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The Future Isn't What It Used To Be
Living Through a Time of Cosmic Changes
Why did you decide to be here now – living at the nexus point of galactic changes, in a planet-spanning technological civilization of competitive tribes and nations struggling to share Earth's common wealth? Why did you decide to appear at the midnight of one epoch and the morning of another, when everything our species knows is hanging in the balance? Did you want to be in on the biggest party the planet has known, or did you come here to witness the birth throes of a newly transformed Humanity on a thoroughly altered Earth?
If we can learn to occupy our rightful place in the web of life without usurping the seats of others, we can become the wise governors of the planetary kingdoms and phyla that we have always longed to be. We haven't quite destroyed the ecosystem yet; nonetheless, we're all in for a wild roller coaster ride on a ghost train without safety belts, and with perforated airbags filled with CO2, formaldehyde and sulphur. Everything we've known is changing fast and catastrophic change is approaching.
Global warming is but an overture in a symphony of cosmic cycles which will culminate in the impending endgame of the current age, when the fat lady known as Mother Nature will sing a new anthem in the new dawn's wan light. The same stars shine upon us all, and we all live inside the atmosphere of the Sun. Earth is a gyroscope spinning within the gyroscopic field of Sol's system, and the vast electric sphere of the solar orb is the main driving force behind all the current and impending alterations in our planet's climate, magnetic field, geological integrity - and all the habits humankind has developed to survive the past twelve millennia. The entire Holocene has been but a short hollow scene between the overarching acts of great glaciations – a brief bright candlelit moment of warmth sandwiched inside the long slow cold times fore and aft, when merciless icebergs will crush our temperate civilized ships of state.
This warm interglacial period that has sustained and nurtured us for more than ten thousand years is drawing to a close; this is the real issue facing our self-centred species, and all other considerations will soon be inexorably drawn into the wake of this unprecedented threat to our survival. We have been born into a time of changes so extreme that everything modern civilization has experienced thus far will soon seem like a cakewalk by comparison. Our current milieu of financial catastrophes, corporate greed and political ineptitude will be viewed with strangely nostalgic hindsight in coming decades. We're experiencing the dawn of a new epoch as a disarmingly slow motion film of a monumental train wreck – with enough time to examine and pore over every detail of a massive collision of overpopulation, misdirected technology, willful ignorance and cosmic cycles as the dangerous curves all meet at a fateful nexus.
We live on the fragile crust of a spinning time-bomb and no imaginary bearded father figure is going to save us – but we have the tools to save ourselves, if we recognise the multiple threats bearing down on our children and change direction while we have a few moments of precious preparation time. The titanic inertia of our global civilization can still be directed away from the approaching iceberg, if we stop merely rearranging toxic light bulbs and recognise what each of us really has to do.
A list of the current and coming changes reads like apocalyptic science fiction and the implications are so overwhelming that many will simply turn away in disbelief, while others will shrug their shoulders and avoid the real issues entirely while getting on with busyness. Some will prefer to leave the problems for their children to deal with. What will you do when you wake to the truth? Will you remove the screens from your own eyes, before removing your brother's sunglasses?
Everything we citizens of free modern societies (or gangster-run dynastic kleptocracies, to call them by a more accurate title) take for granted will soon come to an end. Corporate clowns won't solve anything by juggling fictitious carbon between themselves – carbon credits are viewed by the owners of dark satanic mills as just another way to turn a profit out of continuing to pollute the planet. We need to understand that the changes we face are far vaster than such marginal deckchair tinkering can possibly deal with. We need to regulate and enforce the industrial Ancient Mariners out of existence while we build a brave new sustainable vessel whose broad decks are filled with interconnected ecological lifeboats. There are plenty of jobs in the alternative route to survival, and the present course will lead to no work - or workers - at all.
Cosmic Clock
The storm on the horizon is not confined to this planet. The solar system is changing – Mars and Jupiter are showing signs of planetary warming and the heliosphere (the Sun's envelope of charged plasma which encompasses the planets) is shrinking at an apparently unprecedented rate.
The invisible waves our solar system is cruising through are growing choppy and the swell is rising. The sunspot cycle has shifted, refusing to conform to the cycles humans have painstakingly recorded for thousands of years. The Earth's magnetic field is weakening; new magnetic poles are forming in totally new locations as our entire solar system makes rendezvous with the galactic plane. You don't have to believe this on faith – take a look at the research yourself if you like; there's plenty of truth out there for the seeker to find, in reputable scientific journals and online repositories.
Global warming may be partially attributed to changes in the Sun's field and its attendant effects but the Sun is part of even larger gyroscopic systems. The impending reversal of the Earth's geomagnetic poles is a result of our solar system's periodic intersection with the ecliptic of the Milky Way galaxy. We're entering a perfect storm, and we have to work together if we're ever to emerge from the mouth of the serpent at the end of this precessional cycle.
However, humans are contributing to global warming in a marked way, pushing life's envelope beyond the regional effects of cosmic weather systems. Our industrious beavering is putting far more CO2 and other more devastating greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than natural processes can deal with – particularly when we've been cutting the heart out of those same natural processes and turning the planet into a desertified industrial wasteland. We've been hacking holes in the lifeboats and selling the resultant woodchips for pennies for far too long.
Yet all the carbon dioxide spewed from all our filthy smokestacks is the merest by-blow of an incredible raft of toxins being pumped into the air we all breathe and the water we all drink, and the food that sustains our children. We've been tainting the biosphere with industrial poisons and outright biocides for far too long, and the time to clean up our act is truly upon us. New green energy sources, transport systems and industrial processes are waiting in the wings and it's time to wheel them onstage now – while the corporate colossi are falling from their clay pedestals and their old rustbucket technologies are being cast onto the scrap heap of history.
We can revitalize the real economy by rebuilding our civilization from the ground up – build up our real estate with ecologically sound lifestyles and aspirations. It's time to forget the con job of the old eCONomy – which is based on nothing more than overblown and power-drunk tyrants inspiring CONfidence in a system of never-ending growth, of all things. What a laugh – and yet all the pokie players, mortgage holders and credit card debtors in the world have willfully fallen for the same old ruse again!
Most wage slaves have been working like blind moles tunneling toward a precipice, making imaginary profit from worthless, suicidal and destructive toil. No wonder the executives of the world are laughing all the way to their Swiss bank accounts; they know that real capital, like common sense, is a rare commodity indeed. Unlike junk derivatives, variable imaginary currencies, worthless stocks and missing pension funds, the real wealth of the world – minerals and soils, an immeasurable diversity of plants and animals, clean air and water – are the priceless wellsprings from which all wealth flows.
