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Summary: The Free Council seeks to escape the strictures of the past and modernize the craft of magic through technology.
This is an age of power and opportunity, the age of Corporate greed and advancing technology. The Awakened can see Supernal shadows overlaying it all... if they look at it the right way. But it's an age of horror, too, because power doesn't have an ethos. The tools of power are there for the taking, but the management is bad. Very bad indeed.
The Free Council means to change that. This age, this time of glorious technology, needs to be translated into Awakened wisdom. In a new kind of alchemy, the Council will change the trappings of the Sleepers' Quiescence into its undoing. It will free knowledge and information in these modern nights.
Humanity found the essential spark of Awakening in prehistory, and never forgot. The Quiescence can only subdue it; human beings recreate the signs of wisdom all around them. Even this Modern Fallen World contains countless treasures for the Awakened seeker, they just need to adapt.
Arcane power is not wisdom. For all their power, even great masters were blind to the new truths of the quickening age. It was time to drop the old hierarchies and seek the truth through democracy, consensus and technology. Levels of initiation and secrets barred from the so-called unworthy were all the worse because they replicated the values of the Exarchs and their Seers of the Throne. The Free Council insists that humanity was never meant to abase itself for the sake of occult training. Magic exists now, and it's moving forward as swiftly as a thought. Cling to tradition, and you'll get left behind.
Awakened society has always had its share of rebels and strange geniuses. The Silver Ladder cast them out, the Adamantine Arrow refused to protect them and the Mysterium expunged their words from history. But the Awakened have always been sensitive to the spirit of an age, and there have been times when the trickle of malcontent has grown to a flood. These eras have coincided with some of the greatest achievements in human history, but also with its wars and disasters. Do mages cause such events, or take their lessons to heart? So many layers of conspiracy exist between mages and Sleeping humanity that it's nigh impossible to tell who bears the burden of history, but during these pivotal periods, arcane knowledge increases. In the early 19th century, cabals across Europe expounded a startling theory: That upheaval led to genuinely new occult praxes.
The new movement gave itself hundreds of different names based on everything from Sleeper inspirations to esoteric humor. Conflict was inevitable. It spanned the globe through the charms of the Boxer Rebellion, the guns of the American West, and the bombs of London anarchists. Mysterium historians call it the Nameless War, for at the time, the other orders refused to even give the revolutionaries a common name. After all, names grant symbolic power.
The war left the rebels bloody but unbowed, and even increased their membership. Young members of the traditional orders defected, charmed by the opportunities offered by rebel factions. Even so, the Nameless rebels couldn't prove their worth to the ancient orders until they took a stand for something, instead of against tradition. The Great Refusal fulfilled this requirement.
The elder orders would have you think that the Free Council consists of poorly trained cyberpunks political blowhards and tech savvy hackers who endanger everyone around them with poorly wrought spells, and who defile the Supernal World with every ill-considered touch. Sometimes, that's true. For their part, novice mages might speak up for the Free Council out of sheer contrariness, but might also seek to escape the burden of apprenticeship. Many mages treat their pupils as slaves and cannon fodder in battles for ancient lore. A few masters even cripple their apprentice's development because they're afraid of being surpassed. Resentment builds and apprentices leave.
The Free Council offers an environment in which young mages' NEW ideas are debated freely, but novices who expect total license to act as they see fit are in for a surprise. The Free Council takes democracy seriously, but doesn't take to every notion and there are many that is flung on the table. Like mages everywhere, libertines lead dangerous lives fighting rivals and searching for magical power. They believe in security and mutual aid. Empty rebellion doesn't help either. After running the gauntlet of debate and the sporadic violence of Council missions, survivors are tempered into idealistic but practical occultists who have a flexible set of capabilities. Libertines tend to be generalists outside of their arcane specialties. Their intense interest in culture and technology, and their iconoclasm, makes the ideal member a combination of engineer, anthropologist, and guerilla.
Young mages aren't the only ones who join the Free Council, however. Veteran sorcerers align themselves with the order to either reject their former, corrupt allegiances or to explore radical new age occult theories. Experienced defectors add political clout and arcane power to the cause.
Libertines all have a common interest in contemporary culture and tend to be skeptical of elder heritage. In any event, they believe that it's useless to limit themselves to tradition. It should be the future and should be a better place than any legend describes. Of course, Free Council members rarely agree on the best model for an Awakened or mundane society. Their sanctums ring with the competing voices of anarchists, free-market capitalists, and partisans of countless other doctrines.
Volumes have been written (and duels fought) about what libertines ought to believe. Despite this, members hold little in common aside from the charter of unity forged at the dawn of the 20th century.
Democracy seeks the truth; hierarchy fosters the Lie: The Quiescence does more than blind Sleepers to the great truths of existence. It creates a way of thinking that causes them to lie to each other by diluting power through society's ranks, creating hierarchies to control the spread of knowledge. This is a radical enough claim by itself, but the Free Council goes a step further and postulates that even mages are cursed to trap their lore in hierarchies of mutual deception. Every generation loses a bit of lore that was concealed in the highest levels of initiation and never passed on. Subsequently, the secrets of Atlantis (if it isn't a lie) have been filtered through so many masters and apprentices that they're nearly useless. Only shared discovery and free debate can throw off the Lie.
