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  • Janosh and Saïe Share







    I share this item from Janosh.  He is an artist based in the Nederland` who has produced a number of images inspired by crop circle images and apparently his muse who tells of a coming transition of human consciousness.
    I suspect most readers find this style of discourse difficult and even annoying.  Yet the hard ideas presented do fit nicely into the substantive paradigm we have step by step developed regarding a prior rise of humanity before the Pleistocene Nonconformity and the then advent of space adapted humanity.
    The obvious conclusion to be drawn from these ideas is that this coming generation will lift Earth’s quarantine and establish contact with our cousins in space habitats.
    With those thoughts in mind, it is easier to read this material even if the author does not share the same insights.
    Saïe wishes to share other important information with you.
    • The most important points are:
    • We are entering into frequencies of Reverse Strength
    • Earth is in the Biosphere-Noösphere transition
    • Earth and humanity are quickly withdrawn from their quarantine
    A new electro-magnetic grid is being made
    This simplifies our evolution process
    Binds us with each other and the cosmic community
    It equals the electro-magnetic grid from the Old Atlantis.
    Re-awakening your own strength
    It’s now to time to reawaken your own strength. In the new, higher frequencies you are obliged to let go of the past and also the negative energies where a lot of people are trapped at the moment. I call this the old matrix, the energy field around the earth, which is full of negative, constraining programming. If you can break away from this, then you will be able to make contact with the mission, which you as a soul had already planned. Your personal blueprint, the task you set yourself on earth becomes clear. That can be confusing, but it is important, particularly at this moment and taking into account what is going to happen, to believe in your own strength, trust and remain close to your own truth. In this way you will inspire those close to you and be able to help others in their own transformation process. Saïe says: “Convincing others or wanting to be right, often works completely in the opposite way”.
    Reversing Force
    The frequencies that we will work with in the future will have a reversing power, which will bring us back to our authentic self. We will become re-joined to the power we had pre-birth, which is connected to the power of insight of the Universe. This may feel strange. Old patterns, deep-rooted negative beliefs and certain reluctance from old fears may come to the surface. However, just know: these are the last few hurdles. Synchronization will increase. Watch out for things that suddenly cross your path, because they will show you the way.
    Biosphere – Noösphere Transition
    Let’s just look at the whole picture (1). According to one of the Mayan prophets (The Law of Time) we must be ready before 2012 to shift into the next phase of evolution. Because the vibration frequencies within the universe automatically change with the procession of the stars and planets, human consciousness follows suite. It just vibrates naturally with the rest. Consciousness is actually the foundation for everything, which exits. This universal star parade happens on Earth, something which Mayan expert, José Argüelles calls the Biosphere-Noösphere transition. In other words this means the point when combined field of planetary consciousness exists. (Noösphere). The noösphere is the most recent phase of development of Earth and follows the biosphere (the part of the earth where life is difficult and polluted –J).
    On-going project
    Our current day problems began in the old Atlantis. Drunvalo Melchizedek announced that he would reveal an important message in May 2010. He is going to tell that there is an on-going project to bring people back to their trusted consciousness levels. In a preview he said: “Long ago, approximately 13,000 years ago, the human grids of consciousness fell apart and people began to loose their higher consciousness. It’s called “The Fall “in the Bible. Their Mer-ka-ba fields or in other words, their light bodies were extinguished, which exposed them to the effects of the earth-magnetic fields, which were also shut off. The memories of humanity were erased”. The earth and humanity were put into quarantine. Shut off from the rest of the universe. Now we live in a time and EVERYTHING will quickly be restored.
    The electro-magnetic grid
    Through the centuries certain people came forth to keep “Earth’s light burning” and just “to be” spiritual wise men, or make (r)evolutionary discoveries. Think about Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, and Tesla etc. Drunvalo says;” Work was performed at a deeper level to develop/repair the enormous network of lines around earth and therefore to create a specific human grid of consciousness, in order that humanity could return to their higher consciousness, just like it used to be”.
    In Atlantis the influence of the spirit over matter was well known they knew that Spirit thinking/thoughts (consciousness) was where the Light came from. Everything was created from Light. People were conscious of the electro-magnetic grid – a sort of energy matrix – under the earth’s surface.
    Cosmic Community
    The remains of this very impressive energy matrix can still be found on earth in the form of leylines. You could say that Heaven and Earth were joined through this matrix. This grid gave people the opportunity to, for example, telepathically be in contact with one another, to heal, to have access to very advanced technologies, to journey through the corridors of time and also to be in contact with above, the star people. Nowadays the majority of people have little of no affiliation to this, but in former times people were very well aware of their role in the universe, and thus the cosmic community. In the times that are coming an opportunity to reconnect with other life forms in the universe will be repaired. But before this can take place on a larger scale, we will have to take care of ourselves and make ourselves “one” with the universe.
    The greater plan for Earth
    In this context I have to think about the “100th monkey” effect. The more people open themselves to contact for life within the higher dimensions, how quicker a critical mass will be achieved that will show full openness. Really, taking the challenges before us into account at this moment means that contact with extra-terrestrial life on a larger scale is not the first and most important priority. It is more a logical consequence of a development, which is already underway, and which cannot be stopped. Our attention should be Earth and everything that lives on it. That is also the point for the cosmic community. I often ask myself why Saïe takes so much interest in my personal development, and now it seems much clearer. It’s nothing to do with me personally, but it is all part of a much larger plan for Earth and her role in the universe.
    Cosmic Mirrors
    The way, in which we treat ourselves, has great impact on the universe. The universe is one big hologram. People are like cosmic mirrors. So like each part of a hologram, which contains all the information about everything, so can a human cell contain a complete blueprint of the person. And that is why humans have a complete blueprint of the universe within themselves. It is now time to renew our consciousness of our role in the universe. Saïe calls us crazy “Gods in exile” He teaches me that the Earth in a central planet within our universe. The Earth is a melting pot of races, which have come from the whole cosmos. Nowhere else in the universe is there so much variation as on our planet.
    War of the Heavens
    On our planet something has been worked out which has effect on the total universe. According to Mayan prophets (The Telektonon) the current planetary crisis is a climax of inter-dimensional, inter-planetary Time Wars, the war of the heavens. It too complicated to go into in depth, but there will be many surprises from within the totally immeasurable depth from the galactic consciousness. In fact the cosmic community will also benefit from Earth’s transformation process into the 5th Dimension, the dimension of thought from oneness. The dimension in which we consciously co-create with the Source and use our full potential as “Gods” – or in other words multi-dimensional beings – . Not only Earth but also the entire universe will move to a higher frequency.
    Partytime!
    It is a fact that for example, crop circles are becoming more complex, the number of UFO sightings increasing dramatically, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes take place more frequently and amongst other things, political and economic systems collapse and more and more people use the rest of their DNA, form the evidence that a new matrix is in the making. The new electro-magnetic Earth grid is increasing in frequency, to the same strength as in the time of Atlantis. The new grid facilitates the process in which we find ourselves. Personal growth no longer needs to be a painful process if we so choose. I am a great believer that we should create a great party. Isn’t it marvelous what is happening? It’s taken 10.000 years to reach the current level of frequency. Plus the fact that there is a miraculous galactic equality of our universe on the programme.And you and I live NOW!
    Choosing for Liberation
    This process is unstoppable and we will enter – like the Mayan called – the 6th world, and it is and remains important that as many people as possible wake up and prepare themselves inwardly. On earth as on the outside, is an enormous feeling of urgency in these desperate times. A clear tidy consciousness is necessary to bring the higher energies from the cosmos into and through someone’s body. If we want to escape from this destructive effect of the current negative matrix, we need to step outside of our thinking. We will have to synchronize both halves of our brains and make a connection with our heart centre so that we are able to make a direct connection with the new grid.
    The language of Atlantis
    Don’t be afraid if you see that the chaos is increasing. Don’t judge in words of “good” or “bad”. Don’t let yourself be carried away in the river of fear. You can choose for liberation. Something, which can enable us to find peace and something to inspire our sub-consciousness, is the language of Atlantis. By this I mean the Sacred Geometry codes, which played a great part during this time. This is the language of our soul, the building blocks of our creation and you and are are geometry. The power of geometry can inspire us to re-find our inner strength. The frequency of the last code, Ultimate Return, can help you in your reverse strength to come back to the authentic you, before you were born, joined together with the strength and power of the insight of the Universe. We are on the way to deep routed awakening!
    Heart to Heart,
    Janosh
    Copyright Notice:

