as the blog says at the beginning "growing, discerning, evolving and creating a new existence in this world that is coming to a close"
and with this in mind this blog will use the cloaking device and morph into
http://newdawn-now.blogspot.com/
which I will be starting with the new Large Hedron Collider going on it's maiden run on 10/09/08 (looks like a count down happening here)
Enjoy the new blog, the new start. Lets see where we are led...
Monday, 8 September 2008
No sunspots for a month
In the recent article highlighting the historical event of zero sunspots for one full month, does point to a very important consequence. This recent event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity, which determines the number of sunspots, is an influencing factor for climate on Earth. According to data from Mount Wilson Observatory, UCLA, more than an entire month has passed without a spot. The last time such an event occurred was June of 1913. Sunspot data has been collected since 1749.When the Sun is active, it is not uncommon to see sunspot numbers of 100 or more in a single month. Every 11 years, activity slows, and numbers briefly drop to near-zero. Normally sunspots return very quickly, as a new cycle begins. But this year, which corresponds to the start of Solar Cycle 24, has been extraordinarily long and quiet, with the first seven months averaging a sunspot number of only 3. August followed with none at all. The astonishing rapid drop of the past year has defied predictions, and caught nearly all astronomers by surprise.
Friday, 22 August 2008
Practical Cloaking Devices
Invisibility cloaks get a step closer to realization, with the demonstration of a new material that can bend (visible) light the 'wrong' way for the first time in three dimensions. In Nature this week, researchers report a metamaterial that produces negative refraction of visible light, and show that it can be can be easily probed from free space, paving the way for practical optical device applications. Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures that have properties, such as negative refractive index, not attainable with naturally occurring materials. Only thin, effectively two-dimensional materials have been demonstrated until now, limiting practical applications.Jason Valentine, Xiang Zhang and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley create a multilayered, ‘fishnet’ structure which unambiguously exhibits negative refractive index. (PhysOrg.com)
Shown is a schematic and two scanning electron microscope images with top and side views of a metamaterial developed by UC Berkeley researchers. The material is composed of parallel nanowires embedded inside porous aluminum oxide. As visible light passes through the material, it is bent backwards in a phenomenon known as negative refraction.
Shown is a schematic and two scanning electron microscope images with top and side views of a metamaterial developed by UC Berkeley researchers. The material is composed of parallel nanowires embedded inside porous aluminum oxide. As visible light passes through the material, it is bent backwards in a phenomenon known as negative refraction.
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
scientists know we are not from 'here'
Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call "Mum" and "Dad" and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopted! This same sense of shock came as scientists announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy, but we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy!
How can this be? Using volumes of data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a major project to survey the sky in infrared light led by the University of Massachusetts, the astronomers are answering questions that have baffled scientists for decades and proving that our own Milky Way is consuming one of its neighbors in a dramatic display of ongoing galactic cannibalism. The study published in the Astrophysical Journal, is the first to map the full extent of the Sagittarius galaxy and show in visually vivid detail how its debris wraps around and passes through our Milky Way. Sagittarius is 10,000 times smaller in mass than the Milky Way, so it is getting stretched out, torn apart and gobbled up by the bigger Milky Way.A new infra red digital survey of the entire sky was made in 2003. Teams from the universities of Virginia and Massachusetts used a supercomputer to sort through half a billion stars to create a -- NEW STAR MAP showing our Solar System (yellow circle) to be at the exact nexus crossroads where two galaxies are actually joining. "It's clear who's the bully in the interaction," said Steven Majewski, U.Va. professor of astronomy and lead author on the paper describing the results. "If people had infrared-sensitive eyes, the entrails of Sagittarius would be a prominent fixture sweeping across our sky," Majewski said. "But at human, visual wavelengths, they become buried among countless intervening stars and obscuring dust. The great expanse of the Sagittarius system has been hidden from view." Not any more. By using infrared maps, the astronomers filtered away millions of foreground stars to focus on a type of star called an M giant. These large, infrared-bright stars are populous in the Sagittarius galaxy but uncommon in the outer Milky Way. The 2MASS infrared map of M giant stars analyzed by Majewski and collaborators is the first to give a complete view of the Milky Way galaxy's meal of Sagittarius stars, now wrapping like a spaghetti noodle around the Milky Way. Prior to this work, astronomers had detected only a few scattered pieces of the disrupted Sagittarius dwarf. Even the existence of Sagittarius was unknown until the heart of this nearest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way was discovered by a British team of astronomers in 1994. The fact that the Milky Way is seen in the sky at an angle has always puzzled astronomers. If we originated from the Milky Way, we ought to be oriented to the galaxy's ecliptic, with the planets aligned around our Sun in much the same angle as our Sun aligns with the Milky Way. Instead, as first suggested by researcher Matthew Perkins Erwin, the odd angle suggests that our Sun is influenced by some other system. Together with data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey we now know what it is. We actually belong to the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy."We sifted several thousand interesting stars from a catalog of half a billion," said co-author Michael Skrutskie, U.Va. professor of astronomy and principal investigator for the 2MASS project. "By tuning our maps of the sky to the 'right' kind of star, the Sagittarius system jumped into view." The study's map of M giants depicts 2 billion years of Sagittarius stripping by the Milky Way, and suggests that Sagittarius has reached a critical phase in what had been a slow dance of death. "After slow, continuous gnawing by the Milky Way, Sagittarius has been whittled down to the point that it cannot hold itself together much longer," said 2MASS Science Team member and study co-author Martin Weinberg of the University of Massachusetts. "We are seeing Sagittarius at the very end of its life as an intact system." Does this mean we are at a unique moment in the life of our galaxy? Yes and no. "Whenever possible, astronomers appeal to the principle that we are not at a special time or place in the universe," Majewski said. "Because over the 14 million-year history of the Milky Way it is unlikely that we would just happen to catch a brief event like the death of Sagittarius, we infer that such events must be common in the life of big spiral galaxies like our own. The Milky Way probably dined on a number of dwarf galaxy snacks in the past." On the other hand, Majewski and his colleagues have been surprised by the Earth's proximity to a portion of the Sagittarius debris. "For only a few percent of its 240 million-year orbit around the Milky Way galaxy does our Solar System pass through the path of Sagittarius debris," Majewski said. "Remarkably, stars from Sagittarius are now raining down onto our present position in the Milky Way. Stars from an alien galaxy are relatively near us. We have to re-think our assumptions about the Milky Way galaxy to account for this contamination." The new findings will help astronomers measure the total mass of the Milky Way and Sagittarius galaxies, and probe the quantity and distribution of the invisible dark matter in these systems."The shape of the Sagittarius debris trail shows us that the Milky Way's unseen dark matter is in a spherical distribution, a result that is quite unexpected," Weinberg said. "The observations provide new insights into the nature of the mysterious dark matter," said Princeton's Spergel. "Either our galaxy is unusual or the dark matter has richer properties than postulated by conventional models." are there implications in Global Warming?
