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Sunday, February 14, 2010
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Lost S6 E1 LA X 2 February 2010
Lost started up again for its 6th and final season here in 2010. The first and second episode has featured this spring/fountain thingy which brings Sayid back to life.
I thought this was pretty neat as the weekend before the first episode of Lost with its fountain...
When In Rome 29 January 2010
was the weekend when When In Rome was released it making heavy use of a wishing fountain theme.
Further I watched Crazy Heart the weekend following the Lost season premier (6 February) noting Jeff Bridges also interacting with a fountain (and coins, if I remember correctly..?)
Chronologically I'm not even sure about this one anymore, but somewhere amongst the above syncs I was reading Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman and noticed this time traveling Abraham Lincoln penny.
Jim had realized that The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC was a replica of the Temple of Zeus which meant that Abraham Lincoln becomes himself a Zeus/Jupiter resonator.
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I'm watching Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master because of an interest in Andras Jones who plays Rick in this.
Andras is the host of a show called Radio8Ball where audience members and guests celebrities phone in and ask questions to which Andras responds by spinning a wheel, randomly selecting a song and interpreting said song as answer to the question. He had me ask a question recently and wants me further to make videos featuring upcoming guests.
I think its a wonderful opportunity to explore new depths of synchromysticism. Actually engaging the Stars and seeing what results from feedback.
While watching Freddy Krueger kill dreaming teens I have the thought that Freddy is a Tiger owing to his distinctive striped red/green sweater. I dismiss it as too vague and loose when 10 seconds later this image below pops up..
A poster in the next victims room with a sexy lady atop a tiger. A little golden boy/Hermes statuette entrains.
This often happens when a second guess intuition, the intelligence of the greater organism I am part of, in this case the environment, gives me a second chance to make the connection by confronting me with evidence for what I just dismissed.
"Freddy resonates tiger? Nha.. Oh I see, yes he does..."
As our boy falls asleep the girl from the poster moves into his dream appearing inside his waterbed.
We see she has moved from her original place in the poster.
Freddey/Tiger brakes through the waterdoor/StarG8 and kills the boy while making jokes about wet dreams.
This actually fits perfectly with Shamanic and Jovian themes. The striped Tiger is also the Striped Jupiter both being the Dream Master Freddy Krueger. The goal of Jupiter and the Shaman is to kill the identification we have with our conceptualized identities. To the mind identified with its thoughts and beliefs there is no difference between this process and literal death/murder. I have had my ego torn from me during ceremony and been literally convinced I am dead and/or dying.
Thus the Tiger/Jupiter/Freddy as BAD killer is perfectly in keeping with the reality finding joy/God.
Further our dreams are key areas where great healing and spiritual work is done.
See Jim's new video The King of Love is a Dead Man for a perfect illustration of the process of dying as doorway into eternity.
Jupiter/Joy can be seen as the "land of the dead". This is the place WE/ME go once we have left our attachments to our limited perception of ourselves behind; once we have forgiven ourselves and everybody else for anything we perceive as wrong. The total truth is even weirder as WE/ME have in fact always been on Jupiter and are dead already.
The syncs help us accept this by making it vivid as we learn the address on Elm Street in question is 1428.
Above is Andras at the same door, red in Nightmare 4. The 8 syncing with his show, Radio8Ball.
Amazing that this all ends at a Wishing Fountain as our victorious couple enjoy leisure time after beating Freddy.
The coin hits the water and we see the reflection of our Dead Man and Jupiter/Tiger in the rippling water.
Shiva the destroyer of attachments.
Our Blue God with the Red Spot at third eye (the red door) sits atop the Tiger/Jupiter as the fountain spurts out of his head. Note the yellow flowers and trident.
Clearly the fountain is the floWing release of gushing consciousness from the Divine. It is the NOW.
This past Thursday, 11 February, me and Jim readied ourselves for an experiment to engage with sync on a new level. This was 42 days into the year as well as resonating 11:11 as 11 Feb is 11/2.
We did Ayahuasca that evening as sync suggested this weekend as being singularly momentous. The Friday saw the start of the winter Olympics which entrains perfectly with Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief both having overt Zeus/Jupiter resonance and being the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
We want to greater incorporate the visionary and ceremonial aspects of Ayahuasca Ceremony into Synchromysticism.
I noted some fascinating syncs about 11 February in the post Robin "11:11 Time for Ascension"involving sync strange attractor and familiar Robins and Robin Tunney.
Entraining with the start of this fascinating weekend and Thursday night ceremony was a new episode of The Mentalist.
The Mentalist S2 E14 11 February 2010
The first shot is this overhead view of George Washington's head on a quarter coming straight at us.
Jane is flipping a coin. It lands heads up 20 times in a row baffling his coworkers including Robin Tunney.
I think to myself: "Coins (coins again?!) have two heads or faces, making them all Janus resonators, no? Nha.."
Right then onlooker Rigsby says: "Its a two headed coin!". At which Jane flicks it over to him and Tunney.
Robin: "Looks normal to me!". Again I am reminded to let the connections flow. Coins have two faces, yes they do!
Rigsby, still baffled by Jane's recurring heads up coin trick, holds up the quarter as Tunney's star title entrains.
Later the idea that a coin has two-faces is made unmistakable as Jane explains that the coin did indeed have a heads on both sides all along. He exchanged it for a regular one via slight of hand.
A double headed coin, like Jane's trick coin above, is a perfect Janus, the two faced God explained as a variant of Jupiter in Janus.
That this is sound - to connect Janus to Jupiter, that is - is doubly reinforced by seeing it in this particular episode S2 E14. 214 is BAD alphabetically, a synchro standard for Jupiter, owing again to the uncanny veiled numbers in the Jovian astrological glyph seen above on the Elm Street 'Dream Door'.
As already stated all coins, even ones that don't have two heads like Jane's in S2 E14 of The Mentalist, can be said to have 'two faces' and thus resonate Janus.
Which all becomes redundant anyway when we realize Juno Moneta or Jupiter in one of its female forms is where money comes from in anyway. Thus either way you cut it coins, indeed all money, resonate Jupiter.
We are forgiven if we should start to suspect this is all quite ridiculous as everything seems to resonate Jupiter when you start looking hard enough.
The trick is unveiled when you realize Joy/Jupiter is everything and everywhere, the point of it all and even the meaning of life. Why bother continue syncing anything then having reached this point, one might ask? I don't know, I just do..
I love how both films released on 12 February have the wolF/Flow theme. The Wolfman as personified wolf, Percy Jackson as the man who controls the floW. Even the stance of both floWers on these posters resonate nicely.
The relationship between Jupiter 42 and Moon 27 is also again perfectly reflected by these two posters.
Percy Jackson is the son of Poseidon and he can control water-flow while wielding a Trident. The Tri is 3 which is also the letter C which sounds like sea. The Tri is the C and 3 and syncs to the sea or ocean (I'm just repeating myself, so that amazing cluster syncs in)
Percy is played by actor Logan Lerman, which just so happens to be the name of the most famous wolF/Flow man Wolverine. To help us a swallow all this the Wolverine aka Logan has the trident growing out of his hand.
Scroll back up and contemplate that Shiva sits atop the Tiger, fronted by Yellow Flowers and backed by the trident.
The other major release this weekend is Valentine's Day, starring everybody. We saw in hEARt how the twin lobe shape of the heart itself resonates Janus an must NOW note how this Feb 14 or 214/BAD is also the first day of the Chinese Year of the Tiger.
Amazing sync up with Percy Jackson as we see Anne Hathaway with trident..
And Jessica Biel with a tiger while chomping on chocolate. The sweet heart tale of the coming of the 'love cats'.
The Wolfman was also covered in Tiger syncs like Anthony Hopkins in trendy tiger print.