    Copyright 2010 Janosh Art. www.janosh.com This information is meant to circulate and may be freely disseminated, in whole or in part with the following conditions: Use of this material signifies that the user aggress to the following conditions: 1. The words “Copyright 2010 Janosh. www.janosh.com” will be included with all published material. 2. User agrees that all rights, including copyrights of translated material, remain the property of Janosh Art. If you translate this material we reserve the right to share that translation with credit to you as translator, on the Janosh site to make it available to all.

  • Apple iPad to be launched in Europe in May 28

    Apple iPad to be launched in Europe in May 28The iPad goes on sale this Friday in the United Kingdom, and in other eight countries, what made people queue in line before the opening of the store at the Apple Store Central London.

    Some of them spent the night waiting in line because they wanted to be the first to buy an iPad, reports the BBC, as Sean Bishop has been the first to arrive at the Apple store in the city of Bristol, Efe said.

    “I’ve been waiting for the release since it was announced in January because I think the iPad change the way people use computers,” he told the BBC.

    UK Apple stores now open an hour earlier than usual, at 0800 local time (0700 GMT) to satisfy the most eager clients seeking to buy a new Apple toy.

    The iPad fever arrives in Europe after they sold over a million units in the U.S. market since Apple launched it 28 days ago.

    Apple said yesterday that there has been delays in deliveries and that some people will have to wait.

    In the UK, selling prices vary between 429 pounds (505 euros) for the tablet of 16 GB capacity and 699 pounds (823 euros) for the 64GB iPad .

    The iPad with a thickness of 1.34 inch, 680-gram weight and ten hours of autonomy, resembles the iPod Touch in a giant version with a 9.7 inches touch screen.

    Convenient and easy to use, has a size of a notebook, the iPad can be used for gaming, surfing the internet, reading and playing multimedia files (photos, videos, movies and music).

    Like the iPod, his younger brother, the iPad has direct link to music stores and applications owned by Apple, the company of Steve Jobs.

    However, the great innovation of iPad is the iBook, allowing readers to shop and read electronic books.

    There are two iPad versions available, one only uses the wi-fi to connect to the network while the other offers access for Wi-Fi and 3G.

    The main mobile providers in the UK, Vodafone, Orange, O2 and 3, have already agreed about the price of the 3G version of the iPad, which will require a separate SIM card in order to connect to the internet.