It has been postulated that this is the real reason for both global warming since higher energy levels of the Milky Way are almost certain to cause our Sun to burn hotter and emit higher energies. Indeed, temperatures have been seen to rise on virtually all the planets in our system. This seems quite apart from any local phenomenon like greenhouse gases etc.This grand turning is possibly the root cause for the discontinuation of the Mayan calendar (the most accurate on the planet) because the 'read-point' of the Pleiades star cluster, which many believe the calendar was based upon, can no longer be a constant as we begin to steer away from the earlier predictable movements.
What does it all mean? We of the overarching Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy have finally come down next to, and even with the massively powerful spiral armed equatorial plane of the Milky Way Galaxy. In our movement through space, our Earth has now fully begun to respond to the more powerful galactic energies and electro-gravitational bias of the massive Milky Way. We have reached the higher energy equatorial disc region of the massive spiral arm. We have now been "adopted" by a new system, a stronger and more powerful system, and we can expect changes on almost every level of energy. Whatever these changes are, they are all part of the natural birth, death, rebirth and transformation of the cosmos. As our knowledge of the universe grows, we cannot but understand how much we do not understand. Such is life.
A new infra red digital survey of the entire sky was made in 2003. Teams from the universities of Virginia and Massachusetts used a supercomputer to sort through half a billion stars to create a -- NEW STAR MAP showing our Solar System (yellow circle) to be at the exact nexus crossroads where two galaxies are actually joining.
Summary & comments by Dan Eden for Viewzone
How can this be? Using volumes of data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a major project to survey the sky in infrared light led by the University of Massachusetts, the astronomers are answering questions that have baffled scientists for decades and proving that our own Milky Way is consuming one of its neighbors in a dramatic display of ongoing galactic cannibalism. The study published in the Astrophysical Journal, is the first to map the full extent of the Sagittarius galaxy and show in visually vivid detail how its debris wraps around and passes through our Milky Way. Sagittarius is 10,000 times smaller in mass than the Milky Way, so it is getting stretched out, torn apart and gobbled up by the bigger Milky Way.A new infra red digital survey of the entire sky was made in 2003. Teams from the universities of Virginia and Massachusetts used a supercomputer to sort through half a billion stars to create a -- NEW STAR MAP showing our Solar System (yellow circle) to be at the exact nexus crossroads where two galaxies are actually joining. "It's clear who's the bully in the interaction," said Steven Majewski, U.Va. professor of astronomy and lead author on the paper describing the results. "If people had infrared-sensitive eyes, the entrails of Sagittarius would be a prominent fixture sweeping across our sky," Majewski said. "But at human, visual wavelengths, they become buried among countless intervening stars and obscuring dust. The great expanse of the Sagittarius system has been hidden from view." Not any more. By using infrared maps, the astronomers filtered away millions of foreground stars to focus on a type of star called an M giant. These large, infrared-bright stars are populous in the Sagittarius galaxy but uncommon in the outer Milky Way. The 2MASS infrared map of M giant stars analyzed by Majewski and collaborators is the first to give a complete view of the Milky Way galaxy's meal of Sagittarius stars, now wrapping like a spaghetti noodle around the Milky Way. Prior to this work, astronomers had detected only a few scattered pieces of the disrupted Sagittarius dwarf. Even the existence of Sagittarius was unknown until the heart of this nearest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way was discovered by a British team of astronomers in 1994. The fact that the Milky Way is seen in the sky at an angle has always puzzled astronomers. If we originated from the Milky Way, we ought to be oriented to the galaxy's ecliptic, with the planets aligned around our Sun in much the same angle as our Sun aligns with the Milky Way. Instead, as first suggested by researcher Matthew Perkins Erwin, the odd angle suggests that our Sun is influenced by some other system. Together with data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey we now know what it is. We actually belong to the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy."We sifted several thousand interesting stars from a catalog of half a billion," said co-author Michael Skrutskie, U.Va. professor of astronomy and principal investigator for the 2MASS project. "By tuning our maps of the sky to the 'right' kind of star, the Sagittarius system jumped into view." The study's map of M giants depicts 2 billion years of Sagittarius stripping by the Milky Way, and suggests that Sagittarius has reached a critical phase in what had been a slow dance of death. "After slow, continuous gnawing by the Milky Way, Sagittarius has been whittled down to the point that it cannot hold itself together much longer," said 2MASS Science Team member and study co-author Martin Weinberg of the University of Massachusetts. "We are seeing Sagittarius at the very end of its life as an intact system." Does this mean we are at a unique moment in the life of our galaxy? Yes and no. "Whenever possible, astronomers appeal to the principle that we are not at a special time or place in the universe," Majewski said. "Because over the 14 million-year history of the Milky Way it is unlikely that we would just happen to catch a brief event like the death of Sagittarius, we infer that such events must be common in the life of big spiral galaxies like our own. The Milky Way probably dined on a number of dwarf galaxy snacks in the past." On the other hand, Majewski and his colleagues have been surprised by the Earth's proximity to a portion of the Sagittarius debris. "For only a few percent of its 240 million-year orbit around the Milky Way galaxy does our Solar System pass through the path of Sagittarius debris," Majewski said. "Remarkably, stars from Sagittarius are now raining down onto our present position in the Milky Way. Stars from an alien galaxy are relatively near us. We have to re-think our assumptions about the Milky Way galaxy to account for this contamination." The new findings will help astronomers measure the total mass of the Milky Way and Sagittarius galaxies, and probe the quantity and distribution of the invisible dark matter in these systems."The shape of the Sagittarius debris trail shows us that the Milky Way's unseen dark matter is in a spherical distribution, a result that is quite unexpected," Weinberg said. "The observations provide new insights into the nature of the mysterious dark matter," said Princeton's Spergel. "Either our galaxy is unusual or the dark matter has richer properties than postulated by conventional models." are there implications in Global Warming?
It has been postulated that this is the real reason for both global warming since higher energy levels of the Milky Way are almost certain to cause our Sun to burn hotter and emit higher energies. Indeed, temperatures have been seen to rise on virtually all the planets in our system. This seems quite apart from any local phenomenon like greenhouse gases etc.This grand turning is possibly the root cause for the discontinuation of the Mayan calendar (the most accurate on the planet) because the 'read-point' of the Pleiades star cluster, which many believe the calendar was based upon, can no longer be a constant as we begin to steer away from the earlier predictable movements.
What does it all mean? We of the overarching Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy have finally come down next to, and even with the massively powerful spiral armed equatorial plane of the Milky Way Galaxy. In our movement through space, our Earth has now fully begun to respond to the more powerful galactic energies and electro-gravitational bias of the massive Milky Way. We have reached the higher energy equatorial disc region of the massive spiral arm. We have now been "adopted" by a new system, a stronger and more powerful system, and we can expect changes on almost every level of energy. Whatever these changes are, they are all part of the natural birth, death, rebirth and transformation of the cosmos. As our knowledge of the universe grows, we cannot but understand how much we do not understand. Such is life.
A new infra red digital survey of the entire sky was made in 2003. Teams from the universities of Virginia and Massachusetts used a supercomputer to sort through half a billion stars to create a -- NEW STAR MAP showing our Solar System (yellow circle) to be at the exact nexus crossroads where two galaxies are actually joining.
Summary & comments by Dan Eden for Viewzone
Friday, 8 August 2008
08.08.08
Hi everyone
just wanted to bring to your attention that today is the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the new millennium.
