use only the organisms’ genetic material to identify them, collection systems must be able to break open cells and collect their DNA. If they want to study the whole organisms, though, the systems must keep the cells intact.
In fact, researchers are already developing instruments that can either detect a genetic signal from a microbial population or monitor one of its biological activities—and do it autonomously, without requiring scientists to be on the scene.
They can be pre-programmed to collect water samples over time periods ranging from hours to months and spaces ranging from inches to miles—depending on the particular microbes and biological activities the scientists want to study. These instruments inject water into flexible bags containing a solution that preserves the cells for later examination.
SID, ESP, and FlowCytobot
Three examples of instruments for remote analysis of marine microbes do solve many of the technical problems.
The Environmental Sample Processor, ESP, developed by Chris Scholin at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), attaches to a mooring anchored to the ocean bottom and collects and preserves water samples. It extracts nucleic acids from the protists in the water and detects specific organisms by their DNA. It can also preserve samples for microscope analysis in the laboratory. Researchers have already used it to detect species that cause harmful algal blooms and to distinguish types of planktonic larvae in the ocean. It will soon have even greater capacity to detect and distinguish organisms.
The Submersible Incubation Device, SID, a moored instrument developed by Craig Taylor at WHOI, determines levels of photosynthesis in the water around it by robotically measuring carbon dioxide taken up by phytoplankton in the samples. Up to 50 of these experiments can be performed before the instrument needs to be removed from the ocean to analyze the samples and determine what species are present.
A third instrument, FlowCytobot, is a submersible flow cytometer— a device that counts single cells flowing through it. Developed by Robert Olson at WHOI, it is also anchored to the seafloor near the coast. It counts and analyzes microbial cells in the water continuously for up to two months. FlowCytobot identifies microbes by the way they scatter light, or by the way certain pigments in the cells emit fluorescent light. Because it samples continuously, scientists can see changes in plankton populations over time that cannot be detected by traditional sampling.
A coastal observatory network
The ultimate goal is a continuous, remote system that can detect, distinguish and count microbes in the environment. In the laboratory, scientists can do all these things by filtering samples, identifying DNA within them, and examining microbes under microscopes. But designing, programming, and building a system to carry out all of these steps remotely is a challenge.
One of the difficulties for this work is that DNA analysis requires heat, which requires power. Remotely deployed instruments depend on batteries for power, and adding batteries quickly makes instruments too heavy, big, and costly to build. To overcome this hurdle, scientists have sought a viable alternative; developing long-term installations of instruments powered by cables from a nearby shore.
In recent years, several coastal ocean observatories have been built that have cables linking power nodes on the ocean floor with shore-based facilities. One of these is near Woods Hole, at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO). Instruments plugged into seafloor nodes receive power from the cables and transmit data back via the cables.
This level of available power has stimulated the development of new biological sensors and methods that will let scientists take measurements continuously and accurately.
In the lab, we are working to develop and assemble several instrument modules into the FlowCytobot automated system to install at the MVCO. The system will detect microbial cells, identify them genetically, and obtain accurate counts of particular species. It will let us monitor specific microbial populations that play significant roles in the food web and detect changes taking place, on a daily basis.
The development of new sensors is also important to national efforts to build an infrastructure of ocean observation systems. Ocean observatories are the wave of the future in many fields of oceanography. Some will monitor coastal water; others will monitor the open ocean. Many already exist, and many more are being planned, through several national programs. These programs will incorporate existing coastal observatories into a network, expanding their research capabilities, and building more at key coastal sites. We will use the observatories, each with seafloor cables supplying power, to collect and share information on a previously intractable microbial world - the broad group of tiny cells that control the coastal ocean’s food supply.
A Quick Guide to Ocean Observation Systems Acronyms
The U.S.
Network of Ocean Observation Systems will
collect continuous, reliable information about our coastal
ocean. Moored and mobile installations will carry instruments
and sensors that sample and measure environmental variables,
then transmit the data to computer systems that store,
analyze, and model the data to describe and predict oceanic
conditions. Some of the following acronyms denote permanent
observatories in coastal water, some denote deep or open
water observing systems, and some denote programs or
organizations that have responsibility for planning or
oversight of ocean-observing networks.
Keywords
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the world's leading non-profit oceanographic research organization.
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Brian Eno should be proud. Generative sequencing – making lovely, shimmering music mapped to pleasant-sounding modes – is totally in this season.
At top, exhibit A: Aura Flux, a new iOS ambient music generator. Priced at US$1.99, it nonetheless packs some 48 different instruments, ambient sounds, four keys, save/load capability, and multitasking support. Sequences are arrayed into editable nodes: touch and explore, or tweak specific settings like pulse speed and decay, trigger rates, and pitch to get the results you want.
Generative music has a key advantage for mobile devices, too: it doesn’t take up as much space. In the case of Aura Flux, the whole thing fits in 8 MB.
Apart from the lovely-sounding tunes, what you get is, notably, also more rhythmically complex than in more traditional sequencers, owing to the open-ended manipulation of nodes across the two-dimensional surface. That’s a prime difference between Aura Flux and some of the similar sounds that came out of Yamaha’s Tenori-On; with the exception of a mode or two, Toshio Iwai’s design was intentionally grid-focused, for more minimal, symmetrical rhythms.
In another take on alternative sequencers, our friend Ted Hayes has presented a new video of his Neurohedron. Rather than array steps across a series of rows, as sequencers have done since the days of the Moog Modular (or earlier), steps follow the faces of a dodecahedron, allowing non-linear progression through tones. Ted showed this project at our own Handmade Music in August, as a couple of us accompanied him on piano, as well as on the In/Out Festival. The patch is Pd/Pure Data.
In a way, you can think of the looped step sequencer as a circle — it progresses from the last step back to the first step. In this case, you take that one-dimensional loop and allow it to branch in two dimensions around the faces of the dodecahedron. People are definitely awed by the sculptural aspect of this when they see it in person. Let us know if you have specific questions for Ted and I’ll see if he’ll answer them for us.
The neurohedron looks great – I was recently beginning to look into constructing relationships between musical harmony and the platonic solids recently so this project is very interesting to me. These kind of three-dimensional geometries have a natural use as musical interfaces I think – as we can see in the neurohedron, the development of a non-linear step-sequencer will make the user think about how sounds and harmonies can be constructed in alternative ways. The dodecahedron has a natural relationship with the chromatic scale too so it has great potential to be used in multiple applications. I'm looking forward to see how this project develops.
eatyone
Thanx for pointing us on Aura Flux, bought and playing with it now
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sooo it showed PD in the neurohedron video. how is he using PD, what's it running on, can i have the patch etc
http://www.createdigitalmusic.com Peter Kirn
@usedtobe: um, kinda depends on what you want to do. I'd just take a look at metro-based sequencing, for starters; nothing looks like rocket science there. It's more likely you'll get what you want if you build it yourself.
http://www.mattverzola.com Matt Verzola
Playing with Aura Flux now…pretty fun, actually. Reminds me of the Reactable. I like to turn off the ambient pad in the background, though. Also nice to change the "season" (key) once you have a lot going on. Thanks for the tip, Peter!
http://www.musicwords.net Jim AIkin
Aura Flux is ..almost.. enough to get me to buy an iPad. The show-stopper for me is, it's playing in 12-note equal temperament. If you can define your own tuning system, I may go for it, but I'll bet that feature isn't even on the drawing board yet.
I've owned Aura a fair while – sounds like the melodic part (you know the reason for all the controls)is very similar in v2. It's a bit too thick and after a while becomes soupy. I actually didn't recognise it until I heard it. But hell, I'll go for an update because it costs about a coffee.
Maybe it's like synthpond but then again ALL these toys have major similarities and it's like all keyboards having keys – the sound is the most important thing – isn't it?
heh, all i meant was how is he using it inside of the device. is the neurohedron just a controller for his computer? i'm pretty darn familiar with PD, i've just been looking for ways to make PD (and max!) patches more portable and tangible.
Niko
Looks cool. I remember a similar nodal sequencer that CDM covered a while back (called Tiction) that has now been ported to iPad. Looks like it sends out MIDI & OSC, too.
@usedtobe: Yeah, absolutely, it's just a controller. Actually could be a great candidate for self-contained operation, however.
Martin
Just been playing around with Tiction AV for iPad.
Wow, extremely interesting little app, though it appears to have no manual or help of any kind anywhere, and for the first half hour I was convinced that it was broken. ( For anyone else who is going to try it … You apparently have to make a loop of triggers so it retriggers itself, or it just jiggles around very prettily but very silently … Haven't tried it with OSC yet, but assuming that works this is looking to be something that I can imagine using quite a bit.
Aura is really interesting too, though apparently like most people here, I've been turning off that ambient drone thang.
With the ever growing number of seriously useful sample/soundfile based apps for the iPad, iOS's lack of a normal hierarchial file system is becoming more and more annoying every day. We really do need – at the very least – to be able to define a folder where soundfiles live and be able to make it accesible to all Apps that need to be fed wavs & aifs …
Martin
@veta. : thanks for turning me onto synthpond, i had missed that one …IMHO not really like Aura at all, but very nice in its own way … Its not particularly pretty and a hires iPad version would be a definite improvement, but as with many of these things, the quirks of the interface lead you to places that you maybe wouldn't have stumbled on otherwise … All this quirky touchy feely ambient glitchtoy action is starting to make me lust after two more iPads … And that despite my increasing frustration with the OS
http://www.musikgear.com theau
+1 "synthPond creators: update your code, plz."
Human Plague
So Aura Flux is Beamz, but cool?
http://aritchie.com r.domain
So can you export rendered audio out of Aura Flux? If it can do that, I'm in! If not, it becomes another soundtoy to kill some time as opposed to a productive sound tool.
http://www.mattverzola.com Matt Verzola
@r.domain
It can save and recall your presets/arrangements, but it won't record your performances/changes. If you wanted to do that you could take audio out of the 1/8" jack into your DAW. | {
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Curry leaves
The curry tree (Murraya koenigii) is a tropical to sub-tropical tree in the family Rutaceae (the rue family, which includes rue, citrus, and satinwood), which is native to India and Sri Lanka.
Its leaves are used in many dishes in India, Sri Lanka, and neighbouring countries. Often used in curries, the leaves are generally called by the name 'curry leaves', although they are also literally 'sweet neem leaves' in most Indian languages (as opposed to ordinary neem leaves which are very bitter and in the family Meliaceae, not Rutaceae).
It is a small tree, growing 4–6 m (13–20 feet) tall, with a trunk up to 40 cm (16 in) diameter. The aromatic leaves are pinnate, with 11–21 leaflets, each leaflet 2–4 cm (0.79–1.57 in) long and 1–2 cm (0.39–0.79 in) broad. The plant produces small white flowers which can self-pollinate to produce small shiny-black berries containing a single, large viable seed. Though the berry pulp is edible—with a sweet but medicinal flavour—in general, neither the pulp nor seed is used for culinary purposes.
The species name commemorates the botanist Johann König. The genus Murray commemorates Swedish physician and botanist Johan Andreas Murray who died in 1791.
The leaves are valued as seasoning in southern and west-coast Indian cooking, and Sri Lankan cooking, usually fried along with the chopped onion in the first stage of the preparation. They are also used to make thoran, vada, rasam and kadhi. They are also available dried, though the aroma is largely inferior.
The leaves of Murraya koenigii are also used as an herb in Ayurvedic medicine in which they are believed to possess anti-diabetic properties, but there is no high-quality scientific evidence for such effects. In the absence of tulsi leaves, curry leaves are used for rituals, such as pujas.
Seeds must be ripe and fresh to plant; dried or shriveled fruits are not viable. One can plant the whole fruit, but it is best to remove the pulp before planting in potting mix that is kept moist but not wet.
Stem cuttings can be also used for propagation.
Compounds found in curry tree leaves, stems, bark, and seeds contain cinnamaldehyde, and numerous carbazole alkaloids, including mahanimbine and girinimbine. | {
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Utopia is a collection of interactive tools for analysing protein sequence and structure. Up front are user-friendly and responsive visualisation applications, behind the scenes a sophisticated model that allows these to work together and hide much of the tedious work of dealing with file formats and web services. | {
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6 Things Every Successful Business Leader Should Know
6 Things Every Successful Business Leader Should Know
It’s quite hard to imagine I was the blonde in the computer room now but over the past couple of days, I have been trying to subtle the presence of the geek in me by focusing on non-technology related ideas; my research over the past few days has been focused on helping the CEO’s and the managers.
There are many of you out there and here are a few tips I know will help you work better and lead your business to success in the different sectors you happen to work in;
Have a focal point
As you keep working, you are bound to see what my brothers and I call “shiny things” these are the numerous business opportunities that look good from afar but when you have a closer look and analyze them carefully, you realize that they are not as shiny as you had previously thought so be sure to focus on what you what you and your business to achieve before you start dipping your hands in too many business ideas and you are not able to take care of each business and nurture it to the success it should have.
Dreams on Dreams
This morning, I was listening to a song today by Common feat Maya Angelou “Dreamer” and in the lyrics, one of the lines was, “there is always a dream to the dreamer…” (I put that song on repeat!) My point is; even when you have reached your goal, set another. You wanted that $5,000 in sales mark and you got it? Put it at $10,000 the next month. Always be sure to write down these constant goals so you are reminded of where you want to be in life. My brother told me that there is a certain kind of magic that happens when you write goals down, TRY IT!
You cannot do it alone
Whichever person thought they could run a successful business on their own, obviously never thought about exactly how much goes into growing a SUCCESSFUL business. I was talking to a gentleman a few weeks ago who thought that anyone and everyone should be an individual business owner. I disagree with that, take VINAJ Websites as an example, we keep growing because we have people in the different areas they are skilled in doing what they do best. A website done by me…. Would probably be created in the fine art section but talking and writing are my things so that’s what I do; I do the marketing and Public Relations. Therefore, employ the right people; do not ever think you can do it alone. Getting advice and mentors would also be a great idea, a good mentor will be like your guardian angel; the person who will keep advising you on ways forward. The experienced and already successful mentors are the most recommended.
Don’t be afraid to fire people
Some bosses find an attachment to some of their employees over-time so when the employees start slacking; they might tend to continuously be lenient. This is not the way to do things, if a person is not doing the job right and has got several corrections to do better but still is not, LET THEM GO! The only thing that is suffering is your business’ productivity but if you do not care about your business, then go ahead and let them keep trampling on your dream Fiji holiday.
Read
There is nothing better than feeding your mind with information as it keeps coming in. There is no way that you will be able to keep your business fresh unless you read the right books. If you are not reading, you are not feeding your brain and you will become mentally lazy; no leader should be mentally lazy. Educate yourself so that you are always asking the right questions, executing the right ideas, calculating all risk factors in anything etc. Stop listening to the radio and iPod music when you are driving or taking a walk, start listening to the e-books, buy books that will help your professional development.
Customer Care
To everyone reading this, make sure that nobody in your department EVER slacks in customer care. Let me give you two examples, I walked into a clothing store the other day, I got no greeting, I was not told anything about any of the ladies clothes until I asked; my exit was as quiet as my time there and I will probably never return to that store or even recommend anyone to go there. Another clothing store I walked into, the lady said hello and just would not stop talking about everything I touched in the store, she gave me ideas of what I could wear the clothes with and where I could wear them to; I ended up leaving a deposit there for a couple of things and will always recommend people (she even remembers my name!) Customer care people, it does not matter who your employees are speaking to, everyone being sold to should be treated well.
Product Check
Good customer care and quality products go hand-in-hand; so always make sure that the product being sold is of good-excellent quality, never promise your customers a tree and they end up with just a leaf. If you remember, there was the horse meat scandal in the UK a few weeks ago; they are paying heavily for not taking the time to check on the quality of their products. Take the time to do routine checks on whatever your company is selling, depending on the product, get a second and third opinion when you can so you know that you are giving your clients a great product. This not only encourages the call backs for more but also the recommendations. | {
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Andy Laub
Andy's birth certificate says he came into this world in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, but it’s a damn lie. The truth is, he was born hiking the Appalachian Trail.
A true son of the wild, he's spent years living on his wit, intuition, and pack on his back.
5,000-miles later- Andy's created a style of filmmaking that uniquely captures the raw and inspiring stories within challenging journeys. The first chapter of his vision- As it Happens: Pacific Crest Trail.
Before launching As it Happens TV Andy worked as a director, music composer & cinematographer for networks like Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Travel Channel, Animal Planet & Ora.TV.
'Life is the process of becoming something else. My goal is to capture that process, that story, As it Happens' | {
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Cosmopolitan's restaurants offer tempting array of cuisines
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You won't find any stuffy, gloved-waiter haute-cuisine restaurants at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. You won't find any restaurants by chefs who became household names by dint of their TV cooking shows. What you will find is restaurants designed to appeal to the "curious class," as Chief Executive Officer John Unwin describes his target market.
"The restaurant collection, which is one of our signature elements -- what we think we'll be known for -- is for people who see themselves as creative, broad-minded, who like to explore, enjoy foreign foods and interesting restaurant and hotel concepts," he said.
During the design phase, that translated to, first, a collection of chefs who didn't already have restaurants in Las Vegas, and, second, restaurants that complemented each other. Many of them are grouped on the third floor in an area called the P3 Commons.
"When you walk around on that floor, it really is a neighborhood," Unwin said. There are various seating areas, grouped in vignettes, where Unwin said guests are welcome to "hang out." And all of the restaurant partners belong to a neighborhood improvement district. That came out of Unwin's experience when he first moved to New York and lived in the Times Square area.
"They had an improvement district there, and we all met once a month and tried to figure out what was best for our neighborhood," he said. "It's fun because it's hard to do. Typically, these guys are focused only on their own places. We're doing stuff together. It's like throwing a good party. Having the right mix of restaurants is like having the right mix of people.
"It's really meant to be fun. It's not meant to be pretentious."
What the chefs share, Unwin said, is a passionate dedication to their craft. For Jose Andres, who opened two restaurants -- Jaleo and China Poblano -- with the resort, that extends to spreading the gospel of Spanish cuisine.
"I can't wait to sell this thing to America and the world," he said before the opening.
Jaleo focuses primarily on tapas and paella. While Andres acknowledged that tapas have become somewhat well-known (at least in Las Vegas), in part because of his own restaurants in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles and the restaurants they inspired, "in Spain, we've been very late in finding the way in how to sell" the country's culinary traditions, he said. "Japan has sushi, Italy has pasta. Spanish tapas is this kind of thing that helps unite Spanish cooking and gives it some identity."
Andres promises some of his signature avant-garde touches -- "no mistake." But he seems truly horrified at the idea of adding other culinary traditions to his tapas lineup, as often is done in this country.
"No, no, no," he said. "Only Spain."
Jaleo also has a specialized paella kitchen, where the traditional dishes will be cooked over olive and orange wood and grapevines, he said.
"I think it's going to be very dramatic," he said. "It's very showy, but in a very arty kind of way."
Another unusual touch at Jaleo, he said, is E, a "restaurant within the restaurant," which has its own chefs and offers a 10- to 12-course Spanish tasting menu to a maximum of eight people.
Andres also opened China Poblano, a noodle-and-taco restaurant that features the culinary traditions of both China and Mexico -- a combination he doesn't find offbeat.
"You could argue that America is the melting pot," he said. "I've been eating in America for 20 years."
Beyond that fusionistic tradition, he said, he's a student of history and knows that China and Mexico long have had elements of cross-pollination.
"To me, the connection is fascinating," he said. "There's more to it than meets the eye."
Besides, he added, there are "only two kinds of cooking: good and bad. It has nothing to do if I'm doing modern or traditional."
(Prices at Jaleo range from $5 to $35, all of them small plates designed for sharing. At China Poblano, also small plates meant for sharing, the appetizers are $4 to $12, entrees $7 to $20).
Unwin said another unique aspect of The Cosmopolitan's restaurants is the Wicked Spoon Buffet on the second floor. There, he said, the dishes are created in individual serving vessels.
"The whole idea is that the food's not waiting for you," Unwin said. "It's being prepared as you approach. Every time you walk up to a station -- like our wood-burning oven, wood-burning rotisserie -- it's meant to feel like the guy is absolutely making it for you." (Dinner is $27.)
n Estiatorio Milos, from restaurateur Costas Spiliadis, which will import fresh fish daily from the Mediterranean, and where dessert, Unwin said, "is like the best piece of fruit you ever had with Greek yogurt and Greek honey." (all dishes designed for sharing; appetizers, $16-$28, entrees $42-$48, with fish by weight at market price)
n The Henry, the resort's 24/7 restaurant, which looks far more like a London gentlemen's club than anybody's idea of a cafe or coffee shop, complete with dark wood, tufted leather and glass panels printed in an argyle pattern. "There is kind of a modern way of looking at some revamped classics," Unwin said. He mentioned a short-rib Benedict he'd recently sampled there, adding with more than a touch of chagrin: "I couldn't stop myself. I was supposed to be tasting about five different things." (breakfast $5-$29, lunch and dinner: appetizers $5-$17, entrees $10-$39; late night $9-$29)
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Canadian Study Identifies Five Most Vulnerable Groups for FASD
“FASD is substantially more prevalent for people in five vulnerable groups including children in care, Indigenous populations and people in prison, according to a global study by Canadian researchers.
The lead author of the paper says the fluctuating prevalence rates in the study are further evidence that the idea women can safely have a glass of wine during dinner while pregnant is a myth.”
– National Post
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
I don't usually link much to stuff, understanding that much of what is out there is part of the controlled opposition to humanity (and that therefore, some of the leaders of the alternative view of reality and the human condition are in fact the very worst of our sort, the very vilest of traitors). This guy seems human. Where is the Scream? Here, unfolding further, is one of the extinction events the world is psychologically engineered not to think about. This must be true, that people are so engineered.
The silence is eery to us.
Because we hear no great and swelling roar of voices raised, see no irresistable rising of the force of good.
Instead we see mute and dumb grass croppers, chomping and cud chewing.
Led by their noses here and there with the daily promise of new fresh grass to chew.
Sheep that are looking around, but still sheep, dreaming that they are awake.
Everywhere distraction.
Nowhere focus.
Where, for example, is the single unity of objective amongst true, free bloggers?
There is none, even there, where one could expect to see understanding of the predicament, the timescales, the progress of this war on our kind.
There is not even a feral growling together, the least we could expect.
If you blog, post a link.
If you comment, post a link.
But you won't, because the psych war has been focused on preventing unity.
And if that persists, we are lost.
And they are killing us now, as fast as they can without spooking us. Killing us softly. The entire herd. The planet. Fukushima is just one of their fronts.
Look how we are assailed by every facet of the reality they have wrought. They are wringing us dry, squeezing every last drop of living effort from us then contriving to cast us aside or cause us to die of the poisons they are seeding. We all know this deep inside, every baaaing one of us. We are being slowly killed.
We have to stop this.
And who are we?
WE are the meek.
The one's that don't want power over others, that don't want to cause fear, that don't want to be rich, would like to see an end to all war and an end to terrible hardship, who would like to see what we could make of this world in a different way, we are all of us good folk, and only we can save the world.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
(We publish for the first time the newsletter. Those that can see will see and know what to do. It is time to be more open. Send 4 euro this month for expenses)
World events march onwards to the trigger events we have highlighted and discussed in previous newsletters. The state of global consciousness is further tilted towards the false revolutionary condition that we noted spreading through the Arab world as they trial run their virus.
The chaos model is proving its sustainability and is rewarding the engineers with the usual harvest, the programming downloaded in these regions creating the expected resonances, touching the chords of generational hatred, deep hurt, grief, revenge. More killers are being engineered daily, their ultimate purpose satisfying the requirements of the model for the rising level of self disgust.
We note the success of the global warming eugenics thrust and find this type of consciousness (http://guymcpherson.com/2013/04/the-irreconcilable-acceptance-of-near-term-extinction/) becoming deep seated. As we have stated previously, the requirement is to create the mind-set wherein the species views itself as unworthy of existence, unworthy of the stewardship of the planet, abject. Thus conditioned, the global consciousness is further prepared for the trigger events we anticipate.
In previous engineering projects (patriotism, faith, et al) the object was to reduce the herd through war, the struggle for survival against an enemy real or imagined being the meme. This more refined programme is designed to be more thoroughgoing and to address the survival instinct more completely. As we know they intend to engineer the species to hate itself and to override the instinct to desire life. The common thrusts of global warming, the right to choose euthanasia, the right to choose to abort, the “life of work with no prospect of retirement”, the life of fear without relief etc etc all drive towards this consciousness.
They engineer the species to desire self-immolation and are thus far successful in this.
As we understand, the mavericks are all now counted and numbered and located thanks to this internet and the engineers’ programmes designed to discover the herd members yet capable of independent thought. As the trigger events unfold be prepared to be reviled and hunted, yet speak your truth nevertheless and hold firm to your duty to love and the universal good.
Only by such example can the spell be broken.
As you understand: Do as you would be done by, turn the other cheek, give and do not count the cost, fear nothing even the imposter “death”, seek no more than a share, hug.
These same messages we have understood for millennia, for there is no other way but one.
Population reduction by stealth continues unquestioned. Air and water and earth all now conform to the slow kill strategy, as usual denying the wisdom that is born of longevity.
Once this phase passes, the focus will be on cleansing and on curing the effects of these poisons on the bodies and minds of the species, allowing the flowering of wisdom we understand will be the prize, that which was taken from the species some time ago.
We note that the strong viruses structuring youth continue unabated and strengthening in the areas associated with death and killing and with the preparation to create readiness to seek salvation and accept the false messiah.
The symbols utilized for such programming are unchanged since last time and operate effectively at the core level.
The chemical modeling of the species continues unabated either by stealth or openly via medication and other intakes and the results are very satisfying to the engineers, though as we might expect they still fear greatly the forthcoming events and are uncertain that they can achieve their goal.
As we know, their objectives are to prevent the ascension, to render ugly that which is beautiful by nature , to keep the species from joining the universal whole. Your mission remains unchanged, to be a lamp that still glows when the darkness falls, to find and cherish those that are true to their nature born, to lead the species towards the light of love. Your numbers are in need of increase now.
Wear the sign of the olive tree in your hearts and invite discourse whenever you can.
You should all now be considering who you will ask to be a part of your consciousness triangle.
This needs to be organized and made effective by the 28th November.
Three is the number, nine the power, so do we unite in love.
Xxx xxx xxx as usual.
So, to triggers:
The conjunction of the blue bird is close. The crop circle psyche input has had some success and is now picked up and spread. Those that can see, see. There is a need now for a coming together in understanding. Take the thoughts that enter your mind and spread them, for we require the voices of wisdom to speak louder now and in unison.
The first false prophet is abroad and his mentor is active. http://www.raelpress.org/news.php?item.340.1
http://buddhistcelebrities.blogspot.gr/2010/07/buddhist-personality-russell-brand.html
http://article.wn.com/view/2012/06/17/Dalai_Lama_calls_Russell_Brand_a_strange_wonderful_man/#/related_news
The Japanese problem will befall humanity before the process is complete, spreading the panic and increasing the psyche-yearning for help that is beyond understanding. By such means do they seek ultimate victory, stealing the head of the new consciousness and misdirecting it.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Engineered.
Now that humanity understands how core programming is done we begin to understand how we are made, begin to see that what we are is a product of our DNA, can see how that core programme could have been manipulated, can imagine why such manipulation might have been done and, if we stretch our minds a little, see what has been done and why, then begin to conject by whom.
These are the riddles.
It is a modern phenomena that we can even contemplate such questions, for it is only since we have made these advances in understanding that for the first time such conjecture can be framed. Our collective brilliance is a direct result of our numbers growing. We begin to see what could have been done to us and how and can guess why. because we grow collectively more clever.
This alone explains the determination to chemically dumb down the species. It also explains the determination to reduce our numbers. It further explains how important it is for our masters to “lead” this awakening, to control the seepage of this understanding into the consciousness of our collective understanding.
Further still this understanding explains what is coming.
It explains the simple tools our masters use to control us and how we are programmed to believe whatever it is they choose to put before us. Our core programming was altered millennia ago. Most can do nothing but follow the instructions of that malicious virus.
Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
Around the world there are some that are born whose programme has been somehow corrupted, who fail to respond to the operating system, who begin to see how the whole thing works.
The virus instructs other humans to revile, to ridicule, to slaughter such anomalies.
The limitations placed on our ability to think mean that few can understand such ideas, those that can being programmed to disbelieve or to fall back on what has been learned previously, to dismiss such ideas as ludicrous and to believe that they would have seen this truth if indeed it were true….and so it isn’t.
It’s a complex programme…
It encourages you to think stuff like this.
Everyone you know is ordered and controlled by this viral infection, as are you.
It allows our masters to have complete authority over the planet.
They care not if they destroy the planet as they have their fun, because probably they have the technology to move on and do the same thing somewhere else in the universe once they have had their fun here.
We are a species of creatures designed and programmed to believe in deceptions.
Few can lift the veil and see the Wizards of OZ..
Our reality is so persuasive, so embedded, so reinforced by the rest of us that almost all human beings believe so strongly in one lie or another that they have been made capable of killing to defend that lie or to shove that lie down the throat of another human that believes in another, different lie.
Our DNA makes us live such short lives, die of so many sicknesses, become old and frail and stupid before our time, just for the purpose of denying us the time to work this stuff out.
The science we create is controlled by our masters, the knowledge we gain so controlled, we are rendered by this strategy incapable of clearing the virus from our system.
Pity, that.
We could live a thousand years, remember everything, be clever enough to solve all our problems, wise enough to understand love, make our lives beautiful.
Do you see now?
What we need is an anti-virus.
We are close to discovering one, because we can see that we are infected and understand by what means.
So our masters need to press “Restart”.
Can we act in time to stop them?
That’s up to you.
Love to you all, few readers.
Toss a coin in the hat as you move on. It will soon be valueless anyway.
For some reason I don't seem to be able to get Blogger to let me edit and arrange postings in "Compose", so they are published as this continuous and therefore difficult to read single unbroken stream. Pity that, as increasingly we are seeing the unfolding with greater clarity. If you have the patience, please read "Simple stuff", the previous post.
I guess the few readers I have are able to spot the new star in the firmament being placed by our masters to distract us from global species unity.
You can see how this Russel Brand product placement is now spearheading the trend to enter mainstream media that has been the story of the last 6 months.
As the crisis develops, as the next stage of the chaos becomes more imminent, so the Icke creature and the Jones creature are drawn into greater exposure on the MSM, and then the new product is launched.
The BBC, servants of the elite and propagandists par excellence (I should know, having worked for them and resigned in disgust from them) are leading the marketing push. The new Jesus or John the Baptist was featured being interviewed by the Paxman.
This was the beginning of an onslaught of such unbelievable arse licking hero worship from all over the MSM and the alternative media that the intention to place this utter bastard at the heart of the false revolution is so apparent that only the dead could fail to notice.
Here’s a couple of messiah-worshippers.
First, David Degraw, who I have pointed out previously here as part of the false opposition, connected to the energy draining “Occupy” false front and many other distractions. Can’t say I’ve ever seen such brown nosing in my life, and I’ve seen some: http://daviddegraw.org/ “Russell Brand, that controversial, formerly drug and sex-addicted, adolescent funny man, who was spawned from UK “reality” television, became a movie star with roles in mindless comedy blockbuster hits and was briefly married to a pop princess, has evolved into one of the world’s most important radicals. In this modern age, where the spectacle of celebrity is used to distract, bamboozle and pacify the masses, where ignorance is placed on a pedestal and repetitiously rammed down our throat, raping our young minds, enslaving us in the all-consuming cult of consumerism and a never-ending narcissistic rat race to the bottom, Russell Brand has emerged as an enlightening force. Behold, Russell Brand: comedian / trendsetter / thought-leader / revolutionary / spiritual guru. The more you pay attention to him, the more you realize that he is a madly brilliant critical thinker, a prophet of sorts, a spiritual sage, a shaman of radical positivity. Russell knows how to dance with fame, as he sprinkles subversive mind-opening truths like pixie dust. He is currently on a whirlwind worldwide comedy tour, fittingly called Messiah Complex. His performance weaves through famed radical icons such as Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Gandhi and Jesus. Yes, Jesus the radical, the man who cared about the poor and chased the moneychangers from the temple. Russell makes you yearn for a modern day messiah who can chase Wall Street from our lives and deliver us to freedom. Alas, as Che said, only you can liberate yourself. There is much truth to Che’s words. However, as Brand makes clear, we are bred to follow false idols and live in a “cult of the hero.” Famed social psychologist Jacques Ellul summed it up: “The cult of the hero is the absolutely necessary complement of the massification of society…. This exaltation of the hero proves that one lives in a mass society. The individual who is prevented by circumstances from becoming a real person, who can no longer express himself through personal thought or action, who finds his aspirations frustrated, projects onto the hero all he would wish to be. He lives vicariously and experiences the… exploits of the god with whom he lives in spiritual symbiosis.”
Those that have the facility to understand this product placement will see how the Brand brand is laced with the Magick called “Glamour”, the Magick called “SEX”, the Money Magick, the Fame Magick, the False Humility Magick, the links to famous previous products similarly placed and then murdered to create myths from Jesus to Martin Luther King via Gandhi. As deGraw rightly points out, here we are witnessing the birth of a cult. He fails to mention that he is one of the midwives.
Two opportunities are gained by our masters.
The first is to let the creature pull the hearts and minds of the awakening humanity into his web and then use him to direct them towards whatever plans they have for such bamboozled truth-seekers when the next stage of the Chaos is unleashed. The second is the murder him once the Messiah status has been further developed, or perhaps to shoot him in the head but for him to miraculously recover.
If you are up to speed you will understand what this would mean.
Here’s some more arse licking from the BBC:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20131111-russell-a-unique-fashion-brand "Despite his increasingly celebrated status as a thoughtful and incisive author, essayist and commentator, Brand continues to play with his carefully cultivated image. Armed with candid, unconventional opinions as sharp as his yoga-honed body, edgy rags and photogenic looks, his presence seems to unnerve even the most seasoned interviewer, evoking as he does the love child of Oscar Wilde, the Three Musketeers and Jim Morrison. Always a wild card, Brand is unpredictable and unshockable, his lunatic grin and flashing brown eyes serving to further accentuate his untamed nature. A fan of Transcendental Meditation and a yoga fanatic, Brand has embraced a more spiritual look of late, downsizing his brutally backcombed mullet to hippy hair, but he still gets a kick out of hobbling hosts with his sexually confident body language. Take his groin-splayed appearance on The Late Show with Dave Letterman in July, in black leather trousers, or a similar studio spot in June, on MSNBC Morning Joe. “This is my first [Brand] experience. It’s not just listening to him, it’s just sort of taking it all in...I’m transfixed,” stammered presenter Mika Brzezinski during an interview with the comedian. She looked like her eyes were about to pop out of her head when Brand – egged on by panellists Katty Kay and Brian Shactman – heaved his legs onto the table to display his silver cowboy boots.”
Do you see how they target this small segment of the marketing campaign at the 14-40 female market?
Here’s some more, from the Conservative Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/10315614/The-chat-the-charm-and-then-I-gave-in-to-Russell-Brand.html “And so, having been there myself, I can only feel for Jemima Khan, the millionairess ex-wife of former cricketer Imran, who this week was spotted strolling hand-in-hand with Brand in Manhattan’s East Village. She, at 39, is a year older than him, and the pair were seen chatting and giggling with their arms wrapped around each other. Although Brand, a scruffy loudmouth from Essex, is hardly Khan’s usual type (her most high-profile relationship since Imran was with the actor Hugh Grant), the pair are believed to have been dating for weeks. In a funny way, I can almost see the appeal. During our brief dalliance, Brand called and texted me 20 times a day. He would ring and sing the James Blunt song You’re Beautiful down the line. My flatmates thought it was hilarious. Finally, I agreed to go on a date with him (it was that or take out a restraining order). And so it was that I found myself having Sunday lunch with him in a pub in Primrose Hill, followed by a trip to the cinema to see Proof, a film that I vaguely recall being about mathematics. When I think about it now, it was all strangely quaint. The man across the table was a million miles away from the foul-mouthed culprit behind that prank call to the actor Andrew Sachs, which he would make just over two years later. Brand didn’t drink - he didn’t have to - but he insisted that I did. He was exactly as he seems on television, always talking a mile a minute. He asked again and again if I fancied him. It was all a little exhausting. He was charming, funny, dazzlingly clever, all things that can make even matted and dreadlocked hair look attractive. We saw each other a couple of times, but I was hardly dreaming of marriage, if only because I got the impression that he could lose interest as quickly as he had developed it. Lo and behold, I opened the paper one day to see a spread on the “Lothario” who had started dating Kate Moss. I suppose there are worse people to be usurped by.”.
Did you notice the “he didn’t drink” bit, linked to the Jemima Khan bit? Maybe this new Jesus could appeal to the Muslims too? So another distraction, but a vital one, is placed carefully in the minds of an awakening humanity to distract and to dissipate and to weaken us, to prevent us from finding unity on a single issue…for only by doing that will we free ourselves.
Love to those that have read. You are few indeed.
Olive and Aktina
xxx xxx xxx
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Please think of us as consciousness buskers, this our street show.
If you linger a while, if occasionally we hit the right notes for you, consider tossing some change into our hat. Thankyou.
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Olive teaches English to teenagers here. He asks them which would walk past a starving child? Which would fire a missile that took an innocent’s life? Which would not share an umbrella with a stranger in a downfall…and what if it was the stranger that had the umbrella?
The common core of us all is still there in these beaming kids, the deep sense of right and wrong, the understanding of what we need to do as a species simple to them, as they are raised in a community that 60 years ago was untouched by the rest of the world and those old understandings still run in the families here.
The virus hasn’t fully taken hold of them yet.
They are still human.
Mostly harmless.
The significance of that you should deliberate upon if we are to get out of this mess.
Did we say this would ramble?
We take the alien view, look at us from outside, find it becomes clearer from that perspective.
We see a species that is largely made of creatures that wish to do no harm, that understand the benefits of sharing, that enjoy cooperating on something of benefit, that grows miserable when employed in something of no seeming benefit.
And we see that vast numbers of this species are engaged in just such activities of no benefit, or worse that are harmful.
So we see the hollow look of lack of purpose, of lack of worth everywhere, know that behind it sits the low misery of a creature beaten and enslaved.
Yet we see too, deep in the recesses but there in every eye, the waiting.
We share an unconscious unspoken determination to be free.
We feel the evolution of the slaves.
We see the desire for it in every eye.
From that we see an unproven and potentially world changing weapon as yet not brought to the field of play.
We see the force of six or more billion minds bent to a single purpose, and understand that this force could be realised now, and so wonder who has the head of the beast that is awakening, and do they seek to pervert it at birth. And make it monstrous. Such that we never trust each other again?
Keep up.
These are the issues. All else is detail.
Our old masters have seen this force coming, these days arriving, have shaped us weak and splintered us deeply, use their old psych magick to have us running hither and thither in fear or in the pursuit of the white rabbits they have burrowing into our consciousness.
Their entire endeavour, this vast web of consciousness management they are engaged upon is designed to prevent us seeing that we are mostly harmless, mostly good and that we are six billion or more in number and that we can make all this bad stuff end.
We think that if you cannot believe that we are in general such creatures then you are giving up on us as a species.
We all of us feel something in our bones in these times, can see and fear the spreading of the disasters our reality is contriving for us.
We are being instructed to trust each other less, our neighbours, our families, people of different faith.
If you believe our species in incapable of unifying in an effort to set itself free then stop reading. You are lost to the battle. They have you.
We don’t need you.
You cannot trust humanity, will never join anything, never try and find our destiny as a species. Their reality makes you believe that.
It has shaped everything you think you thin,k for it was the reality that made you.
But know that you didn’t start out on this journey that way.
Can we speak to that version, please, that presence within “you” that is really you?
It’s time.
This is the whole of the game as we see it right now.
So the stakes are high.
Can the good guys show themselves in such number to each other that they feel able to assume power, to direct that power simply by ignoring or shunning that which is of the old world and so tainted by the hands that created that world?
On this our future hinges.
That is the force which is available, peace really can be a sword.
We can simply cease to feed the dragons.
Walk away from making weapons, from driving the trucks that deliver them, from making their components, from following the orders of someone that wants to kill people with them, from speaking to those people, from sharing company with them until they stop.
It just takes all of us, do you see, to make this easy.
Stop thinking about everything else for just a moment and see this for what it is.
Where our species decides its future.
The meek will inherit the earth, if we use this moment.
There are some that need to gain this understanding first amongst us.
To be recorded in our new true history as the beginners of this thing.
We need such heroes now.
Perhaps our soldiers, choosing to walk away from which they know to be shameful would catalyse the rest of us. Perhaps there is such bravery amongst those boys, and such leadership as to understand what cannot be gainsaid because it is right.
Perhaps as luck would have it you are reading this now, and are sure of those about you, and would rather fight for good, and know how that would draw people to the light.
Perhaps.
Perhaps those policemen still left that sense what they should be doing and have honour. Andy?
We see from our alien perspective, that some apes actually pursue the profession of killing other apes. It’s horrific.
For pay!
Apes whom they are instructed need to be killed for some reason.
Sometimes the reason given is the revenge of a previous killing committed by the other apes, often contrived.
The consequent interminability of such activity is inevitable and yet these apes fail to see the illogic in that.
Others of them kill for money and for power over other apes.
This is clearly both savage and a ridiculous and wasteful way of solving disputes.
We see that these creatures have weapons that could destroy humanity utterly, and how such a lovely species has allowed their most aggressive and bloodthirsty to have their fingers on the buttons of the vilest and most calamitous weapons.
You see, the species survives at the whim of this group with fingers on buttons.
They might cull us severely at any moment.
The history we understand shows that they enjoy such activity, think of us as cattle.
Will do what they wilt.
The entire species is ordered by a myriad of social and commercial structures that place each ape in opposition to all other apes in a scramble to achieve position and to feed.
Much of the force and energy and creative brilliance of the species is directed to this ridiculous and needless struggle for survival and for relative position.
The species is under the thrall of powerful social engineering tools and has been much diminished over the last half century or so. The engineers of their reality, those that pull the levers that control this species, have utter control.
They are the absolute masters of the agenda of your thought.
From all input sources.
Please: Think carefully about that.
The story of this species is being written.
And we ask: Shouldn’t the great mass of the apes be writing that narrative?
And aren’t the great mass of them good?
And can’t they see the authority that majority grants them?
And the opportunity to make this world shaped to a different will?
A benevolent will?
Our human will?
Can we find an ending that we all share the hope of?
And can we find it in time?
We stand on this threshold of history, dear friend.
It is most exciting, and we are full of hope.
And so we see a species living unnaturally, in conditions that are imposed upon it and which make it afraid of itself and yet we understand that the core programming of this species is to be harmless.
That can be seen in the eyes of any child just born.
They are the eyes that speak of trust and love.
Each of us at birth, made ugly by our current reality but there within each of us, each of us, we know, is a being of love.
We wait our chance to admit what we have done wrong and know that we will be forgiven.
This creature of love and beauty.
This human.
This asker for forgiveness and this granter of forgiveness that is out better self.
In this lies our route to the future.
In being smart enough to see where we are misled, and in being smart enough to listen to our ancient voices and know what is essential to our species. Then to forgive ourselves, for we knew not what we did………
All of this is, of course, understandable if you have the sight to see.
And so it really is down to you.
And this is us doing our part.
And it is a part of the whole of the thing, but not the whole of the thing.
For that depends on you, dear human, exercising your power.
We believe it is this force, this force of good that we need to wield if we are to avert the disaster we are allowing to spread its wings over us.
We conclude that somehow finding this core unity should become the chief interest of all of us humans.
We see that the tools are at hand, and that there is currently nothing to stop us, that with a little pushing and nudging a domino race could blossom out and reach us all.
We can by this means ask each other what we really want.
We’ve never been able to do that before.
We can now.
That is how near is the handle of the sword to our grasp, how near our fuiture.
Imagine, then, the focus of your enemy.
And so we must seek simple concepts first.
As simple as good versus evil.
All else is detail, and the devil is in detail, and it is with detail that we are manipulated and kept from our destiny.
We simply need to see us for what we are, us peace lovers, us do-no-harmers, to recognize each other and see that we are the most of us.
Wear some symbol?. But be wary of symbols?
Recognise each other and grow expectancy from that recognition?
Start this thing now, and see if it can be done?
These are the only questions, for here is the power and the key and here the moment.
The alternative we feel in our bones and understand is evil.
Look what we are being made to do to our world.
See that you are responsible for what is handed on to your children, your grandchildren if we still exist.
Do something now.
There is much to be set right.
We need to find a way of seeing if us good guys are in the majority, and a way of finding the courage and the strength of mind and the methods of discovering this truth about our species.
And then we would know where we stand, and see our force, and the future will have begun.
It is as simple as that.
You are manipulated to believe this is not possible.
That you would expect.
The question is, can you shake it off and do something?
Easy to see where our masters are going with their diversions.
They see this unity coming, and have built their false opposition for it, and now are letting it bleed into the mainstream, and they are pulling out filthy pieces of star shit from their B list to act as the slinky link.
The wizards throw little balls of light, little stars that distract the monkeys, ready to make more than one question, ready to tire us all of efforts to unite. So Paxman and Brand.
So obvious now they grow careless, believing their new personality cults to be placed for the mainstream stage just at the point they plan to collapse money and crash the internet and retire to their keeps and strongholds and watch us rip each other to pieces.
They believe they have made us incapable of doing otherwise, of waking to our core spirits, of making their engineered disaster our stepping stone to freedom rather than the gates of the hell they are seemingly planning for us as they elevate themselves to God-Kings over what will remain of us.
You do see this?
And look at us.
Are we not clever?
Can we not organize?
See what we can build, marvel at our diversity and our capability, understand we need not be plunged into chaos, that we just need to look at each other and make sure we get what we need in calm certainty of an evolution taking place, an evolution that bears the stamp of our future being born, and of that future being good.
Can you see?
They will bring further chaos, of course.
They are stampeding the herd.
We must step on this dross and climb to our higher selves or lose this game.
It is time to stand up and count ourselves.
To focus exclusively as a species on the single issue and on making that connection that can be made by spreading messages like this.
A kind of wake up call.
They might let us have an EMP or two to try and stop us, stop us joining together around the world. Maybe November time 2013, maybe not. They are setting the agenda.
It is messages like this they ignore the hardest.
Which puts more weight on you, dear reader, if you see, to create this world changing thing.
We the spark, you the fire.
What did you do, Granddad, when we remade the world?
Did you do your part, or did you not believe in us?
Beware, they will have us at each other’s throats if they can soon enough.
They have shown us Mad Max and any number of other consciousness shapers such that many are ready for such eventuality and some relish it.
Hence Alex Jones and his misguided kind.
As usual, they are after the “jews”. They follow some agenda we have not understanding of, have some beliefs, know what we cannot know, but their hands are always clear.
Aktina and Olive sense that our Masters have no pity.
We sense that they are well ahead in their plans and are full yet of shock and awe for our species.
We know from our own life experience that chemtrails are not contrails, that our sky has changed, that what we breathe is changed, that what reaches us from outside is changed by this layer the purpose of which is unclear. We ponder their plans to foist a new Messiah on us that will “speak to us all in our own language in our heads” and we wonder if they are making us antennae?
Or affecting that antennae’s range somehow, shaping the pineal, knowing something about it we don’t, parading its significance and making a mockery of us?
There are so many such questions….
Do you see how easily we can fall down a rabbit hole of useless conjecture?
Whilst at the same time know that there is much that we have invented as a species that is known only to a few, and that the pinnacles of our development of weapons are directed at us and unknown to us.
Perhaps what makes you believe this can’t be done demonstrates where this science has reached? Perhaps pondering that question is what makes you a truthseeker, and doing what they don’t expect and getting your arse into gear is the biggest contribution to the future that you can ever make.
If you do not believe that this thing can be achieved, if you cannot see that our species can evolve in this way and create a world that speaks of its inner core as a species of love, then you condemn us to more of this endless headless-chicken run to destruction.
Wake up to the reality that it is all or nothing, that the time is now, and that you must find faith in your family and trust each other and that you must find this common ground between you or surely enter a dark time.
Many of you are there already, already in a dark place.
If you feel it, you feel it reaching for you too, this heart of darkness, wherever you are.
It is time.
This is how we see the world.
To us this seems obvious.
We busk our consciousness, parade our hope, offer it for your consideration, wonder if you’ll get it, wonder what will happen if you don’t.
Most of us wish for a world that is of love and of freedom from fear and everything that flows from that..
We simply believe that to be true.
We think we should count ourselves, and see if we can change things if it turns out that we are most of us.
And what is there that we can agree on?
Only that we are the meek.
And mean no harm.
And that we are the true, the most humanity.
And so will our planet be.
And we could find that out within a few days.
If you, dear reader, would just for a moment believe it could be done, and bring your energy to it, and ask others to do the same.
No leaders, no lobbies, no issues. Good or evil? Where do you stand?
And this has always been the question.
And now is the moment at which we need to express our answer.
It is that we will be good.
And our world will be the best it can be.
And that others need not fear us, nor decide to extinguish us, for such is probably the stage on which this drama is played, and this is its finale.
We live in interesting times, as we said years ago here. The tree is falling, the monkeys scattering. Where will they turn? What will become of them?
And that is the point at which everything designed to shape your consciousness is directed, to make you believe that it can’t be done, to make you think that others will do it and if it goes well and doesn’t fizzle our you’ll look again. And then there’s the question of who can you trust? And who are these jokers from Crete anyway, they’re never linked to by any of the other sites I go to. And what about Ron Paul. And what about gun law. And what about Monsanto. And what about gold. And what about debt, and bankers, and 9/11 and wormholes and the Galactic Federation of Light and what’s on TV and off you go …….squandering your opportunity to be a part of something magnificent because you have been told it can’t be done or you have let your eyes go off the ball and are following the wrong thing.
The shiny distraction cast by the wizards has caught you, as we see it.
They have placed a ring in your nose, believe you docile, and lead you where they wilt.
Our view.
They are good at their game, long in the tooth at it, have the thought engine of Tavistock behind their every move, you are a mere novice in this old game.
Such was your father.
And his.
You have to pay your bills. You have to do your job. You have to do what you are told. You have to accept the regulations of others. You have to be a part of their system and so feel you can do nothing, that others must start, that you feel you will be thought of as foolish for believing we can do this thing.
So have they shaped your psyche and will shape it further.
For if for a moment you thought this could be done then the world would change.
The question is, can this opportunity we have right now be seen for what it is?
Can we ignore our false reality long enough to seize control of it?
Our masters think not, for still we pay them, and ever will need their money, they believe.
All is going to their plan, do you see?
We also know it to be true that our species stands at a threshold in its history, at an epochal moment.
We have argued elsewhere the simple understanding that the more humans there are then the more there are amongst them that are genius. With the ability to share thought brought by technology and, growing, by a commonly used shared language, so it is evident that the species will leap exponentially forwards in terms of such technology facilitated by shared access to information.
In other words, we are going fast right now, imagine how fast we could go if we shared everything, if we just got on with each other.
If the good folks were in charge, and all of us were involved and firm by that involvement.
And by such power of will reshaped our world and made our nice and special places within it and handed down a place of safety and of cleanliness and of beauty and of fun.
In other words, that which we intend for our children when we first cradle them, and have as yet failed to supply.
And if this is not your purpose in life, then what is?
Is what we ask ourselves.
Listen: we need to grow a better understanding of the way in which the world is ordered and by whom and to what effect.
But we need to do that when we have the doors to the library that is our history blown fully off. To gain such access, we need to have taken control of knowledge, of information, to have nothing hidden from us.
That is a great leap, for it brings into question all that we believe in or use daily.
We didn’t need the Icke’s, you know.
We’d have got there anyway and faster without the distraction, do you see?
“There”, of course, being the shared understanding of which we speak.
When a creature is kept under a yoke its strength is reserved for the day when it sees the opportunity to set itself free. We believe that creature is the silent and fearful mass of humanity, that it is the essential core of the species, that its great bellow and snort as it shakes itself free will be the sound of good conquering over evil, and that the battleground was where it had always been, within each individual.
Which do you choose, kids, good or evil?
And what is the core of good?
“Love”.
Correct answer.
Such, we believe, is the raw simplicity of this issue.
Prevention of such shared understanding is the chief goal of those who will lose power by it.
It is in that understanding, of the fundamental import to our current masters of shaping the pathways of those that are seeking to complete the jigsaw and find a way to a better future for our species, that you should examine and question all of your sources of information.
And if you understand that such shapers and deceivers must be there, for our masters lack neither resource nor willing workers for money or belief, then you must also understand that there will be a discernible networking, the creation of a funnel, the psychological manipulation that over-assails and therefore draws energy from.
Think of it as a pressure system.
Or please just think, is what we’d ask, just consider if it could be so.
The pressure is the straightening of the backs of this immense and powerful beast when it smells freedom, its blood pumping with the effort.
This is the brute force of us.
It is the yearning of humanity to be free, to live life as it should be lived, to be human.
We guess we are believers.
That good will triumph over evil.
That the meek shall inherit the earth.
That ever ’things gonna be a’right.
We guess we believe in you.
That pressure is being leaked out from us, wasted in diversion.
When you look, it is easy to see them.
Eyes open, heads up.
Most of us in some way are tied to a system or a belief that causes us to fail to find commonality with others of our species tied to other systems or beliefs.
With such distractions, we fail to see what is common to most of us and, if it weren’t for the way the world has been ordered, by the teeming great mass of us.
Most of the hurt we do is because we are forced into an unnatural way of being.
We should understand this readily if we could just for a moment draw breath and look at our selves and what we do to others.
For some strange reason, human beings have allowed themselves to be educated to believe that there is some sort of hierarchy amongst them.
It wasn’t always so.
Once caused to accept this concept, they fail to see that all will become enamoured of this position because no matter how low you go there is always someone lower.
Sold the idea of inequality, of one person being able to dictate the actions of another, the species opened the door to its total subjection to mastery through artificial debt and other feats of magick.
That is of course what we are. A species enslaved to artificial debt, working at nothing when there is much to be done and, as we grow and grow collectively cleverer, in front of which lies the opportunity to create something different of this world.
We can clean our oceans and our air and our ground of their poisons.
We can grow what we need and restore our nature and make better use of our world and we can do this with good will.
This is, after all, what to be truly civilized is all about.
To build anything, lay its foundation.
To those who get it, there we tip the pyramid.
And it is, of course, a numbers game.
And we have this core sensation that as a species we will soon begin to feel the possibility of a different future, that we good guys are indeed in the majority, that we can sort this mess out.
That all it would take is for us good guys to identify each other.
A badge that says “I’m OK”
Somewhere where we can see six billion of us.
And know that means we have won.
That the meek shall indeed inherit the earth.
Such decisions being somehow in the tides of time being ours to make now.
If you see.
And then that the obvious thing to be done is to find out if it’s true.
And how we should find out with the tools at hand.
These are the rudimentary questions most of the seven billion of us are too distracted to consider for a moment, being lost in detail and failing to see the big picture.
Understand that most of us have either not been given the rudiments of education, the certainty of a home, the surety of there always being a meal, the freedom from debt, the freedom to choose what we grow up believing or being somehow loyal to.
We are servants all to an inherited system, a passed down power structure, an old and creaking structure not suited to what we could become.
We are saddled with ancient beliefs and with controlled and held back science, servants all to the mythical creature called money.
That’s just our view. Take it or leave it.
Everything in the world today that is of war and of grief, of uncertainty and of the smell of ruin, of disease and unhealthy, of mither and of concern, all of these things are driven by forces.
Forces, of course.
Some we see; pure profit, open exercise of power.
Some we don’t clearly see and guess at, and are steered in our guessing, diverted from commonality by the diversity of provable power centres.
It’s the Jews. It’s the Catholics. The Jesuits. The Royals. The Nazis. The aliens. Demons from beyond. Ancient bloodlines. People from Atlantis, or from other dimensions, or those cast out from heaven, or the gold hungry dragon-giants the Nephilim or whatever.
