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Technical Series 99-117
Moisture destroys wood framing when levels remain high enough to promote fungal growth and decay for long periods. Walls with minimal air leakage, rain penetration and condensation can still have problems if moisture cannot escape. Measures taken to prevent leakage and condensation, and to keep materials dry during construction, are ineffective without adequate provisions for subsequent drying.
Experiments conducted to date with wall systems similar to those most used in the coastal climate of B.C. have shown very slow rates of drying in simulated winter conditions. A drained, ventilated space behind stucco has been suggested as a solution, both to control rain penetration by acting as a rainscreen and to increase drying to the exterior. Laboratory experiments are planned to verify if this effectively promotes drying.
So many variables are involved that it is not simple to design experiments to discover the best strategy for employing a vented space without testing an unreasonable number of cases. The computer model used in the current study permitted a large number of possibilities to be considered. It helped to identify the most important parameters, and predicted the expected performance of particular designs under specified test conditions.This information will be used to design experiments that will validate the model as a design tool, if the predictions are confirmed, without having to test all the possible combinations.
The objectives of the study were:
In addition, wood and vinyl siding were compared to stucco in a limited number of cases. Over 342 simulations of different walls were conducted.The model used was a modified version of WALLDRY, a program developed for CMHC in 1988, and subsequently modified to account for air infiltration and exfiltration, sorption isotherm algorithms for materials other than solid wood and vapour diffusion properties that vary with moisture content.
The model does not include liquid mass transfer by capillary diffusion. None of the simulations included air leakage. Although variations in resistance to vapour diffusion with different moisture contents are accommodated for some materials, thermal conductivity of materials is assumed constant, irrespective of moisture content.The model has not yet been compared with more comprehensive computer models. However, it has been compared with the field results of walls exposed to climate in the Atlantic provinces and Ontario. The conditions modeled for this report represent winter-like conditions in Vancouver without wetting of exterior surfaces by rain. One must keep in mind that walls that appear to perform well in the simulations (or in the laboratory) might experience problems in summer conditions depending on the climate and indoor conditions.
The basic wall simulated consisted of:
After initial exploration, a parametric plan was settled upon to answer the following questions:
Assuming the stucco is decoupled from the wall system; that is, the interior surface of the stucco is impermeable and non-absorbent:
Assuming the stucco is coupled to the wall system; that is, the stucco is permeable and absorbent:
In general:
Most simulations were run for 150 days, not enough in most cases to reach equilibrium conditions, but enough to provide predictions for comparison with laboratory results.
The model was also used to predict the effects of different experimental conditions and procedures. Lower temperatures and humidity on the cold side can decrease the time required to conduct an experiment. If validated, the model can then be used to predict drying rates when cold side conditions are more or less favorable for drying. Predicted overall weight loss was shown to be an unreliable indicator of moisture content change of the framing, because of confounding changes in moisture stored in the stucco and other materials.
Figure 1 Effects of Ventilation Parameters, Exterior RH, & Exterior Temperature on Drying Rate Findings
The answers to the questions posed are too numerous and detailed to be presented fully in this summary. Some specifics are presented below, and the most important implications are described under the heading Significance for the Housing Industry.
The effects, with impermeable stucco, of vented cavity depth, vent opening height, chamber relative humidity, and chamber temperature, are shown in Figure 1.Vented cavity depth is more important than any other variable in determining drying rate. Vent opening height is less significant, and the highest drying rate does not always occur when the gap is largest. Increased exterior temperature increases drying rate, but only as long as the cavity is 12 mm or more in depth. Higher exterior relative humidity reduces drying rates.
With permeable stucco, drying rates increase substantially overall, compared to stucco materials or systems that prevent drying by diffusion through the stucco.
In an experiment, the stucco may be in equilibrium with the laboratory conditions where the wall was stored.Then, when exposed to the test chamber conditions, the test wall faces a new set of environmental conditions, and an increase in weight may occur as the wall reaches equilibrium with the new conditions.This can be seen in Figure 2 where the stucco starts out with a low moisture content and gets wetter by transfer of moisture from the wall behind and the atmosphere of the chamber. The total mass of the wall increases for a time before a net moisture loss is registered.This can confound interpretation of weight loss from the sensitive elements of the wall unless they can be determined independently of overall weight loss.
As drying proceeds, moisture gets redistributed within the wall.Warmer elements dry rapidly at first, but the sheathing and stucco increase in moisture content.The sheathing eventually dries as moisture is removed from the wall, but the stucco arrives at a moisture content in balance with the moisture in the cavity air and exterior air (with a constant rate of diffusion of moisture through the stucco as long as total drying rate remains constant). In the 150 days of drying shown in Figure 2, only the studs lose enough moisture for their rate of drying to tail off.
While closing off the top of the cavity reduces drying by ventilation, even a small (1mm) gap at the top is beneficial in assisting removal of moisture from the wall.
The simulated wind actually reduced the drying rate. Wind-induced flow through the ventilation cavity lowered the air temperature and increased the RH, reducing drying potential by ventilation. Because of the low (and steady) pressure difference from bottom to top (1 Pa) the flow was laminar and relatively slow. Turbulent flow in the cavity and fluctuating winds might promote drying.
The interpretation and analysis of the simulations comparing the drying potential of OSB and Plywood sheathed wall systems is complicated by the initial sheathing moisture contents. Starting with 25 per cent moisture content on a dry weight basis in the sheathings, the higher dry mass of the OSB results in more moisture load in the sheathing than that of plywood.At the end of a five-month simulation under neutral pressure and no wind, the sheathing in a plywood sheathed wall was drier than in an OSB sheathed wall, and so was the wood framing.With more moisture to be removed, more time is required to reach the same moisture level.This may not hold for all plywoods and all OSB, however, since the properties of these products may vary from what was assumed.