If you add 8+8+2+8 it comes to, yes you guessed it 8!!
note what this day brings your way and your response.
Sending you love
just wanted to bring to your attention that today is the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the new millennium.
If you add 8+8+2+8 it comes to, yes you guessed it 8!!
note what this day brings your way and your response.
Sending you love
Friday, 25 July 2008
Codex Sinaiticus, the world's oldest Bible, goes online
How wonderful is this?!
Almost 1700 years after scribes in the Holy Land first created it from vellum, one of the world’s oldest Bibles this week makes its debut on the internet. The Codex Sinaiticus is a complete transcription of Christian scriptures in Greek, written by scribes around 350AD. Together with another work, the Codex Vaticanus, it is considered the oldest known Bible in the world. From Thursday, high definition images of the Codex will be available online to all as the first part of a project led by the British Library comes to fruition. According to the library,the Codex is “a treasure beyond price”. “Within its beautifully handwritten Greek text are the earliest surviving copy of the complete New Testament, and the earliest and best copies of some of the Jewish scriptures.” More than 100 pages of the Bible will go
online on Thursday, including 67 from the British Library and dozens from the University of Leipzig.Within the next year pages will be added to the Codex website as digitisers scan more of its intricately inscribed vellum sheets. Since it was discovered in Egypt more than 150 years ago by a German scripture expert,pages from the Codex have found their way to London,St Petersburg and Leipzig. The remainder is still held by St Catherine’s monastery in Sinai, Egypt, where scholar Constantine Tischendorf unearthed it in 1844.Tischendorf returned with parts of the Codex to Leipzig and then presented Russia’s Tsar Nicolas II with much of it in 1869. Half a century later Josef Stalin, the Russian dictator, sold 694 pages to the British Library. The entire Codex comprises 1460 pages. In 2005, a £650,000 digitisation project was launched to reunite the far-flung sections of the Codex. Now, according to Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Leipzig’s library curator, “more than 100 pages, those from Leipzig and 67 from the British Library, will be available online at www.codex-sinaiticus.net.”
By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/2439897/Codex-Sinaiticu\
s%2C-the-worldandrsquos-oldest-Bible%2C-goes-online.html
Almost 1700 years after scribes in the Holy Land first created it from vellum, one of the world’s oldest Bibles this week makes its debut on the internet. The Codex Sinaiticus is a complete transcription of Christian scriptures in Greek, written by scribes around 350AD. Together with another work, the Codex Vaticanus, it is considered the oldest known Bible in the world. From Thursday, high definition images of the Codex will be available online to all as the first part of a project led by the British Library comes to fruition. According to the library,the Codex is “a treasure beyond price”. “Within its beautifully handwritten Greek text are the earliest surviving copy of the complete New Testament, and the earliest and best copies of some of the Jewish scriptures.” More than 100 pages of the Bible will go
online on Thursday, including 67 from the British Library and dozens from the University of Leipzig.Within the next year pages will be added to the Codex website as digitisers scan more of its intricately inscribed vellum sheets. Since it was discovered in Egypt more than 150 years ago by a German scripture expert,pages from the Codex have found their way to London,St Petersburg and Leipzig. The remainder is still held by St Catherine’s monastery in Sinai, Egypt, where scholar Constantine Tischendorf unearthed it in 1844.Tischendorf returned with parts of the Codex to Leipzig and then presented Russia’s Tsar Nicolas II with much of it in 1869. Half a century later Josef Stalin, the Russian dictator, sold 694 pages to the British Library. The entire Codex comprises 1460 pages. In 2005, a £650,000 digitisation project was launched to reunite the far-flung sections of the Codex. Now, according to Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Leipzig’s library curator, “more than 100 pages, those from Leipzig and 67 from the British Library, will be available online at www.codex-sinaiticus.net.”
By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/2439897/Codex-Sinaiticu\
s%2C-the-worldandrsquos-oldest-Bible%2C-goes-online.html
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
World Youth Day
well, what an incredible time we are in. I know I have said this before but I just must stress this again. Here in Australia we have hit economically difficult times with this and that plummeting, shares loosing ground, property on an all time low ebb and petrol prices like no one's business. Just like America, Europe and Asia our financial situation is being dampened.
But what's this? Pilgrims, from around the world converging on Sydney, bringing traffic to a gridlock. Rejoicing, jubilation in the streets. What intense and immense positive energy from 150,000 participants in World Youth Day.
This positive energy is bound to upstage the negativity and doom and gloom that is being taunted by the media. Even Pope Benedict XVI who arrived in Sydney for the first time yesterday looks happy!
I will quote a few lines that were said at the opening of the WYD by PM Kevin Rudd which ring true and encouraging:
He said the young pilgrims were "so much the light of the world at a time when the world has so much darkness". "Too often in the history of the world, when young people travel in great number to other parts of the world, they do so in the cause of war, but you here today are here as pilgrims of peace.
and from Dr Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney these words: "Don't spend your life sitting on the fence, keeping your options open, because only commitments bring fulfillment.
Such positivity and exhuberance is so terrific and can plant a positive outcome for a nation when times are getting tough.
But what's this? Pilgrims, from around the world converging on Sydney, bringing traffic to a gridlock. Rejoicing, jubilation in the streets. What intense and immense positive energy from 150,000 participants in World Youth Day.
This positive energy is bound to upstage the negativity and doom and gloom that is being taunted by the media. Even Pope Benedict XVI who arrived in Sydney for the first time yesterday looks happy!
I will quote a few lines that were said at the opening of the WYD by PM Kevin Rudd which ring true and encouraging:
He said the young pilgrims were "so much the light of the world at a time when the world has so much darkness". "Too often in the history of the world, when young people travel in great number to other parts of the world, they do so in the cause of war, but you here today are here as pilgrims of peace.
and from Dr Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney these words: "Don't spend your life sitting on the fence, keeping your options open, because only commitments bring fulfillment.
Such positivity and exhuberance is so terrific and can plant a positive outcome for a nation when times are getting tough.
Telecommunications probs
Is this actually related to the tandem asteroids passing earth at the closest point today July 15? Just ponder...
Queensland is experiencing major communication problems with the entire Optus phone and internet out of action.Optus is blaming the major outage on damage to a fibre optic cable on the Gold Coast. The failure is creating major hardship for business and customers across the State.Brisbane Airports International and Domestic Terminals are also affected, with flight delays of up to an hour. The outage is causing problems for the check-in and baggage handling systems. Queensland Health says it is experiencing major problems as a result of the outage with staff unable to communicate via email, mobile or landline.It is advising customers experiencing problems contacting their local health for MINOR inquires to phone 131-HEALTH.Any life threatening calls should be directed to 000.
Queensland is experiencing major communication problems with the entire Optus phone and internet out of action.Optus is blaming the major outage on damage to a fibre optic cable on the Gold Coast. The failure is creating major hardship for business and customers across the State.Brisbane Airports International and Domestic Terminals are also affected, with flight delays of up to an hour. The outage is causing problems for the check-in and baggage handling systems. Queensland Health says it is experiencing major problems as a result of the outage with staff unable to communicate via email, mobile or landline.It is advising customers experiencing problems contacting their local health for MINOR inquires to phone 131-HEALTH.Any life threatening calls should be directed to 000.