    Apart from the United Kingdom, the iPad goes on sale today in Germany, Australia, Canada, Spain, France, Italy and Japan and Switzerland. During July will be available in Austria, Belgium, Holland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico and Singapore.

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    1. The iPad App Store is now global
    2. Apple IPad Pre-order Time
    3. First day iPad sales exceed 300.000

  • 3D Car Configurator. View 3D Car Exclusive Preview

    The very first online public disclosure of 3D Car – the innovative 3D Car Configurator from Bluemind Software.

    Founded in 2004, Bluemind Software is a SME (micro enterprise) in the software development field. The company’s mission is to bring its contribution to the world through innovative and useful software products and through quality custom software development services.

    Bluemind Software possesses good experience in developing 3D applications, CAD/CAM systems, engineering software, scientific software, multimedia applications, applications that combine desktop and web environments and others.

    Applications like 3DCar, an interactive 3D car configurator, started in 2005 (on display at SIAB 2007), at a time when even decent 2D car configurators were scarce, show the company’s innovative side.

    Bluemind Software also benefits of good understanding of research activities and proper communication and collaboration with the academic environment (the owner holds a Dr. title himself). The company is part of a research consortium, through which they participate in European research projects.

    The website development services comply with the standard specifications(ISO/IEC 15445, XHTML, CSS etc.) for high quality.

    3DCar is the innovative, fully interactive, car configurator developed by Bluemind Software (started in 2005, when even 2D configurators were rare).

    It certainly was at least one of the first, if not the very first, configurator in which the user can interact with the car.

    Unlike other products released in this niche, 3DCar works very well even on 5-6 year old PCs using complex 3D models with over 1 million triangles.

    I believe that this application can really help the clients to visualize their dream car, from exterior to interior. With 3DCar, the client has the possibility to choose from different existing models the one he wishes for. I can hardly wait to have this 3DCar configurator in our showroom on plasma screen! “

    Cosmin Nicolescu – Mercedes Benz sales specialist

    This is a screen capture of an interactive 3D car configurator for a Porsche Carrera GT – you change it’s colour, interior and more provided by the other 3D provider:

  • Toronto Police to take up to $100-million of G20 security funds

    Via Prison Planet.com » Prison Planet

    Colin Freeze
    Globe and Mail
    May 28, 2010

    Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair says his police force will administer between $50-million and $100-million of the federal funds allotted for G20 security.

    This amount could represent as much as 10 per cent of the $930-million earmarked in security costs for the G8 and G20 events.

    “We did not see this as a windfall opportunity,” Chief Blair told reporters Thursday evening.

    He said that his service has made every effort to contain costs and pointed out Toronto Police got no top-up from municipal ratepayers for the summit.

    That’s where the feds come in.

    The biggest cost, Chief Blair said, is staffing. A “great deal of manpower” is required for security, he said, “between $50 and $100-million of staffing costs related to the Toronto Police Service and our municipal partners,” he said.

    Full article here

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  • Manage and test different operating systems with VMware Workstation

    workstation.gifRunning a different operating system on your computer provides users with a number of new possibilities, especially if you are not required to reboot your machine or leave Windows. You could use this facility to test a newer version of an existing operating system to see if it’s compatible with your current hardware, or to run an alternative OS, so you could run applications that are OS specific.

    VMware Workstation 7.1 is desktop virtualisation software that enables people to run multiple operating systems, simultaneously, one a single machine. Not only can you run different Windows operating systems, you can use VMware workstation to host a Linux based operating system, too. This makes it incredibly useful for users looking to test an OS, before fully installing on a host machine. The latest v7.1 fully supports Windows 7.

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  • Why Man-Made Global Warming is a load of cobblers; Pt 1

    Via Prison Planet.com » Sci Tech

    James Delingpole
    London Telegraph
    May 28, 2010

    Just been reading Climate: The Counter Consensus (Stacey International) the new book by Bob Carter – that’s New Zealand’s Professor Robert M Carter to you, mate: he’s one of the world’s leading palaeoclimatologists – and it’s a cracker. By the end, you’re left feeling rather as I did after the Heartland Conference, that the scientific case against AGW is so overwhelming that you wonder how anyone can still speak up for so discredited a theory without dying of embarrassment.

    All the same, it’s good to be reminded now and again why the “consensus” thinking on AGW simply doesn’t stand up. There are so many excellent examples from Prof Carter’s book, I might be forced to spread them out over several blogs.

    Take his chapter on the oceans. The other day some troll or other was brandishing a figure he’d got from NOAA, showing that the sea was warming. Well bully for you troll, but if you understand at all how climate works that fact does precisely zilch to support the case for AGW. Why?

    The good Prof explains:

    The ocean covers more than 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface and over much of its area it is 3-5km deep. Comprising water, which is one thousand times denser than air the ocean has far more mass than the atmosphere – notwithstanding that the atmosphere covers the entire planet and is 50 km high to the top of the stratosphere. The result of this is that the ocean has a much greater heat capacity than the atmosphere, specifically 3,300 times more. Put another way, all the heat energy contained in the atmosphere is matched by the heat content of only the upper 3.2 metres of the worldwide ocean.