The real ECOnomy is based on a far more a solid footing than inflated figures on fictitious computerised legers. The real ECOnomy is what we need to work with now. Everyone on the planet can enjoy the benefits of our current advanced societies – democracy, freedom, health care systems, rule of law, social safety nets and security – half-formed and relative as they may be – without destroying the ecosystem or robbing our children of their future. We can build an interconnected synergy of technologies that can raise the standard of living of everyone on Earth while repairing the damage we've wrought; we can't do anything but transform our industries and clean up our act if we have a hope of surviving.
If we want to rein in the biggest elephant in our collective living room – overpopulation – without resorting to draconian measures, we must recognise that the need for smaller families automatically requires adequate social welfare systems, to take the place of the myriad benefits and ongoing support provided by the large family groups of the past. Paradoxically, all the controlling patriarchal corporations and matriarchal nanny states will have to open their jewellery boxes to their prodigal sons and prodigious daughters - and release their children from bondage and dependency – if they want to keep their national families whole, hearty and together. Any other course will incite a well deserved mutiny.
Common Wealth
If we want to be truly realistic we must realise that our civilizations have been built on the blood, sweat and tears of ourselves, our parents, our grandparents and all our long-suffering ancestors. Everything we have created is truly our common wealth, and every citizen is owed a dividend by the corporate entity of their profit-taking nation – who usually takes more than half of their earnings in taxes (note the similarity of the words 'taxing' and 'taking').
Receiving payments from the state is no longer a disreputable matter of accepting charity. It isn't a case of less motivated unfortunates sponging on society's more productive members. Social justice, universal endowment and equity are dreams whose time has finally arrived, if we recognise our chance; the only alternative is a prison planet of slave labourers and greedy overseers.
Pensions and other welfare payments are a right - not a privilege – already earned by the incessant work and endless taxing of all our ancestors – and the exploitation of the planet's resources - for uncounted generations. If we don't share the wealth and dole it out more evenly the corporate clowns will simply bury it in Switzerland, and there'll be nothing left to help when the excrement hits the air conditioner! It's time we recognised that we're all owed a guaranteed basic wage *, and accept our due with happiness and farsighted grace. The work ethic is laudable in its place, but living for the sake of working is an outmoded and deadly lifestyle which too many people have failed to transcend. It's time for a new ethos.
Hands up anyone who realises the implications of the terms 'automation', 'production line', 'redundancy', 'layoffs', 'cyclic recession' - or 'freedom', 'creativity', 'fulfilling work' and 'leisure time'? We need to become a far more creative little species if we're to pass on our vast treasury of diversified genes through the next ice age – after all the massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, coastal alterations and other mind boggling changes that will occur when this warm little interglacial draws to a close over the next human lifetime.
An ice age? Isn't the world overheating? Everyone knows the ice is melting. Everyone knows that glaciers are disappearing at an alarming rate. Many are aware that these same glaciers (and shrinking snow-melt in the currently shortening winters) are the great trickling dams which sustain many of the greatest rivers of the world. Think about the Ganges, or the Nile, the Rhine or Rhone, Yellow or Yangtse; take a look at Google Earth. All our fresh water supplies are disappearing fast, and many of these rivers will be essentially gone in a generation. Well before that happens the food will run out; in case you hadn't noticed, it's running out now. Palm oil plantations and unsustainable biofuel production are only small parts of the problem. Those the easiest parts of the coming changes to understand and deal with…
When the River Runs Dry
After an interim warming period when the rivers and wells run dry, the world will be catapulted into an ice age. The water vapour flung into the atmosphere by warming processes will ultimately fall as mile-thick ice sheets on newly forming poles. Sea level changes will drown coastlines far more rapidly than our partially complete sciences currently predict. This alteration in the datum will trigger massive earthquakes and vulcanism – whose incidences have been increasing logarithmically for the last century – and the subsequent global axial shift will ignite every fault line on the planet. Increased albedo (reflectivity) from massing cloud cover and volcanic outpourings will rapidly lower the feverish global temperature as the temperate regions are gripped by unprecedented drought.
There's no way to soften this blow, or to understate what we're going to face; we're already approaching the end-run, but have just enough time to prepare. Axial tilt is likely, along with a sudden inundation of all coastal areas that will make greenhouse seal level rises seem like a tiny ripple by comparison. Higher altitudes will be swept by unimaginably devastating winds and destructive storms will scour much of the planet.
The only route to survival – and to thriving in the coming times – lays in recognising the truth, and in cooperating to create a far more resilient civilization than the tottering behemoth we've cobbled together so far. We can't afford to waste our time feeding the coffers of warmongers or working on the destructive 'jobs' of their interlinked toxic industries any longer. War and other equally pointlessly productive pastimes must end now, before their waste and wastes consume us all. Such infantile behaviour can no longer be tolerated, and we can't spare any more of the enormous time and resources that have already been frittered away, playing competitive games for the entertainment and profit of egocentric oligarchs and maladjusted ideologues.
S0-called survivalists must realise that everyone's guns must be beaten into plowshares, and that no lone gunmen or militant militias can long survive in the times to come. Raising the new humanity will require a global village, not the same old spear-carrying camp following shtick – although it will come to that, if enough of us don't act together in time. There are doubtless very few modern women who would hearken back to the sleet-blown days and freezing nights of bombastic patriarchal tribal hooligans with anything other than a sense of dread and foreboding.
Freedom requires prosperity and plenty, and failing to act will make slaves of us all.
Naturally, most people will ignore all these warnings and be distracted by the endless entertainments vying for attention in our modern pre-apocalyptic dystopias. But maybe – just maybe – you're one of the visionaries who truly understand and care about what's really happening in this frantic self-mutilating world of innocent fools and predatory conmen. Maybe you're one of the ones that will breathe a sigh of awe and relief when you look back on the rollercoaster ride we're about to go through. Maybe you'll do more than just read and talk, and will actually walk the work.
We all need to start planting trees – preferably food-bearing trees – yesterday. If you can't think of anything better to do, putting down roots in a survivable location – with a permanent water supply, well away from the coasts or polar regions - is a very good idea. The most survivable latitudes lie between zero and thirty degrees from the equator. High altitudes will make for temporary refuges at best, and 'dormant' or active volcanic regions must be avoided at all costs.
Most cities are unmitigated deathtraps, and living nearby to a large population centre may be very unwise. Build your dwellings and other structures with floods, famines, hurricanes, fires, earthquakes and exoduses in mind, wherever you may be. If you want to learn how to live for a long, long time, begin to think with the perspective of an old growth tree – and listen to any local wise indigenous people who can bear to speak with you. It's time to put down roots for the long term, with people you can live with for a long, long time. Do you know anyone like that? Are you someone you can live with forever?
It's all a very big ask, I know – preparing for climactic events that may not occur for generations. Yet you know in your bones that the new world-age is coming – don't you? You may well ask 'when'? A more profitable line of inquiry would be to ask yourself, 'What can I do right now to help myself and others?', or even 'Who am I, really?' Living in a beautiful place with your friends and loved ones is reward enough in itself – and now is the best and only time and place in which you can actually live.