Both Percy Jackson and The Wolfman has fountain moments (Lighting Thief's fountain involving coins central to the story..) but alas I don't enjoy downloading camed torrents for stills unless I feel obliged.
Inside the hEARt above is the face of Taylor Lautner love interest in Valentine's Day of country singer Taylor Swift (winner of Grammys this year for her song White Horse) and the 'Wolfman' from New Moon.
Evidence of more wolF/Flow bleed through between all 3 major releases this week.
After Valentine's Day (the film not the actual celebration day, that's today silly) yesterday I headed over the the library to look for a book by Alastair Reynolds.
See how Alastair Reynolds influenced the idea that World War 3 (WW3) is actually the World Wide Web (WWW) in post The World War 3 Stargate Mega Ritual.
I saw one called Redemption Ark at the bookstore a few days ago and thought I could save a few bucks by rather getting it at the library. The library had three of his books, two which I had already read and a third which was not Redemption Ark but Pushing Ice. So I grab it, flipping it over, reading the word Janus on the back page, nodding, this must be the one...
Boy is it ever, the entrainment is so wild right now, phew. Love it!
In Pushing Ice a crew of comet miners must divert from there current mission to intercept the Moon of Saturn called Janus. Janus, which appears to have never been a moon to begin with, has broken orbit and is heading out of the solar system. Being the only ship anywhere near enough the Rockhopper must intercept and investigate before Janus leaves for deep space and becomes out of reach.
As I currently read Janus was last heading roughly in the direction of Jupiter. Oh boy..
Note how potently the themes of Jupiter/Janus and Moon have strange attracted via this sync.
"something about Janus. Mythical and Roman, she thought. The two-faced god of ... what? And the name of one of Saturn's moons."
"Janus stopped orbiting Saturn"..."Janus changed direction again, this time turning in the rough direction of Jupiter"
'The simple fact is that it very much looks as if Janus was never a moon in the first place. 'A ship', Svetlana said"
'Janus is about the last place in the system we'd have thought to look for signs of alien intelligence.'
So many of these syncs have been noted by Jim and the other boys at The Sync Whole I would loose count trying to account for all the invaluable help. I think of my fellow G8ors as my other Janus head.
Love to you all.
14 comments:
- Cosmic Ti69er said...
God of the Seas/Cs/3s
3x3x3 = 27 = moon = control tides and water/seas
- February 14, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- Arrowsmith said...
In Disneys Aladdin the tiger is seen sleeping beside a peacock fountain. It dreams beneath the bird of Juno.
I recently noticed that if you play about with the word Juno it can become norn.
In Norse mythology three Norns were said to have spun the fate of mankind. This brought to mind Rachel Weisz who had three aspects to her character (Past, Present and Future) in the movie The Fountain. She syncs with the Norn/Juno, the Wholey Trinity. Goddess of the Seas/Cs/3s. I like how Rachel Weisz is soon to star in a movie called Luna.
Keep flying high Jake. It's great fun watching you soar.
- February 14, 2010 at 8:24 PM
- Michael said...
Hi Jake, love the post. For more Valentine/Shiva/Horus synchs, all wrapped up into sports, check out the latest Grail Racing post at gosporn - we seem to be channeling the same thing, only differently. :-)
- February 14, 2010 at 11:23 PM
- StrangEye said...
For my friends Wermes...
Canada's Golden Boy!
AB - The JOY of Canada - First Gold Medal Winner - Olympics - Alexandre Bilodeau
- February 15, 2010 at 5:55 AM
- E. T. Hansen said...
Very interesting flow, like a new current! Feel that..
To push symbols to the point where a new realm opens: But to do that one must for example be ready to embrace that everything we thought we were sure of is "wrong"? Take for example the symbol of eternity, GOD (which incidentally turns into the symbol of nothing, zero): Because it can not be represented. Old news.
So what about Janus, again duality? Perhaps One could add (again) to the line of brilliant metaphors that the duality aspect typically lies within the moon. Why? Again, we know that intuitively through her feminine (Selene in Greek) influence on all matter, ebb and flood. In water. In life. Same, same. As with the Universe, and the ages.
Wolf-(Jupiter-dog) is a moon loving creature. Poseidon-son-dolphin is in bond with Jupiter because is mass regulated by gravity? Is not Selene the process of birth and destruction. Like you see what you want to see in her stargate magic mirror!??
NB - The female is constantly turning on and turning out confusing the male rational principle which the constant sun is (a fountain, The Fountain?).
So what about the coin and (ROMAN) Janus? (nice catch) What if the coin is a symbol of (Babylonian) money, which is the opposite side of love (the money changers..). Its so obvious of course that the idea is almost to easy to fend off.
Love is, like the idea of eternity, not to be represented!! (chew on this for a good while..)
It, love, God, nothing, the glue of gravity is simply there, holding things together, taking them apart, to create. All ONE process. Like day and night continually changing due the nature of the fountain behind them?
Now we see the effect of 2D, projected superfical money (as abstract "ideasness")being changed again into the ultimate means of love, as water? What?
..isn't water fluent, life giving, a metaphor for creation? When the illusive Babylonian tower of money falls for the last time in history "IT" is a kind of the ultimate 9-11? Because exactly nothing works, but through love?
The only way for GOD to cheat herself in the end was by creation of money and controlling events to avoid a total annihilation, hence the dark lords are in fact keeping everything going, through the moon (!?.. as the death-star thanks Nexus) to find that the influences of the principle of Jupiter (think gravity, love) will break every barrier with mass like money and its decapitated man-God symbols was ants beneath the feet of an Elephant...?
Be blessed .. with the stuff behind love!
- February 16, 2010 at 4:25 AM
- Dennis/87 said...
Nice mind food Jake.Hey R.T. Hanson, your words are spot on.For god, to cheat herself? That is tough for me to understand. To have a memory of what will be? R.T. you certainly pose the tough questions. Dennis
- February 16, 2010 at 11:21 AM
Lost s6e4, the substitute
Mystery character Locke, shows Sawer, the cave of names with numbers.
Kwon is 42 they don't know if it is Jin or Sun however. All the other numbers correspond to a single person.
- February 17, 2010 at 1:17 AM
- astroniq said...
Watching Saturday Night Fever. Songs by The Bee Gees (27.) Remember that picture of the bee hive and the G? The night club they go to is named, 2001 Odyssey. heh.
- February 17, 2010 at 11:24 PM
- Ezra Sandzer-Bell said...
I don't know about you all but these new BLOB posts are tying together countless thematic threads of PERSONAL experience in the last week.
No use in summing up the whole narrative here as a comment - Gah! Booby traps descending...
The shape of a hEARt is like left and right ear, with no cranium in between. ;)
- February 20, 2010 at 5:25 AM
- Indras Net said...
Loved all the new posts, beutiful as always Jake, be very well :)
- February 20, 2010 at 3:06 PM
- Unknown said...
Dude! Tigger = Tiger. I get it now! The coming of Tigger = the coming of Tiger = the coming of Jupiter! Now, a very interesting thing that struck me today (a couple of times, 1st when I saw a woman reading the WALL street journal and 2nd when I saw his apology on the all seeing eye station (via YouTube, of course)---TIGER "Woods"! He's everywhere these days! hahahaha! What a joke! It's all a big joke, Jake!!! hahaahh
- February 20, 2010 at 7:36 PM
- Kirk Ultra said...
Here's another fountain synchronicity. The latest storyline in Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin, Blackest Knight, is all about Dick Grayson, the current Batman, using a previously undiscovered Lazarus Pit in an British coal to to try to bring the original Batman back to life.