    Another consequence is that water requires much more energy to heat it up than does air. On a volume/volume basis, the ratio of heat capacities is, of course, 3,300 to 1. One practical result of this is that it is almost impossible for the atmosphere to exert a significant heating effect on the ocean, as is often asserted to by promoters of global warming alarm. For to heat one litre of water by 1 degree C will take 3,300 litres of air that was 2 degrees hotter, or one litre of air that was 3,300 degrees hotter, neither of which is a very common scenario in our every day weather system. Instead it is the ocean that controls the warmth of the lower atmosphere, in three main ways: namely, through direct contact, by infrared radiation from the ocean surface and by the removal of latent heat by evaporation.

    Full article here

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  • Children, 4, ‘to be fingerprinted to borrow school books from library’

    Via Prison Planet.com » Prison Planet

    Andrew Hough
    London Telegraph
    May 28, 2010

    Children as young as four could be fingerprinted to take out books from a school libaray.

    Students in Manchester are having their thumbprints digitally transformed into electronic codes, which can then be recognised by a computer program.

    Under the scheme, pupils swipe a bar code inside the book they want borrow then press their thumb on to a scanner to authorise the loan. Books are returned in the same way.

    The scheme is being trialled on junior classes at Higher Lane Primary in Whitefield, Bury, Greater Manchester.

    Officials confirmed it is due to be extended to all pupils at the school, one of the areas largest primary schools, with 453 pupils aged four to 11.

    Full article here

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  • Everybody out of the Water






    The great technological achievement was to learn how to drill a well one mile down.
    Except they did not bother to develop the hardware to properly shut down after an accident that was all but inevitable.
    Even the blind, dumb and stupid now knows that this must be done.  That it was not done should mean an industry wide shutdown and general assessment of costs until this problem is satisfactorily fixed.
    And do not even think of putting one of these suckers in the Arctic.
    It is clear that a number of things went wrong.  It is also clear that that is inevitable and assigning blame is a cheap human exercise.  The prospect of failure should have been imagined at the next level and countered and so on up the top.  Just as that is impossible in the airline industry, it is impossible in this industry.
    Yes the signals were there and they were dismissed.  They died.
    We need technology that allows the shutting in of a runaway well.  If that means installing a temporary large enclosure over top of the well head that permits the escape of excess fluids in an accident, then so be it.  There is a safe time to install such a rig before the well is spudded and a safe time to extract the rig once the well is complete and fully rigged for production.
    The blow out preventers need to be rigged in a fail safe mode.  This one failed merely because of a loss of hydraulic pressure which was a completely predictable failure mode.  Other modes may also have been in play here but this was the one up front.
    BP’s New Legacy: Everyone Out of the Water!
    By Nick Hodge | Thursday, May 27th, 2010
    Michael Steele’s having a bad year.
    The embattled Republican National Committee Chairman has had to battle opposition to his leadership within his own party, defend his organization’s $2,000 tab at a Hollywood strip club, and explain away his use of the term “honest injun” to Native American groups…
    But when BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last month and began what’s now looking to be the worst environmental disaster in American history, Steele’s year got a whole lot worse.
    That’s because Steele is the guy who’s forever immortalized on tape leading the 2008 Republican Convention crowd of over 20,000 in a resounding chant of “Drill Baby Drill!” — an image that clearly resounds from the last presidential race.
    So imagine how he’s feeling today.
    Every corner of Washington can’t distance themselves from the offshore drilling industry fast enough.
    The industry that was once celebrated as perhaps the savior of domestic energy production is now public enemy # 1 in almost every corner of the country.
    Washington to Wasilla… Wall Street to Main Street… Everywhere you turn, politicians and pundits are falling over themselves trying to get as far away as possible from deep sea drilling.
    And every time CNN or MSNBC or Fox News — yes, even Fox News — wants to show viewers how much lawmakers and talking heads were in love with offshore oil just a short time ago, they’ll cut right to the clip of Michael Steele.
    “Drill Baby Drill!”
    This guy can’t catch a break.
    And if you think it’s only Democrats who are vilifying deep sea drilling, think again…
    Just check out this quote by a prominent U.S. politician:
    …this tragedy should remind us that America needs a real, comprehensive energy plan… which includes more of everything: more clean and renewable sources of energy such as nuclear power, wind, and solar energy, more alternative fuels, more conservation, and more environmentally responsible development of America‘s energy resources.
    Want to take a guess at which tree-hugging liberal said it?
    Al Gore? Nancy Pelosi? John Kerry?
    Nope. These words belong to House Minority Leader John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio.
    And how about this assessment of the aftermath of the BP Spill by a leading cable news commentator:
    …it’s not a matter of if they’ll be a disaster of some kind resulting of this kind of offshore drilling, it’s only a matter of when. This verifies that argument and becomes a powerful factor in the debate over what to do next. I don’t see any way around the political reality that this will set back the cause of offshore drilling in the United States…
    Which member of the left-leaning media said this?
    Anderson Cooper? Rachel Maddow? Keith Olberman?
    Think again — this statement was uttered by none other than Fox News’ ultra-conservative Brit Hume…
    It seems like we’ve finally found something to unite the parties.
    On both sides of the aisle, the tide has turned shockingly fast. Gov. Schwarzenegger of California — who had supported deep sea drilling off his state’s coast — has now recently changed his mind and spoken out against it.
    President Obama — who, in late March, finally relented against increasing pressure to approve more offshore oil projects and gave the OK to rigs in Alaska, the Eastern United States, and the Gulf — is now backpedaling and freezing all new permits for the time being.
    And a CNN public opinion poll shows that support for offshore drilling has dropped 17% nationally between August 2008 and May 2010.
    It’s clear that the oil game is about to change… possibly forever.
    But what does that mean?
    Well, first of all, it means that deep sea oil will take a hit — a hard hit — for quite a while.
    But it won’t die; there’s simply too much oil in the ocean to let it all go, no matter how many disasters occur.
    “An oil spill here or there hasn’t gotten in the way of oil extraction anywhere,” states Peter Maass, journalist and author of the 2009 book Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.
    In the short term, don’t expect to see many new rigs popping up from your beach chair this summer; at least in the short term, oil companies are going to be forced to move inland.
    That means outlets like the oil sands in Utah are going to see increased attention and exploration. So far, 32 billion barrels have been identified. Oil companies undoubtedly will start sending in teams looking for more.
    But perhaps the greatest beneficiary from the BP disaster will be oil shale deposits — particularly ones in North Dakota‘s Bakken region.
    The good news just keeps on coming out of this domestic oil hot spot. Brigham Exploration Co. announced yesterday positive results from two more of its wells in its core Bakken acreage.
    That was enough to send its share price up 11% on Wednesday.
    Every day, the barrel estimates just keep going up in the Bakken region. And with oil companies staying out of the water for the time being, odds are we’ll be seeing a lineup at the North Dakota state border as the petro barons fight for a piece of what’s bubbling up from the shale.
    So then what’s the play?
    Well in the coming weeks, stay tuned to Energy and Capital for a new report detailing three small American companies making big moves into the Bakken region.
    This is, without a doubt, one of the rarest opportunities to exploit public sentiment for profit that I’ve ever come across.
    You’ve heard it before, but it bears repeating: Crisis breeds opportunity.
    We’ve got the crisis — now prepare for the opportunity.
    Watch for this new report appearing soon. 
    Call it like you see it,

