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4.29.2011

111

Chinese numerology and Feng Shui for 2011, Check this out:, This year we are going to experience four unusual dates: 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, 11/11/11, and that's not all;, Take the last two digits of the year you were born and the age you will be this year and the result will add up to 111 for everyone!!!! This is the year of MONEY., Also, this year, October will have 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays & 5 Saturdays. This happens only once every 823 years. These particular years are known as Moneybag years., The proverb goes that if you send this to eight good friends, money will appear in the next four days, as is explained in the Chinese feng shui., Those who don't continue the chain, won't receive It's a mystery, but it's worth a try. Good luck to you.

3.05.2010

Earthquake Makes Shorter Days

The massive earthquake that struck Chile on 2/27/10 may have shifted the Earth's axis and created shorter days, scientists at NASA say.

The change is negligible, but permanent: Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second. A large quake shifts massive amounts of rock and alters the distribution of mass on the planet. When that distribution changes, it changes the rate at which the planet rotates. And the rotation rate determines the length of a day.

Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, used a computer model to determine how the magnitude 8.8 quake that struck Chile on February 27 may have affected the Earth.

He determined that the quake should have moved the Earth's figure axis about 3 inches (8 centimeters). The figure axis is one around which the Earth's mass is balanced. That shift in axis is what may have shortened days.
Such changes aren't unheard of.

The magnitude 9.1 earthquake in 2004 that generated a killer tsunami in the Indian Ocean shortened the length of days by 6.8 microseconds.

On the other hand, the length of a day also can increase. For example, if the Three Gorges reservoir in China were filled, it would hold 10 trillion gallons (40 cubic kilometers) of water. The shift of mass would lengthen days by 0.06 microsecond, scientists said.

3.02.2010

USA Breaks Up?

For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media.

In recent weeks, he's been interviewed as much as twice a day about his predictions. "It's a record," says Prof. Panarin. "But I think the attention is going to grow even stronger."

Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats. He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russia relations.

But it's his bleak forecast for the U.S. that is music to the ears of the Kremlin, which in recent years has blamed Washington for everything from instability in the Middle East to the global financial crisis. Mr. Panarin's views also fit neatly with the Kremlin's narrative that Russia is returning to its rightful place on the world stage after the weakness of the 1990s, when many feared that the country would go economically and politically bankrupt and break into separate territories.

A polite and cheerful man with a buzz cut, Mr. Panarin insists he does not dislike Americans. But he warns that the outlook for them is dire.

"There's a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur," he says. "One could rejoice in that process," he adds, poker-faced. "But if we're talking reasonably, it's not the best scenario -- for Russia." Though Russia would become more powerful on the global stage, he says, its economy would suffer because it currently depends heavily on the dollar and on trade with the U.S.

Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control.





In addition to increasing coverage in state media, which are tightly controlled by the Kremlin, Mr. Panarin's ideas are now being widely discussed among local experts. He presented his theory at a recent roundtable discussion at the Foreign Ministry. The country's top international relations school has hosted him as a keynote speaker. During an appearance on the state TV channel Rossiya, the station cut between his comments and TV footage of lines at soup kitchens and crowds of homeless people in the U.S. The professor has also been featured on the Kremlin's English-language propaganda channel, Russia Today.

Mr. Panarin's apocalyptic vision "reflects a very pronounced degree of anti-Americanism in Russia today," says Vladimir Pozner, a prominent TV journalist in Russia. "It's much stronger than it was in the Soviet Union."

Mr. Pozner and other Russian commentators and experts on the U.S. dismiss Mr. Panarin's predictions. "Crazy ideas are not usually discussed by serious people," says Sergei Rogov, director of the government-run Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, who thinks Mr. Panarin's theories don't hold water.

Mr. Panarin's résumé includes many years in the Soviet KGB, an experience shared by other top Russian officials. His office, in downtown Moscow, shows his national pride, with pennants on the wall bearing the emblem of the FSB, the KGB's successor agency. It is also full of statuettes of eagles; a double-headed eagle was the symbol of czarist Russia.