The Batman that they end up resurrecting turns out to not actually be Bruce Wayne, but an evil clone of him created by Darkseid. Metephorically there's a kind of "dark night of the soul" happening.
Interestingly, after Sayid is resurrected by the fountain at the temple in Lost, the Others tell Jack the Sayid has been infected with some kind of darkness, which may also have infected Claire.
One particular line, spoken by Batwoman, is an almost word for word description of how the fountain at the temple works in Lost.
"Next time I'm ready to experience the agony of multiple fractures and internal injuries, before choking to death in a state of euphoria and rising from the dead with barely any recollection of the event. . . I know exactly where to find you."
Both the show and these Batman issues are coming out at almost exactly the same time, with Batman and Robin being released bi-weekly since this storyline began.
There are a lot of synch-heavy lines in these issues, the newest one especially. The Batman clone talking about "THE SACRIFICE OF A SUN!" to end his torments. . . Batman and Batwoman talking about the new age of crime leading to a new age of crimefighters. . .
And of course the "death/rebirth/return to the womb" symbolism of the fountains is worth mentioning as well.
Once the Batman clone is defeated, it is concluded the original Batman, Bruce Wayne, must still be alive, so things are looking good for Claire and Sayid. The only person who'd known this all along was Tim Drake, my favorite Robin (I know you love Robin syncronicities).
(Could the real secret of Lost be that the fountain in the temple is actually a Lazarus Pit, and all the secrecy going on with The Others is just to keep Ra's al Ghul from finding the island?)
- February 24, 2010 at 10:00 PM
- Marc said...
I pulled the following quote off the web. It reminded me of the Freddy movie and how the young adolescent guy has wet dreams and the girl turns into Freddy.
"According to ancient Jewish lore, known from a medieval text, based on lost texts of the same stories, known as The Alphabet of Ben Sira, Lilith is the unnamed wife in Gen 1:27. The story explains why the book was left out of the Pentateuch/Torah, how and why Lilith goes away, and is supposed to explain why babies die early, why men have wet dreams and as a way to demonize women."
- March 4, 2010 at 2:41 AM
You've no doubt seen the 3oh!3 vid with Katy Perry and them messing about in a fountain full of pennies, and picking one makes them irresistable to the other sex...something going on with those fountains methinks..
- March 7, 2010 at 8:07 AM


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Reading La Cocina de Leslie the other day, I came upon her blog post about Duritos. I knew I had seen something similar at the Latino Market many times before, but I always passed by without really checking them out, assuming it was some sort of healthy spaghetti.
With Leslie's post in mind, I bought a bag for less than $2 when I went to the Latino Market. I let the kids watch me cook them so they could witness the magic. It's neat to watch them puff up when they hit the hot oil, (and I never would have guessed you cook them this way. I would have boiled them if I hadn't been told otherwise!)
When Suegra saw me preparing to cook them, she tried to act like she knew all about them even though in more than a decade she has never mentioned them, eaten them or cooked them in my presence. She gets jealous when I know something she doesn't when it comes to cooking.
She asked where I heard about them and I replied "una amiga que vive en México." Suegra sniffed and then claimed that El Salvador has Duritos too and that she used to cook them "all the time" – (even though she hung over my shoulder and couldn't hide her surprise as they puffed up in the pan.)
I wasn't in the mood for her games so I told her, "I don't believe you ever ate them or cooked them." Then, just to get her goat I added, "I discovered them first." She sucked in her breath and finally left the kitchen saying, "I suppose you invented pupusas too!"
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Set in a small village in Peru, the film stars Cristian Mercado as Miguel, a fisherman with a wife, Mariela (Tatiana Astengo), and a baby on the way--and boyfriend, Santiago (Manolo Cardona), on the side. It's a familiar construct—Mariela's oblivious, Santiago's frustrated and Miguel just wants to maintain the status quo.
Things get interesting, however, when Santiago dies while swimming in the ocean, and his ghost is unable to go to his final resting place until Miguel finds his body and gives him a proper burial. With Santiago's ghost invisible to everyone but Miguel, the two can finally walk through the streets of the town hand-in-hand, allowing Miguel to come closer than ever to being himself for the first time in his life.
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Mercado is excellent as the conflicted Miguel, making you feel sympathetic—if not sorry--for a man cheating on his wife. Similarly, Cardona doesn't come off as a home wrecker, but a wronged man in an unfortunate situation. But it's Astengo who gives the best performance, her Mariela is aggrieved, humiliated, lied to, and cheated on, but maintains her strength and dignity.
The bonus material is a frustrating collection of featurettes, interview and deleted scenes. There's a lengthy interview with Fuentes-León about how the film was developed, but much of the information he imparts is repeated in the behind-the-scenes featurette.
Many of the deleted scenes are loaded with redundancy as well, more often than not comprised of scenes in the movie, but with a different staring or ending points. More puzzling still is that there are a few moments cut from the film that clearly should've been left in—they're not crucial, but they would've made the story a little richer.
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I first visited the Demilitarised Zone(DMZ) last September and on Saturday I returned, to find out more about the events that have shaped the Korean peninsula since it was first divided in two, following the Second World War.
Like a bizarre Cold War theme park, there are a number of tours you can take in the DMZ and one of the most popular ones is the Panmunjoem tour. During the Korean War, the village of Panmunjeom was at the centre of all peace negotiations from 1951 to 1953. It was here that the final armistice was signed on July 29, 1953, resulting in the creation of the DMZ, along the 38th Parallel.
After the signing of the Armistice Agreement, a new site was constructed approximately 1km south of Panmunjeom for further peace negotiations to take place in. Although the new site is often referred to as Panmunjeom, it is officially known as the Joint Security Area(JSA), an 800 metre square area of land that is policed by the United Nations and North Korea.
After boarding the coach in Seoul, we travelled north towards the Demilitarised Zone along the Freedom Highway. The Han River beside it was frozen and a layer of snow covered the landscape. Once again we passed through security checkpoints and the passports of everyone on the tour were checked by South Korean soldiers.
We then headed to Camp Bonifas, the base camp for the United Nations Joint Security Force, at the southern entrance to the DMZ. After changing coaches, we then went to the Ballinger Hall, for a briefing on the history of the area.
Once inside we were asked to sign a declaration form relieving the United Nations of any responsibility should anything happen. The slide show at the briefing proved to be extremely informative, giving a detailed account of the history of the DMZ and events that have occurred there.Home to 500 South Korean and US troops, Camp Bonifas was originally called Camp Kitty Hawk and was renamed in 1986 in honour of Captain Arthur G. Bonifas.
On August 18, 1976, a South Korean work party supervised by a United Nations Command(UNC) security force was attacked by a group of North Korean soldiers. There to prune a tree obscuring visiblity between two outposts near the Bridge of No Return, what ensued has become commonly known as 'The Axe Murder Incident' and is one of the most tragic events to have occurred in the DMZ since its inception in 1953.
When confronted by the North Korean soldiers, the 5 members of the work detail fled, leaving behind 14 UNC personnel. Outnumbered by the 30 Korean People's Army(KPA) soldiers, during the fight the Joint Security Force Commander, Capt. Arthur G. Bonifas and First Lieutenant Mark T. Barrett, were both killed by the KPA soldiers who used their own pikes and clubs, as well as axes left behind by the work detail.
The Joint Security Area
After the briefing we got back onto the coach and then headed towards Panmunjeom. On the way our guide pointed out 'the world's most dangerous golf course'. Located at Camp Bonifas, the one hole, par 3 course, was once surrounded by landmines on three sides and was famously featured in Sports Illustrated Magazine.