  • Australian Gyms Swapping Out Pop Songs With Cover Versions To Avoid Ridiculous Royalties

    Just recently, we wrote about how a ridiculous ruling by the Australian Copyright Tribunal, boosted the royalty rates that gyms needed to pay if they played any music covered by the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA). In some cases it went from less than $1 per class to $1 per participant per class. At the time, we noted that gyms were switching to music that wasn’t part of PPCA, and apparently that includes swapping out popular songs for cheap cover versions. This is, of course, similar to what happened years ago with various music video games when record labels and bands demanded too much money to be in the games. Eventually, they figured out they were doing more harm to themselves by shutting themselves out of a market, but it’s not clear if the PPCA is ever going to realize that.

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  • Lake Tanganyika Warms





    I find the arguments trotted out here to be unconvincing.  In fact the proxy measures the lakes productivity and we are arguing that the control variable is temperature.  A far more important variable in the twentieth century must be local population which has steadily risen and surely surpasses anything over the past 1500 years.
    The information is valuable but the causation argument is at best specious.  Throw that away and we have an increasing impact of human development inducing productivity changes and that is hardly a surprise.  This looks like an international grant application written before Climategate and dreams of international funding to manage so called global warming.
    It is also a reminder of the extraordinary productivity of lakes in the tropics.
    Actually this reminds me that artificially inducing inversion is an excellent strategy for optimizing the productivity of these lakes.  It would also be far more practical to do just that here than on the open ocean.
    The idea is to induce the deep nutrient rich water to rise to the surface and blend with surface waters.  An artificial tube of neutral buoyancy can make that happen and once the flow is established, it should be self sustaining provided the tube is large enough to provide little friction or resistance to the flow.
    In this way the surface water productivity and volume can be strongly increased.  Perhaps air can also be injected into the base of these columns to assist in increasing the oxygen content of the lake.
    20th-Century Warming In Lake Tanganyika Is Unprecedented
    by Staff Writers
    Tucson AZ (SPX) May 25, 2010
    http://www.terradaily.com/reports/20th_Century_Warming_In_Lake_Tanganyika_Is_Unprecedented_999.html
    Lake Tanganyika’s surface waters are currently warmer than at any time in the previous 1,500 years, a University of Arizona researcher and his colleagues report online in Nature Geoscience.

    The rise in temperature during the 20th century is driving a decline in the productivity of the lake, which hosts the second-largest inland fishery in Africa.

    “People throughout south-central Africa depend on the fish from Lake Tanganyika as a crucial source of protein,” said study co-author Andrew S. Cohen, a UA professor of geosciences. “This resource is likely threatened by the lake’s unprecedented warming since the late 19th century and the associated loss of lake productivity.”

    This is the first detailed record of temperature and its impacts on a tropical African ecosystem that allows scientists to compare the last 100 years with the previous 1,400 years, Cohen said.

    The team attributes the lake’s increased temperature and the decreased productivity during the 20th century to human-caused global warming.

    “We’ve got a global phenomenon driving something local that has a huge potential impact on the people that live in the region and on the animals that live in the lake,” he said.

    The annual catch of the Lake Tanganyika fishery is estimated at about 198,000 tons per year, more than 20 times greater than the U.S. commercial fishery in the Great Lakes, he said. The nations of Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo border the lake, which is the longest lake in the world and the second deepest.

    The surface waters of Lake Tanganyika are the most biologically productive part of the lake. For the 1,400 years before 1900, those waters were no warmer than 75.7 F (24.3 degrees C). Since 1900, the lake’s surface waters warmed 3 degrees F, reaching 78.8 degrees F (26 degrees C) in 2003, the date of the researchers’ last measurement.

    The researchers used sediment cores from the lake bed to reconstruct the 1,500-year history of the lake. The scientists analyzed the cores for chemicals produced by microbes and left in the sediments to determine the lake’s past temperature and productivity.