If the initial moisture contents of the framing are the same, a 38 x 140 mm framed wall will contain 57 per cent more moisture than a 38 x 89 framed wall because of the larger volume. In the conditions simulated, the inner surface of the sheathing increased in moisture content for 20 days, at which time it reached saturation. It remained saturated for another 70 - 80 days before starting to dry again, not reaching the initial 25 per cent moisture content even after 150 days. Overall (through the entire thickness) the sheathing gained moisture for about 100 days, although the studs, the outer surface of the sheathing, and the overall wall assembly lost moisture continuously from the beginning.With 38 x 89 framing, the pattern of drying is similar, but the maximum moisture content of the inner surface of the sheathing is less, and it returns to initial moisture content sooner.
Drying of the wall with no interior vapour barrier (polyethylene sheet or vapour retardant paint on gypsum board) was substantially faster than drying of the same wall with a vapour barrier; more than twice the amount of moisture left the wall assembly. At the end of 150 days of simulation, the no-poly wall showed that the studs had dried to near equilibrium at around 12 per cent, the inner surface of the sheathing had dried to equilibrium at around 14 per cent, and the stucco had begun to dry in comparison with the poly wall which showed 15 per cent in the studs, 23 per cent moisture content on the inside surface of the sheathing and relatively no drying in the stucco. The no-poly simulation also showed that during the initial stages of drying, the inside of the sheathing increased in moisture content for less than 10 days before reaching its initial moisture content of 25 per cent again in comparison with 120 days required by the poly simulation.
Figure 2 Drying with Permeable Stucco, 19 mm Cavity, Exterior at 5 deg C & 70% RH
Pending validation of the model by comparing laboratory test results with model predictions, the conclusions stated here should be helpful to designers in devising walls that can dry after getting wet, before decay takes over. While not all of these predictions will be tested, if the model accurately predicts laboratory observations, it will be reasonable to assume that the untested predictions are valid.The significant findings are:
Jacques Rousseau
Drying of Walls with Ventilated Stucco Cladding: A Parametric Analysis, 1999
DMO Associates
Under Part IX of the National Housing Act, the Government of Canada provides funds to CMHC to conduct research into the social, economic and technical aspects of housing and related fields, and to undertake the publishing and distribution of the results of this research.
For a complete listing of Research and Development Highlights, or for more information on CMHC housing research, please contact:
The Canadian Housing Information CentreCanada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
The information in this publication represents the latest knowledge available to CMHC at the time of publication, and has been thoroughly reviewed by experts in the housing field. CMHC, however, assumes no liability for any damage, injury, expense or loss that may result from use of this information.
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Topic: Walk (07/20/06)
TITLE: This Is The Way
By Andrea Cooper
"I don't know what to do." He heard her whisper. "I try and I try, but I just don't know what to do."
He felt the pain and anguish in her voice. It tore at His heart and brought tears to His eyes. Try as He may, He couldn't manage to open her eyes to His truth. What could He do but to stand by and wait for the perfect moment…
Days passed away and weeks turned to months. With each passing moment, her heart grew farther and farther away. As much as she tried to find her own way through the darkness—there was always a dead end or a hole in the road that pulled her down. Yet, He was always there, walking just a few feet behind her…waiting to hear her call His name.
The words never came.
One day, it became obvious that His beloved's heart was bound up tight in the hands of His enemy. There was so much meant for her—so much that He wanted to give her. His heart loved her so…
Turning to His angels, He commanded in His strong and capable voice, "Walk before her. Help guide her through every trouble. Every storm that should come her way, be her light and her comfort. In time, she'll know I'm here."
So, the angels walked before her. Without ever noticing their presence or understanding the strange peace that settled in her heart, she overcame the battles that had seemed so daunting. There were moments when she could see trouble brewing and feel the fear well up within her. She was so certain of a terrible fate that she froze in her steps and refused to walk a foot farther. "Help me!" she found herself whisper in the dark. "I know You're there!" She held out her hand and waited for Him to take it.
At that moment, the rush of angels wings sounded in her ears and peace overflowed within her heart…and a smile lifted the corners of her lips.
"Walk with me." She heard Him say. "Hold tight to my hand…and simply walk with me."
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This is the way, walk in it." ~Isaiah 30:21 (NKJV)
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For all of those die hard Emily B fans out there, prepare yourselves for her to be missing from the next season of Love & Hip Hop. She announced on her Twitter earlier today (4/27), that she will not be returning as a cast member for the 3rd season, however she hinted at the fact that she may be getting her very own reality show on VH1.
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. is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian who grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA. Alexie was born in October 1966, with hydropcephalus, or water on the brain, and was not expected to survive. At six months, he came through a difficult brain surgery only to suffer seizures and other side-effects of the condition throughout his childhood. Despite these challenges, Alexie learned to read at age three and soon began reading literature voraciously, including
The Grapes of Wrath
Alexie decided to attend high school at Reardan High, 20 miles south of the reservation, where he was the only Indian except for the school mascot. Still, he excelled academically and athletically and won a scholarship to attend Gonzago University. Alexie transferred from Gonzaga to Washington State University in Pullman, WA, where he left his pre-med major to pursue writing. Shortly after graduating, Alexie won a Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship and published two collections of poetry,
I Would Steal Horses
The Business of Fancydancing
. He also published a collection of short stories,
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
, with Atlantic Monthly Press. This collection received a PEN/Hemingway award for Best First Book of Fiction and a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award, and was reissued in 2005 through Grove Atlantic Press.
Alexie was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists and won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize for his first novel, Reservation Blues. His second novel, Indian Killer, published in 1996, was a New York Times Notable Book.
Alexie has participated in several artistic collaborations, including performances with musician Jim Boyd, a Colville Indian, and a film project with Chris Eyre, a Cheyenne/Arapaho Indian. Together, they adapted one of Alexie's stories into the screenplay for the movie "Smoke Signals." Winning the Audience Award and the Filmmaker's Trophy at Sundance, the film was nationally distributed by Miramax in 1998. In 1999, it garnered additional honors, including the Christopher Award and the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.
Alexie is the only poet to win the Heavyweight Poetry Bout four years in a row, and is also an occasional performer of stand-up comedy. Moreover, he has participated in several serious discussions at conferences and on television, as part of the "Lehrer News Hour Dialogue on Race" with President Clinton, "NOW with Bill Moyers," and "Our Big American Family" with Oprah Winfrey.