The professor says he began his career in the KGB in 1976. In post-Soviet Russia, he got a doctorate in political science, studied U.S. economics, and worked for FAPSI, then the Russian equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency. He says he did strategy forecasts for then-President Boris Yeltsin, adding that the details are "classified."

In September 1998, he attended a conference in Linz, Austria, devoted to information warfare, the use of data to get an edge over a rival. It was there, in front of 400 fellow delegates, that he first presented his theory about the collapse of the U.S. in 2010.

"When I pushed the button on my computer and the map of the United States disintegrated, hundreds of people cried out in surprise," he remembers. He says most in the audience were skeptical. "They didn't believe me."

At the end of the presentation, he says many delegates asked him to autograph copies of the map showing a dismembered U.S.

He based the forecast on classified data supplied to him by FAPSI analysts, he says. He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in.

California will form the nucleus of what he calls "The Californian Republic," and will be part of China or under Chinese influence. Texas will be the heart of "The Texas Republic," a cluster of states that will go to Mexico or fall under Mexican influence. Washington, D.C., and New York will be part of an "Atlantic America" that may join the European Union. Canada will grab a group of Northern states Prof. Panarin calls "The Central North American Republic." Hawaii, he suggests, will be a protectorate of Japan or China, and Alaska will be subsumed into Russia.

"It would be reasonable for Russia to lay claim to Alaska; it was part of the Russian Empire for a long time." A framed satellite image of the Bering Strait that separates Alaska from Russia like a thread hangs from his office wall. "It's not there for no reason," he says with a sly grin.

Interest in his forecast revived this fall when he published an article in Izvestia, one of Russia's biggest national dailies. In it, he reiterated his theory, called U.S. foreign debt "a pyramid scheme," and predicted China and Russia would usurp Washington's role as a global financial regulator.

Americans hope President-elect Barack Obama "can work miracles," he wrote. "But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles."

The article prompted a question about the White House's reaction to Prof. Panarin's forecast at a December news conference. "I'll have to decline to comment," spokeswoman Dana Perino said amid much laughter.

For Prof. Panarin, Ms. Perino's response was significant. "The way the answer was phrased was an indication that my views are being listened to very carefully," he says.

The professor says he's convinced that people are taking his theory more seriously. People like him have forecast similar cataclysms before, he says, and been right. He cites French political scientist Emmanuel Todd. Mr. Todd is famous for having rightly forecast the demise of the Soviet Union -- 15 years beforehand. "When he forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1976, people laughed at him," says Prof. Panarin.

2.14.2010

Largest Dodgeball Game - Duck!!!

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/34048072001?isVid=1&publisherID=18673218001

The University of Alberta broke the record for largest dodgeball game by getting a staggering 1200 people to participate. Immediately the number was whittled down to 600 after all the fat people and guys with glasses were immediately drilled.

12.11.2009

Space Equals Growing!

"Deny children -- or anyone else -- the chance to do ‘nothing,’ and we may be denying them the chance to do ‘something’ -- to find and do any work that is truly important to themselves or to someone else."
~John Holt

A brilliant quote from a man with an awesome perspective on life. To make a forest thick, luscious, healthy and sustainable, the trees must be a certain distance apart. If they are too close the roots will tangle, one will "steal" light and will eventually kill the other. Space between two people is the same. Its ok and healthy to have an independent root system and to have your own branches. Our touching leaves can make a better system for those that depends on us than our touching and tangling roots. As humans we get so attached to people and things - well guess what? None of it is yours! All of life and the things in it are on lease only. Embrace the moment, embrace you, embrace the bond between you and another person - but remember space IS healthy!!

We all need space -- free from demands, deadlines, expectations and judgments -- to explore who we are and what life is all about. Free time, with absolutely no agenda, is rich with potential. How can we grow if we have no space and freedom to dream? Why should we limit ourselves and limit other needed space b/c of our selfish expectations? Why is it that we think being physically close to some one equals a better relationship?

All of us have the responsibility to grow, feed and sustain a forest that is comprised of many more people than you.

11.18.2009

Forever Learning, Forever Young!