    Because sediment is deposited in the lake in annual layers, the cores provide a detailed record of Lake Tanganyika‘s past temperatures and productivity and of the regional wildfires.

    The instrument record of lake temperatures from the 20th century agrees with the temperature analyses from the cores, Cohen said.

    The cores were extracted as part of the UA’s Nyanza Project, a research training program that brought together U.S. and African scientists and students to study tropical lakes. The National Science Foundation funded the project.

    “A big part of our mandate for the Nyanza Project was looking at the interconnectivity between climate, human activity, resources and biodiversity,” said Cohen, who directed the multi-year project.
    Lake Tanganyika and similar tropical lakes are divided into two general levels. Most of the fish and other organisms live in the upper 300 feet (about 100 meters). At depths below that, the lake waters contain less and less oxygen. Below approximately 600 feet, the lake water, although nutrient-rich, has no oxygen and fish cannot live there.

    During the region’s windy season, the winds make the lake’s surface waters slosh back and forth, mixing some of the deep water with the upper layers. This annual mixing resupplies the lake’s food web with nutrients and drives the lake’s productivity cycle, Cohen said.

    However, as Lake Tanganyika warms, the upper waters of the lake become less dense. Therefore, stronger winds are required to churn the lake waters enough to mix the deeper waters with the upper layer. As a result, the upper layers of the lake are becoming increasingly nutrient-poor, reducing the lake’s productivity.

    In addition, warmer water contains less dissolved oxygen, reducing the quality of the habitat for some fish species.

    Other lakes in Africa are showing similar effects to those the team found in Lake Tanganyika, he said.
    The finding has implications for lakes in more temperate climates.

    “Increasingly, lakes in the U.S. are warming and they’re behaving more like these African lakes,” Cohen said. “There’s a potential for learning a lot about where we’re going by seeing where those lakes already are.”

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  • NBA Update: Artest Buzzer Shot Gives LA Lakers Lead 3-2

    Beating the buzzer, Ron Artest, now a superstar, helped beat Phoenix Suns. The Los Angeles Lakers were seen in a difficult position after Kobe Bryant’s shot rebounded but Artest never left things hanging as his last second buzzer shot helped them for a clear win, with a score 103-101. The LA Lakers now have a lead of 3-2 in the Western Conference Finals.

    Even thought Bryant had scored 30 points with 11 rebounds and nine assists, in the last, Artest was to be tagged as the hero, even after the last scoring basket being just the second basket all night. The scoring basket was a rebound, being a difficult one by Bryant, but Artest quickly reacting rolled into the lane, grabbing the ball and throwing a hideous shot, which ended up scoring for the Lakers.

    “That was a Lucky Shot”, shouted Phoenix striker.

    Things changed at the Staples Center when opponent team’s Jason Richardson threw a three pointer with only 3.5 seconds to spare. The crowd was already angry as Artest missed the baskets quiet a few time as they shouted to ask him to spot shooting.

    But then after, Artest, had the whole stadium running his name. It was stunning and surely unbelievable as the buzzer rang with Artest’s ball inside the basket.

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    You’ve probably seen us talk about SmrtGuard before. It’s a great application which allows you to remotely backup important information off your device, as well track it if you loose it. Here’s a full rundown of SmrtGuard’s great features:

    • Remote OTA Backup (manual or scheduled) PIMs, Call logs, Emails
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    • Remote Data Wipe (including microSD)
    • Remote Tracking (lowjack) and Locating – see it on our companion website that comes with the account
    • Remote Listen – Listen to your thief or be a spy
    • Remote Lock
    • Remote Audio Ping (to help you find the device)
    • Personal Guardian (send out distress call with push of a button)
    • SIMCard Guardian – alert send out when unauthorized SIM is used (GSM based phone only)
    • Loved-one Tracking – Great for couples and families with smartphones to track each other

    Normally SmrtGuard’s Yearly Subscription would cost you $49.95, however to celebrate SmrtGuard’s 1st Birthday they are offering the yearly subscription at 50% off! This means today only you can grab a copy for $22.50! Simply follow the link below to get more details on the app or to purchase it.

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  • Fossilized Egg Shells Yield DNA