To date, Alexie has published 17 books, including the poetry collections, First Indian on the Moon and One Stick Song, both by Hanging Loose Press, and his most recent collection of short stories, Ten Little Indians. In 2007, Alexie and his organization, FallsApart Productions, will release an anthology of Native American Writing by writers born after 1960.
English version
Buffalo Bill opens a pawn shop on the reservation
right across the border from the liquor store
and he stays open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
and the Indians come running in with jewelry
television sets, a VCR, a full-length beaded buckskin outfit
it took Inez Muse 12 years to finish. Buffalo Bill
takes everything the Indians have to offer, keeps it
all catalogued and filed in a storage room. The Indians
pawn their hands, saving the thumbs for last, they pawn
their skeletons, falling endlessly from the skin
and when the last Indian has pawned everything
but his heart, Buffalo Bill takes that for twenty bucks
closes up the pawn shop, paints a new sign over the old
calls his venture THE MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES
charges the Indians five bucks a head to enter.
(Reprinted with permission from The Business of Fancydancing,
Hanging Loose Press, 1993.)
A Poem Written in Replication of My Father's Unfinished Novel Which He Would Read to His Children Whenever He Was Drunk
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A Poem Written in Replication of My Father's Unfinished Novel Which He Would Read to His Children Whenever He Was Drunk
Indian Summer. Leaves fallen
from government trees. They remind me of sex.
My mother and father dead.
My father fell
at Okinawa, shot by a Japanese sniper.
I do not hate the Japanese. My lover is
Japanese. She reminds me of sex.
Pregnant, my mother coughed
blood into a paper tissue.
She died two weeks after I was born.
Now my Japanese lover is pregnant. She whispers
stories to her stomach about a small island
in the Pacific where her father killed
an American soldier during the war.
My lover and I wonder aloud
if her father killed my father.
We shiver in the heat of it.
It reminds us of sex.
After my parents died, I lived
with my aunt, who had enough money
to send me to Catholic School. I was
the only Indian who went to Catholic School
on purpose. I learned to play piano.
I jitterbugged with Catholic girls
and their pale thighs.
They smelled like sex.
I fell in love with all of them.
I learned chord after chord. Sex.
Often, these days, I stand at the window
of my reservation home
while my Japanese lover sleeps alone
in the scattered bed. She is pregnant.
Her father and mother live
with the dead in Hiroshima.
My father and mother are also dead.
Piano. Chord after chord. Island.
That window. This window.
One Indian boy runs
blindly through the trees.
A shadow falls
over everything.
Sex. Leaf, Faith. Glass.
If I stand at the window long enough
I will see the long thread of history
float randomly through the breeze.
This is all I know about peace.
(Reprinted with permission from One Stick Song, Hanging Loose Press, 2000.)
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Center fielder Carlos Beltran was named National League Player of the Week today.
Recently coming off the DL, Beltran showed everyone he was healthy and ready to play some ball.
In the last two series against the Pirates and the Nationals, Beltran went 9-for-24 with 4 homers and 10 RBI's. Sunday was his best day when he went 2-for-3 with 2 homers against the Nats helping the Mets earn the sweep.
This is the second time this season Carlos Beltran has earned NL Player of the Week. Moises Alou and David Wright were runners up for the award.


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Hand over the coffee and the doughnuts—things are about to get messy.
Long before we knew Jimmy Fallon as the late night host of The Tonight Show, he was Jake Gyllenhaal's crotchety sidekick at a colorful police station in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.
"We played two detectives who couldn't see eye to eye," Fallon told Monday's audience of their prior roles.
As for the Demolition star, Gyllenhaal said it was a particularly arduous task to convey his character.
"I've had some pretty intense roles—this was the most intense," he said.
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The following ran in the March 13, 2012, edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Political Scientist Cal Jillson provided expertise for this story.
March 22, 2012
By Anna M. Tinsley
A candidate running for the new congressional district in North Texas is already asking federal officials to send observers for the May 29 primaries -- at least in Dallas County -- to make sure there are no problems with voter fraud.
Dallas activist Carlos Quintanilla said Tuesday that he is sending a letter to the Justice Department's voting rights division asking it to intervene and send workers to at least the Dallas portion of District 33 to ensure that the election process is open, transparent and legal.
"The only way we can get independent monitors for the election is to ask the Justice Department to send observers. They would make sure there is no intimidation at polls, no harvesting of ballots," said Quintanilla, a Democrat and Latino activist. "We think we are doing the right thing. And we're hoping the other candidates will support this."
Quintanilla is one of 13 candidates -- 11 Democrats and two Republicans -- in the race for this minority-majority district that stretches from Fort Worth's Stockyards to Dallas' Oak Cliff neighborhood and resembles the district once represented by former U.S. Rep. Martin Frost, D-Dallas. At least one candidate isn't sure Quintanilla's request sets the right tone for the beginning of the campaign.
"I think that obviously there are a number of candidates in this race and there will be a number of concerns," said Fort Worth City Councilwoman Kathleen Hicks, who is also running for the seat. "To even consider that [request] is to characterize the race ... [as having] mudslinging and voter fraud.
"That's not the way to go so early in this process," she said....
Even though voter fraud has been an issue in North Texas, that doesn't mean Quintanilla's request will be successful, said Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
"He's trying to put a spotlight on himself by calling for federal monitors to be brought to Dallas," Jillson said.
"There have been a series of relatively modest voter fraud kinds of investigations ... but I don't think the Justice Department will put federal monitors into Dallas."...
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We're big fans of Rich Mullins and his music. I can look back on one of the roughest times of our lives and point to specific Rich Mullins songs that encouraged us to keep going. More than once, the song My Deliverer played at just the right time.
While you may know Rich Mullins for his worship song Awesome God, do you know the story of his life behind the scenes? The new DVD Ragamuffin gives us a glimpse into what real life was like for this singer-songwriter.