None of which, of course, matters.
None of which is provable right now because we haven’t the facts..
See them for what they are.
Divisive diversions.
Energy sappers.
There really is just one issue here.
Can we unite, quickly, around one flag?
Will the word on this flag be “GOOD” or “LOVE” or both?
Aktina tells me that everything that makes what’s real for each of us depends on each of us, and that we can make that reality good, and that this would merely be the expression of will of a species.
As if it’s a small thing to do.
Which she believes it is, considering our brilliance as a species and our stage of evolution of consciousness and our overwhelming numbers right now.
She tells me the universe is watching and waiting.
And I think I believe that to be true.
For this thing is surely in the wind?
.
We need to find out what we think.
To see if what we think is that we should share a nice world and have fun and write good stories and play good music and be at peace with each other and give what we can and are called to give to this picture we call life and make it a joy for all.
What else is there to strive for but some sort of Nirvana?
Shouldn’t we all of us be aiming for that goal?
There are more of us.
There are more of us.
That shared understanding is all there is to this issue.
Once the meek inherit the world we can discover the truth of many things.
But first we need to inherit.
To do that we need to wave to each other and see ourselves as the mighty and unstoppable host we are.
Look around, you will see the shapers of your consciousness knowing in advance each step into understanding we take and at each step placing a thought leader deftly into the system. So the Zeitgeists etc that we have written of many times.
See your consciousness as the wounded animal, see how the ravening wolves separate it from the herd and bring it down in its lonely isolation.
You yearn for change.
Are given barricades to stand behind and defend. Issues to keep you from the front.
Sparkling leaders to fascinate you and then ultimately disappoint you or, worse, lead you into someplace you didn’t set out to be.
.
We speak in the language that our human predicament calls us to.
We are amazed that such voices aren’t everywhere, for we are being at our most foul right now and like always before many of us have been hoodwinked into believing that by doing evil we do good.
Where are the voices for global, species unity?
How much has such global unity been trashed in your mind?
How much has the idea of people sharing what there is been trashed in your mind, via the Schiff funded Russian revolution and the Chinese murder machine and other great manipulations of their time?
We note that most humans, whilst being able to see the machinations and subtle plots in their history, singularly fail to perceive them in their own time.
They see the pawns that were the masses of old, held sway by Kings or Generals or Dictators or Ideas in Perverted Human Form and driven to vileness yet they can never see that these same forces drive the world today and that WE ARE the masses being driven to vileness.
An observation: From all sides now they shape us to hate the jews again, and build their case in more ways than one and in more places and from more standpoints than there are turds in a Wolverhampton sewer (the only sort I have walked down, other than this one).
Other unprovable issues beckon here, of prophecy and of “they that are of the synagogue of Satan” and so on and how history has always been about who shapes destiny for the most people, who can kill the highest number, who can do what they want, and though it seems so far above and beyond what we humans believe is conceivable maybe they wrote those things themselves 2000 years ago or whatever, that they have always known what will come, that they are so advanced in their thinking to have been able to lay such plans……
Bury yourself in that rabbit hole, truthseeker.
Look.
We arrive here at a point of global understanding.
We have been misled.
We have been tricked.
We understand that to carry on as before is making this a very dangerous place to be in more ways than a thousand.
We arrive at this juncture:
We change, give love a chance.
We become perpetual slaves to debt enforced by government locked into their electronic grid.
Utter slaves.
We know that still lingering there on the hard drive of all of us, waiting for the signal, is this call to unity, this call to our mates around the world.
That’s what we sense now, but will the signal be heard?
Can we do this thing?
And these are just our thought busking considerations, from our street corner.
Our art.
Full of good will.
And love to you all, dear species, in this rich world
The shape of which is yours to determine..
Olive Farmer and Aktina Pempti.
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AOM 2018 Theme: Improving Lives
Vice President and Program Chair: Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro, London School of Economics Theme: Improving Lives
Improving Health and Well-being in Society: How Can Organizations Help? | Download PDF
The 2018 Theme asks the question: How can organizations contribute to the betterment of society through elevating the health and well-being of those who live in it? What role can organizations play in positively affecting the physical, psychological, social, and financial health of individuals, groups, communities, countries, regions, or global society? Organizations are integral to, and have an interdependent relationship with, society. As such, they affect whether societies realize their members’ health (“complete physical, mental and social well-being,” WHO 1946) and overall wellbeing (“being happy, healthy and prosperous,” Merriam-Webster). However, the role of organizations and the responsibility for improving lives is unclear, as is the extent to which their efforts have been successful.
The Theme will explore such issues as whether (and why) organizations have a responsibility for improving the lives of individuals in society. Do organizations have an obligation to “give back”? Are there benefits for organizations who seek to improve lives as a strategic opportunity? Could—and should—organizations play more of a role in the overall health and well-being of a society? What does it take to achieve a coordinated and sustained effort from organizations to address the grand challenges of improving a society’s physical, psychological, social, and financial health? How can health and well-being become part of the conversation in upper echelons of organizations? What types of leadership approaches will engage people in making positive differences in their lives, on both large and small scales? If organizational purpose is to ensure that lives are better, what should organizations do differently?
A number of recent trends have created unique opportunities for organizations to have a positive impact. Aging, the rise of mental health issues, diversity in communities, financial insecurity, and the role of technology in facilitating constant connectivity have created challenges that organizations may be in an ideal place to address. What organizational solutions responding to these current trends are having a positive impact on the health and well-being of those affected? Under what conditions do organizational solutions transform the impact of current trends into positive effects for health and well-being of those in their local and global communities? We seek to showcase work that informs these issues. Diverse forms of research are pertinent, some examples of which include:
• What organizations are doing to ensure that digital technology/robotics positively impacts the health and well-being of employees and better serve the health and well-being of individuals, communities, and society. • What organizations are doing to positively impact the health and well-being of an aging workforce. • What organizational actions are providing a basis for employees with mental/physical health concerns to flourish. • What organizations are doing to contribute to a more inclusive society and the health and well-being of diverse communities. • What solutions organizations (individually or collectively) offer to ensure the health of the planet and, thereby, improve societal health and well-being. • What organizations are doing to encourage and sustain financial well-being, both for their employees and for those impacted by their operations.
There is also rising inequality. Our society comprises “haves” and “have nots,” and increasing segments of society are disenfranchised as a result of prejudice, poverty, conflict, and disasters. What role can organizations have in improving the lives of vulnerable populations? What would the implications be for the care of vulnerable people? How can different types of organizations measure their impact on the health and well-being of a society’s most vulnerable groups, such as:
• the unemployed • the working poor • immigrants • refugees and other displaced persons • those living in poverty?
Pause for a moment and imagine what is and what would be possible if we seriously considered the involvement of organizations in creating a better society. Some potential questions for our diverse community to explore: — What would it mean for organizations to seriously take into account the health and well-being of their employees and those doing life-changing work in unique contexts? What organizationally sponsored initiatives make a positive difference to the health of employees? How, when, and why does organizational performance positively impact health and well-being? — Under what conditions do structures and processes promote societal health and well-being in the short-term and longer term? How are organizational products and services making a difference to societal health and well-being? What conditions facilitate organizations promoting human and environmental health in their supply chain and sourcing decisions? What can organizations do to enhance financial well-being in society? — What factors facilitate and reinforce attention and action on society’s health and well-being at different levels? How do advocacy groups and Internet activism positively affect organizations’ health and well-being goals? How do organizations use their influence to advance the health agenda of public policymakers? What facilitating conditions support organizational success in improving health and well-being? How do community dynamics and nonprofit organizations shape its impact? — How do institutional contexts facilitate the collaboration and pooling of resources to positively address societal health and well-being? What organizational capabilities facilitate the detection of societal need for help in the context of natural and human-caused disasters? — What forms of organizational alliances/partnerships facilitate a positive impact on health and well-being? What are effective methods of knowledge transfer between organizations in the effort to cure diseases? — How does management education positively impact the health and well-being of students and contribute to improving the lives of vulnerable groups in society? What role should management education play in promoting the health of the planet and the lives of its people?
As we prepare for the 2018 Annual Meeting in Chicago, I hope that you will think creatively, broadly, and provocatively about Improving Lives from many different perspectives. | {
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European Space Agency to launch exoplanet-spotter
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected a project called Cheops – short for CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite – as the winner of its new process for choosing fast, cheap, space missions.
The agency issued its Call for Small Missions in March 2012. Cheops emerged triumphant over 25 other submissions.
The ESA says “Cheops will operate in a Sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 800 km” and is expected to operate for three-and-a-half years after its 2017 launch.
The satellite's job, as its name implies, will be exoplanet-hunting. The craft will do so by peering at solar systems known to house planets, the better to capture detailed data that will let humanity understand the composition of those worlds.
ESA hopes that by doing so we will gain a better understanding of exoplanets, while data will also be shared with terrestrial telescopes to help them continue exoplanet studies.
The decision to proceed with Cheops is timely, as the Kepler spacecraft currently employed as humanity's premier planet-spotter suffered the loss of one of its reaction wheels in July 2012. Reaction wheels are used to aim the spacecraft's instruments and while Kepler started out with four, it needs three to operate. The mission's intended life was three-and-a-half years, but as it was launched in March 2009 the craft's expected working lifespan has been achieved.
Funding has been secured to operate Kepler until 2016, but if another reaction wheel fails that effort will be futile.
If the ageing spacecraft can be nursed into 2016, Cheops will take over a little later, meaning only a small gap in humanity's space-based exoplanet-spotting regime. ® | {
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Nissan to invest EUR2bn in Europe in 2014 – Automotive Business Review
Japanese automaker Nissan Motor is set to invest more than EUR2bn to boost its production in Europe in 2014.
The electric carmaker also plans to launch 14 new models in the continent this year.
Nissan will boost production in Spain and Russia. It will start the production of its all-electric e-NV200 in Barcelona, Spain. The company will unveil this light commercial vehicle at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show.
It has also commenced the production of the all-new NT500 light truck at its Avila plant in Spain and will produce all-new C-segment hatchback along with a new One Ton pick-up at Barcelona plant.
In Russia, the company will introduce its Datsun brand with two new models and will boost the production of its Almera at Togliatti plant. | {
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On the remote island of Shetland, Fran Hunter is walking home when she spots a splash of red in the deep, white snowdrifts, with black ravens flying above. What a perfect picture it makes, she thinks. But on closer inspection, she finds that the “perfect picture” is the dead body of local teenager Catherine Ross, whose red scarf has been used to strangle her. Suspicion immediately falls on recluse Magnus Tait, who was accused–but never convicted–of kidnapping another girl eight years earlier. Policeman Jimmy Perez, assigned to the case, isn’t convinced of Magnus’ guilt. As he investigates, he uncovers a web of sinister secrets, strange superstitions, petty rivalries, thwarted love, and illicit affairs–the dark underbelly of Shetland’s tight-knit community.
This is the first Ann Cleeves work that I’ve read and, once again, I praise the web-site Fantastic Fiction where I can find out what series an author has written and the chronological order of the books in each; and our public library system which allows me to borrow from other library systems in our province – in this case, it was the Annapolis Valley Regional Library that lent me this book.
The Shetland Islands seem a romantic setting for a murder that is decidedly unromantic. Cleeves draws the Shetland island community as closed and suspicious of outsiders, as it likely is–much like most other islands around the world.
If guilt for this murder has to be pinned on someone local, then simpleton Magnus Tait is the obvious choice. Most people in the community have already decided he was responsible for the disappearance of a young girl eight years previous. But the reader knows Magnus didn’t do it – or did he?
The setting is a little bleak, the detective a little low-key, the subject matter a little dark (but not as taut as, say, a Kathy Reichs serial killer novel), but the plot advances steadily and evenly and there are plenty of clues to the identity of the murderer. But, since there’s also plenty of red herrings, it’s unlikely you’ll figure out who it is until the end of the book. Cleeves manages to make nearly everyone in the area appear to be a possible suspect. In my mind, that is one of the marks of a really good mystery. And this is one.
I’d like to read the other four books in this series (White Nights, Red Bones, and Blue Lightning). Recommended for mystery fans.
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P.S. If you click through the affiliate links in the book titles, you may notice a different cover. I like to see the cover that’s on the copy I read – and it’s usually different than Amazon.com because they display the American release, and I read the Canadian. Again, the links are affiliate links so I will receive a small percentage of any purchase you make after clicking through from this blog. | {
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tag:cincinnatilibrary.org,2007:NewArrivals:sportsSports & Outdoor Recreation2015-03-31T03:15:38-04:00The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton Countyhttp://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/feeds/newarrivals.png3037365"In this corner--!" : forty-two world champions tell their stories2015-03-30T00:00:00-04:00
Heller, Peter, 1947-
New York : Da Capo Press, 1994.
453 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes index.
"An extensively updated republication of the edition published in New York in 1973, with the addition of two new chapters"--Title page verso.
"The history of Kentucky Speedway is as colorful as the flags waved from its flag stand and the cars that dart around its 1.5-mile track. The path to its position on NASCARs Sprint Cup Series schedule included more twists and turns than the roads leading to Sparta, Kentucky. Ultimately, it took Speedway Motorsports Inc. buying the track from its founders in 2008 for developer Jerry Carroll's vision to be realized three years later when the venue hosted its inaugural Quaker State 400. It is all part of the history of a speedway that brought a major-league sport to the Bluegrass State."--Back cover.
Hal McCoy crowns his own Hall of Fame career with a memoir of the Cincinnati Reds giving fans an inside-the-dugout look at tales that never made the daily press: the politics, the personalities, the hi-jinks, the x-rated scenes-- all the classic ballpark happenings known only to those on the field.
3030111Knuckleball : the history of the unhittable pitch2015-03-24T00:00:00-04:00
"Including interviews with Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, former All-Stars Wilbur Wood and Tim Wakefield, as well as other famed knuckleballers, Lew Freedman breaks down the history of this infamous pitch, which it seems can be traced back to Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Cicotte, as well as its effect on baseball as a whole"-- Provided by publisher.
3033627Little League World Series2015-03-24T00:00:00-04:00
Johnson, Sean, author.
La Jolla, CA : Scobre Educational, [2015]
31 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
"Come take a stroll with us onto the perfectly manicured fields in Williamsport just before the first pitch of the Little League World Series"--Back cover.
"This book contains a thorough and comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard, together with a detailed analysis of each of the numerous, and often complex, official rules governing scorekeeping in baseball (many of which were revised or modified in 2007), as well as scorekeeping issues outside of MLB's rulebook"-- Provided by publisher.
Soccer rules! -- Control freak! -- Power and finesse -- Dynamite dribbling -- In the net -- On the attack -- Defense -- The soccer body -- Playing the game.
Presents an introduction to the game of soccer, in simple text with illustrations, providing information on its rules, describing key techniques, presenting winning drills, and offering tips for excelling at the game.
3033616The everything kids' baseball book : from baseball's history to today's favorite players--with lots of home run fun in between2015-03-19T00:00:00-04:00
Jacobs, Greg.
Avon, Massachusetts Adams Media, 2014.
176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Ch. 1 Playing the game -- ch. 2 The history of baseball -- ch. 3 The National League -- ch. 4 The American League -- ch. 5 Great players of today -- ch. 6 The World Series -- ch. 7 Statistics and records -- ch. 8 Keeping score -- ch. 9 Beyond the Major Leagues.
Offers information on a variety of baseball topics, including the history of the sport, notable players, the Hall of Fame, statistics and records, and score keeping, and provides more than thirty puzzles and activities.
3032779Tales from another mother runner : triumphs, trials, tips, and tricks from the road : a collection from badass mother runners2015-03-18T00:00:00-04:00
Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2015]
xvi, 219 pages ; 23 cm
3022621Growing up Pedro2015-03-11T00:00:00-04:00
Tavares, Matt.
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.
1 unpaged volume : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Before Pedro Martínez pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship, before he was named to the All-Star team eight times, before he won the Cy Young Award three times, he was a kid from a place called Manoguayabo in the Dominican Republic. Pedro loved baseball more than anything, and his older brother Ramón was the best pitcher he'd ever seen. He dreamed of the day he and his brother could play together in the major leagues. This is the story of how that dream came true.-- (Source of description not identified)
"From being inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013, to serving in an executive role on the Detroit Red Wings, and signing on to become an NHL analyst for Fox Sports 1, Chris Chelios has proven himself to be a man of many talents and here he tells his story. Drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in 1981, Chelios enjoyed a long career in the NHL, playing for 26 seasons for the Canadiens as well as the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings, two diehard hockey markets in which he has become a beloved figure. From the 1992 Stanley Cup final to the 2006 Winter Olympics team, Chelios shares his achievements on the ice while providing new information on his life."--publisher's website.
3028799Becoming a mountain : Himalayan journeys in search of the sacred and the sublime2015-03-03T00:00:00-05:00
Alter, Stephen.
New York : Arcade Publishing, 2015.
266 pages; 24 cm
"Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown. He felt like a foreigner in the land of his birth. This book is his account of a series of treks he took in the high Himalayas following his convalescence-to Bandar Punch (the monkey's tail), Nanda Devi, the second highest mountain in India, and Mt. Kailash in Tibet. He set himself this goal to prove that he had healed mentally as well as physically and to re-knit his connection to his homeland. Undertaken out of sorrow, the treks become a moving soul journey, a way to rediscover mountains in his inner landscape. Weaving together observations of the natural world, Himalayan history, folklore and mythology, as well as encounters with other pilgrims along the way, Stephen Alter has given us a moving meditation on the solace of high places, and on the hidden meanings and enduring mystery of mountains. "-- Provided by publisher.
3027223Obstacle race training2015-03-02T00:00:00-05:00
Schlachter, Margaret.
North Clarendon, VT : Tuttle Publishing, 2014.
159 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes index.
"The beauty of obstacle course racing is that it gets you out of your everyday existence and lets you experience life. If you are stuck in a cubicle or trapped in an urban jungle--congested traffic and crowds are your daily obstacles. Running an obstacle course race gives you the chance to get back to nature--to roll in it, get dirty, and tap into your primal self so you can experience life--in the raw, unedited and real. Margaret Schlachter is one the foremost competitors in obstacle course racing today. She put together this simple guide to make your obstacle race experience everything it's supposed to be--a test of your true self. She describes first-hand her personal training methods in learning to climb a rope, scale a wall, flip a tire, throw a spear, and carry a sandbag. More importantly, she provides guidance on how to get yourself mentally and spiritually prepared for the big day--and how to dig deep within yourself during a race to find the last ounce of strength to carry you across that finish line. Every weekend thousands of competitors run obstacle races all over the world. Winning or losing is secondary. More important for them is the ability to meet the physical and mental challenges and achieve personal success by completing the race. Obstacle Race Training is an invaluable resource that enables each and every competitor to experience the maximum level of success that they are capable of"-- Provided by publisher.
Every cyclist wants to get faster. Whether they're a weekend warrior, a crit specialist, or a charity cruiser, speed is the X factor that lets a rider ride strong, feel fresh, and thoroughly enjoy each ride. Get Fast! is the cyclist's go-to guide for gaining speed. In it, author Selene Yeager addresses speed from every possible angle, including not only the standard chapters on riding techniques and bike maintenance tricks specific to getting fast but also stand-alone chapters on fitness and weight loss, stretching, nutrition and supplementation, motivation, and mental attitude. Together they present a complete and comprehensive guide to achieving one's top speed. Bolstered by a foundation in science and road-tested by Yeager and the editors of Bicycling magazine, the wisdom presented in Get Fast! will have riders and readers flying on the road, dirt, dirt roads, cross course, track -- anywhere and everywhere they love to ride most -- in no time at all. - Publisher.
On January 12, 2015 the Buckeyes secured their first-ever College Football Playoff Championship with a win over Oregon in Arlington, Texas. Officially licensed by Ohio State University and featuring stories and photos from the Columbus Dispatch , this up-to-the-minute commemorative edition features unique images and highlights from the championship game and Sugar Bowl win over Alabama and captures the team's path to its first championship since 2002. Taking readers through every exciting moment of this historic campaign, this chronicle of the Buckeyes' journey highlights the team's season from overcoming the starting quarterback's season-ending injury to the memorable wins over Big Ten foes Michigan State and Michigan to the dominating shutout of Wisconsin in the Big 10 Championship Game and the glorious moments in New Orleans and Arlington. It includes feature stories on head coach Urban Meyer, the team's seniors, and other star players--accompanied by vivid photographs every step along the way.
3025539The Matheny manifesto : a young manager's old-school views on success in sports and life2015-02-19T00:00:00-05:00
"Booker T. Huffman, 2013 WWE Hall of Famer and winner of thirty-five championship titles within WWE, WCW, and TNA, has once again paired up with best-selling writer Andrew William Wright to uncover Booker T's story from his humble pro wrestling beginnings to becoming a global superstar and icon."--Page [2] of book jacket.
3024267Wrestling for my life : the legend, the reality, and the faith of a WWE superstar2015-02-06T00:00:00-05:00
3020902The fall line : how American ski racers conquered a sport on the edge2015-01-28T00:00:00-05:00
Vinton, Nathaniel, author.
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
"Harnessing nature's most powerful forces, elite downhillers descend icy, rugged slopes at speeds cresting 90 miles per hour. For decades, American skiers struggled to match their European counterparts, and until this century the US Ski Team could not claim a lasting foothold on the roof of the Alps, where the sports legends are born. Then came a fledgling class of American racers that disrupted the Alpine racing world order. Led by Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn, Julia Mancuso and Ted Ligety, this band of iconoclasts made a place for their country on some of the world's most prestigious race courses"--Dust jacket flap. | {
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Public invited to participate on electoral reform commission
The provincial government is calling for expressions of interest for individuals to serve on an electoral reform commission and is also inviting the public to comment.
“We are encouraging a conversation in New Brunswick about issues which are important to our democracy,” said Health Minister Victor Boudreau, who is also deputy house leader. “The government is asking New Brunswickers to come forward to work with us to improve our electoral system. It is unfortunate that the official opposition declined to join the government and third parties in forming a select committee for this purpose.”
Expressions of interest will be accepted by email at [email protected], by fax at 506-453-2266 or by mail at: Nominations – Commission on Electoral Reform, Executive Council Office, Chancery Place, P. O. Box 6000, Fredericton, NB E3B 5H1. The deadline for submissions is October 7th.
In addition to the commission, the public is encouraged to participate by reading the discussion paper and submitting comments by October 31st.
“We made a commitment to New Brunswickers to investigate means to improve participation in democracy and it is a commitment we are keeping with the creation of this commission,” said Boudreau.
The information received will be compiled and analyzed by the five-member commission and recommendations will be submitted to the Clerk of the Executive Council in January 2017. | {
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CONTEXT:
It has been suggested that the risk of inpatient psychiatric readmissions is elevated during the postpartum period. To our knowledge, no prior study has compared mothers and nonmothers to determine whether the risk of readmission differs between these 2 groups of women.
OBJECTIVES:
To compare mothers and nonmothers to assess whether childbirth increases the risk for psychiatric readmission and to identify predictors of psychiatric readmission during the postpartum period.
DESIGN:
A population-based cohort study merging data from the Danish Civil Registration System and the Danish Psychiatric Central Register.
SETTING:
The population of Denmark.
PARTICIPANTS:
Two partly overlapping study populations included a total of 28 124 women, 10 218 of whom were mothers, who were followed up from January 1, 1973,through June 30, 2005. Main Outcome Measure Readmission rates to psychiatric hospitals during the 12 months after childbirth (first live-born child).
RESULTS:
The period of highest risk of psychiatric readmission in new mothers was 10 to 19 days post partum (relative risk [RR], 2.71; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.68-4.37), and the period of lowest risk was during pregnancy (0.54; 0.43-0.69). Childbirth was associated with an increased risk of readmission during the first postpartum month, after which risk for readmission was higher among nonmothers (RR, 1.53; 95% CI, 1.31-1.80). A previous diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder was the strongest predictor of readmissions 10 to 19 days post partum (RR, 37.22; 95% CI, 13.58-102.04). In all, 26.9% of mothers with this diagnosis were readmitted within the first postpartum year.
CONCLUSIONS:
Mothers with mental disorders have lower readmission rates compared with women with mental disorders who do not have children. However, the first month after childbirth is associated with increased risk of psychiatric readmission, and women with a history of bipolar affective disorder are at particular risk of postpartum psychiatric readmissions. | {
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GM meetings
ORLANDO, Fla. — The team with perhaps the best farm system in baseball isn’t afraid to deal some of its young talent. The general managers’ meetings began Monday afternoon in Florida, and Astros GM Jeff Luhnow is hoping to further conversations he’s already started about potential trades. Wheeling and dealing for a club that is […]
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As I read this thread I saw at least 2 posters say "at least we are guaranteed 4th place now..." or something along those lines...I respectfully submit that we are the METS and NOTHING is ever guaranteed with this franchise.
Now as for this trade...wow but who didn't see it coming? This is Marlin's M.O. every 7-10 years they try to put together a team to win a world series with NO plan to defend it afterwards, this time they couldn't even hold the line for a half season before the fire sale began, the team had high priced talent, but no chemistry.
As for Mike errr I mean Giancarlo Stanton or whatever he wants to be called...I'm sure he'll catch flack for posting on twitter, I doubt he will be traded this offseason but he might "sulk" just enough to get traded in july 2013,
On the plus side we Mets fans can rejoice that there is INDEED an owner and F/O more inept than ours! | {
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The artists Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Nils Norman will discuss two group-based projects: Norman’s Parasite (1997-8), which was a self-organised activity that piggybacked specific art institutional infrastructures in exchange for content provision; and Hansen's CULTURAL CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT #1 (2016) made with the artists Manuela Gernedel, Alan Michael, Georgie Nettell, Oliver Rees, Matthew Richardson, Gili Tal and Lena Tutunjian, in an attempt to congeal the group’s cultural capital into a cooperatively owned object. This group based piece is currently exhibited at gasworks, London until 29 May | {
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Italy and Austria have quite a few big parks (each country has at least twice as many parks as we do in Aus) - I imagine you'd find some gems in Serbia too. a different 'ambience' is the politest way I can put it (but these I find more interesting than the standard cookie-cutter parks you get elsewhere)
If you're going to Vienna, Weiner Prata is a must-see (has been operating since 1790!) except for the world's oldest operating ferris wheel, it's made up of intependently run showmen-owned attractions (lots of HUSS goodies if you catch it on a good month)
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Citizen
It's your anti-gay Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. Or, in my case —
I have never made a big point, or any point, about not eating at Chick-fil-A. The company is anti-gay. OK, it's a free country.
And I don't have to buy their products. Also, a free-country thing.
***
But since, between the company and Mike Huckabee, it's now Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, when everybody who appreciates how anti-gay they are is supposed to show it by eating their stuff, I will take the occasion to say: | {
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Hi Wild Bill
It's so odd that your user name is Wild Bill and you are asking questions about Syncrowave 200. My nickname in several environments is also Wild Bill - I got dubbed that by New Yorker friends when I moved from there to the southwest. I've just bought a Syncrowave 200, and when I saw your posts I thought for sure I had registered that name and then posted, and somehow forgot it. But not so.... enough about coincidences.
I can't answer your questions, either about max thickness or pulser use. I'm brand new on this machine and on TIG in general. Actually, almost a complete beginner at all kinds of welding. I have a little MIG and stick experience (very little). Ask me in a few months, I'm looking forward to learning a lot on coming weekends.
But meanwhile, I wanted to add my own question, which is more about HF/AC TIG than the Syncrowave specifically. The book says ground everything in sight, even sugg. It looks like a big enough job just in the room where the welder is, to bond all the metal racks, tables, machine tools, etc etc. But we're in a school, and the adjoining rooms have computers, phones, and so on that the book warns about interference from the HF. I'm hoping some of the readers of this message board can provide some practical experience about how comprehensive the grounding plan has to be, and what are the consequences for things that aren't grounded. Can nearby electronics be damaged? Interference with phone lines or computer networds? Are there RF shock/burn hazards for people in the area? For the welder op specifically? Any help/advice/warnings will be appreciated.