    I am optimistic that we are going to be able so substantially restore a wide range of presently extinct bird species wiped out over the past two centuries.  First of we actually have great collections of dried eggs collected by naturalists during those times.  This can provide the necessary DNA.  Thus while replicating older DNA will be a profound challenge, our lost Moa and Dodos and passenger pigeons are really the low hanging fruit.
    These can all be replicated and cloned out using skills already in place or presently soon to be available.  It is not a gimme but it is seemingly in striking range.
    We have a wide range of extinct birds that we want to see restored and present knowhow is telling us that it is all possible.
    Most of the chatter has been about dinosaurs and of course mammoths.  Yet we have inflicted real extinction on a wide range of critters ourselves just in the past two centuries. Restoring some of the populations seems reasonable and we may do a lot better this time.  Perhaps we can really discover just how the passenger pigeon got wiped out.
    Somehow we will not be restoring the North American locust anytime soon though.
    I also think that a lot of money and resources will be available.
    FOSSILIZED EGGSHELLS YIELD DNA
    These ancient DNA samples could open the door to cloning long-extinct species.
    By Jennifer Viegas Tue Mar 9, 2010
    http://news.discovery.com/animals/eggshells-fossils-dna.html
    DNA samples from the eggshells of extinct birds, like this elephant bird egg, could provide valuable insight into the evolutionary histories of a number of animal species.
    Natural History Museum, London 
    THE GIST:
    For the first time, scientists have successfully extracted DNA from fossilized eggshells.
    Since many of the eggshells belonged to extinct birds, it may now be possible to learn more about mysterious prehistoric species.
    Eggs retrieved from cold climates could lead to recovery of very ancient DNA.
    In a scientific breakthrough that opens a window to now-extinct animals from the prehistoric past, researchers have just successfully recovered DNA from several fossilized eggshells collected from Australia, New Zealand and Madagascar, according to a new study in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
    While dinosaur eggs remain a challenge, the scientists have already collected DNA for the largest bird that ever lived — the elephant bird Aepyornis — that stood around 10 feet tall and weighed around 880 pounds. Attempts to retrieve DNA from elephant bird bone previously failed, so eggshells may prove to be a more reliable source.
    In the future, everything from prehistoric penguin eggshells to those of tiny birds could be mined for DNA, particularly since few research limitations seem to exist.
    “Furthermore, we were able to isolate DNA from eggshells from three countries, each with very different climate conditions,” added Oskam, a researcher at Murdoch University‘s Ancient DNA Lab.
    She and her colleagues obtained DNA from extinct moas and ducks from New Zealand, extinct elephant birds from Madagascar, and an emu and owl from Australia. The oldest eggshell belonged to an emu that lived 19,000 years ago.
    Basic materials within eggshells — calcium carbonate and an organic matrix — break down very slowly, helping to explain why shells don’t compost well. The structure wards off decay, which protects contents right after the egg is first laid, but then facilitates preservation of the eggshell itself over millennia.
    Oskam explained that the “moa eggshell has 125 times lower microbial contamination when compared to moa bone. This highlights eggshells as an attractive substrate for ancient DNA work, especially whole genome studies.”
    She believes that reviving an extinct animal is unethical, so cloning of now-extinct birds is unlikely. She hopes, however, that the gathered genetic information might provide better evolutionary histories for extinct species. It could also enable researchers to non-invasively investigate the past biodiversity of many birds, including modern ones, like penguins.
    Oskam suspects eggs retrieved from cold environments, such as in the Arctic and Antarctica, could lead to “DNA of much greater antiquity.”
    Many dinosaur eggs have been found, including entire nests full of eggs. “It would be extremely exciting to extract DNA from a dinosaur egg,” Oskam added. But she also suspects that completely mineralized fossils, meaning those that have turned into rocks, pose challenges not yet possible to overcome.
    “Since the last dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, it is safe to say we are nowhere near approaching these sorts of ages,” she said.
    “It’s wonderful that nearly three decades after the first successful analysis of ‘ancient’ DNA, we are still discovering new sources of paleogenetic data,” Beth Shapiro, an assistant professor of biology at Pennsylvania State University, told Discovery News.
    “It’s particularly exciting that DNA appears to survive for a relatively long time in eggshells preserved in warm environments,” Shapiro added. “There is no doubt this discovery will expand both the geographic and taxonomic range of research in our field, and as such will make a considerable impact.”
    Oskam and her team are already using eggshells to study how people interacted with the giant moa when the Polynesians first came to New Zealand about 800 years ago. The large bird unfortunately may have been an easy dinner on legs, since it went extinct just 300 years later

  • STM type Junctions Harvest Solar Energy





    I think this is something we might get a bit excited about.   It appears to be a new and novel approach to collecting and converting solar energy into direct current.  Real world efficiency is not even attempted yet, but this promises to be interesting.
    The device concept started out as a rectifier and that is also important.
    What screams at me is the prospect of converting infrared into solar energy and generally broadening the consumed spectrum.  This can result in a gross jump in general solar cell energy efficiencies.  We always drew from too narrow a band of the spectrum and simply left most of the energy alone. This approach promises change.
    STM-type junctions harvest solar energy
    May 18, 2010
    http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/42620
    Researchers from Belgium, Korea and the US are investigating the possibility of using metal-vacuum-metal junctions of a type similar to those found in a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope to harvest solar energy. In the design, two metals are separated by a vacuum gap of a few nanometres. One metal is extended by a sharp tip, while the other is essentially flat.