Strange rock
This strange rock found near Roswell by a local businessman — inscribed with what appears to be “crop circles” or some intergalactic message — has stimulated a huge amount interest, as experts probe its origins and any message it may bear.
A strange rock with unusual magnetic properties - deeply scored, with what appears to be moon phases, a solar eclipse and the depiction of a supernova -- has been unearthed on the outskirts of Roswell. Its discovery has startled researchers, scientists and all who have examined it.If proven to be of extraterrestrial origin, it will mark the second time in less than a century that the Roswell area has received communications from outer space.Roswell Mayor Sam D. LaGrone, who actually saw and touched the rock over the weekend, said, "It is a very strange looking rock.... I touched it, I felt it, and I just don't see how it could have been produced."The rock, he said, adds another element to "the strangeness of Roswell," 61 years after the purported 1947 UFO crash and alleged cover-up by military authorities.The deep wine-red colored rock, measuring less than two inches across, and weighing about 40 grams, was unearthed in September 2004 by Roswell businessman Robert Ridge, 50 , who said he found it while deer hunting in Cedar Hill, 17 miles "as the crow flies" from the 1947 purported UFO crash site."I saw some fresh tracks and followed them," he said. "That's when I noticed the partially exposed rock on the side of a sand pit. But I didn't pick it up at first because I thought there were deer up ahead, and didn't want to break off the pursuit."When he realized the tracks were just goat tracks, he headed back the way he came, picked up the rock, and put it in his pocket, he said.After showing the rock to family and friends, he decided to keep it in a safe deposit box until last year, when curiosity to discover the truth about it got the better of him."In July 2007, I was introduced to UFO investigators Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer, and they were astounded at what they saw," he said.Zulkowski said the investigators where so impressed, they presented the rock to a number of experts, including prominent New Mexico anthropologists, "all of whom claimed they had never seen anything like it.""They said there is no way this rock could have been scored or drilled in the way it was, without sophisticated modern equipment, like lasers and high speed water-fed grinders and drills," Zukowski said.
The artifact's image appears to be literally "pulled" from the surface of the red iron ore rock.Apart from its strange appearance, Zukowski said, the rock has "peculiar" magnetic properties."It retains its magnetic polarity by which it will spin a compass needle and register its magnetic field on meters," he said. The oval rock will also spin, depending on the position of a magnet over the image surface, he added.Zukowski and Ziegelmeyer said that archeologists requested that the rock be submitted for further laboratory analysis, in what they describe as phase two of their investigation.One anthropologist reportedly described the rock as being similar to a "lodestone."Lodestones have been mentioned in literature for centuries as having magical and mystical properties. There are ancient accounts of people reporting that when holding lodestones, their hands and body shook, and that the stones cured a wide range of illnesses, including snake bites and headaches.Native Americans reportedly used lodestones as protection against snakes.Meanwhile, investigators claim the artifact mirrors crop circles that appeared in Liddleton, England, in 1996, indicating a possibility the stone bears a message from space.Priscilla Wolf, of Tijeras, a native American woman known to have "powers," visited the site were the rock was found last weekend, and said she felt a vibration in her hands when she held the rock, and that "light came down from the skies" when the rock was deposited at the site.Although the rock was found partially exposed on the surface, Zukowski said, the sandy area in which it was found is known to erode and shift, possibly uncovering the rock."It appeared to have been buried at one time," said Ridge, who believes the rock represents more than just an interesting object."After I had it a few months, I began to think about it and began to think that it may be a beacon of some kind, or a message," he said."And I believe the message is that if we don't learn to get along with each other, we will be destroyed," he said.
Lucy Pringles photo of a cropcircle in Aug 1996 said to be two suns, crescent moon and a supernova behind them. Both the rock and the crop circle look the same to me. Picture repeated loud and clear, all that's needed now is the correct discifering of it's meaning
Tandem asteriods
What at first was thought by scientists to be a good-sized asteroid currently hurtling past Earth has turned out to be two giant rocks in tandem.The setup, catalogued as 2008 BT18, was thought to be nearly a half-mile wide after its discovery by MIT's LINEAR search program in January. Nothing else was known about it.
Now seen as two objects orbiting each other, the pair will be closest to Earth on July 14, at about 1.4 million miles (2 million kilometers) away. That's nearly six times as far from us as the moon.It will not strike the planet. But scientists want to learn more about binary asteroids because one day they might find one headed our way. Deflecting a binary off course could be considerably more challenging that altering the path of a single rock.Radar observations from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico on July 6 and 7 "clearly show two objects," said Lance Benner of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.The objects are estimated to be 1,970 feet (600 meters) and 650 feet (200 meters) in diameter. The larger one rotates upon its axis in 3 hours or less.Additional observations from NASA's Goldstone radar in the Mojave Desert in California are expected to reveal more about the density, shapes and orbit of the pair.Asteroids are often loose rubble piles rather than solid objects, and pairs are common. Scientists announced earlier this month that binaries can be created when energy from sunlight splits a loose asteroid in two.Source:Xinhua/Agencies
Now seen as two objects orbiting each other, the pair will be closest to Earth on July 14, at about 1.4 million miles (2 million kilometers) away. That's nearly six times as far from us as the moon.It will not strike the planet. But scientists want to learn more about binary asteroids because one day they might find one headed our way. Deflecting a binary off course could be considerably more challenging that altering the path of a single rock.Radar observations from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico on July 6 and 7 "clearly show two objects," said Lance Benner of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.The objects are estimated to be 1,970 feet (600 meters) and 650 feet (200 meters) in diameter. The larger one rotates upon its axis in 3 hours or less.Additional observations from NASA's Goldstone radar in the Mojave Desert in California are expected to reveal more about the density, shapes and orbit of the pair.Asteroids are often loose rubble piles rather than solid objects, and pairs are common. Scientists announced earlier this month that binaries can be created when energy from sunlight splits a loose asteroid in two.Source:Xinhua/Agencies
Saturday, 28 June 2008
I love Paris
Shields around the Metro entrance at The Lourve
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Ceiling at the Palace of Versai
Red Geraniums in a window box, how French
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Mind over matter
Most people believe they will die from some disease.weather its cancer or heart disease.Here's the irony - of course, they will! Two hundred years ago, this was not a way of thinking. Cancer and heart disease are relatively 'modern' ills.
Long life is not in our 'genes' - it's in our perceptions.
This, from Dr. Bruce Lipton:
"Brace yourselves, for we are in for a wild ride. Frontier research in cell biology has finally acknowledged the mechanisms by which perception controls behavior, selects genes and can even lead to a rewriting of the genome. Rather than being the victims of our genes, we have been the victims of our perceptions. We are on the verge of a most radical and most wonderful upheaval of human civilization."
Many researchers now give credit to negativity and stress as contributors, if not actual 'causes' of the majority of disease states, especially in people under 80 years of age.
If you were to change your beliefs? Could you change your physiology, down to the cellular matrix? That is what I am working on. That is my intention.