The hobbyist responce
Wild Bill,
After much research I opted for a Dynasty 200DX for my hobby shop. I wanted to do SS, Alum. & mild steel. In laymans terms (what I understand) pulsing allows you to vary the heat applied to the weld zone somewhat independent of the basic parameter settings. In a balanced setup I tune the background amps. & peak amps and get constant heat appled to the weld zone. If I tweak the pulse to spend more time at the peak amp's I get more heat, like wise if I tune the pulse to spend more time at the background I get less heat. The difference here is that the peak heat remains the same, so by keeping the travel speed constant the HAZ deminishes, yet penetration and weld pool agitation still produce good results.
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How is the Dynasty 200dx......does it pack a mean bang for the buck... I am thinking of going ahead and purchasing the same......I love the pricing of the syncrowave 200, but love all the features on the dynasty 200dx, what type of line power are you feeding the dynasty with........ | {
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MEMPHIS — Prosecutors say a 26-year-old man has been found innocent by reason of insanity in the fatal shooting of his father in Shelby County.
Criminal Court Judge Bobby Carter ruled Monday that there was no dispute that Alexander Shelton killed his father and that he did not understand the wrongfulness of his actions at the time because of a mental disorder.
His father, 55-year-old accountant Lauren Shelton, was found shot to death on June 16, 2012, inside the family's home.
A psychologist said Shelton suffered from a major psychotic disorder at the time.
The judge referred Shelton to a state mental facility for further evaluation to determine whether he is committable and whether he poses a danger to himself or others. | {
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
Tour de Watertower - 2012
I only heard about the Tour de Watertower
about a month ago. It is a race to the various water towers of Seattle. Of
course, if you know anything about water towers, you might remember that
they tend to be placed at the tops of hills. In effect this race was a
trip up seven of the cities biggest hills.
The race isn't really a true Alley Cat
either because the route is given ahead of time. This gave the
competitors time to scout out various routes before the race. Not that I actually did that. It was
still an unsanctioned event, so no streets blocked for the competitors.
Much of the challenge is in the navigation of the city. Not just the
best route to take, but how to avoid cars and stoplights.
Instead
the race was a time trial. Cyclists were sent out every two minutes
from Cool Guy Park. My slot was at 3:10. From there it was right up the
hill to Volunteer park. By the time I got there I had already lost my
manifest. That is the piece of paper that means you made it to the stop.
Whoops. I am still flabbergasted at my ability to loose the manifest
before the first stop. It was too late to go back, so I had the guy
manning the first stop sign my arm and took off again.
I
went up to the water tower on Roosevelt, then made another mistake. I
thought 85th would take me across the freeway. It didn't. I ended up
going to 92nd before I could cross and come back.
After
the water tower at Woodland Park Zoo I did do one thing right. I took
the Aurora bridge. That saved me a few hundred feet of climbs. Though it
was still a struggle to get from there to the top.
From
Queen Anne it was down and up Dravus to the water tower on Magnolia.
The ride down from there was amazing. The sun was out. The city and
Elliot bay were gorgeous. I zipped through traffic and pedestrians all
along the waterfront.
I did make another mistake in
West Seattle too. I never looked up the cross streets for the water
tower on the North side. Since I had lost my manifest I had to look it
up on my phone. That took a couple of minutes, but I got there.
Then
it was up to High Point. I live less than 10 blocks from the highest
place in the city, so I felt like that was home turf. Getting to the
towers there was no problem.
Then it was a race to the
finish. I bombed down 35th. I will admit it gets a little scary
screaming down that hill. Nothing scared me more than the fixed gear
rider next to me though. He would stop pedaling to slow down. This would lock the back tire and the bike would fishtail. The sound was awful and I was sure the guy was going to wreck at any moment. Ride whatever bike you like, but
I will take one with breaks any day.
I did make one
final navigation error. I knew the finish was on Eastlake, but with no
manifest, I didn't know where. I overshot the place by 10 blocks and
down a hill. So to finish I had to come back up to the top. Urgh.
All
in all, I had a great time. I could not have asked for a nicer day. It
wasn't as grueling as I expected, either. I still felt good turning
around and biking back to West Seattle. I would also like to thank Greg
from Go Means Go for putting it on. | {
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Technically speaking, “castrate” probably isn’t quite the right term for what Roseanne Barr is describing — as if that were the biggest problem with her tweet. Is there no evil Chick-fil-A can’t perpetrate? Back in July, Barr apologized (sort of) for saying that people who ate Chick-fil-A and other processed foods deserved the cancer they were going to get.
@therealroseanne So you’re saying for us to eat more red meat? YOU HAVE MY VOTE!!!! | {
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StockMarketNews.Today - Fresh concerns on Friday about the prospect of a global trade war further unsettled financial markets after President Donald Trump said he was ready to slap tariffs on all Chinese imports to the US.
What you need to know:
Hot topic:
The Japanese yen strengthened and the US dollar held its losses as concerns over global trade tensions kept markets jittery.
The Japanese currency, often regarded as a haven during geopolitical uncertainty, climbed 0.4 per cent to ¥110.91 per dollar, after gaining close to 1 per cent on Friday, and amid speculation over a change in Bank of Japan policy.
The US dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of peers, was down 0.2 per cent after slumping on Friday.
The moves came after G20 finance ministers and central bank governors, meeting in Argentina over the weekend, warned that increasing trade tensions risk undermining the global economy.
Fresh concerns on Friday about the prospect of a global trade war further unsettled financial markets after President Donald Trump said he was ready to slap tariffs on all Chinese imports to the US.
The latest threat followed his criticism on Thursday of the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate rises.
“Fears of a full-fledged currency war are elevate… and all attention will be on China’s financial markets,” ANZ analysts said on Monday.
China’s offshore renminbi exchange rate was up 0.1 per cent at Rmb6.7675 per dollar. The onshore renminbi, which moves within a trading band of 2 per cent in either direction from a midpoint, was up 0.3 per cent at Rmb6.7476.
The People’s Bank of China injected $74bn into the banking system on Monday via loans to commercial banks, the latest sign Beijing is easing monetary policy as the economy slows.
The New Zealand dollar was up 0.1 per cent against the greenback at $0.6811 while the Australian dollar was flat at $0.7424.
Fixed income:
Japanese sovereign bond yields, which move inversely to prices, rose after speculation about potential changes to the country’s central bank policy. The 10-year Japanese government bond yield was up 5 basis points at 0.071 per cent, near its highest point since February.
Reuters, citing people familiar with the Bank of Japan, reported on Friday that policymakers had been in “unusually active discussions” ahead of this month’s monetary policy meeting, suggesting possible changes to interest rate targets and asset-purchase programmes.
“Some at the Bank of Japan are expressing increasing concern about unwelcome side-effects of prolonged ultra-loose monetary policy,” said Capital Economics senior Japan economist Marcel Thielant. “We aren’t convinced that those concerns justify any change in the policy stance at the moment, but it is worth asking whether they could become more pressing issues in future.”
The yield on US 10-year Treasuries was flat at 2.889 per cent while that on equivalent Australian government bonds rose 5 basis points to 2.659 per cent.
Equities:
Asia-Pacific equities were choppy as trade worries persisted.
The CSI 300 index of major Shanghai and Shenzhen stocks dipped as much as 0.7 per cent before recovering to be up 0.2 per cent.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng China Enterprises index was up 0.5 per cent, recovering from an initial 0.1 per cent dip, while the broader Hang Seng index gained 0.2 per cent.
Hong Kong-listed shares in Russian aluminium producer Rusal jumped as much as 15.5 per cent after US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday suggested the White House was open to finding a solution to sanctions placed on the company.
In Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.9 per cent with only energy stocks in positive territory, and with the key financials and basic materials segments each declining 0.9 per cent.
In Tokyo the Topix was off 0.4 per cent despite a 2.1 per cent gain for the financial segment, while in Seoul the Kospi Composite slid 0.6 per cent.
Commodities:
Oil prices eased, with Brent crude down 0.1 per cent at $72.99 a barrel and West Texas Intermediate also off 0.1 per cent at $68.17. The price of gold was a touch higher at $1,232 an ounce. | {
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BARCELONA, SPAIN - MAY 03: TV workers protect themselves from the rain prior to the start of the UEFA Champions League Semi Final second leg match between Barcelona and Real Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium on May 3, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images) | {
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CHANGE is the Constant in a Century of New York City Real Estate
Elliman Magazine
Jonathan Miller
October 13, 2011, 2 pages
While researching the last 100 years of New York City residential real
estate, I came to appreciate the single constant in the tumultuous ebb
and flow of housing: a market that continually adapts to significant
economic, political, and social change.
Over the past century, the city has been held together by a diverse
economy that links every economic capital across the globe, and
as the result of this collaborative character that has come to define
New York City, its housing market has proven to be a direct
reflection of the conditions of the world at large. The housing stock has
shifted from dependence on single-unit dwellings, to apartments, to
co-operatives, to condominiums. It has ranged from overcrowded
tenements to newly developed luxury high rises. The addition of new
housing or re-purposing of existing structures has resulted in a wide array of residential property that forms the texture of the New York City real estate market.
The irony of this evolving housing legacy is that, when simply
gazing upon the physical configurations of buildings, we take
comfort in a sense of permanence, which, as it turns out, is more
illusive than accurate. Leaf through “before and after” photo books
of New York, and the revolving landscape is readily apparent.
The founders of Douglas Elliman recognized the opportunity that
change brings, and therefore were able to build a company that has
remained a significant part of the history of the last 100 years of the
New York housing market.
The timeline below illustrates the evolution of value of New York
City real estate and the series of events that helped shape it…
Matrix Blog
Source: WSJ Yesterday evening Josh Barbanel at WSJ posted a milestone piece on the current building boom: Construction in New York City Goes Through The Roof: New residential permits surge as developers rush to qualify for tax break There has… Read More | {
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This survey is closed. It was an ill built sur…
This survey is closed. It was an ill built survey on my part, and I was not able to get enough answers, so I will only post about (some or all) these Leo films when I have the time to (not including event photos which won’t be limited to specific films):
Catch Me if You Can
Inception
Titanic
The Beach
Total Eclipse
Don’s Plum
Gangs of New York
The Aviator
The Departed
The Great Gatsby
The Wolf of Wall Street
Django Unchained
This Boy’s Life
The Man in the Iron Mask
Revolutionary Road
Blood Diamond
Romeo + Juliet
I don’t want to make false promises like I have in the past, so I will not specify nor guarantee what type of content I will be sharing, nor will I be able to post consistently. | {
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We can do those hard things.
Dating
About six years ago, I was sitting in my therapist’s office, discussing a new relationship. She made a statement to me that made NO sense to me at the time, and yet something inside of me believed it could be true, simply because of the fact that she was WAY smarter than me.
“The highest level we can achieve in our relationships, is when we have the ability to stand alone in the presence of another,” she said.
What in the whatity what? Like what in the actual heck are you TALKING ABOUT? I looked at her like as if she had grown two heads–this was one I wasn’t even going to ask her to explain. It was too…BIZARRE. And what fresh hell is this in re: to dating? You mean I have to stand alone even if I’m dating someone? I’d rather run away from someone than have to show up as I am and be alone in his presence. What is this crappy alternative universe she is speaking of and how can I make sure I NEVER GO THERE?
Those ⬆️ were my thoughts.
And yet..here is where I want to go with this today. Today is right now. 7:51 pm on February 19. I am thinking about this alternative universe my therapist mentioned, where people can stand alone in the presence of another, and I can still honestly say that it feels just plain WEIRD to me that this is even possible.
AND YET
… I now believe in different things: I believe in BEING STILL with the stupid negative feelings that come up. I am still sometimes afraid of pain or rejection or even intimacy, but I know I can tolerate them so I SIT with them and sometimes I EVEN SIT WITH THEM IN THE PRESENCE OF A FREAKING OTHER PERSON. Which is still not fun, but I CAN DO IT, which is the weirdest thing ever.
This is what it’s like: Here I am, living my life, joyfully, or sometimes not so joyfully, doing my thing. “Doing my thing” basically means BEING MYSELF. Showing up as me. And then, in the midst of me doing my thing, someone else tells me or shows me in his or her actions that he or she doesn’t like my thing-whether it’s the way I express myself or my belief system or even the way I look or show up to him or her.
And this hurts when they communicate this to me. Because that’s how I’m wired– I am wired to care about people and thereby I sometimes care a little too much about what they think.
But I can TOLERATE the discomfort of the disagreement. I can still stand as myself, being myself, allowing myself to be who I am.
And furthermore, I am allowing the other party involved to BE WHO THEY ARE.
And here is what I now KNOW to be true:
WE MUST LET PEOPLE BE WHO THEY ARE. LET. THEM. BE. WHO. THEY. ARE.
Let them BE who they are.
And know that you CAN still stand in their presence.
This is how this *could* look in various relationships:
Scenario 1: Pretend I’m married. My husband always forgets to turn off the coffee pot in the mornings and this drives me crazy. I keep telling him to do it and he keeps forgetting or maybe just plain doesn’t want to. Instead of continuing to get angry, I let him be who he is. I start turning off the damn coffee pot because it’s important TO ME.
Scenario 2: Pretend I have two kids who are angels. Then I suddenly give birth to a third who is literally hell on wheels. I say go left, he goes right. He is HARRRD to parent. But I continue to show up as I am in my parenting and exercise my beliefs and values in the way I teach him and treat him. He continues to show up as himself in his strong willed, yet sensitive nature. We butt heads, but we still ALLOW each other to be who they are WHILE still enforcing the boundaries and teachings that as parents we must enforce.
Scenario 3: Pretend I am dating a man who has a lot of qualities I like. And he has some other qualities, that, while are not deal breakers, are TRIGGERS for me. So that basically means that he’s a human being who is just minding his business and being himself, but then I text him something and he doesn’t respond to it, and I am triggered. It is at this moment that I have choices. I can text him in anger, asking for a response. I can text him with a humorous, playful tone, but still with the express intent of getting a response. (Which can actually be controlling since I am texting him as a way to diffuse my triggered emotion, instead of just owning that emotion MYSELF). Or, I can LET HIM BE who he is. And do nothing, unless I am sure I am responding from a place of love, instead of a place of being triggered.
You see, we ALL have our triggers, and we have to OWN them. Another wise person once told me, “What other people think of you has nothing to do with you,” and I thought that she had grown two heads too. But guess what?? She actually only has one head and she’s right. If someone doesn’t like how I show up in this world, that’s about THEM. If I don’t like another person, or if I feel “triggered” by them, that’s ALWAYS about me. It’s never about them. They are just doing their thing.
We have to allow the people in our difficult relationships to be who they are. And that may mean that we sometimes take a break from them, and that’s called self care. It’s also called “being still” until you are confident you are interacting in a spirit of love, instead of fear.
It’s a tricky thing. Because it involves being yourself 100 percent of the time and staying true to you, while simultaneously showing the utmost respect to a person who is 100 percent being who they are in this world.
If we could all do this… even just SOMETIMES. We maybe could teach others in our world what it’s like to respect humanity. What it’s like to be true to who you are, not betray your values, while also allowing someone to be who he or she is, and not taking his or her behavior personally.
This involves knowing ourselves. Knowing what rubs us the wrong way. And then digging deeper with that. What’s under that feeling? What thought or belief is behind your experience? Why do you feel that way?
While all the while, remembering that the highest form of relationship and love you can show to another person and to yourself is to be willing to stand alone and stay true to you, while still standing in their freaking presence. 😳
It’s so hard. Yet so easy. And I’m convinced it’s the best way. But you can disagree with me and still stand next to me and I will still love you.
(Picture in my house I look at every morning before I get in the shower. And I sometimes even pray, “Dear God, help me to love others just as they are. Just the way they show up, while still being true to me. 🙏🏽)
“Why do you not want to give me another chance?” I hear the boingy Facebook messenger notification sound, and look down at my phone to see this message.
I am confused by this question, because I already told him why, several months ago. We dated almost five years ago. He broke up with ME.
Five years ago when he told me that he and I just “didn’t fit,” I drove with my then four year old daughter all the way up to Fort Wayne to visit my aunt and uncle to escape the pain I associated with this statement. But you all know what happens when you try to escape your devastation, right? Those feelings of devastation end up hijacking your body. They cause you to lean up against the kitchen counter in your aunt and uncle’s home and find yourself sinking into the floor because you can no longer stand. The feelings then cause you to crumble and get smaller and weep and suddenly forget that your very aware four year old daughter is looking at you, and tearing up at the sight of your pain.
Your aunt and uncle distract your daughter by taking her into the basement to watch the Disney Channel. This is good, because you need to cry, and so you do. You sob, crouched on the kitchen floor, with your back up against the cabinet, until you’re tired.
And then you wipe your face, drink some water, take a hot shower, and realize somewhere deep inside of you, that you are still loved and still worthy of love. The voice that tells you this is very quiet, but you still know it’s true.
Fast forward to five years later. You receive the aforementioned message from this guy who broke your heart, and you remember sitting on the kitchen floor at your aunt and uncle’s house, and all you can say is what. in. the. f*ck.
But I (because we all know I’m talking about myself, and not you), decide to provide an explanation.
“Ummm, you broke up with me. So, I got over you. You didn’t like me getting over you, and you unfriended me on Facebook, which is fine. But now here we are: you are messaging me on messenger because you don’t even have my phone number, and you want to know why I’ve moved on. We are at different places. I don’t know what to say…other than I ‘just know’ I don’t want to date you.”
He is quiet, and confused. Not satisfied by my response, but accepts it.
The next day I receive this message:
“Are you just trying to make me feel like shit, talking about how I ‘dumped you’? None of it makes sense. I have far more to offer now than I did then, yet either it’s not enough for you, or an excuse. Are you actually saying to me that you can do better, and that’s why we’re not at the same point in our lives?”
I feel these words like a punch in my gut. They feel like a snake bite, venom pulsing up my arm and into an artery* flowing straight to my heart.
I choose not to respond to his message. I move on with my day. And yet, I’m clearly bothered by it.
You see, I was taught from a very young age that you don’t say “no” to others, if it causes them pain. I don’t know if boys are taught this or not; but I know that lots of girls are. We are subtly taught that being kind means being small and pretending to be happy. We are taught that if we say no, we must say it nicely, and that if we offend or hurt someone with our “NO” that it is our duty to ameliorate that.
In very subtle ways, we are instructed to be peaceful and pleasant and pretty. We do not rock the boat. We apologize when we forget this, and acccidentally rock it.
When a girl begins to date, this translates to “don’t overwhelm guys by being emotional or needy” or “if he doesn’t like your personality, you need to tone it down” or “don’t ever initiate anything, ever.”
It all comes down to playing small.
And the problem with playing small is that when you play small, you are never truly being you. And more importantly, you are never truly free.
I want to be done with playing small.
I want to be done with feeling guilty for saying how I feel. I want to be done with not trusting how I feel. I want to be done with not trusting my thoughts and my logic.
I want to be loud and take up space. I want to show my daughter that it’s okay to be angry. It’s okay to say no, if saying yes means compromising yourself–ESPECIALLY if saying yes means compromising yourself. And while being kind and respectful to others is important, HONESTY and INTEGRITY and BOUNDARIES are just as important. So when it comes down to being nice or being truthful, I will hope she chooses to speak wisdom and truth.
Telling the truth is fundamental to our development as people–into our development of WHO God ordained us to be.
And we were not ordained to be small.
*(It is arteries that go to our heart, right? Or is it veins? I don’t know and I’m too tired to google it.)
Last October, my friends and I decided to go out for dinner at a delicious restaurant called Late Harvest Kitchen.
The waiter caught my eye as he came over to our table. Like, in a good way that made me blush. 😳
We started chatting.
“I feel like I know you,” he said.
“I feel like I know you, too,” I said, trying to figure out if we were just feeding each other flirty lines, or if we did, in fact, actually know each other.
We began to ask each other questions to determine if we had indeed met before. One of the questions I asked him was for his full name. Cause, you know, I’m super nosey like that.
“John David O’Connell,” (name has been changed of course) he said.
We talked a bit further, and then he walked away from the table. When he was gone, I asked my friend, Terra, “What did he say his name was again?”
“John David O’Connell,” she said.
“Good job,” I said, thankful that my friends have minds like steel traps.
I got out my phone to look him up on Facebook to see if we, indeed, do, know each other through mutual friends, you know? As I’m pulling up his profile and I see that we don’t, John David suddenly appeared, hovering over my shoulder.
“Aahh!!” I yelled, throwing my phone across the table at my friends.
“Don’t worry,” John David said. “I didn’t see anything,” he said. “Anything, that is, except for you looking at my Facebook page.”
“Oh my God! I’m so embarrassed! 😱😰” I said, covering my face with my hands. I now was apologizing to my friends for hitting them with my phone, while simulataneously over-explaining my reasoning to John David for why I was looking him up on Facebook.
Thankfully, my friends know me and understood that my phone throwing was a knee jerk reaction. Surprisingly though, John David seemed flattered that I was looking him up on FB.
“You know, ” he said. “You should send me a friend request instead of just looking.”
And so I did. And we continued to talk. However, we discovered we were, in fact, not a match, and pleasantly parted ways.
But there was a reason for that interaction. That interaction was a reminder to me that there is no one else in this world like me. Just like there is no one just like you. And we have to just keep on being ourselves and having compassion for ourselves, even when we do ridiculous things. John David, in fact, seemed to find my ridiculousness endearing for some reason. Maybe because he somehow knew I was being the unadulterated version of myself.
However, the story doesn’t end there. Yesterday, I saw my dear friend from college, Patty, at brunch. We were talking about embarrassing moments or something like that, and I brought up this story. As I was retelling it, I got SO into it that I, without thinking, began to actually act out the story. When I got to the part about me throwing my cell phone across the table, I–you guessed it–threw my cell phone across the table. Only this time, instead of hitting my friend with it, it hit the lady at the table next to me, and was traveling at such a high velocity that it bounced off her and hit her husband across the table.
“I…am so…sorry,” I said to them. “I was, um, retelling a story and I guess I was acting it out as well.”
“Yeah,” the husband said, straight faced, “I know. I feel like I was just there.”
Luckily his wife found it to be funny.
I am Emily. I am a quirky, moderately loud, storytelling, nosey nerd. And that is my power.
I had the opportunity several days ago to meet someone I deeply admire, Glennon Doyle Melton. And because I am touched so much by what she writes and the actions of her charity, Together Rising, I naturally burst into slobbery tears when I met her:
Glennon spoke at St.Paul’s Church. She spoke about love, kindness, vulnerability, and pain. While listening to her speak, I laughed and I cried.
Oh, and I got to meet Mary.
Mary was sitting next to me and my friends. She asked me two questions:
1) Did I find Glennon on the Internet?
Yes, Mary, I did. The Internet is a simultaneously wonderful and scary place.
2) Are you and your friends millennials?
No, Mary. I’m almost 40. But I’m flattered you think I’m that young, so now you’re my best friend.
Anywho, back to Glennon. Throughout her talk, and in the days that followed, I replayed the following quote of hers in my head:
“And I do not judge a love’s worth by how it ends. I do not. I believe that NO LOVE IS WASTED…Love is worthy of the time and sweat and tears it takes from us simply because it changes both lovers forever—whether they stay or go.” -Glennon Doyle Melton
I kept pondering that quote, over and over again, because it gave me so much comfort. It’s a comfort, for some reason, for me to know that as I look back at my relationships with the men I loved or showed love to–NO MATTER the outcome of the relationship–that was NOT wasted energy.
Because it changed them. And it changed me.
After my divorce, I waited a year to date. Once I started dating, I had two relationships back to back. I was still not healed from the pain of divorce. I was raw. I was kinda needy. And I was just wanting to love someone–to give and receive love. Like, I picture myself at that point in my life both as approaching relationships with my arms wide open, but also wanting to not let go of the man who fell into my arms.
Fast forward to today: now, I understand that there is much more freedom in love, than what I was allowing myself and my partner to experience during that time. I now understand and desire a healthy space from my partner while in a relationship. I know that for any worthwhile relationship to sustain itself, there must be both self love and love of partner present. If I practice self love and compassion, I’m much more equipped to give love away to my partner.
That’s me now. (Yay!! Yay!!) I prayed and healed and did the work to get to where I presently am. But let’s go back to that other girl, five years ago.
That Emily didn’t know these truths yet. I gave love away like it was nobody’s business. I baked cookies for my boyfriends and made mixed CDs for them and homemade lasagna and tried to twist myself into a pretzel so that they felt loved.
And when I wasn’t loved back, I was devastated.
Over the years, since this time in my life, I have thought to myself, “Geesh, you wasted so much time giving love to men who didn’t even love you. How did that work for you, Emily? HOW DID THAT WORK? Awful, Emily.AWFUL. Don’t ever give like that again to someone who doesn’t appreciate it.”
Now cue some Beyoncé music or something here.
Because BOTH of the men that I dated during that time recently reached out to me and told me:
“I realize now that I’ve never had anyone show love to me in the way that you did. You were just so ready to love me. And I didn’t understand that and wasn’t ready then. But now I am.”
The following emojis describe my reaction to that:
🤔😳🤓😱
I said to both of them, “I’m not that person anymore. I was needy then. I was giving love away with the intention of getting love back, and that’s not even real love. I’m sorry, but I have no desire to go back to that person I was or to our relationship.”
But they weren’t hearing any of that, and so I just listened. Because they needed to reflect and remember 34 year old Emily, who was acting like 19 year old Emily, who was also acting like 12 year old Emily. I gave love because I was hungry for it.
And so I let them have their memories. They reflected on our relationships as very happy times in their lives. They remember me as someone who truly made them feel loved. And even though I’m not that same person anymore, I find great comfort in knowing I gave love away and touched someone’s life in a somewhat significant manner.
And you know what they gave to me? The gift of self love. The gift of “no.” When they told me they wanted to break up, I finally learned that I needed to take ALL that love I was giving to them, and pour it on myself. Give to myself, nourish myself, love myself. To quote the wise band, Def Leppard, I poured that sugar right on me.
One fine morning about two years ago, I met a guy on a blind date at Cafe Patachou.
We both ordered the omelet of the day and went through the whole “give me the clean, short version of your relationship history” spiel, which often occurs on a first date.
Then, we started to talk about random crap, which just so happens to be strength of mine.
I told the story of a couple I knew who had a larger number of children, and were continuing to have LOTS of babies, like seven kids or something. As I continued to tell the story of this couple, I found myself getting really fired up. And three minutes into this story, I was suddenly giving a scathing diatribe about how some people have babies just to fill a void or because they’re bored, and it’s at the expense of the children, when they aren’t able to provide the necessary support (emotional, monetary, etc.) that these kiddos need, and OH MY GOSH I JUST HATE IT when people do this, or something like that.
And the gentleman across the table thoughtfully looked at me and said, “it’s sounds like you’re really angry about this subject.”
“Yes, I am!” I quickly spat out.
And then I realized that I was actually exhibiting the physical symptoms of anger–I was tightly grasping my fork and my face had gotten unattractively puffy and red.
I sighed.
“I don’t know why this bugs me so much. But it really bugs me,” I said, a little bit more calmly.
“Perhaps it’s related to something in your own childhood,” he said.
“Who are you?? Are you like an undercover therapist or something??” I asked, trying to lighten the conversation.
“No,” he said laughing, “but I’ve been in therapy before and am pretty good at making an observation.”
So I did what he said. I began to think about my childhood. I began to think about some of my emotional needs that weren’t met, despite the fact that my parents were, and still are, amazing parents.
I began to think about the times where I haven’t met the emotional needs of my own child, because I was exhausted or sick or distracted. I thought about how frustrating and upset I was about those times.
And then I thought about why I am so angry. And it’s because I’m afraid. I’m afraid when I’m not able to be the kind of parent my daughter needs at certain moments.
The truth is, no matter how great of a parent you are, no one is capable of meeting every single one of his or her child’s needs 100 % of the time. It’s simply not possible. We are not super humans.
But, I realized that my anger at the couples who were having lots of children was actually fear–fear for their children. Fear that they won’t get what they need.
I am reminded of this story today when I find myself in a situation where I’m angry at someone–when I’m feeling judgmental about something they said or did. I personally don’t care for the expression, “put yourself in the other person’s shoes, and try to see where he or she is coming from.”