Ragamuffin is based on the life of Rich Mullins, a musical prodigy who rose to Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo reservation. An artistic genius, raised on a tree farm in Indiana by a callous father, Rich wrestled all of his life with the brokenness and crippling insecurity born of his childhood. A lover of Jesus and a rebel in the church, Rich refused to let his struggles with his own darkness tear him away from a God he was determined to love. As he struggled with success in Nashville and depression in Wichita, Rich desired most of all to live a life of honest and reckless faith amidst a culture of religion and conformity.
I appreciate Rich's struggles and the way he offered his gift. His music still leads us to the throne of grace today.
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The Missouri City, Missouri, City Council will hold their monthly open meeting at 7:30 pm on July 15th, 2013, at the MCCA Building.
Order of Business
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In the McNeil River Sanctuary, bears and humans have learned to share the landscape.
In California, land managers use fire as a tool.
While a North Dakota national park is an oasis from drilling, a nearby state park is thrown open.
Politics, land ownership and imperiled plants collide in New Mexico.
What is the right way to treat artifacts that do not belong to you?
Cash-strapped agencies use private contractors to the detriment of local communities.
Divisions between state and tribal agencies could keep the door open for a most unwelcome visitor.
Pueblo people and archaeologists work to understand the science of human migrations.
Through a tangle of corruption and overfishing, a marine species hangs in the balance.
Scientists collaborate to mitigate climate impacts in the Northwest.
Activists claim that decommissioning the dam will save water and restore a wild canyon. Are they right?
A look at the Elwha unleashed.
Solar advocates win a surprising victory in Nevada.
En medio de los basureros tóxicos de California, los activistas trabajan solos.
Climate chaos, mass extinction, the collapse of civilization: A guide to facing the ecocide.
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Course Introduction
The course is for undergraduates who either wish to develop a business arising from an existing creative practice or to understand how to create the infrastructure and environment for new creative businesses in the fields of computing, design, fashion, media and communications, music, or theatre and performance to flourish in a variety of contexts (e.g. city, rural, regional, national).
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What caused the author to write '1421 – The Year China Discovered The World'?
The author had spent years researching and writing his original book '1421', based on the events taking place all over the world in this defining year. However, his discoveries about China came by accident. When completing '1421' he came across the Zuane Pizzigano chart for the first time. The chart, drawn up by a Venetian cartographer in 1424, showed, to his disbelief, several of the Caribbean islands, as well as parts of the Florida coastline, some 70 years before Christopher Columbus arrived there.
Why has such an engrossing concept only come into the limelight so recently?
Despite the subject matter of the book appearing so innovative, there has been talk of pre-European world exploration for many years. It is only now however, that anyone has made an attempt to filter this wealth of information down into such a cogent and accessible package. The author has spent years travelling the world in search of evidence that had often been kept away from the general public. Therefore with the publication of this book, he has unearthed and made readily available a huge quantity of evidence that was previously confined to the dusty vaults and archives of the past.
Why was 1421 such an important year all over the world?
1421 was a decisive year in world history. In Europe, as the 100 years war raged on, King Henry V took the bold step of marrying the French heiress Catherine of Valois, in an attempt to reconcile the countries' differences. Simultaneously, Venice, the oldest and most powerful naval power in Europe was in a state of disarray. The old Doge was ill, his powers waning, and his successor waiting in the wings, determined that Venice should abandon its maritime tradition and concentrate on becoming a land power. Egypt had been plunged into a state of civil war and social unrest – there were no fewer than five sultans in 1421 alone. The Islamic world was also disintegrating, what with the Portuguese invasion of the North African heartlands. In December 1421 the overland route to China and the Spice Islands – the great Silk Road running from China right across Central Asia to the Middle East – had been blocked when the Ottomans surrounded Byzantium. In that same climactic month, the Mamluk Sultan Barsbey seized power in Egypt and nationalised the spice route. The effect of the two events was to ruin the merchants who had controlled the spice trade, seal Egypt's borders to international trade and sever the sea route through the Bosphorus to the western end of the Silk Road.
How has China reacted to the book?
The key speech made by the author to 36 different countries, with a population of some two billion people, via television at the Royal Geographical Society in March 2002, provoked a great deal of interest from all over the world. The main protagonist in our story, China, was obviously overwhelmed that their claim to have circumnavigated and charted the world before the Europeans, had been substantiated by a neutral participant. Despite many of the records of the voyages being destroyed at the hands of the mandarins in the sixteenth century, there still remain several Chinese accounts of their achievements, although sceptics have often doubted their veracity. China has already hosted several conferences on Zheng He Studies, which Gavin Menzies attended to give keynote speeches, and was honoured by being awarded a visiting Professorship at the University of Yunnan, to which he returns several times a year to lecture. Other projects include television documentaries, various museums, exhibitions and amusement parks, an epic movie and a historical replica of one of the huge treasure ships.
Why should we believe anything the book says?
In total, some 34 different lines of evidence have been found to support the theory that the Chinese circumnavigated and charted the globe, a century before the Europeans staked claim to having done so. The evidence is overwhelming, and encompasses both physical entities, (such as shipwrecks of Chinese junks in America, Australasia and Indonesia,) and examples such as the carved stones of Africa, the remains of Chinese peoples in South America, and artefacts scattered all over the world, inscribed with Chinese characters, in Chinese styles, and some successfully dated back to before the arrival of the Europeans. There also exists more circumstantial evidence such as the linguistic, ceremonial and spiritual similarities between the Chinese culture and those of other parts of the world in the fifteenth century. The linguistic similarities found between place names in Peru and Chile are heavily supportive of the notion that the Chinese exerted a huge influence there, in pre-Columbian times.
What is being done to further the research in the book?
There are several projects that are currently under way, the results of which will further support claims made in '1421: The Year China Discovered The World'. Archaeological teams all over the world are excavating sites believed to contain relics of Chinese shipwrecks. Furthermore, the projects launched for the television series will play a very significant role in unveiling the truth about the Chinese voyages of 1421 – '23. Since the launch of the website, countless researchers have come forward offering invaluable help and assistance, for which we are most grateful.
Why did China fail to keep her grasp on the world after wielding such incredible power at the beginning of the fifteenth century?