It's actually possible to alter the cycle of glaciation without resorting to crass technological fixes (which will cause more trouble than they're worth). It's even possible to alter the solar cycles themselves; but we need to learn far more about ourselves and each other - and learn to evolve into the advanced entities we have the potential to be - if we're to pursue these farsighted grail-like goals.
The future isn't what it used to be, but nothing is written on stone until it's already come to pass. Take advantage of this great time of changes to alter the tack of your own destiny and ride through the coming storm to emerge unscathed, along with your loved ones. That's the best we can all hope for, and all we really need. That's what life is – caring and sharing.
Good luck, bon voyage, and happy trails, amigos… may you live long and prosper!
- R.Ayana
* One of the arguments for a basic income was articulated by the French Economist and Philosopher André Gorz: "The connection between more and better has been broken; our needs for many products and services are already more than adequately met, and many of our as-yet-unsatisfied needs will be met not by producing more, but by producing differently, producing other things, or even producing less. This is especially true as regards our needs for air, water, space, silence, beauty, time and human contact...
"From the point where it takes only 1,000 hours per year or 20,000 to 30,000 hours per lifetime to create an amount of wealth equal to or greater than the amount we create at the present time in 1,600 hours per year or 40,000 to 50,000 hours in a working life, we must all be able to obtain a real income equal to or higher than our current salaries in exchange for a greatly reduced quantity of work..."Neither is it true any longer that the more each individual works, the better off everyone will be. The present crisis has stimulated technological change of an unprecedented scale and speed: 'the micro-chip revolution'. The object and indeed the effect of this revolution has been to make rapidly increasing savings in labour, in the industrial, administrative and service sectors. Increasing production is secured in these sectors by decreasing amounts of labour. As a result, the social process of production no longer needs everyone to work in it on a full-time basis. The work ethic ceases to be viable in such a situation and workbased society is thrown into crisis"
Andre Gorz, Critique of Economic Reason, Gallile, 1989
Note from Wikipedia – see http://www.basicincome.org/bien/aboutbasicincome.html
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It's Royal Wedding Day!
I don't know about you, but my clock was set at 4am this morning to start the early morning television coverage of this historic event. Maybe my fascination stems from the fact that we don't have royalty here in the U.S. and it makes it that much more intriguing, or perhaps the reason I am so excited is because I have some VERY special news to share with all of my readers: I am moving to London in two weeks!!
I have wanted to join many of my friends and move to London for over a year now, and having my Italian passport makes moving and working there a snap! No red tape and no visas to apply for ensures a smooth transition. I am also very excited to announce that I have accepted a job at the head office of oh-so-posh Liberty of London, a quintessentially British company (established in 1875, we're talking over 135 years of history and tradition here) who are world renowned for both their fabrics and their truly iconic Tudor department store on Regent Street in London. I will be the product manager of their line of interior design/furnishing fabrics and will be responsible for launching all the new seasonal collections.
The iconic Tudor style facade of Liberty of London on Regent Street |
Floors and floors of goodies inside Liberty of London |
Winner of Time Out Magazine's 50 Best shops in London, Liberty is always doing something fresh and exciting. They have done some major fashion collaborations with Target, J.Crew, and Nike, to name a few. Their store houses well known classic brands like Armani and Etro, but also fosters cutting edge designers such as Proenza Schouler and Isabella Marant. Each of their six creaky wood floors feature something different, from men's and women's clothing to shoes, jewelry, accessories, bags, housewares, gifts, crafts and hobbies, interior design fabrics, makeup and beauty products, stationary sets, even a denim and scarf room, a men's barber shop, a spa dedicated just to feet, a restaurant for lunch or afternoon tea, and a florist. Talk about one-stop shopping!
And this month, the uber-famous publishing house Assouline just opened their first UK shop inside Liberty of London, known as the Literary Lounge. The new boutique is over 1,000 square feet and features not only books, but antiques and specialty items such as a Goyard trunk filled with 100 books to get your own Assouline collection started. As if this space were not fabulous enough, guests can enjoy a flute of champagne, a cup of tea, coffee or a refreshing soda as they peruse the books. Keep your eye on Liberty, they are surprisingly avant-garde for an "old" British department store!
The new 1,000 sq, ft. Assouline bookstore inside Liberty of London |
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The Legend of "Stingy Jack"
People have been making jack-o'-lanterns at Halloween for centuries.
The practice originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed
"Stingy Jack." According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to
have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn't want to pay
for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that
Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided
to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross,
which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form.
Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not
bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim
his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a
tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a
sign of the cross into the tree's bark so that the Devil could not come
down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more
Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such
an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had
played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not
allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a
burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip
and has been roaming the Earth with ever since. The Irish began to
refer to this ghostly figure as "Jack of the Lantern," and then, simply
"Jack O' Lantern."
In Ireland and Scotland, people began to make their own versions of
Jack's lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and
placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away Stingy Jack
and other wandering evil spirits. In England, large beets are used.
Immigrants from these countries brought the jack-o'-lantern tradition
with them when they came to the United States. They soon found that
pumpkins, a fruit native to America, make perfect jack-o'-lanterns.


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This is the time of year... |
...for farmers (and the rest of us) to think about seeds. |
"Winter in the garden is the season of speculation, a time when the snow on the ground is an empty canvas that invites the idle planting and replanting of countless hypothetical gardens between now and spring thaw. A season of speculation in the Wall Street sense too, for now is when large wagers of gardening time and space are made on the basis of mere scraps of information." - Michael Pollan, Second Nature.
"The future of the human race will depend on combining the cleverness of science with the wisdom of nature." - Charles Linbergh
"Seventeen thousand different varieties of wheat have been produced, many of them the result of centuries of cultivation in a specific ecosystem with the best seeds saved each year and planted the next The variation in plant varieties is related to the variation in cultures from one bioregion to another." Bill Duesing, Living on the EarthThe darkest month of the winter is over. A window of sun starts us thinking about warmer days. And in many farmhouses right now, people are planning the acquisition of seeds.
We live in a world that now has the unparalleled capacity to produce vast amounts of mediocre products. Food production has already been that way for the last thirty years or so.
But small farms provide alternative. Many would rather pay more for real food than pay more for doctors (or restaurants).
Those who write their checks for their summer CSA/Farm Share this time of year understand that they literally are providing seed money. And when farmers have a bit more resources earlier, they can buy a better selection for the season to come.
Heirloom and Local Seeds Need Less and Give More |
Painfully separating the seeds from a flower which is almost impossible to buy in the quantity required for a farm. |


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China-India Border Dispute a Grim Sign for Stability in Asia
Recent manoeuvres in the Himalayas are a sign that the long stability of the Asian region, which allowed growth and prosperity to flourish, is threatened by old wounds and emerging powers flexing their muscles.