Because sometimes you have NO FREAKING CLUE where the other person is coming from. In fact, you may think the other person is a complete idiot. You may think, “I can’t put myself in his shoes because I would never, ever DO what he did.”
So it’s during times like that, that I am reminded to turn inward–not out.
When I’m feeling judgmental or angry with someone, I try to be still. I begin to ask myself, “why does this bug me?” Or “what is happening or has happened in my own life that plays a role in how I’m responding?”
If I am not aware of my own values and the events or experiences which shaped them, I can easily become angry and judgmental towards others.
We are all SO different. Our stories have unfolded uniquely and our pain plays out in different ways. Empathy and/or sympathy are not easy emotions to access at times, especially when a person has hurt us, or we don’t like to see them making choices we think are hurting themselves or others.
But at the very least, if we can turn in–turn in and tune into our own experiences which have shaped what we believe about ourselves and others–it’s a start in the right direction. It’s an acknowledgement that there are prizes of STRENGTH and POWER and KNOWLEDGE to be won from our stories of adversity.
And now I’m going to stop writing here. Because it’s 4:30 am, and my insomnia finally wore off. ❤️ Back to sleep.
I am really sorry if you’re tired of hearing me pontificate on the subject of dating. (Actually, I’m not sorry, but I’m trying to be polite, because I like you.) However, I can’t get off my freaking soapbox yet, until I have driven this point well into the ground. With an ax. Picture me right now, with an ax, swinging it up and down into the ground ferociously until I am so tired that I cannot speak about this topic anymore for awhile. That’s what’s happening right now. And my ax is humongous and metal and I love it.
“Do you have a boyfriend?” one of my former sixth grade students asked me the other day, while volunteering in my room.
“No, I don’t,” I said.
“Do you want a boyfriend?” she then asked.
“Now THAT is a million dollar question,” I said, laughing.
I told her that I am happy with my life as it presently stands. My life is chocked full of love from some pretty special people–my daughter, my family, friends, coworkers, students, and neighbors.
“It’s always better to be alone than with someone who isn’t the right fit,” I explained.
She nodded knowingly, and said, “That’s what my mom says.”
We changed the subject without me really answering the question. Because asking me right now if I want a boyfriend is like asking me if I want to sell all my belongings and move into a yurt in rural Asia. Would I do that? If the right conditions occurred to do so, then yes. There are things about yurt living that I like. There are things about rural Asia that I really like. However, my life is pretty damn good right now. So I wouldn’t change anything, unless the conditions naturally lined up for that to happen.
People say, “You know, there is no perfect person. You seem awfully picky.”
And to that, I say, “You can call me picky ALL YOU WANT. Pick away at me. Pick, pick, pick. Pick at me with an ice pick. Because I have an ax.” I see myself as being specific in my desires. I don’t want a perfect person. I want a person who is a NATURAL fit to my specific desires. If something doesn’t grow ORGANICALLY, I don’t want to entertain it for another second.
Forget dating. (I really wanted to say a different word in place of forget, but my parents read this, so…)
I don’t want to “date,” in the sense of modern dating. Modern dating is a somewhat forced/unnatural/awkward way of getting to know someone.
But here’s the thing…do you know how WEIRD it is that these words are coming out of my mouth? I wasn’t always this way. I have become this way. I used to pour energy into making ri.dic.u.lous. relationships work (both romantic and friendships). I used to pour energy into being someone I didn’t want to be–someone who always said and did the right thing or the thing that people expected me to do.
But that started to shift in me in a MAJOR way when I became TIRED.
I went to my doctor and told her that I was extremely tired. I had brain fog. I was having a hard time getting stuff done.
And after running a million tests on my body, she came back to me and said, “The main thing you need to work on is CHILLING THE HECK OUT.”
I was STRESSING my body out. I had gained ten pounds. I was lethargic. I was not eating food I wanted to eat. My cortisol levels were up. I felt constant stress in most areas of my life. I had become accustomed, in fact, to feeling stress, which was very confusing to my body. I was not moving my body how I wanted to move it through exercise. Quite simply, I was not living out my purpose in life because I was too freaking stressed, energy depleted, and TIRED.
I was tired, because I was giving too much precious ENERGY to people and things who were ENERGY SUCKERS.
Upon this realization, I became protective of my time. I love being with my daughter. I love teaching my students. I love being productive in my home. I love eating healthy food. I love exercising. I love reading good books. I love spending time with close friends. I LOVE WRITING THESE WORDS TO YOU. But I could not do it, if I didn’t use my time wisely.
I want to have energy. I want vitality. I want to be a warrior who gets up everyday and conquers and savors life.
You cannot be a warrior who conquers and savors life, if other people want pieces of you-people who aren’t a natural fit for you.
So the solution, I’ve realized, is to be unapologetically myself. That means if I’m around someone who tells me a joke and I don’t think it’s funny, I won’t fake laugh. It means if someone asks me to do something for him that feels weird/annoying/odd/inappropriate to me in even the slightest way, I resist the urge to second guess those feelings and won’t do it just to be nice. The cool thing about being this way is that many “new” relationships (friendships and dating) fall apart rather quickly…because I am no longer doing/saying things just to be polite. I am letting things happen naturally.
A few months ago (before I had my health related epiphany), I had another epiphany. I was telling a friend some of the qualities I wanted in a potential mate: someone grounded, ambitious, emotionally strong, focused, passionate about helping others, goal oriented, intelligent, and purpose-driven.
My friend said to me, “Okay. Well…do you think you possess the qualities you are looking for? Are you grounded? Ambitious? Emotionally strong? Passionate about helping others? Focused? Goal oriented? (My friend left out intelligent, well, because he assumed I was intelligent–silly him) Purpose driven?”
And I had to pause. “Ummmmm, not as much as I would like to be.”
I suddenly realized that my ONLY job in life was to be THAT person I was describing. And I made it my primary purpose to become THAT warrior. I am not there yet, but I am getting closer.
And as I’m growing into this person, I’ve found out I actually really LIKE this person. I’ve become so focused on evolving into her, that I know how important she is in this world. I have a purpose on this planet that is quite BIG in fact, and I believe you do, too.
I’m grateful to have cool neighbors. One of them is named Megan. And when Megan and I were talking the other day about men and what we are looking for, she said something that stuck to my brain like glue.
“You see, I’m looking for a warrior,” she said.
A warrior. And warriors aren’t a dime a dozen. A warrior is brave. A warrior has integrity. A warrior has character. Megan, herself, is a warrior. She is a hard worker–a highly intelligent, intellectual woman who speaks truth to those around her.
I realized in that moment that I want a warrior, too. But in order for me to attract a warrior into my life, I must consistently work harder at being one myself.
And the path to warriorhood includes saying a word more often that I’m not accustomed to saying: NO.
I have a hard time saying no. Sometimes it’s because I don’t trust myself or my feelings. Sometimes it’s because I don’t want to miss out on fun. Sometimes it’s because I don’t want to hurt someone else’s feelings.
And sometimes it’s simply because I’m not mentally prepared.
And warriors are mentally prepared. They are tough, even though they may actually be sensitive. They tell the truth, even though it causes others to be uncomfortable. Warriors care about other people, but also practice self-care. Warriors believe in their cause.
I made A LOT of mistakes this past year by saying yes to people when I should have said no, in particular in the realm of dating. If a man asked me out, I said yes–especially if I were caught off guard. This led to a weakening in my mental strength. I digressed from the path of the warrior, that I had already paved.
There was a trainer I went out with a couple of times, and then I googled him and found out he was actually engaged. #goodtimes, #thisiswhyicreeponpeople, #imaybeoldbuticanusegoogle
Then there was the 28 year old guy who worked from home, watched animae, went to video game conventions, and only would communicate via text. #idontunderstandanimae, #pleasecommunicatelikearealperson
Oh and I almost forgot about the cop who said he wanted to see me–yet never actually arranged an actual date beyond bringing me carry out from Taco Bell. Yet I continued to talk to him, even though his actions didn’t match up to his words. #sorrybutidontwanttokickitwithyou, #iliketacobellbutnotthatmuch
Oh and I didn’t even tell you about the Jimmy Johns employee who sorta stalked me and the Verizon Wireless dude who pretended that he didn’t have a girlfriend and kept asking me out. I didn’t actually go out with those two, but made the mistake of giving them my number when they asked for it in the spot, because I was afraid of hurting their feelings.
On a side note, at least Jimmy taught me a new acronym.
I think he meant to text “Gtk.” What I eventually had to do was draft a text to them like this:
“Hey. This is Emily. I’m sorry I haven’t been more forthright with you from the get go. When you asked me for my number I gave it to you without actually thinking through the implications of it. I am not interested in dating you, and I don’t feel comfortable continuing to communicate with you.”
But all of that nonsense could have been avoided if I had already adopted a warrior mentality.
So here’s the deal, friends. I am now mentally preparing myself to say no to any man that doesn’t strike me as a warrior, while continuing to work on being a warrior myself. I’m going to practice self care and integrity. When someone asks me to do something that doesn’t align with my warrior path, I’m going to say, “Thank you for (recognizing me, asking me, etc), but I can’t.” I have found in life that it always helps to have a phrase prepared to spit out when you’re caught on the spot. I’ve already practiced standing in front of the mirror tonight and saying, “Thank you, but I can’t. Thank you, but I can’t. Thank you, but I can’t.” I said it 64 times so far. And it felt really good.
Maybe you want to come along with me and join me on my path to warriorhood. Maybe you, too, are ready to be your authentic, brave, sincere self. Maybe you, too, need to practice self care.
Say it with me, “Thank you for thinking of me, but I can’t. Thank you for thinking of me, but I can’t.”
I can’t because I’m practicing the courage to be who I am meant to be.
You see, I have this thing called an ego. My ego tells me that being by myself isn’t socially acceptable and that whatever my life is on the outside is all that it is.
Thankfully, I’ve started listening more to my soul and my spirit–and less to my ego.
I went through phases on and off during the last year where I had a few minor setbacks. I started getting impatient with being alone–especially during my “off” weekends when Aliana goes with her dad. I would fill up my weekends with trying to be out and about as much as possible–out with friends or on dates with men–instead of just giving myself time to be still and alone.
The thing is, being alone does not come easily for me. I am an extrovert–an ENFP on the Myers Briggs. I enjoy being around people. I thrive on connection and connecting with others. I have always believed that I (along with most humans) am wired to desire a committed, long term relationship.
And so it is not in the nature of my ego to say what I am about to say; however, what I am about to say is something very important I have learned through some rather painful experiences. And that is this: I may be alone for the rest of my life and that is okay. I may never find a yin to my yang. I may never find my true love, my other half, my soulmate–or whatever term you want to use.
And that is one hundred percent okay with me.
Because my life will not be measured on whether or not I have a partner or husband. It will be measured on the life that I have lived–the mother I am to my child, the teacher I am to my students, and the citizen I am of my community.
I was put on this earth to make a difference–that is my truth. And I think that is yours, too. So that is the only thing I must do. I must do good, practice abundance, and bring life and connectivity to others.
If along the way of my journey, I find a partner who understands my truth and can compliment my journey–then that could be an added bonus. But it is not promised, nor is it necessary for me to have that in order to have joy.
I know the sadness that comes from choosing the wrong partner. It can rip at your heart. For that reason, I have learned to choose being alone over being in a relationship that isn’t a good fit.
I listened to a sermon online once from a pastor named Toure Roberts. In his message, he stated, “A soul mate is a person that God has chosen for you to complete each others’ purpose. Soul mates compliment one another’s goals, dreams, and most important–their purpose.”
So if I find any sort of “soulmate”–it will have to be that person that compliments my truth and my purpose here on earth. It will be someone who I have no doubt walked into my life for a reason. And although I am sure there would be love between us–there must be much more than love to sustain the relationship. There must be that aforementioned sense of purpose, founded in integrity, respect, and wholeheartedness.
All of these things I just told you are lessons it has taken me 38 years to learn. 38, long, freaking years. Years of an unhappy marriage and years of dating men who weren’t right for me. I spent time orchestrating relationships which got me nowhere. (I mean, I spent so much time orchestrating, that I’m surprised I wasn’t carrying around a baton and conducting the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.) I have experienced bouts of sadness or anxiousness in order to learn these truths. I learned them by walking through the pain.
I have the following quote saved in the notes of my IPhone. I think it came from one of the books in the “Boundaries” series by Dr. Cloud and Dr. Townsend:
“To be happy enough to pick the kind of relationship you desire, you must be happy enough without one. You must sustain being alone and get over that fear, in order to get the right relationship. Otherwise, you are just attracting the wrong people.”
And I’m so glad I got over that stinking fear, because there is so much peace on the other side.
One of my heroes, author Elizabeth Gilbert, nails all of those words I just pontificated about in six perfect sentences:
I found this letter in Aliana’s backpack during the last week of school:
My first question was, “Who in the heck is Steve?”
My second question was, “What is a love street, and why is he saying that you are the second one on it?”
I tried to ask these questions as calmly as possible. I explained to her that when you are seven, you are friends with everyone, but you don’t have “boyfriends” until you are much older.
And then I paused to silently reflect on the fact that I actually had a “boyfriend” in both kindergarten and in second grade. (There must not have been any cute boys in my first grade class).
My kindergarten boyfriend gave me a ring as a gift. When I showed it to my mom, she told me it looked too expensive to keep and that I needed to give it back to him the next day. When I told my boyfriend that my mom wouldn’t let me keep it, he confessed that he got it from his mom’s jewelry box, but that she “didn’t care.” I forced him to take it back, though, because I knew my own mother would be walking me to his house to discuss the ring with his family if I didn’t get rid of it. If my mom would have been the swearing type–she’s totally not–but if she had been, her motto would have been, “Do no harm, but take no sh**.”
Anywho, my second grade boyfriend wrote me a note and asked me to “go” with him. I said yes, and I thought he was going to hold my hand at the end of the year skating party until he chickened out. Then he moved to Florida.
And then not a single boy expressed interest in me until the age of fifteen. Talk about a dry spell.
So I’ve tried to chill out about this letter I found, while simultaneously using it as an opportunity to talk to her about how important it is TO NOT SPEAK ABOUT BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND STUFF UNTIL I FIGURE OUT HOW TO OWN AND OPERATE A HANDGUN TO KEEP THE BOYS OFF MY PROPERTY UNTIL SHE’S 18.
Just kidding; I’m a pacifist.
But on a serious note, this stuff makes my head spin. It really does. Like my brain says, “This is way too freaking young to be talking about this.”
But, then I remember that this very topic–like many others–is one that I want her to first talk about with ME, her mother. Not the kid up the street. Not some random adult from church. Not an acquaintance or even friend of the family–FROM ME. Because I’m the mama bear and I am the one who will be raising her and modeling for her how to have healthy relationships.
So back to Steve. Freaking Steve.
Aliana proceeded to explain to me that Steve is a friend from YMCA Daycare and that when he wrote the sentence, “You are the second one on my love st.,” he was trying to tell her that she is the second one on his love LIST. Some freaking love list.
“Love list? There’s such a thing as a love list?” I asked her.
And then I started having flashbacks to middle school when we would play MASH on notebook paper and list three boys we liked, and then three cars, and a bunch of other crap.
So this love list is maybe kinda like MASH.
But I got down on eye level with her, and this is what I said:
“You know that when we talk about loving each other in elementary school, we talk about loving each other as friends. There’s no boyfriend/girlfriend stuff. Got it?”
“Got it,” she said.
“But furthermore, when you ARE old enough to have a boy like you and he tells you that he loves you, but that you are number two on ‘his list,’ you need to say, ‘Oh I’m not number two, honey, because I’m removing myself as an option on this so-called list.’ Aliana, when it comes to love, remember this: never be someone’s number two. You don’t rank people or love.”
By this time, she was walking into the living room to turn on PBS Kids. She didn’t get it. And then I realized I was kinda saying that message to my own damn self.
When it comes to love, there is no number two. There is no list. Did you hear that, Emily? There is no number two.
About three years ago, I went out on a few dates with a guy named Ian.
I met him–you guessed it–online. He had recently moved to the area from Baltimore to pursue a job in higher education. He was highly intelligent and a good listener. He tugged on my nerdy heartstrings with his knowledge of research practices and procedures. We talked on our first date about data triangulation. I was kinda starting to believe the stars had aligned and that God and the universe were celebrating our coming together.
And then I decided to google him.
Being able to “Google” someone is still a novel concept to me. The Internet is just plain freaking bizarre. I mean I can type in your name and random things I know about you such as your city and profession, and a crap load of information may come up. It’s creepy and comforting at the same time to know that we have such information at our fingertips.
So when I googled Ian, a departmental newsletter came up that was two months old, dated slightly before we met. In the newsletter, it welcomed Ian to the department and in his short bio, it stated, “Ian lives on the east side with his girlfriend, Tara, and their pet fish.”
Now, before I proceed any further with this story, I have a confession to make. I was uncertain at this point in my dating relationship with Ian, of whether or not I was physically attracted to him. I believe that physical attraction can grow. However, finding this newsletter just put an unpleasant taste in my mouth.
I wasn’t sure how to proceed. I was fairly new to online dating at this point in my life. I was concerned that if I told him that I had found this information, that I would look like the social media stalker that–wait a second—THAT I REALLY WAS.
I went on another date with Ian, but didn’t have a plan of action in terms of how and when I would bring this information up. This lack of planning took the date on an awkward turn, as I became passive/aggressive with him instead of dealing with this newfound information in a healthy, communicative way.
Ian had decided to take me to the zoo. We entered the aquarium area first. We immediately passed by a fish tank with large, tropical fish. Ian, being his nerdy self, started reciting facts about tropical fish, when I suddenly interrupted him.
“So do you have a pet fish?” I inquired.
“No,” he said.
“Have you ever had a pet fish…ever in your life?”
“Not that I can recall,” Ian chuckled.
“Okay, ” I said, feeling snarky.
Later in the evening, he took me to a movie. Right before the movie started, I somewhat impulsively decided that I HAD to freaking bring this up.
“Okay, Ian, I need to tell you something!” I blurted.
“Sure, shoot!” he happily exclaimed, having no clue of the shit that was about to hit the fan.
I started introducing what I was going to say by giving him some WEIRDASS analogy about toothpaste being out of the tube. He looked confused, so I got right to the point.
I told him that I had googled him, found the departmental newsletter mentioning him and his girlfriend and the pet fish. I told him that I was trying to erase it from my memory and not bring it up, but I had to, because I couldn’t erase this information from my mind. I squeezed the toothpaste out of the tube, so to speak, and it wasn’t going back in.
So then, Ian started explaining this relationship he had with this girl who was “very unstable.” He met her in a bar, they moved in together the next day, she had a pet fish (it was HER fish–not his), and that things were never serious, but that he mentioned her in the departmental newsletter so that she wouldn’t have her feelings hurt by an omission.
“She was very, very unstable. Eventually, we broke up.”
And then he started to give me timelines for when they broke up, but they didn’t match the timelines when we had started talking, and then–
The movie started.
When it was over, I was nice, but sped out of there as quickly as possible and wrote him a kind email the next day stating that I appreciated him, but didn’t think we were a match.
I tell you this story, because as WEIRDASS as it is, the toothpaste analogy is one of my favorites. Because whether it’s minty or fruity or Aquafresh or Colgate–it’s still toothpaste. It’s messy. You can’t put it back in. You have no choice but to acknowledge that IT’S THERE.
So many times in my life I have found out information that troubled me. However, instead of revealing it to the party it involved, I just let it ruminate in my mind and affect my image of that person. At times, the information I found wasn’t even VALID. However, it stuck to my brain in all its gooeyness and just wouldn’t get back in the tube.
Until I finally acknowledged it by communicating it to the other person.
And that night, I had to tell Ian that all I felt with the discovery of that information was that I had been deceived. I understand that when two people get to know each other, they may not be fully honest of their shortcomings. You want to impress your new crush. Perhaps I dismissed him too quickly, but my emotions couldn’t handle anything that sounded remotely dishonest, period. If he had fessed up and acknowledged the strangeness of the situation, it may have been salvageable on my end. But there was only an explanation. An argument and discussion of facts. No empathy in his response. Just more of a “this is what happened–it’s not a big deal.”
Only it was for some reason. It was like a gigantic deal to that little heart of mine. ❤️ In life, I’ve had to make several judgment calls that relied alone on my heart–not pure facts. And this was one of them.
My dear readers, I have more I want to say. But my LOUD NEIGHBOR is blasting some kind of weirdass music that prevents me from writing anything else on this very topic tonight. And I have already exhausted my use of the word, weirdass.
I am wondering if I should ask him to turn it down, or if I should maybe jive along. If I ask him to turn his down, then it means he will have free license to ask me not to blast Nelly or Coldplay or REM or Jay-Z or any of the other random music I listen to.
So I will sit here and jam along. And I may make this for dinner. Because I had a date that just cancelled on me and now I want to eat potatoes: | {
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5 Amazing Ways IoT Can Make a Major Difference in the App Development Process
IoT has made a massive difference in our lives. We can see its penetration on different aspects of our lives by working in the background without making its presence felt. IoT works as a platform that helps us to communicate with the objects.
There are lots of cutting-edgeIoT devices that are available these days. These encompass smart cars, health monitors, human tissue, smartwatches, numerous appliances in the smart home, etc. All these IoT devices can be effortlessly utilized with the help of mobile applications.
It has been observed that most of the smart devices require a smart application to complete the network. With time, we have seen the popularity of IoT technology and the demand for connected devices increasing at a rapid pace. This, in turn, results in the development and maintenance costs of IoT based devices and networks to be reduced drastically.
In the forthcoming sections of this write-up, we have provided different ways IoT can have a positive impact on the app development process. We promise after reading this content piece; you will be in a far better position to take advantage of IoT using effective mobile app development services by hiring mobile app developers.
Before we look at the various ways IoT can make a significant difference in the app development process, let’s look at the impact of IoT in the development market.
Internet of Things (IoT) has become a trending topic as we write. It is one of the fantastic and state-of-the-art technologies that has ever come in the application industry. It would not be wrong to say that the much-needed advancement in the development market has come thanks to IoT.
Let’s Now Try to Understand the Working Mechanism of IoT
The process commences when all the connected IoT devices accumulate all the information and send push notifications to a data center. This is a smartphone that helps you to operate all the smart devices.
With the help of the intelligent application available in the smart device, it becomes easier to control different devices even if you are miles away from the physical devices. This includes HVAC, air conditioner, TV, lights, and much more. IoT also provides comprehensive control over advanced features that are existing in the gadgets and appliances.
Now, that you have understood the working mechanism of IoT, as promised, let’s go to the business end of the write-up and discuss different ways IoT can make a significant difference in the app development process.
Makes the Lives of Users and App Developers Easy
With the help of IoT, it is possible to make the life of both users and app developers effortless. It provides the facility of interactivity of the devices via a mobile app that assists in managing a wide array of tasks. It even reduces the work burden of app developers while building an app. This way, the developers can put in more effort in coming up with user-friendly and breakthrough app solutions.
Changes Perspective of Developers
The entire concentration of mobile app developers is to create a user-friendly interface. However, with the introduction of IoT, the focus has shifted towards creating an effective integration between the smart devices or sensors and the application.
Total Dedication Towards App Security
Everyone is aware of the fact that internet-enabled devices employ the user’s data. It can be a possibility that when these smart devices pass on sensitive information, cybercriminals can exploit this to their advantage and capture the data. It is, therefore, extremely vital for mobile app developers to ensure that they develop IoT apps that are more secure and safe for users.
Encourages Specialization
IoT is an exclusive subject, and if you need to master it, there is a need to specialize in that subject. To utilize IoT-specific apps, you need to possess additional skills, and mobile developers need to learn certain skill sets to stay competitive. They need to gain specialization in the IoT technology to maximize its effective utilization.
Enhances Adaptability to Smart Devices
The mobile apps of the future will need support for the connected device or IoT. In the coming years, we might see a trend wherein if mobile apps do not support IoT; they will be at the risk of being thrown out of the market. This way, IoT will make way for the necessary modification. Today, we see globally mobile app developers are spending quality time to ensure that their mobile apps are adaptable to smart connected devices.
Now, that you have looked at the different ways IoT can make a significant difference in the app development process, it is time to look at some of the benefits provided by IoT-focused mobile applications:
Social Media Integration
An IoT mobile app can be integrated with the social media network. This way, it becomes possible to stay in touch with the employees and people all at once. There is no restriction on place or time. It is possible to stay connected with the stakeholders of your business and customers via social media available in the app.
Provides More Convenience
Everyone today knows that mobile apps are an extremely convenient way to maximize their effectiveness on the smartphone. The reason being, you can use smartphones more frequently than laptops. Also, when it comes to tracking and managing the IoT network, a mobile app can prove to be more effective than a website.
Final Consideration
The mobile app development market is both challenging and exciting at the same time. If you are targeting a specific audience in a niche market, the IoT approach can be integrated with the app development process. Relish the points mentioned in this write-up and make the most of IoT mobile app solutions for your business if you need help to create customized IoT mobile app solutions affiliate with a reputed mobile app development company.
Author Bio:
Harshal Shah is the CEO of MyAppGurus– Mobile app development company. He is an avid learner of breakthrough mobile technologies. In fact, it was due to his passion for mobile technology that led to the inception of this company. He believes in building innovative mobile applications using different types of platforms like Android, iOS, and Windows. | {
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We saw that winbind coredumps if client send packets that query the server performance counters.
This is due to an uninitialized variable used. The issue can be fixed as:
In function _winreg_QueryValue(), source file source3/rpc_server/srv_winreg_nt.c
Following line should be changed:
uint8_t *outbuf;
to
uint8_t *outbuf = NULL;
Hi Grace,
thanks for the bug report!
This is actually a duplicate of bug #7617.
This has been fixed in 3.5.6.
(http://samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.5.6.html)
So, have you really been looking into 3.5.6 code, or
possibly rather into 3.5.5. or earlier?
Best regards,
Michael
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7617 *** | {
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PB: Do you know, I'd like to say someone's living room! With a small group, some food going on, drink, and playing through some pieces – the social music scene is perfect for me. As far as instruments go, I'd like to keep it flexible – a lot of the time, my music can be played on violin or flute or recorder, or whatever. The ethos of Contemporary Music for All (CoMA) has really had an impact on me – the idea that it doesn't matter what you come along with, because there will be something you can play.
But then on the other hand, I can think of some bizarre examples: I was teaching on a recorder orchestra course a few years ago. As one of the performances, they got everyone together – 120 recorder players in a school hall – all sorts of instruments, from the soprano to the sub-contrabass recorder (which, if you haven't seen one, you need to!). The sound they made was almost frightening, but thrilling at the same time. Another example that made a big impact on me was the performance of the music I wrote for the Bath Festival in 2004. In the middle of Bath there was a brass band, a string orchestra, a wind band, a choir and a percussion group – all in a relatively small space. The sound was phenomenal. At two points they were playing together, elsewhere they were playing individually. It was almost terrifying to hear that volume of sound.
But my dream is to have music in intimate surroundings, because music is a social activity. It's easy to get hung up on the concert hall ideal of musical performance. We tend to forget that some of the most pleasurable things that we do in music are in small groups.
CS: How does it feel to listen to your music being performed?
PB: I try to close my eyes! It's quite nerve-wracking in a sense – there are so many feelings going on at the same time. Most of the time, it's fantastic, it's a great performance, and you get a huge sense of relief at the end of it. I long for those performances where I have a smile on my face throughout! But if I can, I hide at the back of the audience during performances – my wife gets upset with me for that! I'm a bit of a reticent audience member when it comes to my own pieces. But I do like to be there, all the same.
CS: What about the listeners: how do you think the audience hears your music?
PB: I don't know really! It depends what kind of piece it is. I'm more concerned about the performers than the audience, in a sense. When I write the piece I don't think about the audience... I'm thinking, if I enjoy the piece, then hopefully the audience will as well. Obviously if it's a song, there's text, and you want the text to come across. If it's a more abstract piece, then it becomes much more difficult to work out what the audience will take away from the performance. You're reliant on the performers to interpret the music on your behalf. There's a triumvirate of composer, audience and performers making of the piece what they can. I remember hearing a piece a long time ago where there was not much information in the music – quite a sparse piece conceptually – and the composer said well, you have to take what you get! You get what you deserve. If it's a very conceptual piece then you throw caution to the wind.