The difficulty in writing the book was further increased by the fact that the majority of Chinese records, documents and maps recounting the dramatic events of the 1421 – 1423 voyages were deliberately destroyed or hidden by the officials of the Chinese court, following an abrupt change in the country's foreign policy. The thunder and lightning storm that was to reduce the Emperor's palaces to a heap of smouldering rubble, as well as killing off many of his loyal subjects, was seen as a very bad omen, and it was to cause an ever-descending spiral of misfortune. With the succession of Zhu Di's son to the throne came the rejection of the outside world, with China turning in on herself. Anything commemorating previous expansionist policies was expunged from the record.
How can I find out more on the subject?
The book has been published in 24 languages, and has been the subject of 5 documentaries. For more information please visit the "Media" section of our website.
To read the evidence we have accumulated over the years please click here
I have just come across some information that I feel may be of relevance to the author. How and where should I partake this information?
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Hard-line Hindus are warning couples not to take foreign celebrations of Valentine's day too seriously because it corrupts traditional values.
Various Hindu nationalist groups warned people to stay indoors Tuesday, saying they would confront young couples showing affection in public and variously threatened to beat them, show their pictures to parents or force them to get married.
In the past, Hindu nationalists have accosted young couples and vandalized shops selling Valentine's Day cards and gifts.
Police say Muslim groups also have objected to the growing popularity of Valentine's Day. Last week, more than 20 black-veiled Muslim women stormed gift and stationery shops in Indian Kashmir, burning Valentine's Day cards to protest what they called the imposition of Western values on Muslim youth.


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or Publicani, a name given by the Romans to persons who farmed the public revenues; specially a class of the Jewish people, often mentioned in the New Testament, and specially odious to the rest of the community as the farmers of the taxes imposed upon them, mostly at the instance of their foreign oppressors the Romans, and in the collection of which they had recourse to the most unjust exactions. They were in their regard not merely the tools of a foreign oppression, but traitors to their country and apostates from the faith of their fathers, and were to be classed, as they were, with heathens, sinners, and harlots.
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Solange proves to be the coolest Knowles sister
Published 5:53 pm, Wednesday, March 13, 2013
It's hard to talk about Solange without bringing up Beyoncé, which is inevitable when your older sister is arguably the biggest pop star in the world. Playing a sold-out show at Fitzgerald's on Tuesday night, the 26-year-old brought her own low-key confidence in a vintage green-patterned dress, breaking out smooth dance moves with the energy of an indie star on the verge of a mainstream breakthrough.
Beyoncé may be fierce, but Solange is cool.
The tight, hourlong set was dominated by the bittersweet, '80s-inspired dance tracks on her "True" EP, starting with the deceptively breezy "Some Things Never Seem to (Expletive) Work" and the driving percussion of "Locked in Closets."
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While Solange's voice can sound like a slightly higher version of her sister's when she sings in her natural range, she's perhaps at her best when crooning in her rich, lovely falsetto on slower tracks like "Looks Good With Trouble."
She leaked that "Lovers in the Parking Lot" would be her next single (and she'll shoot the music video in Houston at Kings Flea Market on Griggs). It was "Parking Lot," combined with her effervescent lead single "Losing You," that marked the climax of her set, with the upstairs crowd jumping and dancing.
"Your energy is amazing," she said to the crowd, offering in return a couple of homecoming treats, including sliding into a cover of Selena's "I Could Fall in Love" at the end of "Don't Let Me Down" and closing the encore with her first-ever live performance of the Dirty Projectors' cover "Stillness Is the Move," hitting some Mariah Carey-style high notes in the process that earned cheers from the audience.
If her star keeps rising, the Fitzgerald's show could be Solange's last Houston performance in a venue of its size. Based on this show, she's ready for a bigger stage.
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The timezone in Coweeman Ranger Station is America/Whitehorse
Sunrise at 07:05 and Sunset at 17:43. It's Dark
Latitude. 46.1683°, Longitude. -122.6156°
Weather near Coweeman Ranger Station; Report from Toledo-Winlock Memorial, WA 50.9km away
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Temperature: 11°C / 52°F
Wind: 8.1km/h South/Southeast
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- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
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- Skipper Creek (1.5km)
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- North Fork Elk Creek (13.7km)
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- Jordan Creek (14.7km)
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- North Fork Goble Creek (15km)
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- mountain;
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- Coweeman Ranger Station (0km)
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- Meridian Lookout (11.9km)
- Camp Kalama (15.5km)
- gap;
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- Hemlock Pass (9km)
- Bear Pass (12.2km)
- cape;
- a land area, more prominent than a point, projecting into the sea and marking a notable change in coastal direction.
- Wolf Point (6.5km)
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- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Pigeon Springs (14.8km)
- range;
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- Toutle Mountain Range (16.2km)
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After 13 races of the 2012 F1 season, Mercedes AMG have finally followed the trend of side exiting exhausts to blow the diffuser area. After low placed exhausts were banned for 2012, each of the top teams found methods to coerce the exhaust plume back down from the higher tailpipe. Notably Lotus and Mercedes did not follow this route, although at the Young driver test at Magny Cours, Mercedes were seen testing the McLaren style of sidepod.
The sidepod sports a bulge in its flank to both house the exhaust tailpipe and divert airflow down over the exhausts exit. This downwash effect will bend the exhaust plume down towards the edge of the diffuser, even at relatively low speed. This helps to both speed up airflow under the floor and to seal the diffuser from airflow entering from the sides, which increases low pressure below the floor for more downforce. As a compound benefit this means Mercedes can run a higher rear height for even greater downforce. On the subject of the downforce benefit Ross Brawn told AUTOSPORT.com "We think that's quite significant in low speed traction," he said. "The effect of the exhaust is more significant at lower speeds than higher speeds, and also brings you the balance perhaps you need for the rear tyre".
The old exhaust sidepod solution featured exhausts mounted higher and more inboard, which blew over the centre of the engine cover. This would have had a positive effect on rear downforce, but this would not have been of the same order as the gains from blowing the diffuser with the new set up.