Currently those who want to be fit and healthy focus first on exercise, second on nutrition and last, if at all, on our state of mind. The reality is the other way around, that is: MIND MEALS MOTION. In that order.
This article is according to Jon Benson Author of 7 Minute Muscle and Fit Over 40
Long life is not in our 'genes' - it's in our perceptions.
This, from Dr. Bruce Lipton:
"Brace yourselves, for we are in for a wild ride. Frontier research in cell biology has finally acknowledged the mechanisms by which perception controls behavior, selects genes and can even lead to a rewriting of the genome. Rather than being the victims of our genes, we have been the victims of our perceptions. We are on the verge of a most radical and most wonderful upheaval of human civilization."
Many researchers now give credit to negativity and stress as contributors, if not actual 'causes' of the majority of disease states, especially in people under 80 years of age.
If you were to change your beliefs? Could you change your physiology, down to the cellular matrix? That is what I am working on. That is my intention.
Currently those who want to be fit and healthy focus first on exercise, second on nutrition and last, if at all, on our state of mind. The reality is the other way around, that is: MIND MEALS MOTION. In that order.
This article is according to Jon Benson Author of 7 Minute Muscle and Fit Over 40
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Man's heart stopped for over an hour
The case of a man whose heart stopped beating for one and a half hours only to revive just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants, is fuelling ethical debates in France about when a person is dead.The 45-year-old man suffered a massive heart attack and rescuers used cardiac massage to try and revive him without success before transferring him to a nearby hospital.Due to a series of complex circumstances, revival efforts continued for longer than usual for a patient whose heart was not responding to treatment, until doctors started preparations to remove organs.It was at that point that the astonished surgeons noticed the man was beginning to breathe unaided again, his pupils were active, he was giving signs that he could feel pain - and finally, his heart started beating again.Several weeks later, the man can walk and talk."This situation was a striking illustration of the questions that remain in the field of re-animation ... and what criteria can be used to determine that a re-animation has failed," says a report on the case, published online by an ethics committee.
The case has stirred debate among medical professionals and daily newspaper Le Monde dedicated a full page to the subject under the headline: "The organ donor wasn't dead.""What is under consideration here is the status of a person, whether they are a patient who can be re-animated or a potential (organ) donor," said the ethics committee report.The hospital where the man was treated is one of only nine in France that are allowed to perform organ transplants on patients in cardiac arrest, in very specific conditions, under a pilot program launched in 2007. Elsewhere, organ transplants are possible on other categories of patients under older rules.The program, which was approved by the French agency in charge of bio-ethics, aims to help reduce the number of people waiting for a transplant by making it possible to take organs from new categories of patients.
The committee, made up of medical professionals involved in the revival of heart attack patients as well as organ transplants, held lengthy discussions on the case of the man on February 19 and a summary was later published on the AP-HP website.
"During the meeting, other re-animators ... spoke of situations in which a person whom everyone was sure had died in fact survived after re-animation efforts that went on much longer than usual," say the minutes of the committee meeting.
The case has stirred debate among medical professionals and daily newspaper Le Monde dedicated a full page to the subject under the headline: "The organ donor wasn't dead.""What is under consideration here is the status of a person, whether they are a patient who can be re-animated or a potential (organ) donor," said the ethics committee report.The hospital where the man was treated is one of only nine in France that are allowed to perform organ transplants on patients in cardiac arrest, in very specific conditions, under a pilot program launched in 2007. Elsewhere, organ transplants are possible on other categories of patients under older rules.The program, which was approved by the French agency in charge of bio-ethics, aims to help reduce the number of people waiting for a transplant by making it possible to take organs from new categories of patients.
The committee, made up of medical professionals involved in the revival of heart attack patients as well as organ transplants, held lengthy discussions on the case of the man on February 19 and a summary was later published on the AP-HP website.
"During the meeting, other re-animators ... spoke of situations in which a person whom everyone was sure had died in fact survived after re-animation efforts that went on much longer than usual," say the minutes of the committee meeting.
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
astrological happenings May to August 2008
During this time we will be experiencing a feeling of intensity, energetically for some this maybe a painful experience and for others a very enlightening time.It is a time of searching for Truth, enabling one to find “The Light of God/our Presence within”.It may feel like a right of passage, to the next level of consciousness; open to those who allow themselves to just be in the moment, being witness to the mechanisms of life, understanding that the drama is the stage show, and the production being a catalyst and the vehicle we sometimes need in order to enable us to awaken within, remembering who we truly are. And sometimes it feels as though it takes everything we have inside us, to really stop and dive down deeply internally, this can feel like a journey into the darkness in order to find the Light once again.
Transitioning through the essence of love through outer realms, surrendering to compassion while entering a wounding point being the healer and the healed and by doing so entering the reaping of past actions.Is this an activation of an awakening throughout the Collective, for it is only when we are fully conscious and bearing witness to what we are actually doing and have actually done in the past, our his-story that this healing of our great planet as a Collective can take place. We will be forced to look at and take responsibility for what we have been doing to our planet.Being a Taurus this astrological formation will be felt pysically/emotionally.
There is another very important thing happening astrologically right now as Saturn has just started its journey through the sign of Virgo and will remain in this sign until late July 2010.Saturn is considered the Lord of Karma and represents the gatekeeper who holds the keys and will not let us through until we have passed the testing ground. Testing us with all our lessons learned and represents dharma or cosmic order, and our work on this earthly plane through our responsibilities and obligations before we are allowed to ascend to a higher level. He is Lord of restriction, self-discipline and boundaries and structure, he can take away and deplete as easily as creating foundations to something, he is long term and represents the old wise man/wise old Owl.Virgo represents the Mythological figure Demeter who is the ruler of the seasons and is the goddess of our crops, grains and harvest. She represents the goddess of the earth, of agriculture, fertility, livestock and agricultural products.So with Saturn in Virgo for the next few years you can imagine the effects it will have upon our food supplies globally as we will find that one of the first things that is affected are our grains, so we will be forced collectively to rethink our strategies of food wastage and distribution and storage for the long term.New Moon, Full Moon, and Eclipse dates/times/signs:
May New Moon: Monday 5th, at 1017 pm, The psyche turns within looking to the things that keep you safe, secure and comfortable.Full Moon: Tuesday 20th, at 1211 pm, This full Moon is part of a Grand Square formation so something may come to a head with intensity and drama, or you are forced into action as the pressure has been building.
June: New Moon: Wednesday 4th, the mind chatter is in overdrive, bailout,bail out!