CS: How do you get your music heard?
PB: I write music because I have to – I have an urge to! The number of composers who make their living exclusively from composing are countable on the fingers of one hand – ie not many. So if you want to make money out of it, you have to dedicate a lot of your time to promotion. The best thing to do is to be a great self-promoter, which I'm not! But even if you're reticent as I am, you can try to make your music available. So I produce my albums and release them digitally on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play or Amazon Music. I try to make the scores available through self-publishing and Internet publishers like Sheet Music Plus and MusicaNeo. I keep track of composer opportunities, and try to make the most of those – sending scores off to BBC Introducing, and so on. I use Soundcloud, have a Web site, etc trying to get myself in the public eye. The other important thing to do is to be incredibly social, go to concerts, make sure you speak to the performers and introduce yourself. It's such a pleasure to have fantastic performances of your music – you get a real buzz, an uplift! That's one of the best feelings in the world...
CS: Tell us about your piece at Borough New Music on 6 March 2018.
PB: 'Little Era Ending Songs' is a piece is for soprano, voice and vibraphone. It was commissioned by Chris Brannick and Sara Stowe for a concert in Brighton in 2015. It's a series of seven songs which can be performed independently or together, in any order, on the theme of "our destiny as the human race". A huge theme! And they're seven tiny little songs! I wrote the texts for them myself. Some of them are quite jokey (so 'the end of the world' is a show tune!) others are softer (a lullaby for the last person left on earth). One is called Petri Dish, and it makes an analogy between the human race living on Planet Earth with limited resources, and the bugs and bacteria who live in a Petri dish, who also have limited horizons – another comment on our precarious position on Earth. I like to write pieces that form a group but you don't have to do them all – you can take your pick.
CS: How did you find the performers? How do you know Chris Brannick?
PB: I'm eternally grateful to Chris Brannick. He has been a great supporter, I have written things for him in the past, and sometimes he has put me in touch with other people. I first met Chris at the CoMA Summer School 10-15 years ago – he heard one of my pieces there, and asked me to write a piece for him. Also, I was in a percussion quartet called the Brake Drum Assembly. Chris Brannick was our mentor for that group. The group doesn't perform any more (we stopped as one of our key members moved to Hungary) but for 5-6 years I was a putative percussionist under the direction of Chris Brannick.
CS: What's coming up next for you?
PB: In July, the Leatherhead Choral Society are performing a piece of mine. It was a competition – my piece won out of 120 entries! Also, over the next six months I'll be working on an album under a pseudonym. It will be much more pop-music inspired. I did some music for a production company 20 years ago, and found out on the Internet that they're still talking about it now. But I won't tell anyone that it's me – a secret album.... | {
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Everyone suspects that Alan may be coming out of the closet when he becomes good friends with a gay man. But Charlie is actually the one who is suddenly feeling insecure about his sexuality. e87637d7ec | {
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As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, we strive to offer cost effective services covering a variety of subject areas such as climate change, water, energy, and healthy community design. The LGC also works to link the public and local government officials. The LGC can work with you to customize the types of services that best meet your community’s needs.
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NEW VESSEL, SIDER VENTURE, JOINING NASC FLEET AND MG POOL
NEW VESSEL, SIDER VENTURE, JOINING NASC FLEET AND MG POOL
Lugano, Switzerland (December 20, 2017)
M/V Sider Venture is coming home, reuniting with its sister ships. Nova Algoma Short-sea Carriers (NASC) has recently purchased a mini bulker from Norwegian owners, Oslo Bulk. The newly named Sider Venture has a DWT of 13497mt, is 136.40 meters long with a beam of 21.20 meters, and was built in Japan in 2006, as part of a group of 6 sister vessels. Previously named Sian C, the purchase reunites her with the 5 sister vessels already under NASC’s commercial management. This move is more than just sentimental, however, and signifies growth for NASC, as well as being a further step towards the consolidation of the short-sea market.
M/V Sider Venture will be the 10th vessel trading in the Mini Grabbers Pool (MGP), a pool of grab-fitted cargo vessels controlled by NASC and operating in the Atlantic, particularly in Europe and the Caribbean.
NASC is a joint-venture between Nova Marine Carriers, based in Lugano, Switzerland, and Algoma Central Corporation, based in St. Cathrines, Canada, that focuses both company’s strengths on the global short-sea dry-bulk shipping market. Created in April of this year, the 50/50 joint-venture is already seeing growth and much success. | {
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It may sound like hyperbole — that downloading the latest Jay-Z song could empty government coffers, end careers and stall infrastructure improvements — but it represents a trend that has cities and businesses uneasy.
As consumer spending begins to bounce back, Internet transactions are increasing, albeit modestly, as a percent of overall sales. This hits disproportionately in certain products — books, electronics, music — but every retailers sees at least some migration. While this can be good for the bottom line, it isn’t necessarily good for the average worker. Online sales mean fewer employees and fewer physical storefronts. That means falling salaries and rents, decreased construction, lower payroll taxes — not to mention sales taxes — and less of that word Congress loves these days, “stimulus” and more talk of the feared “Jobless Recovery” that could cost them their seats.
We spent most of the last century transitioning from a manufacturing economy to a service economy, and places like Detroit and Bethlehem bear the scars. Might the wreckage of the auto and steel industries foreshadow the same fate for sales clerks on Fifth Avenue?
If so, what’s next?
GOODBYE SALES TAX
The most immediate impact in this economic revolution is in sales-tax revenue — unless New York has anything to say about it.
The state’s taxation department decided a couple of years ago that Amazon.com owed it sales tax because it had affiliates inside the state. In May 2008, Amazon sued the state; the case was dismissed, but the online retailer has appealed.
In the meantime, Amazon.com has closed its affiliates. But if the dismissal stands, Amazon owes New York potentially tens of millions of dollars.
If other states follow New York’s lead, and win, Amazon could find itself boxed in.
This isn’t a fight over nickels and dimes. A University of Tennessee study, released this April, said states could lose $56 billion in sales tax revenue nationwide from 2006-12 if Internet retailers remain immune.
Considering that states combined are $74 billion behind in upcoming budget projections, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, losing more tax revenue could force more hard choices or shift the tax burden elsewhere.
That’s not to say California’s insolvency crisis gets a lot better if everybody there invades the mall and buys some Ray-Bans at full retail price, but ever penny counts as cities and counties face escalating costs for areas such as pensions and debt.
“Governments have always operated on the premise that sales tax would always be this ever-expanding pot,” says Steven Titch, policy analyst at the Reason Foundation. “It means municipalities are going to have to live within limits.”
Titch has seen firsthand the lure — and consequence — of changing shopping habits.
“When I bought my flat screen, I did all my research online and bought it for less,” he says. “A decade ago, ‘shopping around’ meant driving around to stores and taking a day or more. Now we do it in an hour and read the reviews to know we’ve made the best choice.
“I could have gone to Best Buy and tried to get them to match the lowest price,” he adds, but didn’t because it was much easier to get the big purchase shipped free to his house in Sugarland, Texas.
“At the end of the day there’s going to be a considerable amount of sales tax dollars lost to online sales, and it’s going to have an impact on municipal revenue.”
GOODBYE SALESPEOPLE
Titch’s television purchase was unstimulating (at least economically) in other ways as well. More money was spent on shipping than salespeople; the fancy term is disintermediation, cutting out the middle guy.
What’s overlooked is that the middle guy gets paid, gets health benefits, pays taxes and also buys stuff; now his or her sales “job” is being handled by computer servers in an unmarked warehouse in Iowa that need only air conditioning to keep selling around the clock.
Of course, online shopping isn’t about to completely gut malls of stores and end retail sales as we know it. In most retail categories online top out at 10% of sales; government data tracked by Bloomberg News shows all E-commerce — about $32 billion a quarter — is just over 3% of total US retail sales.
But online sales are growing faster than traditional sales (up more than 20% since 2007) as millennials — who seem surgically attached to iPhones, laptops and other gadgets — start to sew their spending oats.
And everybody’s still doing more online: A Burst Media study shows 85% of shoppers will buy online this upcoming holiday season, and 27% of those shoppers will spend more online that last year as the shift to online buying accelerates.
Top retail analyst Michael Exstein of Credit Suisse told a retail forecasting convention last month in Dallas that brick and mortar store growth likely needs to stop and wonders why a serious culling of weaker stores – despite a rash of retailer liquidations during the recession — isn’t grabbing hold because the nation is overbuilt with retail square footage, now more than ever.
“It’s very odd that we seem to have stopped closing stores in this country even though business is so awful,” Exstein told the Dallas Morning News.
Online will continue stealing from traditional retail, and that means fewer retail jobs. The latest government employment data suggests the country has just under 15 million retail-related jobs, and that the category — likely owing to slowed consumer spending — has lost tens of thousands of jobs in the past year.
It could affect younger workers even more to have fewer openings in soft retail goods stores such as clothing. Being clerks and sales associates are often teens’ first taste of the professional world, if not an easy way to get employee discounts on gear they like.
How many of those brick and mortar retail jobs are gone because customers don’t come to the store isn’t clear, but it’s a number likely to grow.
“Look at Blockbuster video,” said Titch, noting the company said it would close 10% of its stores in an attempt to save a business model many think is permanently broken. “There’s always going to be an element in America that enjoys shopping for goods in person, but there’s going to be a measurable impact on the number of stores out there as we shift more to the computer.”
Retail giants such as Tower Records have already been put deep into the ground as retail commodities that are easily digitized — including this newspaper — force painful restructuring for those who sell them.
First music, news and travel and now books getting Kindle-ized and movies blasted through broadband pipes for on-demand viewing are just some of the examples of viable brick and mortar retail models getting some Death Star treatment. Then there are industries such as banking, which can be easily done with a computer and flat mail, but branches keep erupting around the country as banks still need to sell customers in person in new investments or lower mortgages.
All these trends add up to fewer physical stores. Fewer stores could mean not only less sales tax for cities and counties, but also less property tax as commercial developments lose their luster and could possible have lower taxable values, futurists predict.
Combine a diminished commercial real estate market with the steep drop in residential property values, and governments that depend heavily on property tax are facing years of lower returns, difficult choices and very likely higher property tax rates for owners — perhaps even higher income tax rates to make up the difference, or in struggling states such as Florida, maybe even the introduction of an income tax because of weakness in sales and property tax bases.
The graveyard of failed retailers reached overflow status in the past 18 months as names such as Circuit City, Linens ‘n Things and KB Toys all failed and liquidated. Some would say, hey, that’s capitalism and that the “victors” in each of those retail failures — Best Buy, Bed Bath & Beyond and Toys R Us — will grow stronger having slain its category foe. Or that just means they’re the next ones on the block.
GOODBYE PROFITS
So a company gets rid of its store and goes completely online. Great, you say. More efficient for them, easier for you, even better for the environment.
From a CEO’s perspective, cutting from the payroll may seem like a win, but they’re also going to lose on the bottom line. Consider how the Internet has improved consumers’ ability to price virtually anything.
Buyers today have something close to “perfect information” when it comes to pricing airline tickets, cars and other big-ticket items, all courtesy of online shopping. That is putting pressure on all areas of retail both in profit margins, and without profits, there are no jobs.
Take travel. Airlines crowed to analysts when they opening a cheap new distribution channel in the late 1990s and put their fares online and starting selling through Internet travel agencies.
Carriers avoided paying high travel agent commissions and cut their own telephone reservations staff, saving quite literally billions. The cost of selling a ticket fell from nearly $10 to pennies.
But the other effect was that airlines’ complicated pricing schemes become nearly transparent. Fliers can now outsmart the airlines at their own pricing game by figuring out quickly how to buy the cheapest fares and comparison shop among low-fare alternatives. New fare advice sites even use airlines’ own inventory to predict whether fares are falling or rising, allowing travelers to buy with confidence.
The latest trend for online travel shopping is that consumers are shopping “too much,” according to executives at travel companies such as Sabre Holdings Group, and it’s costing airlines and online travel agencies more to keep adding expensive servers to handle volumes of shoppers who spend hours hunting for $5 off that New York to Los Angeles flight before buying.
Modern car buying offers more grim outlooks both for automaker profitability and future dealership sales employment. When this writer bought a car last month, I didn’t just know the invoice price my dealer paid but the true “dealer cost” of the vehicle that takes away all the previously unseen pricing incentives (“holdback”, “trunk money” and other unseen bonus dollars) that let dealers make plenty of money even if a new car gets sold at “invoice.”
Why are more car dealers offering “invoice pricing”? Because they can make money at invoice.
Sites such as truedelta.com show nearly real-time sales data to help buyers target precisely how much cars are selling for at that moment, defeating any counterargument car dealer sales managers may offer in terms of resisting a low price.
I bought my car at nearly $2,000 under invoice because the dealer had already marked it down to its “Internet price” — and I bought it through their non-commissioned “internet sales manager” who makes a living, but probably doesn’t maximize commission income like his traditional salesman predecessor might.
Selling cars is to men a little like what waitressing has been for women; a job that’s gettable nearly anywhere if they have basic people skills. Now the Internet has drilled a hole in the commission structure of auto sales, creating an even more cutthroat environment at dealers where the only way for many salesmen and women to make a decent living is through steep volume. That’s the kind of sales experience that pushes more buyers online.
And finally, look at real estate commissions, where you can see real fear in the eyes of Realtor groups that are doing everything in their power to legislate fences around their precious Multiple Listing Services, data that’s digital today but behind a commissioned wall for buyers and sellers. Home sellers have quickly tired of paying 6% to real estate agents who earn whopper checks for not even lifting anything heavy; instead they’re buying MLS access for a few hundred bucks and either using a discount agent or selling properties themselves.
Home buyers come armed and dangerous to the bargaining table with Zillow.com-backed comparison pricing and tax assessment databases provided by governments. While it’s not quite “perfect information” it’s so much more than before that it has to be a driver for lower home prices.
HELLO UNCERTAINTY
By this point, you’re probably nodding your head in glee. Let’s stick it to the airlines, and the realtors and the car dealerships.
But how many of us will have money to buy anything from them?
If a raft of traditional service- and retail-related careers evaporate as online commerce rises, what replaces those jobs? Health care workers to care for aging Boomers and tech-related careers are touted as the fastest-growing occupations. That’s clearly not a path for everybody, though, when science education remains weak and those careers almost universally require college degrees, something only a quarter of the population has obtained.
The US has evolved out of agrarian and now industrial phases to get to a service-based economy fueled by consumerism, all to the golf claps of economists who see the transition as enlightened. If rampant spending won’t support cities, malls and employment like before, we have to rethink the basic notions of infrastructure and growth.
Perhaps the millennials will show us a new way. Despite their most notable characteristic — a fondness for not working hard — the next generation of workers has all the technical savvy to be nimble in work and write their own rules. They’ll find some way to earn and produce that doesn’t involve Forever 21.
Meanwhile, the rise of online commerce may have some positive effects — culling generic retailers, emptying weak malls and perhaps reining in government spending.
It means better deals today for all; tomorrow it might not mean better jobs for many. | {
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FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE1 AD to 1199
23 AD Pliny The Elder was born. Roman author of the 37 volume 'Natural History'. It was a digest and compilation of over 2,000 ancient books from nearly 500 authors. He included material whether it was accurate or not, thus leaving an invaluable record of ancient theories on subjects ranging from astronomy to zoology.
54 AD Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, Emperor of Rome A.D. 41-54, died. Known as Claudius I, supposedly he was poisoned with mushrooms by his wife Agrippina, after her son Nero was named as his heir.
64 AD The Great Fire of Rome begins and burns for a week. Rumors accuse Emperor Nero of ordering the burning of the city while he played his lyre as 70% of the city was destroyed.
79 ADPliny The Elder Died. (see 23 AD)
100 AD The world's oldest surviving cookbook, De Re Coquinaria ("On Cookery"), is attributed to the 1st century Roman, Apicius.
100 AD The first mechanical dough mixer was supposedly invented in the 1st century AD by Marcus Virgilius Euryasaces, a freed slave. It 'consisted of a large stone basin in which wooden paddles, powered by a horse or donkey walking in circles, kneaded the dough mixture of flour, leaven, and water.' (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
2nd Century A.D. Athenaeus, a Greek gourmet, writes 'Deipnosophistai' (‘The Learned Banquet’). A dialogue between two banqueters who discuss food and recipes over a period of several days.
336 The first recorded celebration of Christmas on December 25.
408 The Visigoths attacked Rome and demanded 3,000 pounds of pepper as part of the city's ransom.
450 The Chinese invented the wheelbarrow by this date.
461 AD Saint Patrick, Christian missionary, bishop and the 'Apostle of Ireland' died. (The year is uncertain).
536 AD A dust fog blankets the earth for almost 2 years, temperatures plummet worldwide and crops fail causing a global famine. The cause is now thought to be an impact from a comet.
742 Charlemagne was born. Charlemagne, Charles I, Charles the Great, King of the Franks, Charles le Grand, Carolus Magnus, Karl Der Grosse, King of the Lombards, master of Western Europe, Emperor. Some of the food related 'facts' I have come across related to Charlemagne:• the peacock was first served in Europe during his reign; • Sauerbraten was invented by Charlemagne• Roquefort cheese was a favorite of his• the knife began to be used to eat food for the first time during his reign (rather than the fingers)• Roses were used to cover tables for meals. I have no real corroboration for any of these 'facts'.
800 Coffee beans are being consumed in various ways in North Africa, but are not yet used to brew a beverage. | {
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Onondaga Lake, NY
Split-spoon auger samples during field analysis
Crew member recording auger samples
In 2012, GRA was subcontracted to conduct a geoarcheological survey of a wetland on the eastern shore of Onondaga Lake, as part of a cultural resources assessment prior to contamination remediation efforts.
Geoarcheology Research Associates (GRA) of Yonkers, NY was contracted by the Public Archaeology Facility (PAF) of Binghamton, NY to conduct a geoarcheological study of the wetlands in Syracuse, NY on the eastern shore of Onondaga Lake. The project area was slated for environmental remediation work, with the potential to impact underlying deposits of possible archeological sensitivity. GRA conducted a systematic survey involving deep testing in an effort to identify any intact historic and prehistoric surfaces beneath the 20th century fill deposits.
Analysis of boring samples collected during fieldwork did not identify any buried, intact living surfaces of prehistoric age. Examination of historic sediments revealed the likely contours of the abandoned Iron Pier Harbor. | {
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Stage 17 Overview
Bagnères-de-Luchon to Saint-Lary-Soulan
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Stage Summary
Covering just 65 km between Bagnères-de-Luchon and Saint-Lary-Soulan, stage 17 is the shortest normal (non time-trial) stage in 30 years. Consisting of two C1 climbs, and culminating a brand-new 16 km HC summit finish, the elevation profile resembles a saw blade—and will probably feel like one to riders caught off form. It could also prove particularly difficult to sprinters, who will have to stay closer than usual to the main group to avoid being cut for time.
After much hype and speculation about the gridded start format of the 65km stage 17, the race got off to a surprisingly sedate start (if you can call an immediate C1 climb sedate). With riders lined up according to standings, the idea was supposedly to isolate the GC contenders from their teams with an immediate and tantalizing summit to battle over. But with 16 days of racing under their belts, there were perhaps less fireworks from the riders than the organizers had hoped for. After peloton rolled out, teams organized themselves quickly, and stage 17 began to look like just another brutal day in the mountains.
Nairo Quintana of Movistar won the day with a stellar ride on the misty Col du Portet. Dan Martin had launched the attack, but couldn’t hold off the Colombian and took second. The day’s biggest winner was Geraint Thomas, who crossed the line in third, nearly a minute ahead of Chris Froome. The rare moment of weakness from the defending champion could mean his teammate will wear yellow all the way to Paris. Tom Dumoulin will also be pleased, having edged Froome off the second step of the podium for now.
Stage Analysis From Best Bike Split
When the 2018 tour route was announced this stage got quite a bit of attention. At only 65 km it’s an attempt by race organizers to add some real excitement to the final week. If the GC is close at this point it could be full charge from the start, and the benefit of a strong support team could be minimized compared to teams with multiple GC options.
Climbing specialists will be eyeing points and battling GC riders for the stage win on the new-to-the-tour summit of Saint Lary Soulan Col Du Portet. The stage features relentless climbing and tough technical descents. A few breaks could form, but if the GC battle is on it should come down to the final climb.
The 16 km climb to the summit will be one of the most difficult of the 2018 tour—if not the most difficult. With several sections featuring 10 to 12 percent gradients and a big kick up to the finish, the attacks should be on in full force. These will favor the smallest of riders, who can attack and sustain. While some favorites might wait till the last kilometer to attack, a winning move may come with 4km to go where the grade jumps to 12 percent. If a rider can get some separation here and maintain position along with a final max effort, he will be celebrating a new iconic stage at the tour.
Click on the predictive race plan below to see how key factors might affect the results from this stage. | {
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Connecting to a Remote Host
This section gives basic instructions on how you can log in from Tectia client tools for z/OS to a Secure Shell server with the default settings. The default settings on Tectia client tools for z/OS and Tectia Server for IBM z/OS allow login with passwords (Using Password Authentication) and public keys (Using Public-Key Authentication). | {
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The argument of this study is that during the eighteenth century the Guernsey merchants displayed considerable entrepreneurial energy and initiative. By improving the harbour facilities of St Peter Port and by establishing a network of factors throughout the Atlantic world, the merchants successfully developed St Peter Port as a major entrepot. Trade, not privateering, was the fundamental source of the town's prosperity. The entrepot attracted foreign merchants and migrants to St Peter Port. Port. New port industries replaced the old putting-out system of stocking knitting. The influx of migrants, combined with natural increase, created significant population growth. As the town became increasingly prosperous, the merchants rivalled one another in conspicuous consumption. By the second half of the 18th century the elite of St Peter Port were consciously imitating the metropolitan fashions of London. The town acquired many of the amenities characteristic of Dr Borsay's "English urban renaissance" - a promenade, theatre, assembly rooms, purpose-built markets and new civic buildings. However, the influx of English migrants created cultural pluralism. The traditional French system of status designation broke down; and the elite fashioned an alternative form of social segregation by moving to the outskirts of the town. Throughout the 18th century the urban morphology was shaped and reshaped by the merchants as they organised the town to suit their requirements. By the early 19th century the town boasted a wide range of retailers catering to the wealthy. Paradoxically, despite the emergence of this new "middling" class, the pattern of income distribution remained constant. This thesis is, in part, revisionist. Hitherto the history of St Peter Port in the 18th century has been described in terms of privateers and privateering success. The thesis also attempts (for the first time) to quantify the volume and value of the town's trade. Finally, the entrepot trade is seen as the engine of growth that led to the "Englishing" and modernising of this town. | {
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Houston, The Art in Death
Of course, your first question will be, how can there possibly be an art in Death. When you really think about the funerary process, it is truly an art. The individuals that work in funeral parlors take the bodies of those who have sometimes suffered unimaginable injuries and make them appear whole again, and often better than they did before their death. Though it seems a bit morbid, for the peace of mind of the family members, this is a necessary artistic outlet.
Short of attending a funeral or learning to be a mortician, one could not possibly hope to see the details of this art. That is unless you choose to take a vacation trip to Houston Texas, home of the National Museum of Funeral History. Of course, being a major vacation site, there are a number of fun sites to take in while you are here, but if you have ever wanted to know the truth behind the funeral veil, then you need to take time out to spend a few hours at this place.
There are tons of fascinating artifacts and exhibits to see here. One of these is the coffin exhibit where you see a variety of real world caskets that have been used over the centuries. As you go through looking at these various styles and kinds of coffins, you will begin to notice how the funerary process has slowly evolved over hundreds of years, yet still have a few aspects in common. There are caskets of all types here, even including a glass one.
For the history buff, there is the actual original John F. Kennedy's eternal flame grave marker. Most people have heard of this marker, as it is a small burning torch that has been kept lit since the burial of this former President of the United States. What most people are not aware of is that the torch that burns at Kennedy's grave today is not the same one that existed for the first quarter of a century after his death. In the late 1990's, the torch was replaced with a newer more high tech and resilient one. The original one sits in the National Museum of Funeral History.
There are active exhibits here too, such as the Civil War Embalming exhibit. In this somewhat disturbing, yet fascinating exhibit, you can view a life size scene of a Civil War doctor as he goes about using whatever he can find in the area as makeshift tools to embalm the body of a dead soldier. As you go through one fascinating exhibit after another you will find yourself amazed at how much about the funerary process and history that you did not know. There is even a Fantasy Coffin exhibit where you will see coffins sculpted to look like everything from chickens to automobiles.
Give in to that morbid curiosity that everyone manages to keep hidden well beneath the surface of his or her personality. On your very next Texas road trip or vacation getaway, drop by the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston Texas. | {
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Thursday, January 3, 2019
RM1bil lost to suspicious dealings
PUTRAJAYA: The Pakatan Harapan government has unearthed what may be dubious dealings during the previous administration that caused the Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) to lose close to RM1bil.
This includes the sale of 1,120ha of land in Sungai Buloh, known as Lot 471, for RM1.5bil, which was subsequently sold for a higher price.
Another questionable transaction involved the development of five facilities on MRB land, also in Sungai Buloh, where a breach in procedure resulted in about RM70mil in losses.
Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok said that upon taking office, she had ordered MRB to undertake a full audit of all its assets and contracts.
These two cases were then reported to her.
Kok said that in October 2010, the Cabinet had given the then government approval for the land belonging to MRB to be sold to Aset Tanah Nasional Berhad (ATNB) for RM1.5bil.
ATNB is a special purpose vehicle under the Finance Ministry.
“However, it has now come to the knowledge of the board that the land was subsequently bought by Kwasa Land (which belongs to the Employees Provident Fund) for RM2.28bil in 2011.
“MRB has therefore been short-changed, and there was a difference of about RM800mil.
“The board contends that it is lawfully entitled to the difference in amount and has reported this dubious transaction to the National Audit Department for a thorough audit and further investigation,” she said in a press conference here yesterday.
To a question, Kok said the then Barisan Nasional government had only instructed MRB to sell the land, and did not inform the board the reason why it was to be sold.
“The amount of RM1.5bil was also determined by the then government, which the board believes was below the market price,” she added.
Once news of Kok’s press conference came out online, former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak took to Facebook and Twitter to respond to her allegations.
This means that Kok has accused Barisan Nasional of forcing the government to sell government land to the government, which allowed EPF to make billions in profits for its contributors.
“That is so despicable of Barisan to look after its cronies, the EPF contributors,” he said sarcastically.
Najib said that Kok had alleged that MRB, a government body, lost RM780mil because ATNB – also a government body – had made the same amount when it sold the land to the EPF two years later.
“If Teresa Kok is still not happy, she can claim the RM780mil back from (Finance Minister Lim) Guan Eng,” he said.
Najib added that the RM2.28bil price tag for the land sold to Kwasa Land came to about RM18.70 per sq ft, a price which analysts then felt was reasonable and according to market value.
He also pointed out that Kwasa Land is a company fully owned by EPF, which had developed the land to open a new township, Kwasa Damansara.
Najib further explained that the development of Kwasa Damansara was among initiatives of the Greater Kuala Lumpur Strategic Development Project, announced under the 10th Malaysia Plan.
Meanwhile, on the questionable development of the five facilities, Kok said that sometime in 2012-2013, MRB decided to build a new laboratory, an office tower, a discovery centre, sports facilities and a complex for the transfer of technology that cost RM1.1bil.
However, checks with the records showed that instead of appointing a project management consultant, a project delivery partner (PDP) was appointed, apparently without proper board approval.
“The current board that was appointed after the general election (last May) has recently discovered several dubious transactions by certain officers of the board over the project.
“The board lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission on Nov 27, 2018 for breaching procedures which resulted in about RM70mil in losses to MRB,” said Kok.
She said developers approached her as well as MRB to register their interest in developing the land belonging to the board, which has a sizeable land bank estimated to be worth between RM2bil and RM3bil, some in good and strategic locations in the city.
“I would like to say that we are not interested. Don’t come to us to propose joint ventures or projects. This is not our priority now.