In detail the Mercedes iteration is closer to Ferraris later evolution of their sidepod. the normally smooth curved sidepods, now sports a distinct bulge from its side. This bulge also features some cooling louvers, probably as much for general sidepod cooling as for cooling the area around the exhaust. We can see the Lower wishbone has additional heat insulations to protect the carbon fibre from the heat of the exhaust plume. The floor has also been marked with stripes of heat sensitive pain to tell what level of heat is reaching the floor. I understand that the gas loses temperatures rapidly as it passes downwards towards the floor and evidence from other cars with this exhaust set up, show little protection is required on the blown area of floor.
Aside from the obvious bodywork changes and the reshaping of the exhaust system, the Mercedes engine will most likely also had a slightly different engine mapping. Both to optimise its use for the revised exhaust shape and lengths and also to smooth exhaust flow between on and off the the throttle. Their task will have been made more difficult by the clarification made by the FIA after the German GP that engine torque maps must not differ by more than 2% from the early season 'reference' maps. How much of a handicap this will be is not clear, as other teams have also switched exhaust solution mid season without major issues.
The team have just the three days of the YDT to test the solution before making the call whether to air freight the parts to Singapore for the next GP. As Singapore has several slow corners the exhaust solution will be a benefit, if the team are able to race it.


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Doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in San Francisco routinely renewed prescriptions for narcotic painkillers for patients they had never seen, according to a report from the agency's inspector general.
The IG also found sloppy record-keeping and failure to follow protocols to ensure the highly addictive drugs were not being abused.
Seven patients tracked by the IG overdosed on prescription narcotics, though none died, the IG found.
A Center for Investigative Reporting investigation published in September showed VA prescriptions for opiates increased 270 percent between 2001 and 2012, a rate that greatly exceeded the increase in patients.
The rate of fatal overdoses among VA patients is nearly double the national average, according to CIR.
The IG investigation resulted from a tip in October 2012 claiming doctors at the San Francisco facility were writing prescriptions for addictive painkillers to patients they were not treating.
VA procedures require prescriptions for certain opioid drugs, which are similar to morphine, to be renewed every 30 days. That is supposed to be done by the patient's primary care physician.
But, if the regular doctor is not available, VA policy allows another physician to renew the prescription without performing a face-to-face evaluation.
However, the patient's request is supposed to be screened to ensure it is time for the renewal and the patient is not abusing the drugs. The IG found that 53 percent of the renewals it reviewed had no documentation of a provider assessment.
Prescription renewal forms that should have been maintained in patient records were routinely shredded, the IG found.
Of the seven hospital patients who overdosed on prescription opioids, three attempted suicide, three took more than the prescribed dose and one took the opioids with illicit drugs.
Bonnie Graham, director of the San Francisco VA Medical Center, agreed with the IG's findings and implemented changes that will make the primary care physician responsible issuing and documenting prescription renewals.


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With a miserable teething 4 month old, nothing i do is working, I feel so bad:banghead:. My first dd sailed thru teething, never drooled, became feverish or screamed her head off.Shes usually such a happy baby too. Is it normal for teething to get worse at night? This is the worst night of a week of progressively bad nights. Any tips on how to get her to sleep, shes refusing to nurse as well:cry:
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Unfortunately, this probably won't help you tonight, but if you can find some clove oil tomorrow (I had to get mine at the health food store) you can dilute it and rub a drop on her gums. It will probably burn at first, but within a couple of minutes she will be numb.
As for whether or not it is normal for it to get worse at night, I think it is just that during the day there is enough to distract them from the discomfort, at least a little bit. At night there isn't the distractions.
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teething tablets?
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I will look into the clover oil(thats also a toothache remedy right) and teething tablets. She's finally asleep, whew!
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Yes, teething seems to bother them mostly at night, I don't know why.
It is funny that she refuses nursing, it usually helps but also can drive you crazy if you have to nurse 10 times a night.
The good thing is that it will pass.:)
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The timezone in Caribou Shelter is America/Iqaluit
Sunrise at 07:52 and Sunset at 18:27. It's Dark
Latitude. 44.1281°, Longitude. -73.9756°
Weather near Caribou Shelter; Report from Saranac Lake, Adirondack Regional Airport, NY 40.6km away
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Temperature: -3°C / 27°F
Wind: 18.4km/h South/Southwest gusting to 23km/h
Cloud: Broken at 10000ft
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Wind: 18.4km/h South/Southwest gusting to 23km/h
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- mountain;
- an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
- Avalanche Mountain (1.2km)
- Colden, Mount (1.4km)
- Algonquin Peak (2.3km)
- Boundary Peak (2.3km)
- Iroquois Peak (2.4km)
- Wright Peak (3.1km)
- MacIntyre Mountains (3.1km)
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- Feldspar Brook (2.6km)
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- Phelps Brook (5.4km)
- Pelkey Brook (6.5km)
- Allen Brook (7.2km)
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- Hanging Spear Falls (3.7km)
- Indian Falls (4.6km)
- Rocky Falls (6.1km)
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- Four Corners (5.1km)
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Posted on : 28-05-2011 | By : stargaterich | In : Internet_Marketing
Tags: backlink, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO, SERP
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I studied and gathered the back-links of this particular guru website and I noticed that quite a number of the incoming links to his website comes from blogs that were created using the blogging theme and software created by that Internet Marketing Guru!. Such technique may seems to be unethical to some but otherwise it is indeed a smart way to gather extra backlinks, even from those that are not in the same niche.


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Mark Dekanich had nothing to lose.
It was 19 other Nashville Predators who basically handled that part of it during the first 9:59 of Saturday's game against the Los Angeles Kings. That's when they allowed three goals on nine shots.
So it was that Dekanich, a 24-year-old, made his NHL debut as a spur-of-the-moment replacement for Anders Lindback with 10:01 remaining before the first intermission. It mattered not that he allowed another three goals of his own (on 25 shots) in what was the Predators' most lopsided defeat of the season, 6-1 [1] before a crowd of 16,734 at Bridgestone Arena.
"I just take it how it is — I got to play a game in the NHL," Dekanich said. "That's a dream come true. I felt good and I think I played well. A lot of the bounces weren't on our side."