Conflict was almost baked into Asia's post-1945 international order. Taiwan's contested status following the communist victory in China's civil war, and the division of the Korean Peninsula are only the most obvious and volatile of Asia's military hotspots.
Yet one of the region's most striking features was the way in which, from the 1970s, it was able to foster a remarkably stable international environment in spite of the visible flashpoints in almost all corners of the region. The growth and prosperity enjoyed by so many people would not have been possible had the countries of the region not worked out how to manage their often vast differences.
That period of stability is coming to an end. Asia's great powers are increasingly jostling with one another for influence, and as they do the region's old wounds open up again.
The high-altitude military standoff between India and China on the Doklam Plateau, near the tri-border of Bhutan, India and China, is an acute example of how these old problems have been reinvigorated by Asia's geopolitical flux.
India and China share a border in excess of 3,000 kilometres in length, much of which is disputed by the two behemoths. This has long been a source of friction, including a short and nasty war in 1962 that India lost in humiliating fashion. Most of these have occurred in India's north on the Chinese side of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Doklam standoff is notable because it is in the north-east of the country. It started on 16 June when Chinese PLA engineers began work to extend a road that is within territory that is disputed between Bhutan and China, but in which Beijing has been operating freely since at least 2005. The work appeared to be an effort to extend the road closer to India's border.
In response, Indian military forces crossed the border on 18 June into what it regards as Bhutan—a country with whom Delhi has an agreement to guide its foreign policy—and prevented the road from being constructed.
Beijing's response to the deployment of Indian forces has been incandescent rage. This is in stark contrast to previous cross-border tensions and standoffs, when China has generally approached the matter with a degree of caution and calm, in public at any rate.
The fulmination is the result of China's belief that the PLA is operating on sovereign Chinese territory and that India has intervened in its affairs for strategic advantage. This is a particularly neuralgic issue for the PRC.
Since then, both sides have mobilised their forces with at least 100 soldiers on either side eyeballing one another, while India has moved thousands more into close supporting positions.
The public rhetoric on either side is hardening. China has carried out military drills and declared that it is easier "to move a mountain than to shake the PLA". Foreign Minister Wang Yi bluntly stated that the standoff was entirely India's fault, and that the troops had to get out of China.
India in turn has accused China of reneging on its agreement not to change the status quo and has rallied international support by using the standoff as another example of China acting as a disruptive force.
Neither disputes the basic facts—China was building a road towards India's border, while India does not deny contesting PLA forces beyond its own borders—so what motivated their risk-taking?
Delhi's reasoning is slightly easier to discern. India is at a military disadvantage in most of the border disputes with China. This area is one in which Delhi has the upper hand. It believes China was taking preparatory steps to negate that advantage.
India is also acutely aware that the tri-border area is very close to the Siliguri corridor, the narrow strip of land that physically connects India to its eastern states that lie between Bangladesh, China and Burma. Defending the corridor is a first order priority for India.
China's claims that it was merely building a road in its own land are disingenuous. It knows that the territory is in dispute with Bhutan and is acutely aware of Indian sensitivities. This was not just a bit of civil engineering, nor was it a case of a rogue PLA unit operating without central clearance.
Many think that China's move is punishing India for its tilt to Washington and its criticism of the Belt and Road Initiative. The timing was unmistakably intended to embarrass Modi.
It was not by accident that the incident was timed so that it would cast a shadow over the prime minister's participation in the G20 summit and a meeting with Xi Jinping. It also signalled that, contrary to his strong-man persona, Modi is not able to control the country's borders and core interests.
Some also see the effort as an attempt to wedge Bhutan. Beijing has been courting Thimpu in the way it has successfully cultivated other South Asian countries such as Sri Lanka. This appears to be a fairly Machiavellian means of pushing another of India's close partners into the China column.
MIT's Taylor Fravel, an expert on China's border disputes, has argued that while China probably did intend to push some strategic agenda, it probably miscalculated the strength of India's response.
There has been far too much hyperbole about the prospects of this leading to a nuclear war—that is extremely unlikely —but it is also unlikely that this will end in a quickly negotiated diplomatic settlement of the kind that has resolved previous border standoffs.
Both have positioned themselves in ways that will make backing down quickly very difficult. This crucial bilateral relationship is now at a low ebb, and as the standoff is likely to drag on for a long time, a frosty Sino-India relationship looks set to remain in place.
When we think of difficult great power relationships in Asia, US-China and Japan-China ties tend to predominate. But the crisis in the difficult terrain of the Doklam Plateau reminds us not only that India is an Asian great power, but that the tenor of its relations with China is of crucial strategic significance.
Equally, the tension is a sign of Asia's new contested and complex geopolitics. This is a world in which American influence is marginal—not just because US Asia policy is on autopilot—and one in which old and long-running animosities have been revived by the combustible blend of ambition and wealth.
How Doklam is resolved will tell us a good deal about the extent to which Asia's great powers can accommodate one another's interests and recreate the stability of the past. The prospects do not look good.
Nick Bisley is executive director of La Trobe Asia and professor of international relations. He is the editor-in-chief of the Australian Journal of International Affairs, which is published by the AIIA.
This article originally appeared on The Conversation on 27 July 2017. It is republished with permission.


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A Priceless Heritage of Hope
When you choose whether to make or keep a covenant with God, you choose whether you will leave an inheritance of hope to those who might follow your example.
My dear brothers and sisters, some of you were invited to this meeting by missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Those missionaries may have already invited you to make the choice of covenanting with God by being baptized.
Others of you are listening because you accepted the invitation of a parent, a wife, or perhaps a child, extended to you in the hopes that you will choose to put the covenants you have already made with God back into the center of your lives. Some of you who are listening have already made the choice to return to follow the Savior and are feeling today the joy of His welcome.
Whoever you are and wherever you may be, you hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can now imagine. Every day and every hour you can choose to make or keep a covenant with God.
Wherever you are on the path to inherit the gift of eternal life, you have the opportunity to show many people the way to greater happiness. When you choose whether to make or keep a covenant with God, you choose whether you will leave an inheritance of hope to those who might follow your example.
You and I have been blessed with the promise of such an inheritance. I owe much of my happiness in life to a man I never met in mortal life. He was an orphan who became one of my great-grandparents. He left me a priceless heritage of hope. Let me tell you some of the part he played in creating that inheritance for me.
His name was Heinrich Eyring. He was born into great wealth. His father, Edward, had a large estate in Coburg, in what is now Germany. His mother was Viscountess Charlotte Von Blomberg. Her father was the keeper of the lands of the king of Prussia.