“What we want to do is to bring back the glory days when our research work got world attention,” she said.
MRB’s current chairman Sankara N. Nair said the board asked the National Audit Department to investigate the land sale because it could not get access to ATNB data to lodge a report with either the police or the MACC.
“Once we have the auditor’s report on this, we will decide on the report,” he said, adding that the board has yet to get any updates on the status of the case with the MACC.
Neither the Auditor-General nor the MACC could be contacted for their response as at press time. | {
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A few weeks ago, we were invited to creatively direct and style a few photoshoots for Donny Zavala’s workshop and his attendees. For the next few days, and next week, I’m so excited to finally be able to share what we created and what was captured. Waking up to the catch the sunrise on the most gorgeous beach in Oahu, Hawaii, will be a moment I will never forget. Can we do this again please?! From Carol Hannah’s overflowing gown, Heart of Gold Design’s delicate crowns, Susie Saltzman’s stunning ring, Hikari‘s beautiful makeup and hair, the stunning Angelei who would be our bride, to the dramatic flowers created by Catalina Neal – everything was beautifully created.
“Like a wild flower; she spent her days, allowing herself to grow, not many knew of her struggle, but eventually all; knew of her light.” – Nikki Rowe
Inspired by this quote, the entire shoot was concepted from these words.
The Mood: raw, overgrowth, abundant, magical, imperfect, discovery
The Color Story: dusty mauve, corals, lilac, fern, charcoal
From every shoot that I’ve creatively directed, I always start with asking myself the hard questions. What is that human struggle that triumphs that we all go through? What is the story that needs to be told? What could I bring out from the model, the stylist, location, light, the photographer so that we can all collectively and creatively give birth to this story? From there the entire shoot becomes a journey of discovery. With open hands, and surrendering to the creative process, everything falls into place in a raw and organic manner that is more beautiful than I could ever imagine. | {
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Saturday, 26 November 2011
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Living Like Weasels In the Academy and Out
Yesterday, I spent precisely two hours and fifty minutes teaching; I dedicated about an hour or so to prepping my classes (I had done some prep the day before); and I spent five and a half hours doing stuff for the college. Some of that “stuff” I really enjoy, like planning the Speakers Series that my colleague and I created, but a lot of it – like dealing with our accreditation and navigating the politics and egos around that – I loathe. I simply think people should say what they mean and mean what they say and that there’s a great value to listening deeply and considering other people’s perspectives on things – but it seems to me, at least at my institution, that we are incapable of doing so. We seem to want to stake out our territory, pee around it, and then guard it ferociously with growls and grunts. A pack of hyenas come to mind . . .
That make seem harsh, and it probably is, but more and more I find myself wishing that I could simply teach. I love my students; I love talking with him, hearing about their days, and helping them become more of the people they were created to be. Yesterday, one of my students told me that her roller derby name (yes, she “plays” roller derby) is Jodi Wan Kenobi – isn’t that awesome? And some of my creative writing students talked about how they simply wanted to write, wanted to get more disciplined at it, wanted to access that part of themselves that is only activated when we sink deeply into something we do that’s creative. . . these moments are why I teach, not Board meetings or accreditations; I teach because I love students. So when people start getting petty and controlling, I find myself wondering how that helps us better serve our students . . . .
So this morning, as I was trying to stay in my writing practice and not fume over work (it didn’t really happen obviously), I decided to read something creative, and I grabbed Dillard’s Teaching a Stone to Talk off the shelf. (By the way, if you haven’t read the title essay in this collection, stop whatever it is you’re doing and go get it.) The first essay in this collection is “Living Like Weasels,” a piece that is highly anthologized and very accessible, so I reread it this morning, and here’s the passage that struck me:
Could two live [Dillard and the weasel] that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow? We could, you know. We can live any way we want. People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience — even of silence — by choice. The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse. This is yielding, not fighting. A weasel doesn’t “attack” anything; a weasel lives as he’s meant to, yielding at every moment to the perfect freedom of single necessity.
So today, I challenge you – my friends – to stalk your calling, to live into who you are more fully. And to love life for all the glory and pain that it is. May you live like a weasel, at least for today. “Weasel” by ed mcd | {
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Too good for their own good: Olney boys' football team banned from playoffs
OLNEY, Md. (WUSA9) -- A parent of child with a youth football team banned from playoffs says the Mid- Maryland Youth Football League did not reverse its decision Wednesday night. That means three Olney teams wil lnot be allowed to be in the league playoffs.
Dozens of angry parents say the league has kicked their boys out of the playoffs because they are too good.
When practice starts, the coaches are going to have to explain to 71 boys that they can't go to the playoffs because they've won so many games. The league is accusing them of essentially stacking the deck.
The Olney Boys and Girls Clubs have had an outstanding season in the lower division. Four teams have racked up 21 wins and just two losses. They've scored a total of 400 more points than their opponents.
"Excuse me, it's a little emotional, because to explain to my son that all he's worked for all year, and these boys, what they've done," says Charles Fultz. He says his son's success is being used against him.
The league believes Olney's deliberately put its best players in a weaker division and its worst players in a stronger division - giving some teams a chance to destroy the competition and leaving new players to be destroyed themselves.
The Director of Olney's football program says he's never seen anything like this: "These are kids between 8 and 11 years old, and a week before the playoffs, they're being yanked out from under them. There are 71 children impacted."
Fultz says he doesn't know how he's going to explain it to his son.
"Here we are, boys doing what they're supposed to, trying to serve for the best, are being ostracized for something they believed in," said Fultz. | {
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Rumors have been swirling for most of this week that AOL would be shutting down a number of its media outlets. On the list was gaming site Joystiq. Today, this news is now official. Joystiq was founded in 2004 by Weblogs, Inc. That company was acquired by AOL in 2005. When reports of its demise emerged...
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RT Journal
A1 Varughese GI, Scarpello JB
T1 THe role of deranged glucose metabolism
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2006
FD September 18
VO 166
IS 16
SP 1784
OP 1785
DO 10.1001/archinte.166.16.1784
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.166.16.1784
AB
We applaud van der Hooft et al1 in their study, demonstrating that the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) was significantly higher for persons who received a corticosteroid prescription within 1 month before the index date than for those without (odds ratio [OR], 3.75; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.38-5.87). The fact that only high-dose corticosteroid use was associated with an increased risk (OR, 6.07; 95% CI, 3.90-9.42), whereas low to intermediate dose corticosteroid use was not (OR, 1.42; 95% CI, 0.72-2.82), and that the association of AF with high-dose corticosteroid use was largely independent of the indication for corticosteroid therapy suggests that one possible explanation could be the sudden derangement in glucose metabolism resulting in fluctuating levels of glycemic control,2 which occurs with high-dose corticosteroid therapy. Indeed, previous reports have demonstrated that high glucose levels had a positive significant association with the risk of AF.3,4 Nearly a decade ago, Psaty et al,3 using step-wise models, demonstrated that high glucose levels were associated with AF. Of note, the Framingham study found that diabetes mellitus (DM) was a significant independent risk factor for AF with an OR of 1.4 and that blood pressures and glucose levels were more important predictors than the diagnoses of high blood pressure and DM.4 More recently, in a large-scale study involving a far larger number of patients over a long duration of study (10 years), Movahed et al5 showed that AF occurred in 43 674 patients with DM (14.9%) vs 57 077 subjects (10.3%) in the control group (P<.001). Atrial flutter occurred in 11 852 patients (4%) with DM vs 13 554 subjects (2.5%) in the control group (P<.001). In multivariant analysis, DM remained independently associated with atrial fibrillation (OR, 2.13; 95% CI, 2.10-2.16; P<.001) and flutter (OR, 2.20; 95% CI, 2.15-2.26; P<.001). Thus, deranged metabolic control resulting in high glucose levels may have to be monitored and aggressively treated with a short course of insulin therapy alongside concurrent high-dose corticosteroid treatment to prevent the occurrence of new-onset AF in such patients. | {
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President Trump views prototypes of his long-promised border wall in San Diego on Tuesday. The mockups, which are are still being assessed by officials, stand up to 30 feet tall in the borderlands region of California.
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Originally published on March 13, 2018 5:48 pm
Updated at 5:47 p.m. ET
President Trump is making his first visit to California since taking office, using the whirlwind trip to view prototypes for his signature border wall proposal and promote his defense policies to troops stationed in San Diego.
The trip Tuesday opened with a viewing of the eight options that his administration has selected for testing — and that might serve as his long-promised wall along the border of the U.S. and Mexico, if Congress decides to allot the funds to do so.
"If you didn't have walls," Trump told reporters during his tour, "you wouldn't have a country."
The president's arrival was awaited in the area by a cluster of police, chanting protesters and supporters clad in campaign gear, waving American flags.
Also at the site, awaiting him in contrasting silence, are the roughly 30-foot mockups the Department of Homeland Security picked to give a closer look — four of which are solid concrete, while the other four are built of "other materials," including steel. Built by private contractors from across the country, from Maryland to Arizona, the prototypes have been funded with $20 million from Customs and Border Protection.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and several Border Patrol officials briefed the president on the ongoing assessment of the prototypes, the White House says, "with a focus on how the features and attributes of each impedes illegal crossings."
Ultimately, the Trump administration expects that the whole border wall, when completed, would cost about $18 billion — though other estimates have ranged up to $38 billion. Despite a concerted effort from the White House and many GOP lawmakers, efforts to apportion that money have stalled in Congress, along with broader conversations around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and other immigration programs.
Trump's campaign pledge to build a massive wall along the border between the U.S. and Mexico has proven just as divisive outside Capitol Hill. Just a day before Trump's arrival in California, the state's Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, called on the president to extend the focus of his visit beyond the wall.
"You see, in California we are focusing on bridges, not walls. And that's more than just a figure of speech," Brown said in a letter to the president he posted publicly Monday.
"After you've examined your wall prototypes on the border," he added, "I invite you to head north to the Central Valley — the heart of California. Here in cities like Fresno and Madera more than a dozen bridges are being built for the nation's first and only High-Speed Rail line."
Others, such as San Diego-based immigration advocate Andrea Guerrero, see the president's proposal as an alarming symbol of the policies his administration has pursued.
"The wall is more than a wall," she told NPR's Richard Gonzales before Trump's arrival. "In the shadow of that wall, a deportation force is growing and it is ripping families from one another. It is devastating communities well within the interior of the United States."
During remarks to media Tuesday, Trump countered those fears by raising still others.
"There's a lot of problems in Mexico — they have a lot of problems over there," he said. "The fact is, if you don't have a wall system it would be bedlam, I imagine."
Later, he stopped in at the nearby Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, addressing an often-boisterous crowd — and promoting what he called "the largest military buildup since Ronald Reagan and one of the largest buildups we've ever had in the history of our nation."
Among other things, the president promised the assembled members of the military their "largest pay raise in over a decade," brand-new warplanes and and a national strategy that "recognizes that space is a war fighting domain — just like the land, air and sea."
"We may even have a 'space force,' " he added. "Develop another one: We have the Air Force, we'll have the space force."
He is expected to wrap up his day in Los Angeles with a fundraiser later in the evening. | {
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Come to Me All Who Are Weary
“Come to me,” Jesus says, “all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
As we gather together this morning, there are so many things that make us weary, that wear out our souls and minds and bodies and so Jesus says to us, “Come to me.”
This invitation is not an altar call but rather a call to an alternative existence, away from control and domination, success and eternal restlessness.
Jesus, who himself takes naps and goes off alone to pray, says to us,
“Come and I will give you rest.”
Jesus’ invitation to respite is not a new one but an old one, one that goes all the way back to God’s commandment to the Israelites to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.
When God invites the Israelites to honor the Sabbath as a day of rest, God is calling the Israelites to a way of life that stood in direction opposition to the one that they had experienced under Pharaoh, who had a voracious appetite that could never be satisfied and demanded that the Israelites work without ceasing and without rest.
Pharaoh himself was tormented with anxiety. Prior Pharaohs before him had been startled awake with nightmares of terror, dreaming of famine and anticipating that creation would not yield enough food. Pharaoh’s fear had driven him to demand an endless supply of grain, beyond what he needed. Continually he had demanded additional grain be gathered and additional granaries for storage be constructed out of bricks. The more granaries he had, the more powerful he seemed, and so the cycle continued. (Source: Sabbath as Resistance by Walter Brueggeman).
More, he demanded, more, more, more.
The Pharaoh’s restlessness permitted no Sabbath and no break.
The story of Pharaoh and the Israelites may have taken place over three thousand years ago but it is not too different than the one we experience today. It often seems like one more electronic gadget, one more thing acquired, one more action taken, one more check to make sure the lights are out and the dishes washed and the mail answered, one more anything will make this a better place and enhance our sense of self.
But of course, in the end, it is never enough, and instead of finding ourselves satisfied, when we are finished, we simply finding ourselves dreaming of what else needs to be done.
Like Pharaoh.
In the words of Walter Brueggeman, “Pharaoh is a hard-nosed production manager for whom production schedules are inexhaustible.”
When Moses asks if the Israelites can take a three day journey in order to worship and be with God, Pharaoh responds saying, “Why would you take people away from their work? Get to your labors!!” Pharaoh, consumed by the world of brick-counting and brick-hoarding, actively scoffs at the idea that Moses wants the people to stop working.
After Moses leaves, ever full of spite, Pharaoh says to the Israelites: I will still require you to make the same number of bricks but now I will not give you any straw; you will have to go and collect it yourself. This meant any little free time that Israelites had had was now spent gathering straw. Literally, there was no rest for the weary. When the Israelites could not keep up with the impossibly high production numbers, they were punished. It seems, there was no room for forgiveness or even a little grace in Pharaoh’s world either.
Come to me, Jesus says, come to me, you who are weary.
Aren’t we too worn and exhausted from the world that we live in?
Aren’t we too tired of not being enough or doing enough or having enough?
Don’t we too, like the Israelites, gather together, filled with a longing for Sabbath?
The gods of Pharaoh had demanded a relentless production cycle. All grain surplus was a sign of their favor and so to increase divine favor, Pharaoh had required endless work.
In opposition to these demands, God leads the people out of Egypt to Mount Sinai and says to them “I am calling you to a whole new way of living and loving.”
As a side note, at Sinai, troubling words were also recorded about punishing children for the sins of their parents … I just wanted to note that one commentators that I read noted that this phrase was likely relating the truth of the time that the Israelites lived in a society with little margin for error and that what the parents did would have consequences felt by their children because there was no safety net in that day.
But that is not our focus for today. Today, we are studying the Sabbath commandment, in which God reminds the people that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that is in them and, on the seventh day, God rested.
In the words of Walter Brueggeman, “On the seventh day, God absented God’s self from the office and did not come and check on creation in anxiety to make sure everything was functioning correctly. No, God had no anxiety about the living giving capacity of creation … God knew the world would hold, plants would perform, the birds and animals would prosper and humans would govern the earth in a generative way.”
Just as God rested, God call us to rest too.
“Honor the Sabbath,” God says.
Honor the Sabbath as a way to resist the cycle of anxiety and endless brick quotas.
Honor the Sabbath as a way to say that we are not pawns of a production cycle to be reduced to slaves or competitors, threats or rivals, we are human being; we are people made in the image of God’s own self and we deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
Honor the Sabbath as way to center your life on the rest of God rather than the restlessness of Pharaoh.
Honor the Sabbath that you might be to rest, to pause, to taste and to reflect on what really matters.
There’s a movie that relates back to this theme of finding Sabbath called Waking Life. Has anyone ever heard of it? It was produced in 2001 and the characters in the movie explore the ways that they have sleep-walked through parts of their life, worn down by its demands and everyday grind, struggling to wake up and live a meaningful life.
In the process of waking up, one character proclaims, I don’t want to be crammed into a rat maze. I want freedom. That’s what I want. It’s up to each and every one of us to turn loose from the greed, the hatred, the envy and yes even the insecurities that plague our world.
The man goes on to say, “Resistance is not futile, we’re gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we’re not a bunch of underachievers, we’re gonna stand up, and we’re gonna be human beings! We’re gonna get fired up about the real things, the things that matter …”
Although not a person of faith, the man from this film has a sense of the Exodus narrative, that we have been held captive to Pharaoh land but that we are being lead to a place of freedom … we are journeying from a place of bondage all the way to the promised land … and one of the ways that we are going to do that is by pausing and resting on the Sabbath day, saying that Pharaoh has no claim on us. We journey to the land of liberation by pausing and remembering the things that matter.
Isn’t that why we gather together on Sundays? That we might pause and remember who we are, what we know and taste together the gifts of eternity.
We gather together on Sunday to physically embody a new way of living and loving; to put our values into action.
So my question today is: What defines us – FBC – as a Christian community? What are our values that we celebrate and embody as we gather together?
Radical Hospitality – Seeing each other as neighbors and human beings rather than competition, creating a space where people can rest.
Loving one another – taking care of one another, see each other’s value and worth
“Come to me,” Jesus says, “all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” | {
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Coming to a Windows Server 2000 Computer Near You: 'Clippy's Revenge'
By Jabulani Leffall
09/13/2007
"It looks like you're using me as an attack vector for hacking into a business network, would you like some help?"
That phrasing, if not the exact wording, should be instantly recognizable to anyone who's ever use the reviled -- and now defunct -- Microsoft Office help agent icon known as "Clippy." And now Clippy, whom everyone assumed with great delight was dead, could be revived as a destructive force, IT analysts and researchers learned this week.
Security experts at Symantec, VeriSign and other vendors have discovered that a "proof of concept" code exists to exploit a vulnerability for which Redmond released a "Critical" patch (Bulletin MS07-051) on Tuesday. The exploit code comes less than two days after Redmond's announcement that hackers could piggyback on "Clippy" using a specially crafted URL to penetrate a workstation hard drive or, even worse, a business network.
In IT security terms, proof of concept simply means that someone has developed new code to test the hypothesized weakness and how it can be used to hack into a system -- in this case, Windows 2000.
It's not clear at this time whether there is any malicious intent connected to the new exploit code's existence. Symantec's DeepSight threat network first alerted customers that JavaScript exploit code had been posted to the Web from somewhere inside Brazil.
"There are a number of enterprises that still use Windows 2000 and this exploit is typical of the underground, a very common way to get into the system," explains Tom Cross, a researcher with IBM Internet Security Systems Inc.'s X-Force. "Things like the Clippy exploit are used to install malware almost all the time."
Current users and admins running Windows 2000 and related applications should install Microsoft's critical patch quickly, as well as leveraging whatever intrusion prevention system technology is at their disposal, adds Cross.
IT security managers will have to decide whether or not to disable ActiveX control, as VeriSign suggests, or simply restrict access to nonpertinent Web sites while patches are loading on to the system.
Neil MacDonald, vice president of Gartner Research and a Gartner Fellow of Information Security, said there are no penalties for being too cautious. He added that it's "fortunate that the Clippy exploit code doesn't represent a zero day attack," meaning the code didn't spring up before Microsoft released the patch.
"What you tend to look for with the 'proof of concept' versus something that is in the wild, is how the exploit code progresses," MacDonald said. "In this instance you watch out for code variants, monitor how it spreads and how the code evolves."
Eric Schultze, chief security architect at Saint Paul, Minn.-based Shavlik Technologies, called the exploit "Clippy's Revenge." He said the scary thing is that "users and administrators don't even have to see the Clippy icon to get their system hacked. Just be vigilant around your enterprise and take all of the Critical patches seriously."
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Never before has one company’s failure had such a devastating impact on the world. Facebook’s presence is truly global, as are the consequences of its failure to anticipate how its platform could be misused and abused. And yet never before has a single company been asked to fix a global problem.
Racists, autocrats, and purveyors of hate and disorder have found Facebook the perfect medium for spewing poison, normalizing it, and gaining adherents. Facebook is a broadcast platform for anyone, including those who would break the rules, fake the news, lie, and mislead the community. Societies around the world are reeling from the consequences. Politics and democracy are under duress. And thus far, Facebook does not have an effective way to fight back. It is only beginning to try, though a company spokesperson showed surprising contrition during a lengthy interview for this story.
What mystifies many is why Facebook did not take action sooner. “I am disappointed in how slowly they acted,” says Wael Ghonim, the Egyptian citizen who, as a Google employee, helped catalyze the Facebook-driven revolt in Egypt during the Arab Spring in 2011. “They should have been paying more attention as their system was aggregating more power globally. This is a very profitable company.”
Facebook received repeated warnings for at least six years from informed observers around the world that things were going wrong. But it appears to have almost entirely disregarded them. Gaining more users in any and all geographies was the company’s overarching priority, and it succeeded. The service was growing at an incredible pace into just about every country on earth. It is now a dominant medium of communications, typically the most dominant, in about 190 countries.
It expanded at full tilt into innumerable geographies where it lacked local expertise. But how could it possibly ensure its rules were being followed when nobody at the company spoke the local language or understood the nuances of the local culture? It couldn’t.
Yet Facebook suddenly became what amounts to the global town square. Sanjana Hattotuwa, a longtime human rights and digital activist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, is appalled at Facebook’s persistent failures, which have periodically led to chaos and bloodshed there. But, he says, “I remain engaged with Facebook because I see it as so critical to the future of my country. It is intertwined with elections and democracy. It is the primary driver of news and information. It has no equal here.”
(Illustration by Mike McQuade)
There is tragedy and irony in this company’s history. Facebook empowers those who use it. That’s why so many of us found its emergence heartening. (I wrote a generally laudatory history in 2010, entitled The Facebook Effect.) But the company’s leaders—and particularly its all-powerful leader Mark Zuckerberg—have been so enamored of how it gave ordinary people new tools and contributed to building communities that they overlooked how much it also could undermine or even destroy those communities. The company badly underestimated what it would take to govern a “community” of 2.25 billion people. Facebook does engender connection, friendship, community building, and user empowerment for billions. But that does not reduce the gravity of the disastrous epidemic of misuse.
Finally, this year, Facebook recognized just how badly its platform was being abused by evil politicians and the worst kind of rabble-rousers. The company insists it is going all out to remedy the weaknesses it has identified and to improve oversight. Activists engaged in countering online hate and disinformation mostly agree that the company is trying hard to address the problems. But nobody except Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg seems to believe the measures being adopted now are sufficient.
Facebook only finally began admitting there was a serious problem after the U.S. presidential elections, and even then only reluctantly, and slowly. The public heat grew unbearable once it became clear that false Russian government-sponsored propaganda and paid advertising on Facebook had flowed unimpeded, and may have even helped alter the election’s outcome. (A new book Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President compellingly argues that it did.) The crisis deepened when we all learned that large amounts of personal data had been illicitly obtained from Facebook by the British marketing firm Cambridge Analytica, and that some of it was probably used to inform the Trump campaign’s strategy . The scrutiny of Congressional investigations, hearings, and the probing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller forced the company to pay attention.
For all that, Facebook’s public rhetoric has up until recently implied that this was primarily a U.S. problem. In fact, it is a momentous crisis in just about every country. The service is being manipulated by evildoers in most if not all of the 133 languages in which the service operates. In many less-affluent countries a gigantic number have come onto the internet for the first time only recently on mobile phones, and are often naively credulous when faced with digital fiction. Facebook’s future growth will be greatest among the inexperienced and previously disconnected, which makes getting a handle on this problem all the more urgent.
Hattotuwa has been involved in both human rights and internet issues ever since he set up the first Facebook page in South Asia devoted to media, in 2007. “But after the civil war in Sri Lanka ended, around 2012,” he says, “people began coming onto the platform and using it to promote hate and harm. The company had zero—zero— oversight capability on the platform in my language. I started telling them that, back then.”
But Facebook didn’t listen, even as Hattotuwa and the Centre for Policy Alternatives where he worked began periodically issuing and sending to Facebook well-documented and detailed formal reports about system abuses regarding unregulated hate speech on the service in Sri Lanka. One report was in 2014, a second in 2015, and a third in 2016, on how hate speech affected local elections in 2015. The final report includes this line: “The relatively unshackled freedom of expression found in social media… invited unchecked expressions of hateful and defamatory material targeting candidates.” It was prophetic for what the U.S. itself would experience the following year. But, says Hattotuwa, “We never heard back from the company.” He was not alone in raising alarms. Other activists and experts in Vietnam, the Philippines, India, the Balkans, and Mexico, among other places, were warning that Facebook was being weaponized. “It was like giving knives to toddlers,” says Hattotuwa.
Over time, he says, the company’s response actually became worse than nothing. By 2018 Facebook had finally hired at least some moderators in Sinhala, the language of the mostly Buddhist people who constitute the Sri Lanka’s majority. But they were not doing their job. A series of false and incendiary posts on Facebook demonized the country’s Muslim minority and helped precipitate a horrific outbreak of ethnic fighting. “At the height of the violence, a Facebook post called for a pregnant mother to be killed—it was very explicit—‘cut open her womb and kill her unborn children like dogs,’” says Hattotuwa. “We complained, and Facebook got back a couple of days later and said it was perfectly fine. That said to us that not only was the company’s oversight insufficient, but that its moderators were themselves racist.”
Only when Hattotuwa and other activists in Sri Lanka and several other countries wrote a series of open letters to Mark Zuckerberg in the spring of 2018 did Facebook finally respond. (Here is the letter from Vietnamese activists.) Media heat was focused on the company because of congressional hearings where Zuckerberg was testifying, making the letters harder for Facebook to ignore. “The company did not want to look at what was happening beyond user growth,” continues Hattotuwa. “I get pissed off when Sheryl Sandberg and the company constantly repeat that they were slow to respond. That suggests they had identified the problem and for some reason did not do what they should have. But I saw no response at all until this past March. That to me is a moral failure.”
Asked about Hattotuwa’s story that Facebook didn’t remove a call to kill mothers and babies, Debbie Frost, who for over a decade has headed Facebook communications and public affairs outside the United States, acknowledged the company’s failure. “I can’t explain that to you,” she says. “I wish we had done a better job and not been so slow and had paid closer attention. He’s exactly right. Only recently have we been deploying the full weight of our integrity efforts to do a better job.”
Sri Lanka was particularly vulnerable to voices of hate because of a history of deep ethnic division and a horrific recent civil war. But its experience was not unique. In Myanmar, India, and Indonesia, just to name three countries, there have also been repeated incidents of ethnic violence and killings encouraged by incendiary and dishonest posts on Facebook.
Most recently, among numerous related stories emerging worldwide, the New York Times has documented in shocking detail how adroitly and malignly the mostly Buddhist military leaders of Myanmar misused Facebook and violated its unenforced rules in order to encourage genocidal hatred towards the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. The article reports that “Myanmar military personnel…turned the social network into a tool for ethnic cleansing.” Facebook is Myanmar’s overwhelmingly dominant media platform (along with Facebook Messenger), and it was used to encourage hatred on both sides, not only to foster genocidal killing of the minority but, cynically, to create a perception that only the military could maintain order. As many as 43,000 Rohingya may have died in the conflict, and over 700,000 of them have fled the country to neighboring Bangladesh. (The image at top is based on a photo of panicking Rohingya Muslim refugees.)
And Facebook’s ungoverned platform has harmed society in another disturbing and parallel way. In country after country, dishonest, corrupt, and anti-democratic political parties and leaders have been coming to the fore, with few scruples about using any means to win elections and retain power. People like Recep Erdogan in Turkey, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Viktor Orban in Hungary, and ultra-right or neo-fascist leaders in Poland, Slovenia, Austria, and elsewhere all are aggressive users of Facebook, in the electoral fray and also once in office. Similar leaders are advancing in Brazil and Italy. Using both paid advertising and unceasing propaganda posts, such leaders, parties, and their allies use Facebook to advance their agenda, slander opponents, and typically seek to whip up a nationalist frenzy.
To the company’s credit, it finally does not deny it has done a poor job preventing such abuse. Facebook spokesperson Frost spent over an hour on the phone being confronted with many of these points. She did not argue. “I accept everything you’ve said. We can only move forward and move quickly,” she said. “There were gaps in our offering that made it very difficult for people to understand our rules, for them to report things, and for us to effectively deal with the reports.”