Full Moon: Thursday 19th, stay centred Relationships may feel very curly, find some space to breathe, and there you will find Truth. July New Moon: Thursday 3rd, day dreams are full of hopes and wishes, Angels watch over you, blessings in your sleep tonight.Full Moon: Friday 18th, Family and work are brought to the fore, finding and building the right structures to bring a better balance in your lives. August New Moon: Friday 1st, at 8.12 pm, at 09 degrees 32 mins of Leo. Then about 8 mins after this there is a Total Solar eclipse lasting for about 2 hours and 27 mins. So this naturally is a very powerful time. There are 6 planets all lined up closely together in a Stellium including the Sun, Moon, Mercury and Venus plus the South Node and Vertex all in Leo, and close by Saturn and Mars in Virgo. Leo planets/Points oppose Chiron, Neptune and the North Node and quincunx Uranus sitting there rising right on the Ascendant, something very surprising is on its way.It feels like there will be great help needed, the Heart Charkas are opened out as the people who have more must give to the people in crisis. There may be great Earth movement around this time, this eclipse begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. The Olympic Games may be affected, or the attention is drawn away from them, as things of greater importance are at play now. Full Moon: Sunday 17th, at 7 15 am, at 24 degrees 2l mins of Aquarius. Then about 7 mins before the Full Moon there is a Partial Lunar Eclipse. The Moon is conjunct Neptune, the North Node and Chiron, Pluto squares Mars exactly, and Jupiter Trines Venus, Mercury and Saturn and Uranus conjuncts the Vertex. Again this is very potent energetically and it feels like a shift has happened, the land/oceans may be involved, and it looks like there is a lot of hard work ahead for us.
Transitioning through the essence of love through outer realms, surrendering to compassion while entering a wounding point being the healer and the healed and by doing so entering the reaping of past actions.Is this an activation of an awakening throughout the Collective, for it is only when we are fully conscious and bearing witness to what we are actually doing and have actually done in the past, our his-story that this healing of our great planet as a Collective can take place. We will be forced to look at and take responsibility for what we have been doing to our planet.Being a Taurus this astrological formation will be felt pysically/emotionally.
There is another very important thing happening astrologically right now as Saturn has just started its journey through the sign of Virgo and will remain in this sign until late July 2010.Saturn is considered the Lord of Karma and represents the gatekeeper who holds the keys and will not let us through until we have passed the testing ground. Testing us with all our lessons learned and represents dharma or cosmic order, and our work on this earthly plane through our responsibilities and obligations before we are allowed to ascend to a higher level. He is Lord of restriction, self-discipline and boundaries and structure, he can take away and deplete as easily as creating foundations to something, he is long term and represents the old wise man/wise old Owl.Virgo represents the Mythological figure Demeter who is the ruler of the seasons and is the goddess of our crops, grains and harvest. She represents the goddess of the earth, of agriculture, fertility, livestock and agricultural products.So with Saturn in Virgo for the next few years you can imagine the effects it will have upon our food supplies globally as we will find that one of the first things that is affected are our grains, so we will be forced collectively to rethink our strategies of food wastage and distribution and storage for the long term.New Moon, Full Moon, and Eclipse dates/times/signs:
May New Moon: Monday 5th, at 1017 pm, The psyche turns within looking to the things that keep you safe, secure and comfortable.Full Moon: Tuesday 20th, at 1211 pm, This full Moon is part of a Grand Square formation so something may come to a head with intensity and drama, or you are forced into action as the pressure has been building.
June: New Moon: Wednesday 4th, the mind chatter is in overdrive, bailout,bail out!
Full Moon: Thursday 19th, stay centred Relationships may feel very curly, find some space to breathe, and there you will find Truth. July New Moon: Thursday 3rd, day dreams are full of hopes and wishes, Angels watch over you, blessings in your sleep tonight.Full Moon: Friday 18th, Family and work are brought to the fore, finding and building the right structures to bring a better balance in your lives. August New Moon: Friday 1st, at 8.12 pm, at 09 degrees 32 mins of Leo. Then about 8 mins after this there is a Total Solar eclipse lasting for about 2 hours and 27 mins. So this naturally is a very powerful time. There are 6 planets all lined up closely together in a Stellium including the Sun, Moon, Mercury and Venus plus the South Node and Vertex all in Leo, and close by Saturn and Mars in Virgo. Leo planets/Points oppose Chiron, Neptune and the North Node and quincunx Uranus sitting there rising right on the Ascendant, something very surprising is on its way.It feels like there will be great help needed, the Heart Charkas are opened out as the people who have more must give to the people in crisis. There may be great Earth movement around this time, this eclipse begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. The Olympic Games may be affected, or the attention is drawn away from them, as things of greater importance are at play now. Full Moon: Sunday 17th, at 7 15 am, at 24 degrees 2l mins of Aquarius. Then about 7 mins before the Full Moon there is a Partial Lunar Eclipse. The Moon is conjunct Neptune, the North Node and Chiron, Pluto squares Mars exactly, and Jupiter Trines Venus, Mercury and Saturn and Uranus conjuncts the Vertex. Again this is very potent energetically and it feels like a shift has happened, the land/oceans may be involved, and it looks like there is a lot of hard work ahead for us.
Monday, 26 May 2008
What is exponential?
Over this last weekend I attended a seminar in Sydney called "Unlimited Power 2008"
There was a variety of presenters with various topics but all were leading to the same goal, being financial independence.
Having used Blogger. com for some time now has given me confidence in this area and a small amount of skill.
One of the presenters was Dr Marc Dussault from Canadia land now residing in Sydney and soon to be an official Aussie Citizen. Marc spoke about being exponential in your thinking and way of doing business. It's what I have referred to in the past as work smart not hard and the way I prefer to live. I see everything in life as an expenditure of energy and depending on where I channel it is where I make progress. For instance i can harp on about the kids washing up after themselves, (which I do to a point) after which I don't bother because it only gets me upset and wastes my energy that I can put into something productive.
But saying that, how many people do not think like this? They continually hit their head against a brick wall and don't get anywhere in life. My guess would sadly be around 90% of the population. These are the worker ants who toil for crumbs. Sad but true. Not my cup of tea!
Ever since I ingested the understanding of the Golden Mean I have looked for this in my life and surrounds.
Why toil when there is no need to do so.
I will continue this analogy with the Celtic myth about the wren and the eagle on the next post. For the time being enjoy the exponential growth in nature...
There was a variety of presenters with various topics but all were leading to the same goal, being financial independence.
Having used Blogger. com for some time now has given me confidence in this area and a small amount of skill.
One of the presenters was Dr Marc Dussault from Canadia land now residing in Sydney and soon to be an official Aussie Citizen. Marc spoke about being exponential in your thinking and way of doing business. It's what I have referred to in the past as work smart not hard and the way I prefer to live. I see everything in life as an expenditure of energy and depending on where I channel it is where I make progress. For instance i can harp on about the kids washing up after themselves, (which I do to a point) after which I don't bother because it only gets me upset and wastes my energy that I can put into something productive.
But saying that, how many people do not think like this? They continually hit their head against a brick wall and don't get anywhere in life. My guess would sadly be around 90% of the population. These are the worker ants who toil for crumbs. Sad but true. Not my cup of tea!
Ever since I ingested the understanding of the Golden Mean I have looked for this in my life and surrounds.
Why toil when there is no need to do so.
I will continue this analogy with the Celtic myth about the wren and the eagle on the next post. For the time being enjoy the exponential growth in nature...
Friday, 23 May 2008
Volcanos
Filipino farmers plow their rice fields as Mount Pinatubo spews ash following a major eruption in this photo taken July 8, 1991.
A year-long global cooling followed—but it was nothing compared to a massive cooling event in A.D. 536 that withered crops, sparked wars, and helped spread pestilence.