We then drove past anti-tank walls and through a gap in a minefield that stretches across the whole country. About seven metres wide, with huge, razor-sharp barbed wire fences on either side, the minefield provides one of the biggest disincentives for anyone wishing to enter South Korea illegally from the North. Along the base of each fence small stones were piled up, one on top of another, the purpose of which is to detect if anyone has infilitrated South Korea.
Upon arriving in Panmunjeom, we were advised not to smile or wave at the North Korean soldiers if we saw any. The reason for this was because if any photographs were taken, they could be used as a propaganda tool. For a brief moment the surreal thought of becoming a media celebrity in North Korea entered my head. We were also warned to only take photographs in the designated areas.
Once off the coach we were escorted to the Military Armistice Commission(MAC) building, which is definitely one of the highlights of the tour as it allows you to actually enter North Korean territory. One of three single storey structures that are light blue with corrugated rooves, it is here that the main peace discussions take place between North and South Korea.
A number of South Korean soldiers were on guard, all of them looking very serious in their dark sunglasses and standing in a taekwon-do stance, which our guide told us was to look more intimidating. Each one of the soldiers outside only had half their body exposed to the North Korean side, so that they could easily escape if they were shot.
Inside the MAC building there were two more South Korean soldiers, both in the taekwon-do stance. In the middle of the room was a table with the flags of the United Nations and North Korea on it, as well as a row microphones going down the centre of it, denoting the border between North and South Korea.
One soldier stood at the end of this table, whilst the other stood guard at the far end of the building in front of a door leading to North Korea. We were advised not to walk behind the South Korean soldier guarding the door, as this would probably be seen as trying to defect.
We then made our way outside to the Peace Pagoda, an observation platform to view the surrounding area. From here it was possible to see all around. On the South Korean side Freedom House and The Peace House. On the North Korean side the buildings of Panmungak and Tongil-gak as well as a guard post.
After taking photographs we were once again ushered onto the coach for the final part of the tour. After a short drive we passed Checkpoint 3, where visiting presidents and defence secretaries often go when they want to gain a closer view of North Korea.
The Bridge of No Return
The coach then stopped at an observation post from which we could see the North Korean propaganda village of Gijong, as well as the world's largest flag pole.
From here it was also possible to see the Bridge of No Return, which crosses the military demarcation line. After the Armistice Agreement was signed in 1953, prisoners of war from both sides were exchanged on the bridge. It gained its name as prisoners of war who voluntarily chose to return to the North, would no longer be able to return to the South.
The DMZ is one of the most interesting tourist destinations in South Korea, if not the world. Where else is it possible to visit one of the last vestiges of the Cold War and to see first hand a country which President George Bush as recently as 2002, described as being part of 'the axis of evil'?
Although the risk factor in the DMZ is almost negligible, it is still a place fraught with tension. North Korea's relationship with its neighbours and America remains a frosty one and little progress has been made in recent years regarding issues such as its nuclear programme, or the abduction of Japanese citizens during the 1970s. Despite hopes that the two Koreas will one day reunite, at present there sadly appears to be little or no resolution in sight.
You can see all of the photos here.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Return to the Demilitarised Zone
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Hyangwonjeong Pavillion(Gyeongbokgung)
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Geunjeongjeon Main Hall(Gyeongbokgung)
Gyeongbokgung is by far the most famous and beautiful of all the palaces in Seoul and with a history spanning more than 500 years, it is also one of South Korea's most popular tourist attractions.
Built in 1395 by the founder of the Joseon Dynasty(1392-1910), King Taejo(r. 1392-1398), it served as the main residence for royalty, up until it was burnt down in 1592 during the Japanese invasions.
It lay in ruins for 300 hundred years until it was rebuilt in 1868 by Heungseon Daewongun(1820-1898), the regent and father of King Gojong(r. 1863-1907). During this time Changdeokgung was used as the main palace.
Under the colonial rule of the Japanese(1910-1945) many of the buildings were destroyed and the area became the site for the headquarters of the Governor General of Korea.
In recent years much effort has been made to restore the palace to its former glory, a process which it is hoped will be completed by the year 2020.
At the southern entrance to the palace grounds is the main gate. Known as Gwanghwamun, at various times throughout the day guard ceremonies are performed here, which really help to bring alive the pageantry of a past time.
Gyeonghoeru Pavillion
Just beyond this lies the main hall, Geunjeongjeon, where the king would have held official functions and conducted state affairs.
Other buildings include the 48-columned Gyeonghoeru Pavillion, which was erected by King Taejo in the western section of the palace grounds. Built on a man made lake for festivals and entertaining guests such as foreign dignitaries, the king would also have used it for boating.
At the northernmost section of the palace grounds is the Hyangwonjeong pavillion. Built on a small isle, this two-storey hexagonal structure is situated at the centre of a beautiful lotus pond and rock garden. Despite the throngs of tourists and school parties, it's easy to imagine how the kings and queens of a bygone era would have come here to relax.
You can see all the photos here.
Here's a short film of Gyeongbokgung Palace.
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Searching for Hamentashen on Avenue J and Beyond
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This year we try Brooklyn for our annual hamentashen search. It's not that there aren't great hamentashen in Queens—there are, and you can read about them here. They're all still there and still good, so it only seemed right to explore another borough.
Avenue J in Midwood has a good amount of kosher bakeries, and this time of year, the week leading up to Purim, those bakeries are filled with mishloach manot gift baskets and hamentashen. Poppy and apricot are my personal favorite, so when available, that's what I ordered at each stop. I didn't find a bad hamentashen in the bunch, but there were a few standouts. Here are the goods, from acceptable to outstanding.
Porges Canadian-Style Bakery
Not the prettiest batch of hamentashen, and not quite the tastiest either ($8.50/pound; $1.70 for two). The poppy seed filling was crunchy, just the seeds with a touch of honey or sugar to bind them all together. Pure poppy, which is nice, but the cookie was a little too hard, although nicely sweet with a crunch. The apricot filling, however, was lacking. There was so little of it, and it was cooked so much, that it turned into fruit leather. Mostly cookie, not much flavor. Not the best, but I never say no to a hamentash.
1441 Coney Island Avenue (at Avenue K), Midwood, Brooklyn (map) 718-252-3025
Meir's Hemishe Bakery
There were no apricots here, so I got poppy and prune ($6.99/pound; $1.70 for two). The poppy filling was chewy with a hint of citrus. The prune was chewy as well. The cookie was slightly dry and harder than most, and not too sweet. Again, acceptable but not a favorite.
1321 Ave J, Midwood, Brooklyn (map) 718-258-1926
I had to stop at this super-kosher supermarket to stock up on some of my favorite Israeli snacks, and found that they sold hamentashen, made in-store, at their bakery ($5.49 for a nine ounce box). I bought a nine ounce container of poppy hamentashen. I wasn't expecting much, but to my surprise, they were delicious. The cookie tasted almost buttery, like shortbread. I say almost, since they are pareve, not dairy, so no butter was used. But still, a good flavor, nice crumbly texture, and the thin cookie encased a large amount of soft, simple poppy filling. They tasted clean and sweet, and the small size made it easy to eat a few of them at a time.
1507 Coney Island Ave (between Avenue K & Avenue L), Midwood, Brooklyn (map)
Ostrovitsky's Bakery
When I first bit into the large poppy hamentash from Ostrovitsky's ($1.50 each), I thought it was nothing special, just a big cookie with not much filling. But as I kept eating, it began to grow on me. The cookie was thick and sweet, with a good crumbly crunch. The mound of poppy seeds were crisp on top but soft on the interior, and just barely bound together. The apricot offering was tasty as well, but the proportions were a little off. Too much of the thick cookie and not quite enough of the floral fruit filling. Otherwise, a good representation of quality hamentashen.