Coming into the contest, Nashville had allowed three goals or more 13 times this season and had won just four of those games. Two of those victories came in a shootout, meaning it actually had outscored the opposition twice in those circumstances.
Thus, the three goals allowed early all but sealed the Predators' fate, particularly when it was their fifth game in eight nights and second in as many days.
"[Lindback] has been winning us games, and we had been getting bounces," defenseman Ryan Suter said. "[Saturday] was just one of those nights. You just have to find a way to get going again and get back into it. We weren't able to do that."
Their tidy record (17-8-6, fourth in the Western Conference), five-game win streak and 10-game run with at least one point earned at the start of play primarily were products of defense and goaltending.
Lindback, in particular, had been a rock. Making his eighth straight start, he led all rookie goaltenders in goals-against average (2.08) and save percentage (.931). He also had the opportunity to become the third to record his 10th win of the season.
It was clear that things were different on this night when the puck got behind him for the first time 15 seconds after the opening faceoff. It was the third-fastest goal ever allowed by Nashville.
"They got the second goal and at that point I thought about maybe pulling [Lindback]," coach Barry Trotz said. "But I wanted him to fight through it a little bit and see if he could.
"It wasn't his fault. He didn't get a lot of help."
The switch to Dekanich paid early dividends as Steve Sullivan scored 24 seconds later and cut the deficit to two, 3-1.
The positive vibe was short-lived, though. The Kings got their fourth before the end of the first period. After 20 minutes, 13 different Nashville players had a minus-1 rating.
The Kings added two more in the second period and expanded their margin to a significant degree. They did so with some unusual goals, including a pair knocked in out of the air and one or two others off rolling pucks.
Six different Los Angles players had two points each led by Ryan Smyth, who scored twice.
None of the Predators' previous defeats were by more than three goals.
"It's tough, especially on a night when they whacked two out of the air, the one goes off Smyth, over the goalie and in," Nashville captain Shea Weber said. "It's been a while since I've seen that many in one game. Usually you see one bounce like that."
More often than not you also see only one goalie per team. This was not one of those nights.
• Sullivan's goal made him the fourth player to score 100 goals with the Predators. It was his 304th game with Nashville.
The others to do so are David Legwand (154 goals), Martin Erat (128) and Jason Arnott (107).
Sullivan also hit that milestone with his previous team, Chicago. He had 118 goals in 370 contests with the Blackhawks.
• Defenseman Cody Franson missed his second straight game because he was back home in western Canada for the funeral of a family member.
Right wing Patric Hornqvist missed his third straight with an upper body injury.
[1] http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=2010020481


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China, 2016, colour, 2.35:1, 92 mins.
Director: Bak Yu-hwan 박유환 | 朴裕焕.
Rating: 5/10.
Entertaining enough black comedy doesn't bring anything new to its genre.
Beijing, the present day, winter. Wu Daming (Lei Jiayin), a divorced lawyer with two children, accidentally falls down an open manhole and is dazed by the experience. He returns to the old building he lives alone in – Seven Stars Apartments, full of colourful characters – and in his wardrobe finds the body of Gao Yan (Li Ya'nan), a fellow tenant he'd once threatened to kill for badmouthing his girlfriend Yang Yi (Xia Zitong), the daughter of the building's owner, Yang Zhong (Wu Hong). Yang Zhong wants her to marry a gangster, Qian, so he can get some cash to save the building. Still feeling dazed, Wu Daming visits a doctor (He Yunwei) who reminds him that the previous night he and Gao Yan got into a fight over Yang Yi. Back in his flat, Wu Daming checks his wardrobe and, instead of Gao Yan's body, finds a friend, petty thief Wang Song (Li Jing), hiding there. It turns out that Wang Song entered Wu Daming's flat while he was out, found the body of Gao Yan and put it inside a suitcase; when other friends of Wu Daming came round to play majiang, Wang Song hid in the wardrobe. Wu Daming has been wondering whether a gang boss, Ji (Li Yu), killed Gao Yan over money, or even Wang Song because of an insult. Then he and Wang Song discover that Yang Zhong threatened to kill Gao Yan because of some nude pictures Gao Yan took of Yang Yi. After discovering Gao Yan's body in his room, all three decide to bury it in the suitcase outside the city. As they leave by car, they're joined by a fourth person, Auntie (Sun Ning), who's on the run from Fats (Zhao Zhizhe) and his men. However, after burying the body in the countryside, they're then forced to move it, as the site is about to be developed for a new block of flats.
A one-thing-leads-to-another black comedy, in which the hero's bad day starts with him falling down a manhole and continues with him finding a corpse in his wardrobe, Memento 记忆碎片 is an entertaining enough 90 minutes without being – like the same film-maker's second feature, psycho-horror The Mysterious Family (2017) – anything special within the genre. Made with a less starrier cast, Memento managed only a lame RMB4 million on release in China, a quarter of Family's gross.
Set and shot (back in late 2012) in Beijing, it was the first feature by South Korean writer-director Bak Yu-hwan 박유환 | 朴裕焕, 47, and like Family was funded by Mainland sources. Though mainly using a China crew, Bak typically imported a Korean d.p. – Gim Seong-hwan 김성환 | 金成奂, whose bright grey light exactly captures that of wintertime Beijing but doesn't bring much atmosphere, especially to the apartment building – plus Hong Kong editor Chen Zhiwei 陈志伟 [Andy Chan], who's worked on many Mainland productions (So Young 致我们终将逝去的青春, 2013; Love on the Cloud 微爱之渐入佳境, 2014; Detective Chinatown 唐人街探案, 2015) and here turns in a typically tight package. The film's problem is more Bak's script, which throws together a dead body, a concussed main character and a group of marginal characters in an old apartment block but just has a familiar feel to it rather than bringing anything fresh or new to a well-worn genre. The Chinese title means "Fragments of Memory" but Bak's screenplay doesn't really explore that theme.
A higher-profile cast may have given the movie a boost, but the existing players do as much justice to the script as possible. As the divorced lawyer who just keeps having a bad day, TV actor Lei Jiayin 雷佳音 brings a suitably bemused look to the part, with others supplying more colour: stand-up comedian He Yunwei 何云伟 is especially good as a weasily hawker-cum-thief, Li Yu 李彧 as a gang boss, and TV actress Sun Ning 孙宁 as a blousy "auntie" on the run.