Heinrich was Charlotte and Edward's first son. Charlotte died at the age of 31, after the birth of her third child. Edward died soon thereafter, having lost all his property and wealth in a failed investment. He was only 40 years of age. He left three orphaned children.
Heinrich, my great-grandfather, had lost both of his parents and a great worldly inheritance. He was penniless. He recorded in his history that he felt his best hope lay in going to America. Although he had neither family nor friends there, he had a feeling of hope about going to America. He first went to New York City. Later he moved to St. Louis, Missouri.
In St. Louis one of his co-workers was a Latter-day Saint. From him he obtained a copy of a pamphlet written by Elder Parley P. Pratt. He read it and then studied every word he could obtain about the Latter-day Saints. He prayed to know if there really were angels that appeared to men, whether there was a living prophet, and whether he had found a true and revealed religion.
After two months of careful study and prayer, Heinrich had a dream in which he was told he was to be baptized. A man whose name and priesthood I hold in sacred memory, Elder William Brown, was to perform the ordinance. Heinrich was baptized in a pool of rainwater on March 11, 1855, at 7:30 in the morning.
I believe that Heinrich Eyring knew then that what I am teaching you today is true. He knew that the happiness of eternal life comes through family bonds which continue forever. Even when he had so recently found the Lord's plan of happiness, he knew that his hope for eternal joy depended on the free choices of others to follow his example. His hope of eternal happiness depended on people not yet born.
As a part of our family's inheritance of hope, he left a history to his descendants.
In that history I can feel his love for those of us who would follow him. In his words I feel his hope that his descendants might choose to follow him on the path back to our heavenly home. He knew it would not be one great choice to make to do so but many small choices. I quote from his history:
"From the time I first heard Elder Andrus speak … I have always attended the meeting of the Latter day Saints and the instances are very rare indeed, when I [have] failed to go to meeting, it being at the same time my duty to do so.
"I name this in my history that my children may imitate my example and never neglect this … important duty [to assemble] with the Saints."1
Heinrich knew that in sacrament meetings we could renew our promise to always remember the Savior and have His Spirit to be with us.
It was that Spirit that sustained him on the mission to which he was called only a few months after accepting the baptismal covenant. He left as his heritage his example of staying faithful to his mission for six years in what was then called the Indian Territories. To receive his release from his mission, he walked and joined a wagon train from Oklahoma to Salt Lake City, a distance of approximately 1,100 miles (1,770 km).
Soon thereafter he was called by the prophet of God to move to southern Utah. From there he answered another call to serve a mission in his native Germany. He then accepted the invitation of an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ to help build up the Latter-day Saint colonies in northern Mexico. From there he was called to Mexico City as a full-time missionary again. He honored those calls. He lies buried in a small cemetery in Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
I recite these facts not to claim greatness for him or for what he did or for his descendants. I recite those facts to honor him for the example of faith and hope that was in his heart.
He accepted those calls because of his faith that the resurrected Christ and our Heavenly Father had appeared to Joseph Smith in a grove of trees in the state of New York. He accepted them because he had faith that the priesthood keys in the Lord's Church had been restored with the power to seal families forever, if only they had sufficient faith to keep their covenants.
Like Heinrich Eyring, my ancestor, you may be the first in your family to lead the way to eternal life along the path of sacred covenants made and kept with diligence and faith. Each covenant brings with it duties and promises. For all of us, as they were for Heinrich, those duties are sometimes simple but are often difficult. But remember, the duties must sometimes be difficult because their purpose is to move us along the path to live forever with Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, in families.
You remember the words from the book of Abraham:
"And there stood one among them that was like unto God, and he said unto those who were with him: We will go down, for there is space there, and we will take of these materials, and we will make an earth whereon these may dwell;
"And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them;
"And they who keep their first estate shall be added upon; and they who keep not their first estate shall not have glory in the same kingdom with those who keep their first estate; and they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever."2
Keeping our second estate depends on our making covenants with God and faithfully performing the duties they require of us. It takes faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior to keep sacred covenants for a lifetime.
Because Adam and Eve did fall, we have temptation, trials, and death as our universal inheritance. However, our loving Heavenly Father gave us the gift of His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, as our Savior. That great gift and blessing of the Atonement of Jesus Christ brings a universal inheritance: the promise of the Resurrection and the possibility of eternal life to all who are born.
The greatest of all the blessings of God, eternal life, will come to us only as we make covenants offered in the true Church of Jesus Christ by His authorized servants. Because of the Fall, we all need the cleansing effects of baptism and the laying on of hands to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. These ordinances must be performed by those who possess the proper priesthood authority. Then, with the help of the Light of Christ and the Holy Ghost, we can keep all the covenants we make with God, especially those offered in His temples. Only in that way, and with that help, can anyone claim his or her rightful inheritance as a child of God in a family forever.
To some listening to me, that may seem a nearly hopeless dream.
You have seen faithful parents sorrow over children who have rejected or who have chosen to break their covenants with God. But those parents can take heart and hope from other parental experiences.
Alma's son and King Mosiah's sons returned from fierce rebellion against the covenants and the commandments of God. Alma the Younger saw his son Corianton turn from gross sin to faithful service. The Book of Mormon also records the miracle of the Lamanites putting aside traditions of hating righteousness to covenanting to die to maintain peace.
An angel was sent to the young Alma and the sons of Mosiah. The angel came because of the faith and prayers of their fathers and of God's people. From those examples of the power of the Atonement working in human hearts, you can receive courage and comfort.
The Lord has given us all the source of hope as we struggle to help those we love accept their eternal inheritance. He has made promises to us as we keep trying to gather people to Him, even when they resist His invitation to do so. Their resistance saddens Him, but He does not quit, nor should we. He sets the perfect example for us with His persistent love: "And again, how oft would I have gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, yea, O ye people of the house of Israel, who have fallen; yea, O ye people of the house of Israel, ye that dwell at Jerusalem, as ye that have fallen; yea, how oft would I have gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens, and ye would not."3
We can depend on that unfailing desire of the Savior to bring all of Heavenly Father's spirit children back to their home with Him. Every faithful parent, grandparent, and great-grandparent shares in that desire. Heavenly Father and the Savior are our perfect examples of what we can and must do. They never force righteousness because righteousness must be chosen. They make righteousness discernible to us, and They let us see that its fruits are delicious.
Every person born into the world receives the Light of Christ, which helps us see and feel what is right and what is wrong. God has sent mortal servants who can, by the Holy Ghost, help us recognize what He would have us do and what He forbids. God makes it attractive to choose the right by letting us feel the effects of our choices. If we choose the right, we will find happiness—in time. If we choose evil, there comes sorrow and regret—in time. Those effects are sure. Yet they are often delayed for a purpose. If the blessings were immediate, choosing the right would not build faith. And since sorrow is also sometimes greatly delayed, it takes faith to feel the need to seek forgiveness for sin early rather than after we feel its sorrowful and painful effects.