1124 Avenue J, Midwood, Brooklyn (map) 718-951-7924
Isaac's Bake Shop
The best of the bunch ($1.50 each). The large cookie is crumbly, but soft and sweet, housing an incredibly moist pile of poppy seeds, very clean tasting and classic. The apricot was just as good, lots of pure, sweet apricot jam, just the right amount for the cookie. Now it feels like Purim!
1419 Ave J, Midwood, Brooklyn (map) 718-377-9291
Next year I'll try Borough Park in Brooklyn, or re-visit some Queens classics. Where do you get your favorite hamentashen?
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Arabia's 24h is a range of ceramic tableware designed by Heikki Orvola, a versatile Finnish designer who has worked with a broad range of materials and created several Finnish classics. The series, originally designed for Orvola's own use, found its way into Arabia's production in 1996 and received the Design Plus Award at the Ambiente International Fair in Frankfurt next year. The 24h range is characterized by a quiet and pleasant design, ideal for every hour of the day.
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Starting Graces f again. Decided it would be weird to get a new Tales game without finishing the previous one. So I just spent the last hour or so printing out a side quest guide and ctrl+f searching a walkthrough for the chronological order of completing said side quests. That's one of my pet peeves of the Tales series, how easy it is to miss important stuff for even a basic completionist like myself (i.e. I don't mind missing some skits, but would like to do all the subevebts.)Graces f just adds insult to injury by finally adding a way to keep track of side quests, but lists them in no logical order.
So I'm playing my Skyrim game which is like 60 hours in and I go read the random statistics.I think I need help...
Quote from: Annubis on May 12, 2013, 11:12:58 PMSo I'm playing my Skyrim game which is like 60 hours in and I go read the random statistics.I think I need help...O_o Are you sure that is right? Unless my math is off that is approximately 1.8 items pickpocketed per second. How do you even have time to find your pickpocket targets?
Started replaying Wild Arms 2. Good times.
Fuck the Amala Labyrinth. That is all. Edit: No, seriously. So I died twice in the second Kalpa. My third round I almost made it to the end of the second kalpa, but I just got unlucky with a back attack which the enemy decided to attack my MC. THIS GAME IS GREAT.
I bought Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth for £5, I felt like replaying it and this version is far cheaper than the original. It's quite pleasing getting pretty much the same game for more than ten times less than I sold the PS1 version for. I'm going to try hard mode, which for some reason is actually supposed to be easier than normal mode, and has more content. I'm also going to read an FAQ and go through the convoluted steps to get the proper ending. The first time round I got annoyed by the standard non-ending and never touched the game again.
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Geek TV "Forward-thinking is part of Sci Fi's DNA," says Sci Fi Channel president, the bodaciously-named Bonnie Hammer. Roughly translated from Bonnie's native Klingon, this means: "Geeks will be geeks".
Sci Fi knows that its viewers are emotionally troubled by switching off their PCs to watch ye olde television, so it's adding full "webisodes" of Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who to its online video-on-demand line-up. You need never log off again.
24 ubermeister Jack Bauer has gone one further by getting into Web 2.0. How does he find the time? From Monday, Murdoch-owned MySpace will sell episodes from Day 1 and Day 5 at $1.99 a pop. MySpace users hoping to make "friends" with Jack Bauer will be disappointed, however, the episodes are to be sold through Burger King's MySpace page. You read that correctly.
And now, sport. Few football fans would call themselves geeks, but let's look at the evidence. Positively autistic with excitement about statistics? Check. Apt to travel in clusters, wearing fantastical hats and makeshift cloaks? Check. Can't remember girlfriend's name? Check. The BBC understands the geek/footy interface, so it's made sure that it's HD Channel is up and running in time for the World Cup. If you're kitted out with HD-ready hardware, tune in for pictures so clear you can see Theo Walcott's facial bum-fluff flapping in the breeze.
On a less joyful tip, ABC has axed Invasion. Despite being scheduled right after Lost, Invasion saw US ratings drop from 17m to 9m over its first season. Shucks, that's only one and a half times the entire population of London. As is always the case with these things, there's an online petition doing the rounds, and new network The CW may help save the show. But as things stand, the final episode airs over here on Sunday 28 May. Meanwhile...
Five to watch this week:
Saturday 20 May: Doctor Who, BBC1, 6.35pm
Second half of the Cybermen two-parter, with Trigger's army invading London and turning everyone into robots. And this is a problem because...?
Monday 22 May: Fifth Gear, Five, 8pm
Not going out on Monday, are you? Good. (Still, there's always Sky+. If it's working. Mine broke again this morning. Ho hum.) A great TV night starts with Vicki Butler-Henderson strapping on her Bond-cam and spying on 007's new Aston Martin.
Monday 22 May: Inside a Gunshot Victim, Sky One/Sky One HD, 9pm
Quick! Get an HD-ready telly and gaze in glorious vomit-o-vision at oozing flesh wounds on a man shot seven times from point-blank range. He survived, because the shooter didn't aim for the head. D'oh.
Monday 22 May: Big Brother's Big Brain, C4, 11.05pm
Special guest psychologists look inside the Big Brother housemates' brains, and find wood shavings and bits of kebab.
Wednesday 24 May: How William Shatner Changed the World, Five, 9pm
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
More Female Illustrators You Should Know
Widely acknowledged as one of the most influential illustrator/designers during the heyday of Disney's 'classic animation' era, Mary Blair's work continues to influence and inspire thousands of artists around the world to this day.
Margaret Erath
Primarily a textile designer (and later a fine artist) she made a brief foray into illustration during her early career in New York. These two delightful album covers - and a few others long lost to time - may be the only actual illustrations Erath ever created.
Lorraine Fox
Born in Brooklyn, a graduate of the Pratt Institute, Fox began illustrating for magazines in the second half of the 1940s. During an era when literal realism in illustration was king, Fox successfully pioneered a distinctive, stylized alternative - and she did it from the very heart of what was then the most influential commercial art enclave of the day, the Charles E. Cooper studio, which she joined in 1951.
Gyo Fujikawa
A California native, Fujikawa worked for Disney before moving into advertising, editorial and children's book illustration.
Over her long career she wrote and drew nearly fifty children's books that sold in total over a million copies.
Mia Carpenter
Another west coast artist, Carpenter moved to New York after graduating from Art Center, where she had studied fashion illustration with Jack Potter.
Retail fashion was a major component of her work - but she also did illustrations for editorial clients. Later, she did sketch art for entertainment ad agencies until her retirement in 2004.
* Tomorrow (Wednesday) evening I'll be at The Nook talking about these and other Female Illustrators of the Mid-20th Century.
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All of these pieces are beautiful, but I was struck by the ones by Mia Carpenter, especially the last one. It looks like pastel.ReplyDelete
Check out Mary Blair's contribution to Disney, and it's a small world. Now everyone sing along "It's a small world after all...." is it stuck in your head yet?ReplyDelete
Bruce-- I agree; Mary is not responsible for the song, but she sure did a marvelous job creating the visual part of that ride. (I went again two weeks ago and it holds up very well.) She was a wonderful talent, responsible for some of the best art from Disney animation.ReplyDelete
So good to see posts like that—thank you for them!ReplyDelete
Mia Carpenter rocks!
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Martha Sawyer was a very talented artist and very comitted too. Without wishing to stereotype, I notice that a lot of these ladies work in a more decorative style was there pressure within the industry for women to do this kind of work or an extension of innate abilities?ReplyDelete
I also noticed that Barbara Bradley did a lot of children and women themes like Barbara Schwinn, pressure or natural inclination?