    Optical diode: asymmetrical junction for rectifying solar radiation
    The group has found that these junctions can be used to rectify AC voltages for frequencies that go from the infrared up to the visible. This opens up the possibility of building optical diodes to couple photonic and electronic circuits. It also provides a solution for converting the energy of solar radiation into useful DC current.
    The rectification properties of the junctions considered in this work can be traced to their geometrical asymmetry. The electric field of the incident radiation is magnified by the sharp tip, which results in a significant circulation of current in the junction when the field is oriented downwards. The flat metal that faces the tip, however, does not magnify the field of the incident radiation and a smaller circulation of current is achieved when the field is oriented upwards. There is therefore a net flow of DC current when these junctions are subject to an oscillating field.
    This idea works as long as the electrons can cross the junction before the field present in the junction changes sign. When the gap spacing is of a few nanometres only, the time taken by electrons to cross the junction is of the order of a femtosecond (this is the typical estimate of tunnelling times). This makes it possible to rectify radiation with frequencies up to 1015 Hz.
    Simulation and analysis
    To explore the concept in more detail, the researchers performed quantum-mechanical simulations of asymmetric metal-vacuum-metal junctions. They considered the rectification of monochromatic radiation as well as the rectification of a full distribution of frequencies in order to simulate a focused beam of solar radiation. The scientists found that a significant rectification of incident radiation does indeed occur for frequencies ranging from the infrared up to the visible.
    The team also analysed the efficiency with which the energy of incident radiation is converted by the device. They obtained quantum efficiencies as high as 25% for this energy conversion and the results suggest that even better performances can be expected if larger protrusions are considered.
    The occurrence of polarization resonances in the tip also improves the rectification properties of the junction. Therefore, it appears that the dependence of these polarization resonances on the material and the physical dimensions of the tip could be used to control the frequencies at which the device is especially efficient for the energy conversion of electromagnetic radiation. This opens up the possibility to build diodes of the type presented in this study for the rectification and energy conversion of infrared and optical radiations.
    Further details can be found in Nanotechnology.
    About the author
    Dr Alexandre Mayer is a research associate in the Department of Physics at the University of Namur-FUNDP, Belgium. He is sponsored by the National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) of Belgium. Moon S Chung is professor of physics at the Ulsan University, Korea. Brock L Weiss is assistant professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University, US. Nicholas M Miskovsky and Paul H Cutler are professor Emeritus of physics at Pennsylvania State University. This work results from a long collaboration between these different authors. The numerical simulations discussed in this work were achieved using the Inter-university Scientific Computing Facility (ISCF) of Namur.

  • On Rupert’s iPad: Times, Sky TV Show Different Charging Approaches


    Rupert Murdoch with Times and Sky iPad apps

    The Times joined the Financial Times as the only national UK newspaper with a news app for iPad’s international launch Friday morning.

    Yes, it’s pay-for, but there’s an entirely different pricepoint from the new websites, which will soon charge £1 a day, £2 a week or free with print…

    It’s £9.99 every 28 days. But (and here’s where it may fall down) – these payments don’t link up with website payments. That means anyone who is paying to access the website must also pay the extra tenner a month for the same content on iPad, and vice versa.

    Now, this may well be a result of an inability to link Apple’s iTunes Store billing systems with News Corp.‘s own. But the Financial Times, which uses its own payment technology rather than Apple’s, has a platform-agnostic, pay-once strategy across its outlets.

    “It is a shame and I feel it is somewhat of a scam,” wrote one early iTunes Store reviewer. “I like the look and feel of the app but will definitely not purchase again unless this is changed.”

    A Times spokesperson tells us: “The Times iPad edition is a separate product to the new website, which is why it is priced differently. It is an edition of the paper edited and developed specifically for the iPad, which can be downloaded and read offline, for example.”

    Of course, if an iPad reader is not the same customer as a web reader, then this isn’t a problem – something everyone’s yet to find out as the device beds down.

    The Times’ iPad announcement today is accompanied by a story on how the iPad “may rewrite the future of newspapers”.

    Its iPad app comes with “editions” for updates; a screengrab shows its “11pm edition”. Just as with the new websites, the iPad editions retain a strong Times newspaper brand identity, without resorting to a lazy, page-turner replica. Users rate it 3.5/5. The paper has now taken its existing iPhone news apps off the store.

    Other UK newspapers have not embraced iPad’s international day one…

    —The Guardian, though its has a photojournalism app, says it has no iPad news app, despite Apple’s main advertising campaigns heavily featuring the Guardian.co.uk website.

    —There’s no evident Daily Express app, despite that paper’s early promise to release one.

    —The Metro freesheet is due to release an app.

    —Telegraph.co.uk was saying nothing either way yesterday, perhaps suggesting an upcoming release.

    —At least the Cheshire-based Congleton Chronicle is in full force, rolled out on the iPad version of Exact Editions’ existing iPhone app.

    Elsewhere in News Corp (NYSE: NWS). BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has updated its Sky Mobile TV iPhone app for iPad, with a hefty price premium…

    Whilst the iPhone app costs just £6-a-month to non-Sky TV customers, for live Sky Sports channels, Sky Sports News and Sky News, the iPad app asks non-TV customers £35 a month and for TV customers to pay an extra £6.

    This strategy is clearly designed to drive subscriptions to the satellite pay-TV service as a whole, rather than to consider the iPad in isolation. The app also uses in-house billing technology rather than iPhone OS’ auto-renewals.

    But Sky Mobile TV at least ventures a multi-platform charging mechanism that The Times has not managed to deploy. The equivalent, for The Times, would have been to charge £10 a month, or even more, to non-subscribed readers, but to drop or reduce the charge for website subscribers. Still, News International is being pretty upfront that models may change as it learns over the course of time.


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  • Shannon Price’s Husband in Critical Condition

    Shannon Price’s husband, former child star Gary Coleman is hospitalized and in critical condition. He is in a “serious medical problem” according to his family.

    Gary Coleman, 42 years old, was admitted in Utah Valley Regional Medical Center to the Provo facility Wednesday after going through surgery for head trauma. He got in a fall from his home in Santaquin, 55 miles south of Salt Lake City. The family did not want to release further details about the Gary’s current condition.



    Shannon Price and her father released a statement to KUTV-TV on Thursday and said that Gary Coleman was taken to the hospital and ask for prayers from supporters saying, “we hope those prayers are answered and that Gary will be able to recover and return home soon.”

    This is the third time for Gary Coleman to be hospitalized this year. First he suffered seizures that occurred during a TV interview on the Insider. He also had a heart surgery last fall and that the surgery became complicated due to pneumonia. He is suffering with a kidney disease.

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