Father Lehi sorrowed over the choices made by some of his sons and their families. He was a great and good man—a prophet of God. He often testified of our Savior, Jesus Christ, to them. He was an example of obedience and service when the Lord called him to leave all his worldly possessions to spare his family from destruction. At the very end of his life, he was still testifying to his children. Like the Savior—and despite his power to discern their hearts and to see the future both sad and wonderful—Lehi kept his arms outstretched to draw his family toward salvation.
Today millions of the descendants of Father Lehi are justifying his hope for them.
What can you and I do to draw from Lehi's example? We can draw from his example by studying scripture prayerfully and by observation.
I suggest that you take both the short and the long view as you try to give the inheritance of hope to your family. In the short run, there will be troubles and Satan will roar. And there are things to wait for patiently, in faith, knowing that the Lord acts in His own time and in His own way.
There are things you can do early, when those you love are young. Remember that daily family prayer, family scripture study, and sharing our testimony in sacrament meeting are easier and more effective when children are young. Young children are often more sensitive to the Spirit than we realize.
When they are older, they will remember the hymns they sang with you. Even more than recalling music, they will remember the words of scripture and testimony. The Holy Ghost can bring all things to their remembrance, but the words of scriptures and hymns will last the longest. Those memories will exert a pull that may bring them back when they wander for a time, possibly for years, from the pathway home to eternal life.
We will need the long view when those we love feel the pull of the world and the cloud of doubt seems to overwhelm their faith. We have faith, hope, and charity to guide us and to strengthen them.
I have seen that as a counselor to two living prophets of God. They are individuals with unique personalities. Yet they seem to share a consistent optimism. When someone raises an alarm about something in the Church, their most frequent response is "Oh, things will work out." They generally know more about the problem than the people sounding the alarm.
They also know the way of the Lord, and so they are always hopeful about His kingdom. They know He is at its head. He is all-powerful and He cares. If you let Him be the leader of your family, things will work out.
Some of Heinrich Eyring's descendants have seemed to wander. But many of his great-great-grandchildren go to temples of God at 6:00 in the morning to perform ordinances for ancestors they have never met. They go out of the heritage of hope he left. He left an inheritance that is being claimed by many of his descendants.
After all we can do in faith, the Lord will justify our hopes for greater blessings for our families than we can imagine. He wants the best for them and for us, as His children.
We are all children of a living God. Jesus of Nazareth is His Beloved Son and our resurrected Savior. This is His Church. In it are the keys of the priesthood, and so families can be forever. This is our priceless heritage of hope. I testify that it is true in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.


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July 23, 2006: Coming In October!Steve Jackson Games announces for release in October, 2006:Evil TedHorror has come to the happy town of Cotton Falls! The peaceful teddy bears have become . . . zombears! A few lucky survivors have barricaded themselves in the remaining buildings. Can they escape from . . . the Evil Ted?Break out of your base, find a vehicle, and escape from the hordes. Along the way, you'll find companions to help you survive the onslaught, and you'll collect equipment to defend yourself against the ravenous zombears -- and from your companions, when they become undead! Be the first to flee safely from the hungry hordes! Evil Ted is a twistedly cute take on the zombie genre, designed and illustrated by Kit Cox, with development by Steve Jackson. Boxed game with 168 cards, rules, and die.
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Steve Jackson Games also announces for release in November, 2006: Weapons, Vehicles, and GadgetsGURPS Ultra-Tech is the sourcebook for science-fiction technology, from the near future to the farthest reaches of the imagination. It's a valuable companion to GURPS Space, GURPS Bio-Tech, and GURPS Infinite Worlds, and an exceptional resource for any character or campaign that needs technology from tomorrow . . . and beyond. GURPS Ultra-Tech is full of personal equipment for heroes and superheroes from TL9 to TL12, including:
And still more! Living biosuits, computer implants, holographic projectors, psionic amplifiers, neutrino communicators, nanofactories, hyperspectral goggles, chameleon suits, repair paste, Dyson spheres � there's something for every adventure at every tech level. GURPS Ultra-Tech was written by David L. Pulver, co-author of the GURPS Basic Set, Fourth Edition, and author or co-author of over 60 other gaming books, and Kenneth L. Peters, the author of Transhuman Space: Spacecraft of the Solar System, and a co-author of Transhuman Space: Under Pressure. This is the third edition of GURPS Ultra-Tech; it has been revised to the GURPS Fourth Edition rules. The oldest material included here dates back to the first edition of GURPS Space; other material was revised from the GURPS Third Edition versions of GURPS Ultra-Tech, GURPS Ultra-Tech 2, GURPS Cyberpunk Adventures, GURPS Psionics, GURPS Robots, and Transhuman Space. From the edge of tomorrow to the star-flung future, GURPS Ultra-Tech can equip your characters and your campaign! 240 pages. Hardback.
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I became a professional fieldworker in 1998 – the year I graduated from university. I had done fieldwork before that, but this was the first time I was actually paid to do it. I joined what was at the time a small company in London that specialised in digging archaeology in advance of building developments. These were the boom years; the housing market exploded and the company I worked for grew in size, becoming one of the largest in the country. I was hardly ever out of the field. Initially the plan was to get a few weeks digging experience before starting a masters degree, but commercial digging seemed so much more relevant to me than abstract, blue skies academia (plus it was a lot of fun) and so I stayed. In fact I stayed for seven and a half years. I dug sites of every period, mostly in London, and they were good sites – deeply stratified with tonnes of finds – the very best in Britain. We dug Roman and medieval sites in the City of London, and sites in Convent Garden, which was once the beating heart of Saxon Lundenwic. We dug prehistoric sites in Southwark and post-medieval industrial sites along the foreshore. Everything and anything – it was pretty much the best training ground I could have asked for.
It was hard work, of course, and working on building sites wasn't always easy. These were unashamedly masculine spaces, and I know it was easier for me as a man than it was for my female colleagues. Certainly when I worked in that environment (perhaps things have changed now) most construction workers were men and talk had more than a hint of testosterone to it. That is not to say that everyone lived up to their wolf-whistling stereotypes, but it wasn't uncommon to find a rolled up porno in the Portaloo. In fact, women on site were largely restricted to archaeologists and although it may not have been common, they did at times find themselves subjected to inappropriate comments. When this happened, though, our team were always quick to pull them up on it, and on one site I was supervising in the City we all walked out after a scaffolding team offended a female archaeologist working below. The whole site shut down until we agreed to return after an apology.
Occasions like that were rare though, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time in commercial archaeology – as did, I think, most others working there then – male or female. In fact, we had the times of our lives; working, drinking, laughing, the banter – I miss it, and nowhere else I've worked has quite captured that dynamism, excitement, bonhomie and joie de vivre. It was there, too, that I met my wife – a fellow archaeologist enjoying and dealing with the daily trials of working on building sites in London – a relationship forged in the white heat of commercial digging.