Facebook is now hiring more content reviewers, especially in countries where oversight failures until now have been so grievous, like Sri Lanka and Myanmar. It has embarked on new ways to promote digital literacy and to educate users about the platform’s policies. (Previously, it hadn’t even had its community standards translated into many languages until years after use took off in those regions.) It has committed to increasing the number of Sinhalese-language moderators in Sri Lanka sevenfold, though Hattotuwa complains the company will not even tell his group how many there are. In Sri Lanka, it also temporarily took the unusual step of putting its “community standards” at the top of every single user’s news feed, in three languages. In Myanmar it created a cartoon-style version of the standards for people with low literacy. It’s taken similar measures in the Philippines. To the extent that these steps help, Facebook may deploy them in other countries and languages around the world.
The company has made it easier to report abuse and to get a response. On Facebook Messenger in Myanmar, for example, the company made it possible for the first time to report abusive group messages directly inside the service. For political advertising, it has in several countries introduced new transparency requirements that make clear who placed the ads. It has increased security for political pages. And it has set up what it calls a “war room,” so engineers and other employees at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, can monitor and protect electoral campaigns around the world. The company deserves credit for trying.
But for all the progress, Facebook’s excessive caution in admitting mistakes and taking aggressive remedies has become a problem in itself, which undermines its credibility and raises serious questions about how fast problems can be resolved. On Techonomy’s own stage two days after the U.S. presidential election, Zuckerberg famously said it was a “crazy idea” that fake news on Facebook had affected the vote, even though others at the company were by then already becoming aware of the problem.
But this pattern has continued. In her September testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, COO Sheryl Sandberg bragged about being able to combat fake news and hate speech in 50 languages. That sounds good, except that Facebook operates in 133 languages. The company’s own initial reports in early 2017 suggested that only 10 million Americans had seen fake Russian campaign ads and disinformation about the presidential election. It later upped the figure to 126 million. In Sri Lanka, it took the government actually turning off the use of the service in the entire country for Facebook to respond to repeated desperate complaints from civil society activists and government officials about the service’s role in encouraging ethnic violence in early 2018. In Myanmar, it removed the ruling general’s Facebook account for promoting racist hatred, but only after the United Nations had issued a series of scathing reports and recommended the general be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court.
And some of Zuckerberg own claims have smacked of naivete, even self-congratulation. He has enormous confidence in the powers of artificial intelligence to help govern speech and prevent abuse, and let’s hope he’s right. But in a July interview with Kara Swisher of Recode, he suggested that by the end of 2019 the company will have been able to “fully retool everything at Facebook to be on top of all the content issues and security issues.” The reality is that given the resourcefulness of miscreants, this will never be solved.
Zuckerberg, as I know from numerous and extensive interviews with him since 2006, is meticulous and methodical, and not prone to looking back at errors. Rather, he focuses on what’s next. The evidence suggests he is putting this effort at a top priority. Every conversation with Facebook executives, on and off the record, underscores that they realize the untenable situation their company is in. But to continue battling this problem with necessary urgency will be extremely expensive, and almost certainly continue to reduce company earnings. Luckily for Facebook, advertisers still have no better medium to target their messages at consumers. It will likely remain extremely profitable for some time to come.
The company recently hired former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, indicating a deepening seriousness of intent. But his arrival hardly guarantees success in remediating such profound weaknesses in Facebook’s systems. And ironically, Clegg’s focus until recently has been opposing the UK’s exit from the European Union, which he calls “the greatest act of self-harm committed by a mature democracy.” Evidence increasingly suggests that the country’s vote for Brexit was substantially affected by fake news and distorted and dishonest advertising on Facebook, partly paid for by Russian government agents.
The last 150 years of global progress towards universal democracy may be imperiled. But it’s not only Facebook’s fault. And the company can’t fix the problems alone. Karen Kornbluh served as U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) under President Barack Obama and is now senior fellow for digital policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The leaders of Facebook are being asked by the market to generate growth and continued profits,” Kornbluh explains, “but so far there’s no clear ask from society or government to do anything different. Their motto of ‘move fast and break things’ made sense for an internet that was a tiny piece of the economy and society. But when our whole lives moved online, we needed to have a societal conversation. And we didn’t have that. Shame on all of us. So the question, really, is what is society going to do?”
One Response to “Facing Facebook’s Failure”
Thank you for writing this – it cannot have been easy for you to see Facebook fail to realize all of the unprecedented promise you identified in The Facebook Effect. I will suggest, though, that you still give them more credit than they deserve — they’ve known for much longer than they admit; they realized the truth far sooner than they admit; and their definition of “the only option is to move forward and quickly” is brutally arrogant and incorrect. They are still insisting on self-regulation. The rest of the world is 100% positive that isn’t working. Do we let a willful child burn down a city after he’s taken a torch to the neighborhood? It’s time to break Facebook down and apart. What’s left is – sadly – not worth saving. | {
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THE RESURRECTION SORROW Working On New Material; Band Members Needed
02/10/2011
THE RESURRECTION SORROW are currently hard at work on their next release. The band are again working with NYC-based producer Joe Hogan (Nebula, The Atomic Bitchwax) as on their debut album, 2009's thunderous 'Hour Of The Wolf'. More details will be announced in the coming weeks.
But the band have also hit a snag, as the lineup shifted and two members recently fled the unit. They now seek a new full-time lead guitarist and drummer to fill out the band lineup once again, complete the new recordings, and get back on the road. Here are some more details/requirements for the positions available:
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Carthage police look?to issue firearms to officers
Carthage police officers would not have to buy their own pistols if a plan approved by the city council's public safety committee meets with council approval.
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Carthage police officers would not have to buy their own pistols if a plan approved by the city council's public safety committee meets with council approval.
Interim Police Chief Barry Duncan asked for permission to take $5,000 intended for two in-car video systems, plus the trade-in value of more than 30 excess guns in the department's inventory, to buy pistols to issue to officers.
"It's gotten to the point where all of the departments around us are issuing their own handguns," Duncan said. "I hired two people in December and I said, 'OK, you're hired, now go buy a gun, go buy all your leather.' It's almost, to me, a slap in the face where we make them buy their own equipment when everyone else pretty much is furnishing everything."
Duncan said department issued handguns have a number of advantages beyond attracting qualified police officers to Carthage.
"Another issue is consistency and continuity in weapons," Duncan said.
Duncan recommended the department buy Glock .40 caliber handguns. He said with the $5,000 intended for the video systems and trading in the unused guns in the department's possession, he can buy 13 guns at a cost of $459 each, plus 13 secure holsters at a cost of $99 each.
"I think safety and liability are big issues, but my main reason is I believe we need to offer the new officers as much equipment as we can," Duncan said. "The highway patrol, conservation, department of corrections, Joplin, Webb City, the list goes on and on, they all issue Glocks."
The public safety committee agreed with Duncan's recommendation and voted to recommend approval by the full council.
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White House To Roll Out “Privacy Bill of Rights”
In a speech this week at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy Daniel Weitzner announced that the Administration will soon roll out a “privacy bill of rights,” which he described as a “broad, high-level statement of principles” that could be enforced by the FTC. Weitzner emphasized that the Administration wanted to move quickly on privacy, even if that means doing so without legislation. “We’re not going to wait for Congress,” Weitzner said.
Although Weitzner did not describe the details of the program — which probably will be included in the Department of Commerce’s forthcoming privacy report — he explained that the program would be “voluntary” but “enforceable.” That likely means that it will follow the approach followed by other self-regulatory programs, such as the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising, in which participating companies voluntarily submit to an enforcement mechanism but also publicly represent that they comply with the program. This, proponents argue, could trigger the FTC’s existing authority to take action against “deceptive” trade practices when a company tells consumers that it complies but actually does not.
When the Administration announces its “bill of rights,” we expect that it will reflect an effort to update traditional notions of privacy to today’s diverse online economy, including broad principles that companies can implement in the particular contexts in which they operate. We also anticipate efforts to make theoretical privacy concepts more practical and understandable to the average consumer and to empower consumers to make decisions about their own privacy.
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A dilemma is a lemma that proves every pair of theorems
The meaning of any situation is found in the frame within which we view the picture.
For the proof, it is a luxury to be understood, because artspeak is a closed system of self-referential language peppered with fanciful cloudy and mysterious words.
It is a nice naive concept which perhaps can be made into a rigorous theory. Art being only our ignorance of real causes, whether mermaids exist or not, art rules such as ideal body proportion would remain arbitrary. Open science widens the net.
A comprehensible proof is not necessarily the shortest one, but a proof of small width.
What art has in common with logic and mathematics is that art is a tautology. The art idea and artwork are the same. Both can be appreciated as themselves without going outside the context of the gallery or the museum for verification. | {
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Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer has been cut off from all Buckeye football activities since being placed on paid administrative leave on Aug. 1.
However, he was allowed to meet with the team and coaches on Thursday with athletic director Gene Smith, so the players and staff could “hear from him and cover interim leadership during the suspension period including the three games he will not attend,” Ohio State spokesman Chris Davey said.
Meyer will not be allowed to attend any practices, meetings, official events or appear in any official capacity at any Ohio State football events while on his suspension, according to an email to Meyer sent by Susan Basso, senior vice president of the office of human resources.
The email also said he will not be allowed to communicate with staff, student-athletes, recruits or others, or “otherwise conduct any business related to your role for this time period.”
It went on to say he will be allowed to resume his head coaching duties on Sept. 3, but that he cannot perform any of those duties for a 24-hour period around the game days of Sept. 1, 8 and 15, and he cannot appear at any pregame activities or the game itself.
Meyer did not receive the official terms of his suspension until Sunday, Davey said.
Basso said in another email that Meyer was authorized by Ohio State to have one opportunity to meet with the team. She said the meeting took place with Smith present on Thursday “for roughly 45 minutes at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.”
When Meyer was placed on paid administrative leave on Aug. 1, he was forbidden from talking to any players or coaches on the football team, among several other restrictions.
Defensive coordinator Greg Schiano said during Monday’s press conference that he spoke with Meyer while he was on leave.
Schiano said the discussion was “personal” and not about football.
“Well Urban is, before he’s my boss, he’s a friend. I’ve known him for over 20 years. So when I was allowed to, I did communicate,” Schiano said. “It was about him. Because I was worried about him. I’ll leave it at that.”
Davey said Meyer had limited conversations with coaches including Schiano, and that “limited conversations between Wednesday and Sunday were not in violation of the suspension because they would have occurred before” Meyer received the suspension letter.
In Basso’s email, she said Meyer could have “no further contact with University staff or students related to your role” as head coach after that meeting.
Meyer was suspended for the first three games of the season and will remain suspended without pay until Sept. 2. He will be allowed to resume coaching at practices after that, but cannot be on the sidelines on Saturdays.
The suspension was the result of a 14-day investigation led by Mary Jo White, the former chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and current senior chair of Debevoise and Plimpton. The investigation was looking into Meyer’s knowledge of domestic abuse allegations surrounding former wide receivers coach Zach Smith.
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Coach should take entire family on an extended vacation outside Ohio & then resign upon his return. Years ago I lost total interest in NFL & I am near that point with college football—too damn many “stupid” adults involved.
Probably the best idea I’ve heard with regard to this whole mess. Ohio State botched this whole thing. Unfortunately I think it would be reported as guilt and the media would dance around a bonfire with their pitchforks. Fight on Mr. Meyer.
Mary Jo White…. nominated for Securities and Exchange Commission by Obama.. worked for Clinton and Bush … succeeded James Comey on Appeals Court….. perfect representative for Drake and BoT.The leadership under Drake is second to none.Jon Waters,Thad Matta,Urban Myers,Dean of Law at UC- Irvine… wrote “polarizing comments”…. had to be hired back and Gene Smith. We’ve had nothing but turmoil with Drake.He hides behind Title IX …. gets jammed up… hires outside law firms and eventually must have the BoT bail him out. There is a pattern here…. Mother Theresa wouldn’t have a chance in Buckeye land.I don’t trust or respect the president of my alma mater.Who is next??The guy from California needs to go!!!
The similarities in this case and the Comey “investigation” into Hillary’s server, et al. are quite clear. (Kudos to Curt Schilling for this analysis). Both investigators laid out the case against the perp and then, at the 11th hour, basically said, “Oh, never mind.” The stench that is college sports is overwhelming. Winning is the only thing that matters and OSU proved it, again, much to this alumni’s dismay. I know I’m not alone. Is one man that important to the program that all morals and civility are thrown out? Sadly, the answer is yes.
I believe your sentiment is shared by other alumni and just plain fans. The overall stench from the NFL has filtered down to the college level. Winning is fame and, fame brings money. That’s true in college sports, corporate America and politics.
I am abhorred by the thought of domestic violence. What if a true investigation on the alleged incident proved that it was fabricated? I am not defending Zack as he seems to have numerous character flaws, but was this possibly a witch hunt. If the allegations are proven false, a lot of reporters and OSU administrators look bad and true domestic violence victims will be violated again as people will doubt them.
Hopefully all media were prohibited from attending the meeting between the coach and team/staff. Is he also prohibited from having his daughter, grandchild and son in law over to the house during the suspension?
How can Meyer be suspended for the first three games yet he is allowed back in Sept 2 and can be involved in practice all week long leading up to those games? He just can’t be on the sidelines for those games.
Not much meat behind the suspension!
He shouldn’t be suspended to begin with lol. If he’s guilty, then fire him. If he’s not, let’s press on! Why are we wasting unnecessary time with pointless suspensions with loose stipulations? Just so the university can say “We did our due diligence, and this is what we came up with.” Smdh terrible lol | {
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Chennai, Feb 25 (IANS) It's not the critics' views or box office numbers that matter to Telugu actor Sunil Varma, he is more concerned about the audience's verdict.
"I'm an actor made by the audience, therefore their verdict matters the most to me. If audiences love the film, then everything else will be in favour of the film," Sunil told IANS. "It's the final verdict of audiences that decides the fate of movie at the box-office."
Right now he is awaiting the release of his romantic-comedy "Mr. Pellikoduku". Coming out March 1, it is a Telugu remake of Hindi hit "Tanu Weds Manu" that had R. Madhavan and Kangna Ranaut in the lead roles.
"The film is not a frame-to-frame copy of the original. We've made minor changes to the script to suit the nativity. There is a good mix of comedy and romance to draw attention of audiences from all categories", said the actor.
Asked if he has shed his comedian image in the film, he said: "I'm always a comedian at heart. Even as lead actor, my films 'Maryada Ramanna' and 'Poola Rangadu' had good amount of comedy in it and audiences loved it. This film too has lot of scope for comedy."
Devi Prasad has directed the film and Isha Chawla plays the role done by Kangana in the original. | {
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Of Gods and Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome featured a myriad of, what could be understood, both then and now, as experiences that transcended sex and gender norms.
By GVGK Tang / 11.14.2017
The ancient Roman satirist Lucian describes an exchange between two courtesans, wherein one of the women repeatedly characterizes her lover as being “terribly like a man.” She describes their flourishing romance, and muses that her lover might be “equipped both as a man and a woman, as many people are said to be.” She says that her lover claims to be “born a woman,” but has “the mind and the desires and everything else of a man.” The interplay of sex, gender and sexuality in Lucian’s story seems to confuse modern notions of biology, identity, and orientation.
Ancient Rome featured a myriad of, what could be understood, both then and now, as experiences that transcended sex and gender norms. However, male-centered Roman society encouraged the marginalization and sensationalization of (trans)feminine expressions, identities, and non-binary sex assignments. These gender dynamics circumscribed romantic and sexual experience, and constituted both political and religious performances of power.
The amorphousness of female same-sex sexuality in Roman society is well illustrated in the story of Iphis and Ianthe by the Roman poet Ovid. Iphis is born female but raised as a boy by her mother because her father wants a son. Then, Iphis’ parents arrange for her to marry a girl named Ianthe; the pair falls in love. Iphis’ mother prays to the goddess Isis for a miracle. Her prayers are answered and Iphis is transformed into a young man. In a juxtaposition of biological and social constructions of sexual morality, this story succeeds as one about sibling incest. While the siblings’ heterosexuality is biologically ‘valid’, their love is condemned by society. Meanwhile, Iphis and Ianthe’s love is merely biologically ‘incompatible’. The couple’s happy ending is, thus, achieved through divine intervention, not through a subversion of Roman social mores.
In contrast to the elevation, in status and legitimacy, granted by masculinization or female-to-male transsexuality, sexual passivity and feminine presentation have long been stigmatized in the historiography. For instance, the famed historian Edward Gibbon described the way Roman emperor Elagabalus “abandoned [herself] to the grossest of pleasures … [and] affected to copy the dress and manners of the female sex.” In addition to depilating and wearing cosmetics, reports also claimed that Elagabalus identified as a woman—referring to herself as a “lady,” “queen,” “wife,” and “mistress,” as well as requesting to be equipped with female genitalia by her physicians. Despite Gibbon’s own antiquated social mores, as a man writing in the late eighteenth century, he conceded that reports of Elagabalus’ “vices and follies” may have been “blackened by prejudice,” such that political enemies may have taken revenge by conjuring the false image of a feminized and “deviant” tyrant.
Various Roman emperors’ feminine expressions were vilified and their sexually transgressive behavior was often interpreted as immoral. These queer performances and identities, “may have [also] been carefully calculated to communicate to Roman audiences the transcendent position and power of the emperor.” The emperor Commodus was alleged to have dyed his hair, sprinkled it with gold dust, and “dressed as a woman” for combat and visits to the amphitheater. He was also said to have proudly inscribed his Colossus remodel (himself as Hercules) with the epithet “Effeminatus.” Likewise, a statue of Marcus Aurelius was refashioned with the body of a woman. Such gender-bending imagery, and the flouting gendered conceptions of the body, may have demonstrated a likeness with or devotion to the gods.
Indeed, the practices of eunuch priests of the goddess Cybele (Galli) were integrated into Rome’s state religion. In their initiation ritual, a novice was obligated to shed his masculine attire, “castrate himself with a sword and then [run] through town with genitals in hand […] toss them into a house chosen at random, whose residents would be obligated to dress him in female attire.” This violent tradition conveyed religious devotion through the violation of sex and gender norms.
Similarly, sexed dichotomy occurred in Roman painting and sculpture of deities. Hermaphroditism, though pejorative in modern connotations (and not the same as intersexuality), found root in religious idolatry. The gods Hermaphroditus and Aphroditos had both male and female anatomy—Hermaphroditus as a result of being merged with a water nymph, while Aphroditos was a male Aphrodite. Indeed, in some depictions, Aphroditos had a beard, male genitalia, and wore women’s clothes. Both his male and female followers cross-dressed. This merging of hermaphroditism and spirituality was also domesticated, as hermaphroditic statues were featured prominently in areas like the garden of the Roman home. Such imagery was deployed as a means of constructively expressing sexual tension within a familial setting.
However, individuals who were born outside of the binary social construction of biological sex were shunned. “The birth or discovery of hermaphrodites” (presumably intersex individuals) meant death “by fire or water.” And so, an irony emerged—the ‘intersexed’ bodies of deities enhanced their transcendent mysticism and could be emulated or approximated by the non-binary gender identities and expressions of their devotees, yet the birth of intersex individuals acted as bad omens and easy scapegoats. The biological manifestation of a sex that blurred and belied the gendered dichotomies of Roman society and social order was threatening. Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances remained circumscribed, reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state. | {
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Measuring exposure of workers in MRI environment
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities are important sources of multiple exposure to electromagnetic fields for both patients and healthcare staff. In an exploratory study, researchers conducted an exposure assessment and biomonitoring of MRI workers at the Radio-diagnostics Unit of the National Cancer Institute of Naples “Pascale Foundation” (Naples, Italy). In particular, exposure to the MRI static magnetic field (SMF) has been evaluated by means of personal monitoring, while an application tool has been developed to provide an estimate of motion-induced, time-varying electric fields.
The study results show a high day-to-day and worker-to-worker variability of the exposure to the SMF, which strongly depends on the characteristics of the environment and on personal behaviours. Further, the developed application can be adopted as an easy-to-use tool for rapid and qualitative evaluation of motion-induced, time-varying electric field exposure.
Due to the increasing use and technological advancements of MRI systems, clearer insights into exposure assessment and a better understanding of possible harmful effects due to long-term exposures are highly needed. In this paper, possible approaches for exposure assessment and biomonitoring of workers routinely exposed to the SMF and motion-induced, time-varying electric fields of a 1.5 T MRI system have been proposed.
Researchers evaluated exposure to the SMF by personal monitoring of workers through wearable dosimeters. The exposure level never exceeded the 2 T limit value defined by the European Directive 2013/35 for normal working conditions (as expected for a 1.5 T MRI scanner), although a high day-to-day and worker-to-worker variability of exposure was recorded, with, on average, higher exposure levels recorded for MR technicians than for the medical doctor and the nurse, as reported also by previous work.
"The movements of workers in a spatially heterogeneous SMF can result in exposure to low frequency time-varying electric fields, inducing electrical currents within the body. These motion-induced, time-varying electric fields may cause transient symptoms, such as dizziness, vertigo, nausea, tinnitus, and concentration problems, which are annoying for the worker and can impair the regular working activity," the researchers point out.
The assessment tool is provided with a graphic user interface, which is user-friendly for non-expert users, which can define a walking path on the magnetic field map, associate a walking speed to the movement (with a trapezoidal velocity profile), and calculate dB/dt, induced electric field, and current density.
Regarding biomonitoring, the 24 workers of the Radio-diagnostics Unit were enrolled to evaluate both spontaneous and mitomycin C-induced chromosomal fragility in human peripheral blood lymphocytes, by means of the cytokinesis-block micronucleus assay. The study subjects were 12 MRI workers, representative of different professional categories, as the exposed group, and 12 workers with no MRI exposure history, as the reference group.
The results show a high worker-to-worker variability for both field exposure assessment and biomonitoring, as well as several critical issues and practicalities to be faced with in this type of investigations, according to the researchers.
"The procedures for risk assessment and biomonitoring proposed here can be used to inform future research in this field, which will require a refinement of exposure assessment methods and an enlargement of the number of subjects enrolled in the biomonitoring study to gain robust statistics and reliable results," the authors note.
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NJ governor, amid scandal, says he has not begun to consider 2016 White House bid
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TRENTON, New Jersey (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, enmeshed in a traffic jam scandal involving his top staff, said on Thursday he was "nowhere near" beginning to consider a possible 2016 presidential bid.
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Per the press release from Icarus Films, the same distribution that acquired and will release The Great Flood, from director Bill Morrison, as well as 6 Jean Rouch classics for North American distribution, including his landmark 1957 work Moi, Un Noir (Me, A Black), and also The Last Angel of History as well as Seven Songs for Malcolm X both by John Akomfrah - all releases we've covered on S&A.
Per the press release from Icarus Films, the same distribution that acquired and will release The Great Flood, from director Bill Morrison, as well as 6 Jean Rouch classics for North American distribution, including his landmark 1957 work Moi, Un Noir (Me, A Black), and also The Last Angel of History as well as Seven Songs for Malcolm X both by John Akomfrah - all releases we've covered on S&A.
The company announced today its acquisition of all North American distribution rights to 11 films from the Cuba Media Project of the Americas Media Initiative.
The films are all independent productions, and, with the exception of two compilation programs, all documentaries. Together they offer the rare opportunity to see Cuba documented by media artists whose work has been little seen outside the country.
Among other titles, the collection includes Ernesto Pérez Zambrano’s Major Leagues?(¿Grandes Ligas?), an exploration of the Cuban National women’s baseball team, Gustavo Pérez’s They Would All Be Queens(Todas iban ser reinas), about Soviet women who emigrated to Cuba for marriage prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and Katrin Hansing’s Freddy Ilanga: Che’s Swahili Translator(Freddy Ilanga: El Traductor del Che), a profile of an African man whose life was transformed by a chance encounter with one of the great icons of the 20th century.
The deal was signed by Jonathan Miller, President of Icarus Films, and Alexandra Halkin, Director of the Americas Media Initiative, which produces, screens, and distributes independent and community-produced media from the Americas.
Beginning in September, Icarus Films will handle all North American distribution responsibilities for the collection. There will be two new releases added to the collection this year. | {
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New research analyses China's coal power reforms
Posted on 25/01/2011
Coal ship on the Yangtze
China's coal market is now in the midst of a radical restructuring that has the potential to change how coal is produced, traded and consumed both in China and the rest of the world. The plan envisages roughly half of China's coal production being produced at a handful of major coal-power base sites controlled by state-owned enterprises and central government. The study found that this enhanced central government control would mean it could control coal pricing in a large share of the market, while economies of scale could be had from increased modernization and mechanization. The study also found that China's import behaviour is a dominant factor in the price of globally traded coal, and this import behaviour is itself affected by domestic prices.
Since being online the report has been reviewed by various experts from industries, government and media including Bloomberg (14 Dec 2010) and top journal on energy reporting Platts (Volume 10 / Issue 242, December 15, 2010).
Reference
Rui, H., Morse, R. and Gang, H. (2010), “Remaking the World's Largest Coal Market: The Quest to Develop Large Coal-Power Bases in China”, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University | {
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Diocese requests priest defrocking
Bronislaus B. Kush TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
Published Friday December 30, 2011 at 6:00 am
Rev. Dongor
The Diocese of Worcester has asked the Vatican to defrock the Rev. Lowe B. Dongor, the Roman Catholic priest charged in September with possessing child pornography and stealing from his parish in Fitchburg.
Church and law enforcement officials believe Rev. Dongor has fled the country and may have returned to his native homeland of the Philippines. A default warrant was issued for Rev. Dongor after the clergyman failed to show up for an Oct. 25 court hearing.
Chancery officials said they are seeking to oust Rev. Dongor in the wake of a “clarification” last spring by church officials in Rome that possession of child pornography is grounds for removal from the priesthood.
In May, the Vatican’s Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith declared that “the acquisition, possession, and distribution of child pornography is a canonical delict that pertains to the sexual abuse of a minor.”
State police have charged that one of Rev. Dongor’s laptops contained images of girls around the ages of 10 and 11 in various states of undress. The priest also allegedly admitted to investigators that, on a number of occasions, he stole “$40 or $50” from St. Joseph Parish to send to his family in the Philippines.
Rev. Dongor is on administrative leave of absence and was relieved, in July, of his duties as associate pastor at St. Joseph’s by Bishop Robert J. McManus.
Raymond L. Delisle, a spokesman for the diocese, said that Bishop McManus has asked Pope Benedict XVI to defrock Rev. Dongor in light of the pornography allegations.
Rev. Dongor, the diocese’s first Filipino priest, is believed to be in the Philippines.
Bishop McManus had written the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines warning that the priest may have returned home to the Southeast Asian islands nation.
In a letter to the Filipino prelates, the bishop said that Rev. Dongor left a note saying that he would be returning “home.”
In November, the Philippine-based abs-cbnNEWS.com reported that the priest returned to his hometown of Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo, in October.
The website said that relatives, including Rev. Dongor’s brother, Joey, were surprised by the visit.
Family members said they hadn’t seen the priest in years and said they were shocked by the charges.
Timothy Connolly, a spokesman for District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr., said local authorities would move to extradite Rev. Dongor back to Massachusetts, if he is located.
At this point, he said the DA’s office has no solid information on Rev. Dongor’s whereabouts.
“Once he’s found, the wheels will be put in motion to bring him back,” Mr. Connolly said.
He said an extradition might be complicated because procedures differ from country to country.
“If he’s found, we’ll bring him back to Worcester to face the charges,” Mr. Connolly said.
Rev. Dongor, 35, was summoned to Fitchburg District Court on Sept. 9 on charges of larceny of property worth more than $250, larceny from a building and possession of child pornography.
He was released on personal recognizance.
Following his arrest, Bishop McManus asked the priest to move off of church property until his case was adjudicated.
For a time, Rev. Dongor stayed with a Worcester-area family.
Rev. Dongor came to Worcester in 2003 and attended Assumption College, where he explored the possibility of becoming a priest. He later studied at St. Mary Seminary & University and was ordained a diocesan priest in June 2010.
Only one diocesan priest has ever been defrocked.
Last fall, the pope ousted Thomas H. Teczar from the priesthood after he was convicted in Texas of sexually abusing a boy and after being publicly accused of molesting at least two Central Massachusetts youths. | {
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