Remo; You could write a book on that subject. Actually, I almost feel as though I have - ha. My impression is that female illustrators of that era tended to gravitated to female-centric publications where the subject matter was more naturally appealing to them. Hence you get someone like Lorraine Fox doing a lot of illustrations of girls, cosmetics, accessories and food/recipe-type spot illustrations. Barbara Bradley called herself "the Queen of the Perkies and Cutes" because of all the children and young women she illustrated - but her main steady clients early on were the Merrill paper doll magazines and "Calling All Girls" (formerly "Polly Pigtails") magazine. No doubt the salesmen at the art studios tended to bring female illustrators advertising work that they (or the client) felt needed a woman's touch. This would inevitably lead to pigeon-holing, just as it must have on the male side - where someone like Fred Ludekens or Frank McCarthy would seek out and be sought out for manly subject matter.ReplyDelete
The impression you have that more women worked in decorative styles is also correct, I think. This may be again because of a natural inclination among some female illustrators of that era to be attracted to decorative arts, as opposed to story-telling illustrations. As mentioned, Margaret Erath was actually a textile designer. She worked in New York for a company that designed patterns for fabric.ReplyDelete
Folk art seems to have been a major influence more among female illustrators of the day than among males. Murray Tinkelman, who knew Lorraine Fox told me folk art was very influential for her - which I think is evident in her style. She in turn was highly influential for many young women entering the illustration business.


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Millions of poisonings are reported to United States poison control centers every year, with many deaths.
It is important to note that just because a package does not have a warning label doesn't mean it is safe. You should consider poisoning if someone suddenly becomes sick for no apparent reason, or if the person is found near a furnace, car, fire, or in an area that is not well ventilated.
Symptoms of poisoning may take time to develop. However, if you think someone has been poisoned, do not wait for symptoms to develop before getting that person medical help.
Items that can cause poisoning include:
- Carbon monoxide gas (from furnaces, gas engines, fires, space heaters)
- Certain foods (See: Food Poisoning)
- Chemicals in the workplace
- Drugs, including over-the-counter and prescription medicines (such as an aspirin overdose) and illicit drugs such as cocaine
- Household detergents and cleaning products
- Household and outdoor plants (eating toxic plants)
- Insecticides
- Paints
Symptoms vary according to the poison, but may include:
- Abdominal pain
- Bluish lips
- Chest pain
- Confusion
- Cough
- Diarrhea
- Difficulty breathing
- Dizziness
- Double vision
- Drowsiness
- Fever
- Headache
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- Irritability
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- Loss of bladder control
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- If the person starts having convulsions, give convulsion first aid.
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Call immediately for emergency medical assistance if
The National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222) can be called from anywhere in the United States. This national hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Take the container with you to the hospital, if possible.
See: Poison control center - emergency number
Be aware of poisons in and around your home. Take steps to protect young children from toxic substances. Store all medicines, cleaners, cosmetics, and household chemicals out of reach of children, or in cabinets with childproof latches.
Be familiar with plants in your home, yard, and vicinity. Keep your children informed, too. Remove any poisonous plants. Never eat wild plants, mushrooms, roots, or berries unless you very familiar with them.
Teach children about the dangers of substances that contain poison. Label all poisons.
Don't store household chemicals in food containers, even if they are labeled. Most nonfood substances are poisonous if taken in large doses.
If you are concerned that industrial poisons might be polluting nearby land or water, report your concerns to the local health department or the state or federal Environmental Protection Agency.
Hack JB, Hoffman RS. General management of poisoned patients. In: Tintinalli JE, Kelen GD, Stapczynski JS, Ma OJ, Cline DM, eds. Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide. 6th ed. Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill; 2006:chap 156.
Bronstein A, Spyker D, et al .2009 Annual Report of the American association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS). Clinical Toxicology 2010: 48; 979-1178.


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Innovative Economy-Green Internship / Mentor Program (Destiny Driver #3)
November 16, 2009
By 2010 we will create a "Green Internship / Mentor Program" that will support 20 high school and college students per year.
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Morris campus strategic partner in the launch of new Minnesota GreenCorps program
Posted by Christine Mahoney on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009
The University of Minnesota, Morris has partnered with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and ServeMinnesota to launch a new program—Minnesota GreenCorps. The new program is an environmentally focused AmeriCorps program administered by MPCA that aims to protect and preserve Minnesota's environment while developing the next generation of environmental professionals.
The Morris campus is a strategic partner in developing the statewide program and plays a unique role in delivering the program to West Central Minnesota. Unlike other organizations hosting full-time GreenCorps members, Morris campus students—all undergraduates—will fulfill half-time service commitments, collaborating with local organizations like Stevens Forward! and the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center.
GreenCorps was co-conceived by the University of Minnesota, Morris and the MPCA who sent separate applications to ServeMinnesota for similar programs. ServeMinnesota brought the institutions together to create this groundbreaking program. The resulting program's goals are to help communities conserve energy reduce waste in its many forms and, through proper recycling and conservation education, reduce the amount of toxic chemicals thrown away.
To carry out these goals in the Morris area, the Morris campus appointed four college students to serve as half-time AmeriCorps members with local units of government and schools. The positions include a local government conservation specialist, school waste prevention specialist, and two living green outreach specialists. The positions were available this fall to all returning juniors and seniors. Chris Droske '11, Stevens Point, Wis. Katie Laughlin '10, Faribault, Minn. Ellie McCann '10, St. Joseph, Minn. and Sydney Sweep '11, Bismarck, N.D., will serve as GreenCorps members through the campus's Center for Small Towns.
The University of Minnesota, Morris GreenCorps students will work 10 hours per week during the school year and 40 hours per week during the summer in order to fulfill their 900-hour service term from September 2009 through August 2010. Students receive a living allowance and, at the end of their service year, an educational stipend.
Morris campus Sustainability Coordinator Troy Goodnough, who oversees the students' efforts, is pleased with the GreenCorps program. Goodnough says, "I'm extremely excited about launching this new program, and I look forward to developing great collaborations with community members."
For more information about the activities of the GreenCorps program in the west central region contact Troy Goodnough, University of Minnesota, Morris GreenCorps program coordinator
at 320-589-6451 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The University of Minnesota, Morris Center for Small Towns is a community outreach program that serves as a point-of-entry to the resources of the University of Minnesota. Small towns, local units of government, K-12 schools, nonprofit organizations, and other University units are able to utilize the Center's resources as they work on rural issues or make contributions to rural society. Their mission is to focus the University's attention and marshal its resources toward assisting Minnesota's small towns with locally identified issues by creating applied learning opportunities for faculty and students.
Minnesota GreenCorps is funded through a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service with additional support from ServeMinnesota. Partnering in this program is University of Minnesota, Morris Center for Small Towns.
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OTTAWA — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has sent a letter to NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae seeking their input for the 2013 federal budget, but also warning them not to bother suggesting any new costly spending measures or tax increases.
The call for opposition input comes as Flaherty is set to hold his first pre-budget consultation roundtable Friday in Victoria, and as the Conservative government battles its political opponents in the House of Commons over hundreds of proposed amendments to a second budget bill that would implement measures from last March's fiscal blueprint.
In his letter, which was sent to all opposition MPs and senators, Flaherty says the 2013 budget will continue to focus on job creation and economic growth, with a commitment to return to balanced budgets over the "medium term."
He specifically asks opposition members of Parliament for cost-neutral and non-spending measures that could create jobs and spur economic growth.
Flaherty stresses he will continue to reject any proposals that would impose new taxes on Canadians, and will also stand against costly new spending initiatives that would increase the size of government or threaten a return to balanced budgets.
"I ask when providing your input on Budget 2013 that you keep in mind the present fiscal situation, including our government's priority to return to balanced budgets, and the need to be prudent with taxpayers' dollars," Flaherty says in the letter.
"I strongly encourage opposition members, before presenting their traditional wish list without any plan to pay for it, to consider the fate of many European countries now faced with unsustainable financial situations."