You can't dig like that forever though, and we eventually moved on. I joined the Research Department at English Heritage, remaining there also for seven and a half years. I directed some fantastic excavations with EH – from the great prehistoric mound of Silbury Hill to Marden henge – the largest Neolithic henge in the country. And now I am the Director of the Archaeology Field School at the University of Reading. We will be going back to dig at Marden henge next year with the Field School and I'm really looking forward to it. I can't imagine life without fieldwork – it is, as American archaeologist Kent Flannery once put it, "the most fun you can have with your pants on".
Dr Jim Leary is Director of the Archaeology Field School in SAGES. Jim Leary convenes the Archaeological Thought and Careers in Archaeology modules, and contributes to the Practicing Archaeology module. In 2007 and 2008, he directed the major excavations into Silbury Hill and has managed the post-excavation programme since. He co-authored the monograph of this work, as well as a popular account (with a foreword by David Attenborough). In 2010 Jim directed excavations at Marden henge, which lies between Stonehenge and Avebury, revealing one of the best preserved Neolithic buildings in England. More recently Jim assisted with work that cored through the Marlborough Castle Mound, conclusively proving for the first time that its origins are prehistoric and contemporary with Silbury Hill. Jim has also researched perceptions and understandings of sea-level rise in the Mesolithic, as well as mobility and movement in archaeology. He sits on the council of the Prehistoric Society, and has written a chapter on excavation and evaluation for the Avebury and Stonehenge WHS Research Agenda. Jim has also written numerous archaeology-related articles for popular magazines and journals.


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DHA and Allergies, Asthma, or Eczema
Getting plenty of Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), one of the important omega-3 fats found in breast milk, could help to prevent allergies, asthma, and eczema in young children. Dr. Eileen Birch, who has previously studied links between DHA and improved mental and visual development, followed 89 formula-fed children who received formula with or without this fat included.
Her results were presented at the 2008 Pediatric Societies Meeting. Strikingly, more than half of the children fed standard formula throughout the first year had been diagnosed with some form of allergy by the third birthday. By comparison, allergies, asthma, or eczema had been diagnosed in only 26 percent of those who were fed DHA formula for a year.
This small randomized study does not prove that DHA reduces allergies, but the idea is intriguing. Omega-3 fats including this one are useful in reducing inflammation. Clearly, babies are designed to receive DHA in their diets.
I enthusiastically support the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics that babies breastfeed throughout the first year, when possible, and for as long after that as both the mother and the baby desire. If nursing stops before age two or three, I recommend that babies get DHA from another source.
DHA is a valuable nutrient throughout life, but it is especially important for developing babies from before birth through age three.


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Last week I spent several hours at Phorm learning how their advertising system works — this is the system that is to be deployed by the UK's largest ISPs to pick apart your web browsing activities to try and determine what interests you.
The idea is that advertisers can be more picky in who they serve adverts to… you'll get travel ads if you've been looking to go to Pamplona for the running of the bulls, car adverts if you've been checking out the prices of Fords (the intent is that Phorm's method of distilling down the ten most common words on the page will allow them to distinguish between a Fiesta and a Fiesta!)
I've now written up the extensive technical details that they provided (10 pages worth) which you can now download from my website.
Much of the information was already known, albeit perhaps not all minutiae. However, there were a number of new things that were disclosed.
Phorm explained the process by which an initial web request is redirected three times (using HTTP 307 responses) within their system so that they can inspect cookies to determine if the user has opted out of their system, so that they can set a unique identifier for the user (or collect it if it already exists), and finally to add a cookie that they forge to appear to come from someone else's website. A number of very well-informed people on the UKCrypto mailing list have suggested that the last of these actions may be illegal under the Fraud Act 2006 and/or the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Phorm also explained that they inspect a website's "robots.txt" file to determine whether the website owner has specified that search engine "spiders" and other automated processing systems should not examine the site. This goes a little way towards obtaining the permission of the website owner for intercepting their traffic — however, in my view, failing to prohibit the GoogleBot from indexing your page is rather different from permitting your page contents to be snooped upon, so that Phorm can turn a profit from profiling your visitors.
Overall, I learnt nothing about the Phorm system that caused me to change my view that the system performs illegal interception as defined by s1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
Phorm argue, with some justification, that their system does not permit them to identify individuals and that they meet and exceed all necessary Data Protection regulations — producing a system that is superior to other advertising platforms that profile Internet users.
Mayhap, but this is to mix up data protection and privacy.
The latter to me includes the important notion that other people, even people I'll never meet and who will never meet me, don't get to know what I do, they don't get to learn what I'm interested in, and they don't get to assume that targeting their advertisements will be welcomed.
If I spend my time checking out the details of a surprise visit to Spain, I don't want the person I'm taking with me to glance at my laptop screen and see that its covered with travel adverts, mix up cause and effect, and think — even just for a moment — that it wasn't my idea first!
Phorm says that of course I can opt out — and I will — but just because nothing bad happens to me doesn't mean that the deploying the system is acceptable.
Phorm assumes that their system "anonymises" and therefore cannot possibly do anyone any harm; they assume that their processing is generic and so it cannot be interception; they assume that their business processes gives them the right to impersonate trusted websites and add tracking cookies under an assumed name; and they assume that if only people understood all the technical details they'd be happy.
Well now's your chance to see all these technical details for yourself — I have, and I'm still not happy at all.
Update (2008-04-06):
Phorm have now quoted sections of this article on their own blog: http://blog.phorm.com/?p=12. Perhaps not surprisingly, they've quoted the paragraph that was favourable to their cause, and failed to mention all the paragraphs that followed that were sharply critical. They then fail, again how can one be surprised? to provide a link back to this article so that people can read it for themselves. Readers are left to draw their own conclusions.
Update (2008-04-07):
Phorm have now fixed a "tech glitch" (see comment #31) and now link to my technical report. The material they quote comes from this blog article, but they point out that they link to the ORG blog, and that links to this blog article. So that's all right then!


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With increased public awareness of global bacterial and viral outbreaks, we would like to provide you with some information about how modern dental offices are required to practice infection control.
Universal precautions were described in directives and guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Dental Association in 1987, and in standards published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1991. They are a 'single standard of infection control' that is used for each and every patient. These precautions require all dental staff involved in patient care to use appropriate protective garb such as gloves, masks and eyewear. After each patient visit, gloves are discarded, hands are washed with an antibacterial soap or a hand sanitizer, and a new pair of gloves is used for the next patient.