Now scientists have uncovered the first physical evidence that the ancient chill was due to a supervolcano eruption.
Photo by Bullit Marquez/AP
Does this photo have similar qualities as the photo my daughter took? to me it looks that way except for the fact that there was no volcanic eruption, just a weird cloud
Monday, 12 May 2008
Something to ponder
hmmm, its been a long time between posts.
so much has happened in the world, much of which is quite unpleasant so I think I'll just post a couple of cloud photos that my daughter took earlier in the year. most intriguing. what do they look like to you?
full moon 22/1/08
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
12,000 year old temple found
TURKEY: DISCOVERY OF 12,000-YEAR- OLD TEMPLE COMPLEX COULD ALTER THEORY
OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
* Nicholas Birch 4/17/08
As a child, Klaus Schmidt used to grub around in caves in his native Germany in the hope of finding prehistoric paintings. Thirty years later, representing the German Archaeological Institute, he found something infinitely more important -- a temple complex almost twice as old as anything comparable on the planet."This place is a supernova", says Schmidt, standing under a lone tree on a windswept hilltop 35 miles north of Turkey’s border with Syria. "Within a minute of first seeing it I knew I had two choices: go away and tell nobody, or spend the rest of my life working here."
Behind him are the first folds of the Anatolian plateau. Ahead, the Mesopotamian plain, like a dust-colored sea, stretches south hundreds of miles to Baghdad and beyond. The stone circles of Gobekli Tepe are just in front, hidden under the brow of the hill. Compared to Stonehenge, Britain’s most famous prehistoric site, they are
humble affairs. None of the circles excavated (four out of an estimated 20) are more than 30 meters across. What makes the discovery remarkable are the carvings of boars, foxes, lions, birds, snakes and scorpions, and their age. Dated at around 9,500 BC, these stones are 5,500 years older than the first cities of Mesopotamia, and 7,000 years older than Stonehenge. Never mind circular patterns or the stone-etchings, the people who erected this site did not even have pottery or cultivate wheat. They
lived in villages. But they were hunters, not farmers. "Everybody used to think only complex, hierarchical civilizations could build such monumental sites, and that they only came about with the invention of agriculture" , says Ian Hodder, a Stanford University Professor of Anthropology, who, since 1993, has directed digs at Catalhoyuk, Turkey’s most famous Neolithic site. "Gobekli changes everything. It’s elaborate, it’s complex and it is pre-agricultural. That fact alone makes the site one of the most important archaeological finds in a very long time." With only a fraction of the site opened up after a decade of excavations, Gobekli Tepe’s significance to the people who built it remains unclear. Some think the site was the center of a fertility rite, with the two tall stones at the center of each circle representing a man and woman. It’s a theory the tourist board in the nearby city of Urfa has taken up with alacrity. Visit the Garden of Eden, its brochures trumpet, see Adam and Eve. Schmidt is skeptical about the fertility theory. He agrees Gobekli Tepe
may well be "the last flowering of a semi-nomadic world that farming was just about to destroy," and points out that if it is in near perfect condition today, it is because those who built it buried it soon after under tons of soil, as though its wild animal-rich world had lost all meaning. But the site is devoid of the fertility symbols that have been found at other Neolithic sites, and the T-shaped columns, while clearly semi-human, are sexless. "I think here we are face to face with the
earliest representation of gods", says Schmidt, patting one of the biggest stones. "They have no eyes, no mouths, no faces. But they have arms and they have hands. They are makers." "In my opinion, the people who carved them were asking themselves the
biggest questions of all," Schmidt continued. "What is this universe? Why are we here?" With no evidence of houses or graves near the stones, Schmidt believes
the hill top was a site of pilgrimage for communities within a radius of roughly a hundred miles. He notes how the tallest stones all face southeast, as if scanning plains that are scattered with archeological sites in many ways no less remarkable than Gobekli Tepe. Last year, for instance, French archaeologists working at Djade
al-Mughara in northern Syria uncovered the oldest mural ever found. "Two square meters of geometric shapes, in red, black and white - a bit like a Paul Klee painting," explains Eric Coqueugniot, the University of Lyon archaeologist who is leading the excavation.Coqueugniot describes Schmidt’s hypothesis that Gobekli Tepe was meeting point for feasts, rituals and sharing ideas as "tempting," given the
site’s spectacular position. But he emphasizes that surveys of the region are still in their infancy. "Tomorrow, somebody might find somewhere even more dramatic."
Director of a dig at Korpiktepe, on the Tigris River about 120 miles east of Urfa, Vecihi Ozkaya doubts the thousands of stone pots he has found since 2001 in hundreds of 11,500 year-old graves quite qualify as that. But his excitement fills his austere office at Dicle University in Diyarbakir. "Look at this", he says, pointing at a photo of an exquisitely carved sculpture showing an animal, half-human, half-lion. "It’s a sphinx, thousands of years before Egypt. Southeastern Turkey, northern Syria - this region saw the wedding night of our civilization. "
*Editor’s Note*: Nicolas Birch specializes in Turkey, Iran and the
Middle East.
*Posted April 17, 2008 © Eurasianet*
http://www.eurasian et.org
OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
* Nicholas Birch 4/17/08
As a child, Klaus Schmidt used to grub around in caves in his native Germany in the hope of finding prehistoric paintings. Thirty years later, representing the German Archaeological Institute, he found something infinitely more important -- a temple complex almost twice as old as anything comparable on the planet."This place is a supernova", says Schmidt, standing under a lone tree on a windswept hilltop 35 miles north of Turkey’s border with Syria. "Within a minute of first seeing it I knew I had two choices: go away and tell nobody, or spend the rest of my life working here."