To me there is a keen the role that learning and education play in keeping a person from growing old: "If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing." Common attributes among sharp-as-tacks subjects in older age groups are an above-average education, enjoyment of a complex and stimulating lifestyle, and living with a smart spouse or partner. Learning for life. A life of learning. Both seem to be keys for a productive and satisfying life. And, in a world of constant and rapid change, the ability to learn and continuing to learn is important for personal and community survival.

Research on the role the mind plays in maintaining health has found biochemical evidence that the mind can influence the immune system and other body functions. Indeed, mental stimulation can be the difference between someone who begins to fall apart as they age and those who stay healthy and fit and seem to go on forever. (The other major factor is exercise.) Further, research has debunked the myth that brain cells begin to die in batches as we age. What had been thought to be cell death was actually brain cells shrinking and going dormant from lack of stimulation and challenge. Cells which could be revitalized with mental stimulation.

We must therefore discard the old educational paradigm based upon 12 to 20 years of formal schooling and then coasting on that education until death. That might have worked a century ago when change was much slower than it is today and people died young, but it does not hold in the Third Millennium. The new educational paradigm views learning as a lifelong quest with a different perspective on what formal education should encompass. Instead of teaching facts which may become obsolete even before the program is finished, formal education must focus on teaching basic skills — communications skills such as reading, writing and speaking; basic science, mathematics and logic; thinking skills such as creativity, problem solving and analysis; and methods of expression such as visual art, music and literature -- and the art of learning. Both areas are equally important.

Intermission!
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Without the basic skills, we cannot continue to learn effectively. If we do not actively pursue learning, we will learn life's continuing lessons by trial and error, a method that has some merits but which can also be painful and expensive. Therefore, let us take the proactive step rather than the reactive and set out to learn all we can.

When you let information in, you are not accepting it carte blanche. You are only accepting it temporarily, so do not prejudge it even if you consider it the greatest load of sewage ever assembled. Now play with it. Test it against previous knowledge and perhaps against your ethical values. Look at it from different perspectives. Be the devil's advocate on it. Turn it, stretch it, reverse it. Treat it as a young child explores a new toy. Then put it aside for a time, letting it settle or age in your mind. When you have given it time to mellow, pull it out again and judge it for its worth to you. If you accept it, continue to play with it to find how it can best serve you. Eventually it will be stored in your vast mental files and become part of your accumulated wisdom.

The desire and ability to learn is closely linked with play. Learning is, in its basic element, play. Therefore, we must give ourselves permission to play — to be curious about the world around us, to try things out in different ways, to play what if games. Many professions use these aspects of play as part of their regular routine. Such play forms the basis for astronaut training, military manouevres, economic forecasting, engineering modeling and simulations, scientific research, and product design and marketing. All are play and all are learning activities.

Learning to learn is an area that even post-secondary education has failed to formally teach. We get fragmented lessons throughout formal education in some areas and none at all in others. One of the greatest lessons to learn is how to keep an open mind when faced with new ideas or new expressions of old ideas. A closed mind is not conducive to learning. I keep an open mind (most of the time) by following a simple four-step process.

Learning brings joy and ecstasy to living. This joy comes from the playfulness of learning as well as a sense of accomplishment. Where there is joy, the quality of life increases exponentially, the immune system is enhanced and the future looks brighter. Learn to make learning a part of your everyday routine and you will stay forever young in mind and spirit.

Word Play

Very creative video...

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11.03.2009

Uno-Segway Motorcycle

This is just awesome: a motorcycle which looks like a one-wheeled one (actually, it's two wheels next to each other).



Balancing is the next major step in transportation and robotics. Gyros are what keep this machine, Segways and Autonomous bi-peds up right.

5.09.2009

Rockets Into To Space-The Edge of Space

Part I
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Part 2
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Part 3
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9oScbW3jp8&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6]

Part 4
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Part 5
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4.19.2009

Another Night Terror...

*Female tells me she can/will show me something but she must go to sleep first
*I see a pendulum with a needle over sand

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*The pendulum starts to move over sand and make some start of a design
*A loud authoritative voice yells for me not to look at the sand
*I shake, wake no scream
*I am not scared but perplexed and confused as to why I was shuttered into live state and not allowed to see the outcome of the sand...