All instruments used on patients are either discarded or sterilized after every patient use. The sterilization procedure involves a series of thorough steps that are performed after each use on a single patient. The instruments are first washed. Then they are soaked in a disinfectant while run through an 'ultra-sonic' machine to further loosen any remaining particles from the instruments. Finally, they are sterilized under pressure with chemicals, or steam.


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Today most city skies are free of stars. About 80% of North Americans live under light-polluted skies, not dark enough to see the Milky Way. But a growing number of preserved dark sky places and an emerging astrotourism industry are helping to reclaim the starry nights.
Helioviewer is a solar data browser. You can browse and compare images of the sun at different times, at different wavelengths, and at different magnifications.
NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. Subscribe to the YouTube channel and watch the latest videos as NASA explores space and discovers Earth.
Check out Sky & Telescope's weekly observing update, Sky at a Glance, published every Friday. Keep up to date on the latest celestial events, and view the sky maps and observing tips.
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 "Friendship 7" spacecraft on the first manned orbital mission of the United States. Launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida) Launch Complex 14, he completed a successful three-orbit mission around the earth, reaching a maximum altitude (apogee) of approximately 162 statute miles and an orbital velocity of approximately 17,500 miles per hour. Glenn's "Friendship 7" Mercury spacecraft landed approximately 800 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral in the vicinity of Grand Turk Island. His flight on Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962, showed the world that America was a serious contender in the space race with the Soviet Union. It also made Glenn an instant hero.
This site hosted by NASA contains biographical information, photos, and videos about astronaut, former Marine, and former Senator John Glenn, who passed away December 8, 2016.
NASA's Eyes is a way for you to learn about your home planet, our solar system, the universe beyond and the spacecraft exploring them. With applications for Mac and PC as well as apps for mobile devices there are many ways for you to follow along with NASA's scientists and engineers.


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In terms of what North Korea wants, and that's everybody's question. you heard Adm. Mullen, Joint Chiefs of Staff, nobody quite knows. Is it because they are constantly in this dance of provocation for rewards? Is it because they want to be taken seriously as a nuclear power? Is it because of the succession struggle now in North Korea, because he wants to rack up some victories for his son? The Whiethouse is saying they are going to break this cycle of North Korean provocation in turn for rewards.If you read my dairy yesterday, then you already know that what the North Koreans say is at the heart of the dispute is the UN imposed North Limit Line. This "water border" rather than continuing out into ocean straight where North and South Korea meet, as the North Koreans would have it, goes north and so closely follows the North Korean coastline that Yeonpyeong Island, which is only 7 miles off the coast of North Korea (and 60 miles from South Korea) is on the South Korean side of this "water border." It is as though the water border between the United States and Mexico hugged so closely to the California coast that Catalina was considered to be on the Mexican side. Christiane Amanpour never mentions, never even alludes to, this aspect of the dispute. At it's heart, this particular border dispute is economic. [surprise! surprise!] The disputed waters are a very rich fishing area. From Wikipedia:
Yeonpyeong Island is renowned for its kumouuri, a specialty spiced crab unavailable elsewhere in South Korea.The NLL has been used to keep the North Koreans from fishing it. As we all have been told many times, people are starving in North Korean. They are demanding the right to fish in the waters off their coast and we are denying them that. From Wikipedia:
As North Korea does not recognize the line, its fishing boats work close to or over the limit line, escorted by North Korean naval boatsThat right, information about the true nature of this crisis and the very real complaints that North Koreans have been voicing is available on Wikipedia. It is also on the official North Korean government website, which for your information, I have copied below. I found this stuff out after a couple of days of Googling. Christiane Amanpour also knows this stuff or ABC News has no business putting her forward as their news expert in this area. Adm. Mullen and President Obama damn sure know about the NLL and the beef the North Koreans have with it. It is fundamentally dishonesst and corrupt for Christiane Amanpour and ABC News to report the story this way. "In terms of what North Korea wants, and that's everybody's question." North Korea has made that quite clear. The beef about the NNL may not be the whole story, but it is a big part of it, and that and many other parts of this story are being kept from the American people by the unity and corruption of a "free press" that censors the news we need to make life and death decisions. This is no small matter, with 25,000 American soldiers on the frontlines in South Korea, the America people deserve the truth about the issues at stake and the real policies they may be asked to fight and die for! I wrote this dairy on Thanksgiving, not because I think this one little issue is so important. I wrote it because I think it is symptomatic of the censored and filtered news we get, not just from Christiane Amanpour on Korea, but from all of the MSM on all questions up and down the line, and that is important. Happy Thanksgiving!
NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH! NEWS FLASH!As we know, every story has at least two sides, in what maybe an American media first, I am using the box below to give you the unfiltered North Korean side of the story as told on DPRK website:
The DPRK (North Korean side) warned ROK (South Korea) against the "Hoguk" exercise to be staged by the US imperialist aggressor forces and the south Korean puppet fascist armed forces many times. The map above shows the "Northern Limit Line" (NLL). The line was unilaterally set by the US led United Nations military forces on August 30, 1953. It is not officially recognized by DPRK (North Korea). In particular, it is not included into the Armistice Agreement of 1953. The line was originally drawn to prevent southern incursions into the north – however its role has since transformed to prevent DPRK ships heading south. On 23nd of November at 1300 local time the South Korean fired shots inside the Northern Limit Line, towards DPRK. At 1434 upon receiving the order from the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army, we returned fire against the South Korean attackers based in the military camp of Yongpyong. The answer against the South Korean provocation shows that DPRK honour its promise as stated before and announced in KCNA that any aggression against the North will be met with material response.


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"It's cheaper to just get a hamburger and fries," my mom would say. "You don't need a crappy toy and we have pop at home."
Let me tell you, friends, today's Happy Meals are NOT your mother's (or your childhood's) kids meals. (Can you say kid-size fries and apple slices?) In fact, right now McDonald's Happy Meals will not come with a crappy toy. Instead, children will receive one of four different original books featuring characters from McD's latest advertising campaigns that encourage kids to eat right and exercise.
(Have you seen the commercial with the goat? I'm lovin' it!)
The 4 books that are offered as part of the series are:
- "The Goat Who Ate Everything"
- "Deana's Big Dreams"
- "Ant, Can't"
- "Doddi the Dodo Goes to Orlando"
And now, for the McGiveaway!
Because I agreed to work with Indy With Kids and McDonald's of Central Indiana, I have the opportunity to host (again, my words) a Happy McBooks McGiveaway.
One lucky winner will receive a week of 5 happy meal coupons (good at Central Indiana McD's), a $10 Amazon gift card and a copy of a Happy Meal Book. If you don't live in Central Indiana, go ahead and enter. It's worth it for the Amazon gift card alone.
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For my participation in this campaign, Indy with Kids and McDonald's of Central Indiana have given me Happy Meal coupons and a Target gift card. Opinions about crappy toys and awesome goat commercials are all mine.


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