Behind him are the first folds of the Anatolian plateau. Ahead, the Mesopotamian plain, like a dust-colored sea, stretches south hundreds of miles to Baghdad and beyond. The stone circles of Gobekli Tepe are just in front, hidden under the brow of the hill. Compared to Stonehenge, Britain’s most famous prehistoric site, they are
humble affairs. None of the circles excavated (four out of an estimated 20) are more than 30 meters across. What makes the discovery remarkable are the carvings of boars, foxes, lions, birds, snakes and scorpions, and their age. Dated at around 9,500 BC, these stones are 5,500 years older than the first cities of Mesopotamia, and 7,000 years older than Stonehenge. Never mind circular patterns or the stone-etchings, the people who erected this site did not even have pottery or cultivate wheat. They
lived in villages. But they were hunters, not farmers. "Everybody used to think only complex, hierarchical civilizations could build such monumental sites, and that they only came about with the invention of agriculture" , says Ian Hodder, a Stanford University Professor of Anthropology, who, since 1993, has directed digs at Catalhoyuk, Turkey’s most famous Neolithic site. "Gobekli changes everything. It’s elaborate, it’s complex and it is pre-agricultural. That fact alone makes the site one of the most important archaeological finds in a very long time." With only a fraction of the site opened up after a decade of excavations, Gobekli Tepe’s significance to the people who built it remains unclear. Some think the site was the center of a fertility rite, with the two tall stones at the center of each circle representing a man and woman. It’s a theory the tourist board in the nearby city of Urfa has taken up with alacrity. Visit the Garden of Eden, its brochures trumpet, see Adam and Eve. Schmidt is skeptical about the fertility theory. He agrees Gobekli Tepe
may well be "the last flowering of a semi-nomadic world that farming was just about to destroy," and points out that if it is in near perfect condition today, it is because those who built it buried it soon after under tons of soil, as though its wild animal-rich world had lost all meaning. But the site is devoid of the fertility symbols that have been found at other Neolithic sites, and the T-shaped columns, while clearly semi-human, are sexless. "I think here we are face to face with the
earliest representation of gods", says Schmidt, patting one of the biggest stones. "They have no eyes, no mouths, no faces. But they have arms and they have hands. They are makers." "In my opinion, the people who carved them were asking themselves the
biggest questions of all," Schmidt continued. "What is this universe? Why are we here?" With no evidence of houses or graves near the stones, Schmidt believes
the hill top was a site of pilgrimage for communities within a radius of roughly a hundred miles. He notes how the tallest stones all face southeast, as if scanning plains that are scattered with archeological sites in many ways no less remarkable than Gobekli Tepe. Last year, for instance, French archaeologists working at Djade
al-Mughara in northern Syria uncovered the oldest mural ever found. "Two square meters of geometric shapes, in red, black and white - a bit like a Paul Klee painting," explains Eric Coqueugniot, the University of Lyon archaeologist who is leading the excavation.Coqueugniot describes Schmidt’s hypothesis that Gobekli Tepe was meeting point for feasts, rituals and sharing ideas as "tempting," given the
site’s spectacular position. But he emphasizes that surveys of the region are still in their infancy. "Tomorrow, somebody might find somewhere even more dramatic."
Director of a dig at Korpiktepe, on the Tigris River about 120 miles east of Urfa, Vecihi Ozkaya doubts the thousands of stone pots he has found since 2001 in hundreds of 11,500 year-old graves quite qualify as that. But his excitement fills his austere office at Dicle University in Diyarbakir. "Look at this", he says, pointing at a photo of an exquisitely carved sculpture showing an animal, half-human, half-lion. "It’s a sphinx, thousands of years before Egypt. Southeastern Turkey, northern Syria - this region saw the wedding night of our civilization. "
*Editor’s Note*: Nicolas Birch specializes in Turkey, Iran and the
Middle East.
*Posted April 17, 2008 © Eurasianet*
http://www.eurasian et.org
Saturday, 19 April 2008
Just a little more information
Rare 5.4mag quake that has hit the New Madrid fault line seems to have caught people by surprise. What makes this moderate quake unique is area of which it occurred. It hit at the northern end of the "New Madrid Fault".Geographic coordinates: 38.520N, 87.872W. Magnitude: 5.4 Mw. Depth: 5 km. Universal Time (UTC): 18 Apr 2008 09:36:56.
A turn of the century earthquake, the New Madrid fault system was responsible for the 1812 New Madrid Earthquake and has the potential to produce damaging earthquakes on an average of every 300 to 500 years. On February 7, 1812, the New Madrid Earthquake measured a 7.9 magnitude; epicenter near New Madrid, Missouri. The area of New Madrid was destroyed. Near by St. Louis, Missouri, many houses were damaged severely, and their chimneys were thrown down. The meizoseismal area was characterized by general ground warping, ejections, fissuring, severe landslides, and caving of stream banks.
Large areas sank into the Earth, fissures opened, lakes permanently drained, new lakes were formed, and forests were destroyed over an area of 150,000 acres (600 km). Many houses at New Madrid were thrown down. "Houses, gardens, and fields were swallowed up" one source notes. But fatalities and damage were low, because the area was sparsely settled.The earthquakes were felt as far away as New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, where church-bells rang. It has been recorded this earthquake was so powerful; people witnessed the mighty Mississippi River rolled back on itself, then literally changed course. Because of the change in the course of the Mississippi River, land was cut off from counties by the river and wound up on the other side of the new riverbed, on the other side of the Mississippi. The settlement of Reverie, Tennessee, in Tipton County was cut off and placed on the western bank of the Mississippi River on the Arkansas side.
This happened in 1812. The next one is overdue. What will happen this time?
A turn of the century earthquake, the New Madrid fault system was responsible for the 1812 New Madrid Earthquake and has the potential to produce damaging earthquakes on an average of every 300 to 500 years. On February 7, 1812, the New Madrid Earthquake measured a 7.9 magnitude; epicenter near New Madrid, Missouri. The area of New Madrid was destroyed. Near by St. Louis, Missouri, many houses were damaged severely, and their chimneys were thrown down. The meizoseismal area was characterized by general ground warping, ejections, fissuring, severe landslides, and caving of stream banks.
Large areas sank into the Earth, fissures opened, lakes permanently drained, new lakes were formed, and forests were destroyed over an area of 150,000 acres (600 km). Many houses at New Madrid were thrown down. "Houses, gardens, and fields were swallowed up" one source notes. But fatalities and damage were low, because the area was sparsely settled.The earthquakes were felt as far away as New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, where church-bells rang. It has been recorded this earthquake was so powerful; people witnessed the mighty Mississippi River rolled back on itself, then literally changed course. Because of the change in the course of the Mississippi River, land was cut off from counties by the river and wound up on the other side of the new riverbed, on the other side of the Mississippi. The settlement of Reverie, Tennessee, in Tipton County was cut off and placed on the western bank of the Mississippi River on the Arkansas side.
This happened in 1812. The next one is overdue. What will happen this time?
Friday, 18 April 2008
Something big's a foot
Earth Changes Media has been reporting a swarm of quakes since February which has increased along the Alaska Aleutian Chain. It is unusual to see such high magnitudes ranging in the 4's and 5's as it relates to 'swarms'. Usually they remain in the 2's and 3's. But there appears to be more to this story----
The earthquake swarm at Baja California continues as reported since February, along with the more recent swarm which occurred off the Oregon Coast. When you put this puzzle together, it is quite probable --- we are looking at a potential Cascadia Subduction Zone eruption.
The USGS recently came out with an announcement stating they expect with 99% assurance, a magnitude 6.7 or larger quake will occur in California ---- in 30 years. No one knows for sure why they came out with such a ridiculous statement leaving the geological and seismological community both laughing and embarrassed. Any geology 101 student can tell you with "100% assurance" there will be several large earthquakes hitting California over the next 30 years.
But the more serious question would be - are we seeing current signs telling of a coming large eruption along the west coast in the next "30 months" or even sooner than this.
The earthquake swarm at Baja California continues as reported since February, along with the more recent swarm which occurred off the Oregon Coast. When you put this puzzle together, it is quite probable --- we are looking at a potential Cascadia Subduction Zone eruption.
The USGS recently came out with an announcement stating they expect with 99% assurance, a magnitude 6.7 or larger quake will occur in California ---- in 30 years. No one knows for sure why they came out with such a ridiculous statement leaving the geological and seismological community both laughing and embarrassed. Any geology 101 student can tell you with "100% assurance" there will be several large earthquakes hitting California over the next 30 years.
But the more serious question would be - are we seeing current signs telling of a coming large eruption along the west coast in the next "30 months" or even sooner than this.
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