Flaherty will hold the first of a series of pre-budget roundtable consultations on Friday in Victoria, and will meet in the coming weeks with opposition party finance critics for their recommendations.
Opposition parties have assailed the Harper government in recent days for its handling of the economy and an eroding federal financial picture.
The recent fall economic update projected the 2012-13 federal deficit will be nearly $7 billion larger than forecast in the March budget and could delay the Conservative government from balancing the books until 2016-17.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Flaherty maintain, however, their goal is still to balance the books by the next election, expected in 2015.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation noted recently the Harper government has added more than $142 billion to Canada's national debt since taking office, with the total federal debt now more than $600 billion. Canada is paying approximately $31 billion annually in interest on the debt.


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Timber company collides with gas drillers
The Nature Conservancy of Canada is buying 3,800 acres of Elk River riparian habitat outright; purchasing a conservation easement on another 7,400 acres; and obtaining a guarantee that Tembec won't subdivide 86,000 acres for 10 years, while its long-term status is negotiated.
The deal puts the timber company on a collision course with the coalbed methane industry. Even as the deal came together, ChevronTexaco Corp. was drilling three test wells on the land, in anticipation of turning it into a vast field of wellheads, roads, pipelines and compressors.
"We bought this land to grow trees on, and we are concerned by any development that would disrupt the productivity of the ecosystem," says Dennis Rounsville, a Tembec executive.
The provincial government, which encourages gas development, owns the mineral rights, and plans to auction drilling rights to more of the land in April (HCN, 10/8/01: Whoa! Canada!). The conservancy "will be another player at the table," negotiating to soften impacts, Rounsville says. If negotiations get hung up, the government has the power to dictate how development proceeds.


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It is Supreme Court decision season. Two of my favorite places to keep up to date and to read about the significance of new Supreme Court decisions:
Free and also provides the decisions explained in "Plain English" and interesting analytical statistics regarding the Supreme Court decisions (scroll to bottom)
BNA Supreme Court Today (click on Supreme Court Today link on left)
Gives a short summary of the decision. To access from home, you will need to log in with your Hofstra 700 number.
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Several months ago, an ad hoc consortium of self-proclaimed millionaires, sent a letter to Obama, Reid and Boehner, demanding that "for the fiscal health of our nation and the well-being of our fellow citizens, we ask that you increase taxes on incomes over $1,000,000." This grass roots initiative was formed in the aftermath of Warren Buffett's, since defunct, proposal to impose a "millionaire tax" rule. Of course, back then, as now, someone actually did the math and realized what the impact of such as tax would be in the grand scheme of the next decade of deficits, as we reported previously, and as summarized below.
One can see why not only the "Buffett Rule" but any attempt to balance the budget without collapsing government spending, would at best result in laughter, at least for those who who are still proficient with the occasional abacus.
The reason we bring up the issue of America's "Patriotic Millionaires" is that today once again, one of them made an appearance on CNBC, preaching why it is for the common good that there be a mandatory tax for all those who earn $1 million or more, because it is someone's view that the government is far better at finding subzero IRR ways of destroying capital (by definition) - something the US government has proven its efficiency with time and again, and certainly not only just under the current administration, but virtually every single one since the advent of income tax. As another reminder, this is how efficient the US government has been at creating deficits, if not so much surpluses, since 1900:
Luckily, as all these very much informed millionaires know quite well, the US Treasury has a dedicated section, named simply pay.gov, which allows anyone: billionaires (here's looking at you Mr. Buffett), millionaire, or even thousandaire, to make a donation which is used directly to pay down the US debt. Because in the absence of the government mandating rich people pay their "fair share" (as determined by a subcommittee of course) for now at least, there is always that other alternative: voluntary action, as per the auspices of something called free will.
And not only that, but the US Treasury also provides the general public with a running tally of just how much "Patriotic Millionaire" initiatives have given so far to paying down said debt. As in talk is cheap, signing petitions even cheaper, but putting money where your mouth is actually does go to the bottom line.
The bottom line so far in 2012? $7.7 Million - this is how much has been volunteered in total gifts to pay down the US debt.
So doing some quick math:
There were 165 signatories to the original "Patriotic Millionaires" list, among which Nouriel Roubini, Leo Hindery, Rick Schottenfield, and mysteriously, Whitney Tilson. One should of course add Warren Buffett: the progenitor of the grassroots movement. Thus a total of 166. In other words, assuming only these 166 people donated cash to the US Treasury in 2012 to pay down the debt (while a potential tax deal awaits), the average patriotic millionaire has donated a whopping of $46,684.45 toward paying down the US debt.
Putting this in context:
- There is $16.245 trillion in debt
- US population is at 314,694,000 most recently.
This amounts to $51,622.6 in debt for every man, woman and child (and excludes all the tens of trillions in unfunded welfare obligations).
In other words, assuming America's "Patriotic Millionaire" grassroots movement donated, (naturally this is a big assumption, but for the sake of humor we will go with it) on a pro-rata basis, have given $5K less than they owe as part of their natural funding obligation to the US.
And this is from the people who continue getting media time for being so "generous" they are willing to give out their money, and everyone else's, for the common good. Or at least, of course, until one actually calculates how much of their own money they have given.
Such as this guy.
But certainly hold your breath, because these same people, all of whom are very intimately aware of the details of offshore tax havens, have armies of accountants whose jobs are precisely to find creative ways to minimize their tax obligations, and, not to mention, numerous Swiss bank accounts, if not so aware of the pay.gov website, just can't wait to fund America's $16.3 trillion in public debt... and rising at $100 billion each month.
But hey: in a world in which actions are cheaper than talk, who cares - after all they "signed the petition." And that is what true patriotism is all about.