The chamber-like scoring, supervised by well-known Mainland music producer Qin Tian 秦天, is fine throughout. The film's production title was 七星公寓 ("Seven Star Apartments"), the name of the old block of flats. On posters the English title is Memento Mori – distractingly recalling the 1999 lesbian high-school K-horror – though on the film itself it is just Memento. Hong Kong director/producer Guan Jinpeng 关锦鹏 [Stanley Kwan] is credited as "artistic supervisor", though what he contributed is anyone's guess.
Presented by Seven Stars Film (Beijing) (CN), Future Film Media (CN), Beijing Zonto International Auction (CN), Assets Management Company of Beijing Normal University (CN), Beijing Wing of National Film Culture Media (CN), Red Place Vision Film & TV Media (CN). Produced by Dadi Media (Beijing) (CN), Shanghai Asia Television Art Centre (CN).
Script: Bak Yu-hwan, Yu Fan. Photography: Gim Seong-hwan. Editing: Chen Zhiwei [Andy Chan]. Music direction: Qin Tian. Art direction: Wu Ming, Wang Jinguo. Styling: Wang Yimiao. Sound: Wang Tong, Hu Wei, Li Tao. Action: Liu Fang. Special effects: Su Shengjiang. Visual effects: Choi Jeong-min. Executive direction: Li Xin'gang. Artistic supervision: Guan Jinpeng [Stanley Kwan].
Cast: Lei Jiayin (Wu Daming), Xia Zitong (Yang Yi, Wu Daming's girlfriend), Li Jing (Wang Song), Sun Ning (Da Sao/Auntie), Li Yu (Ji, gang boss), He Yunwei (Wei Min, doctor), Li Ya'nan (Gao Yan), Wu Hong (Yang Zhong, Yang Yi's father), Fang Daxiong (Luo Guo), Zhao Zhizhe (Pangzi/Fats), Zhao Ye (Zhang, boss), Xia Minghao (man in glasses), Wang Yutang (Wu Daming's boss), Liu Xin (cleaning lady), Wang Hongqian (muscle man).
Release: China, 3 Jun 2016.


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Andrew Delap (fl.1770)
Andrew Delap was raised by his uncle, the treasurer of the County of Donegal, after his father was killed in a naval engagement. Converted in 1770 by John Smith, he entered the Irish itinerancy in 1774 and despite a severe speech impediment achieved a great deal of success.
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Legendary Locks: Can Hair Act as a Sixth Sense, Protecting us from Danger?
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Humans have ever styled their hair in a multitude of creative and symbolic ways, and the various cuts, colors and presentations reflected across the ages are nearly unlimited. But does hair serve us in more ways than providing simple warmth and good looks? There are some who believe that hair is directly associated with sensory power and it serves as an extension of our nervous system.
Depending upon the time and place on earth in which one lives, the hair on one's head (or the lack thereof) has had intense significance. Belief systems and folklore have long dictated how hair was to be handled and worn: tied up, covered up, grown long, cut short, shaved off, crimped, colored and curled, decorated, twisted, braided, and more. But for many societies, the longer the hair, the better.
Goddess Sif, wife of Thor, was renowned for her long, golden tresses which were associated with wheat, fertility and family. ( Public Domain )
Hair as a Sixth Sense
In fact, some feel that long hair gave Native Americans certain sensory abilities, acting as a sort of antenna, much like whiskers on a cat.
One report speaks of a claim by a worker at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the United States during the Vietnam War. It is alleged that, like the Choctaw and Navajo Native Americans known as 'Code Talkers' during both World Wars, talented scouts were sought to move stealthily through rough and dangerous terrain in conflict zones.
The enlisted recruits, who were well documented as having "outstanding, almost supernatural tracking abilities" were said to not perform as expected in the field, and when questioned about the failures in performance, " the older recruits replied consistently that when they received their required military haircuts, they could no longer 'sense' the enemy. They could no longer access a 'sixth sense', their 'intuition' no longer was reliable, they could not 'read' subtle signs as well or access subtle extrasensory information," writes WakingTimes.com
A Native American man with long hair. (Flickr/ CC BY 2.0 )
The report claims that government testing institutes compared the behaviors and tracking performances of Native American trackers with and without long hair, they found that the long-haired subjects outperformed those whose hair had been cut in military fashion. The suggested theory was that the long hair might have behaved as an extension of the nervous system, as, not unlike the way cat whiskers transmit information to the cat on the prowl as it approaches prey, the long hair acted like a sixth sense.
Some skeptics challenge the claims, noting that no evidence has been found as yet to show that hair is anything more than dead cells (keratin proteins) and as such transmits nothing. However, strands stem out from our skin, and the follicle at the base is actually an organ that produces hair. Hair is connected to tactile receptors in the skin that tell us that it's cold or hot out, let us feel the slightest breeze, or the annoying bug that is about to bite us, serving as a protective warning device.
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When our hairs stand up on the back of our necks when we're in danger or feel threatened (known as goose bumps, or horripilation), is that a reflex of something we detect with our other senses, an unconscious perception affecting the hair? Or is it our hair affecting us, sending us a warning?
Certainly there are societies that feel hair plays such an important role in our lives. The tale of the Native American trackers echoes the ancient biblical myth of Samson.
The Mighty Samson
It was written in the Hebrew Bible that Samson, a Hercules-like figure with superhuman strength, was born a Nazirite with vows to abstain from wine, to have no contact with the dead, and to never cut a hair on his head. Nearly an undefeatable man—his superhuman abilities made him a powerful warrior, and he was able to rip lions apart—he did have a weakness which would lead to his undoing.
Samson's Fight with the Lion (1525) Samson's power was said to be connected to his uncut hair. ( Public Domain )
He fell in love with a woman (a Philistine, with whom the Israelites were at war) against the wishes of his parents. Delilah was tasked by her people to find out Samson's weakness, so as to defeat the hero that was said to protect the Israelites.