text: Even for those of us who finished high school algebra on a wing and a prayer, there's something compelling about equations. The world's complexities and uncertainties are distilled and set in orderly figures, with a handful of characters sufficing to capture the universe itself. For your enjoyment, the Wired Science team has gathered nine of our favorite equations. Some represent the universe; others, the nature of life. One represents the limit of equations. We do advise, however, against getting any of these equations tattooed on your body, much less branded. An equation t-shirt would do just fine. Above: The Beautiful Equation: Euler's Identity Also called Euler's relation, or the Euler equation of complex analysis, this bit of mathematics enjoys accolades across geeky disciplines. Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler first wrote the equality, which links together geometry, algebra, and five of the most essential symbols in math -- 0, 1, i, pi and e -- that are essential tools in scientific work. Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was a huge fan and called it a "jewel" and a "remarkable" formula. Fans today refer to it as "the most beautiful equation." Image: Cory Doctorow/WikipediaThe Entire Universe in Figures: Friedmann Equations Derived from Einstein's theory of General Relativity, the two Friedmann equations describe the life of the entire universe, from fiery Big Bang birth to chilly accelerated expansion death. The formulas contain an odd term known as the cosmological constant (the triangle thing with no bottom), initially inserted by Einstein to counteract gravity and keep the universe eternally unchanging. When observations showed that the cosmos was actually expanding, Einstein called this insertion his biggest mistake. Recent experiments have vindicated Einstein, showing that there is a great and mysterious force known as dark energy accelerating the expansion of the universe. Its discovery was the subject of the most recent Nobel Prize in physics, though understanding how it works has thus far eluded scientists. Image: NASA / WMAP Science TeamBoltzmann's Entropy Formula Nature loves chaos when it pushes systems toward equilibrium, and geeks call this universal property entropy. Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann laid entropy's statistical foundations; his work was so important that the great physicist Max Planck suggested that his version of Boltzmann's formula* be engraved on Boltzmann's tombstone in Vienna (above). The equation describes the tight relationship between entropy (S), and the myriad ways particles in a system can be arranged (k log W). The last part is tricky. k is Boltzmann's constant and W is the number of microscopic elements of a system (e.g. the momentum and position of individual atoms of gas) in a macroscopic system in a state of balance (e.g., gas sealed in a bottle). Note: Not to be confused with the other Boltzmann equation, which describes how gases or fluids move energy around. Image: Tom Schneider/NCI-FrederickElectricity and Magnetism: Maxwell's Equations Without these four equations, every lolcat on the Internet couldn't exist. First put together by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861, the formulas describe all known behaviors of electricity and magnetism and show the relationship between the two forces. They state that a moving electric charge will generate a magnetic field while a shifting magnetic field similarly creates an electric field. The second equation, Gauss' law for magnetism, also demonstrates a profound difference between electricity and magnetism. While electricity exists as separate charges, like the plus and minus of a battery, magnets always come in a joined pair; you can never break the 'north' part of a magnet from the 'south' side. Some recent physical models posit that north- or south-less magnets (known as magnetic monopoles) might actually be present in small numbers in the universe, and several experiments are busy searching for their existence. Image: The Z machine, largest x-ray generator in the world. Courtesy Sandia National LaboratoriesCertain Uncertainty: Schrödinger Equation Erwin Schrödinger's famous equation reigns supreme over the smallest objects in the universe. It illustrates how subatomic particles change with time when under the influence of a force. Any particular atom or molecule is described by its wavefunction, the probability of where and when the particle appears, represented by the Greek letter psi. Unfortunately, since the early days of quantum mechanics, physicists have been at odds as to how exactly to interpret Schrödinger's equation. Some favor the idea that the wavefunction is merely a useful calculation tool but doesn't correspond to anything real. Others say it puts a limit on the amount we can know about the universe, since we only know what state a particle is in once it is measured. Schrödinger himself argued that the wavefunction represented a real, physical object. He disagreed with the a-particle-only-collapses-when-measured interpretation, and his famous cat experiment was actually intended to demonstrate that interpretation's shortcomings. Image: The ghostly tracks of subatomic particles in a hydrogen bubble chamber. Courtesy of CERNAll Life Is an Island: Island Biogeography Though physicists can describe the universe's expansion in a few lines, the basic properties of life on Earth are far harder to quantify. During the latter half of the 20th century, biologists arrived at the theory of island biogeography, which described the dynamics of animal populations on islands. At left in this equation is the number of species a given island can support; at right, animal abundances, available areas, and rates of immigration and emigration. The theory has expanded beyond oceanic islands to include many types of ecologies, especially those isolated by human activity. Outside the polar regions, almost all nature now exists in human-defined islands -- and the biggest island of all, of course, is Earth. Image: The Cache River wildlife preserve in Arksansas, an isolated patch of bottomwoods swamp where the extinct Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was reportedly seen. (NASA)The Essence of Evolution: Nowak's Evolvability At its most basic level, life is what replicates itself -- but how did it begin? It's the ultimate chicken-and-egg problem, and one that scientists studying what's called pre-life try to answer. On the left side of this equation, proposed by Harvard University mathematical biologist Martin Nowak, is a symbol representing all possible strings of molecules; at right are the speed of chemical reactions, the tendency of shorter strings to be more common than longer strings, selection pressures and fitness ratings. As Nowak has shown, all that's necessary for life to emerge are molecules subject to forces of selection and mutation. If those conditions are met, self-replication will emerge with the inexorability of gravity. Image: Sunrise over California's Mono Lake, a hot, oxygen-deprived, arsenic-rich lake that scientists think mimics conditions on early Earth. (NASA)The Razor's Edge of Outbreak: R-Nought Brought to mainstream attention by the thriller Contagion, R0, pronounced R-nought, is a very simple figure: It refers to the average number of people an individual infected with a pathogen will go on to infect. If it's less than one, the disease will burn itself out; if greater than one, it will spread. In a world where a flu virus from Mexico can infect millions of people around the world in a matter of months, this equation is as symbolic as it is straightforward. Image: Subway riders in Mexico City during the 2009 swine flu outbreak. (Eneas de Troya/Flickr)Hot or Not: The (Limited) Mathematics of Beauty Not everything can be quantified, especially when it comes to matters of the human heart and mind. For decades, psychologists and biologists have tried to represent physical beauty in formula form; but even if some tendencies emerge when hundreds of individual preferences are measured, what any one individual considers beautiful is impossible to predict. At right is an equation from an unpublished attempty by Israeli computer scientists to design a program capable of quantifying the attractiveness of a face. "Y" is the empirical beauty score; at right, various measurements of how different features in a face compared to a baseline face. The program was brilliantly coded, but it didn't work very well. Image: Pierre Tourigny/FlickrSee Also:Hidden Fractals Suggest Answer to Ancient Math ProblemMathematical Model for Surviving a Zombie AttackLaser Space Telescope Could Test for Vanishing DimensionsQuantum Entanglement Could Stretch Across TimeBeauty In the Brain of the BeholderFinding an Even Better Fractional Representation of Pi


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Pretty Lights Drops Second EP of 2010,
Headlines SOLD-OUT Red Rocks show
Spilling Over Every Side
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"A cut-and-paste collage of hip-hop, soul, breakbeats, and a dash of dubstep,
it encompasses the best vibes of last century's downtempo and brings it all into 2k10." – MIAMI NEW TIMES
Pretty Lights, the ultra-versatile Colorado-based producer dropped his second EP of 2010, Spilling Over Every Side, late yesterday via www.PrettyLightsMusic.com. Spilling Over Every Side is the second in a trilogy of EP's due this year. The first installment, Making Up A Changing Mind, was released March 2nd in the same fashion, with the third and final due out later this fall. Fans have gone crazy for this self-release model;
the albums have been downloaded nearly a million times.
Pretty Lights is headlining the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO on August 7th! The 9,500 capacity venue SOLD OUT more than two weeks in advance. Opening the show will be Mimosa, Emancipator, and Zion I; all in addition to
Pretty Lights' two sets (including a special downtempo set).
Pretty Lights is also excited to announce the addition of a new drummer, Adam Deitch, beginning with Wanderlust Festival on July 30th in California this weekend. He has done session/live work for everyone from Wyclef and Eve to Justin Timberlake in addition to his own projects Break Science and Lettuce. Expect Pretty Lights shows to be taken to a whole new level!
Pretty Lights will be announcing fall tour dates soon, so keep your eye out!
Upcoming Pretty Lights Tour Dates
07/3 SQUAW VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Wanderlust Festival
08/07 MORRISON, COLORADO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
08/14 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Outside Lands
08/14 SAN FRANCISCO, CA The Independent (night show)
08/25 KNOXVILLE, TN The Valarium
08/26 MEMPHIS, TN Minglewood Hall
08/28 NEW ORLEANS, LA CAC Warehouse
09/03 CHICAGO, IL North Coast Music Festival
09/04 NEW YORK, NY Electric Zoo Festival
09/05 AUSTIN, TX Nocturnal Festival
09/25 SANTA BARBARA, CA West Beach Festival


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Residential House by Thomas Tham
Thomas Tham Shares The Latitude Residential House
Thomas Tham, the creator of the awarded project Thomas Tham's Latitude Residential House demonstrates, The design concept for this 3,000 sqf four-bedroom apartment, located in the central district of Singapore, is derived from pools of ribbon unraveling itself, translating into design, movement, dance, music and art. The living room was design based on the interlacing of ribbons forming diagonal weave patterns. This is being applied onto the TV feature panel that continues up to the ceiling. Each of the bedroom is customised to suit the individual occupier and yet with a common theme of the ribbon..
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