Humanity is magical; human works have arcane secrets: The Free Council believes that humanity never really forgot the secrets of magic. Human beings instinctively create their own miracles. These are only shadows of the potential they could attain if they Awakened, but they point to new ways to understand magic. Technology and culture have their own secret laws and symbols, drawn from Supernal regions still waiting to be discovered. Libertines embrace a modern vision of magic drawn from human accomplishments, not hoary myths. This doesn't mean that magic comes only from modern technology and mass media, though. Many libertines believe that preindustrial and developing societies have been making their own discoveries throughout Sleeping history and that it's a mistake to cleave too closely to modern Western values. Of course, other Council cabals believe the opposite: That the Enlightenment and its heirs are the only streams of human history worth paying attention to. What both groups have in common is that they see these developments as new and vital in their own right.
Rituals And Observances
The Free Council has existed for little over a century, so members know that the order's traditions were invented, not revealed. The spirit of invention and adaptation persists, so Free Council cabals regularly invent rituals and conventions that suit their own interests.
Free Council cabals are run democratically, either by absolute consensus or majority vote. In addition, cabals often form regional Assemblies as an alternative to the local Consilium. Individual groups send syndics to the Assembly, who in turn formulate proposals to be voted on by every mage represented. Some Assemblies require members to forswear association with a Consilium, but most do not. Even so, the collective power of a well-run Assembly can decisively sway a Consilium, since all members share a commitment to a particular policy. A variation known as the Column organizes mages in battles against their enemies. While any democratically governed cabal is allowed to join an Assembly, libertine mages invariably make up the majority of their ranks.
The Free Council's mission to renew the arcane arts can be realized only by the easy exchange of magical discoveries. The Lorehouse system assists that transaction by providing an open storehouse of magical knowledge. This doesn't always mean it's easy to get access to a Lorehouse; its controlling cabal dictates any requirements. Some Lorehouses use a free-market model, selling their stock to any mage who can meet the price in hard cash, Mana, or barter. Others serve only cabals that profess an ideology acceptable to the Lorehouse's owners.
The order prefers to call its style of magic techné, a Greek word meaning a skill or art. Techné is not just an application of ancient techniques, but a philosophy combining technology, art, and culture to produce magic that is relevant in a modern context. While other orders cling to a tradition belonging to an ancient past, the Free Council forges ahead to new horizons.
Status and Positions
Free Council positions are selected democratically and exist to fill a pragmatic rather than ritual role.
Voter ( Status 1 ):
These are the groundlings of the order, respectable and even admirable for their membership and support. A voter needs no qualifications besides allegiance to be worthy of liberty in the Free Council. In some Assemblies, however, being worthy and being granted voting rights are not the same thing. Voters may be required to jump through hoops before their votes are recognized. In some places, the criteria are as simple as attending a minimum number of Assemblies or agreeing to donate a few days a month to serve on some committee. Other Assemblies require voters to pledge allegiance and swear off any previous or superseding loyalties, including those to the Consilium. Though every voter's vote is supposedly worth the same to the order, not every Assembly prices the position of voter so cheap.
Emissary ( Status 1 - 3 ):
Emissaries are among the most common positions in the Free Council. Virtually every Assembly names emissaries to serve as contacts for the local Consilium and the rest of the Pentacle. An emissary is, in general, only as good as he is liked by both the Assembly dispatchers and the audience to which he is sent. Still, even the most eloquent and genial emissaries are regarded as messengers at best and decoration at worst. An emissary doesn't craft the message he delivers or debate the issues he brings word of; he simply talks and listens. That what amounts to a courier position can still warrant the prestige it does within the Free Council is testament to the order's ability to value honesty, communication, and a keen perception. A weak emissary lacks nuance and misses out on innuendo. A talented emissary subtly influences listeners and speakers alike with his demeanor and courtesy -- it can be the difference between merely delivering bad news to a thearch and causing a conflict that derails the Consilium for weeks. To be a good emissary requires tact, poise, and a willingness to let others get the attention. In exchange, an emissary gains a ready audience, face time with influential local wizards, and a reputation for discretion. Emissary is not a prestigious position, but it can be a valuable one.
Minuteman ( Status 1 - 3 ):
Any Libertine who agrees to fight (in some Consilii even just figuratively) may customarily be called a minuteman. In practice, however, only a Libertine who has actually fought on behalf of the order enjoys the benefits of added respect from the citizenry. Minutemen, obviously, are fashioned on the guerilla militiamen of the American Revolution. The image of the common colonial man summoned out of his house in the middle of the night to defend against the redcoats is not too far off from what a Libertine minuteman actually is. A minuteman is expected to come when his cell phone rings or the strategos calls out to him through telepathy. Minutemen pull on their boots and convene in empty parking lots at four in the morning because a Seer pylon has found someone's sanctum. They drive to the Assembly site when a mage needs to be escorted out of town. These are the citizen soldiers of the Free Council, and they are all volunteers.
Host ( Status 2 ):
Similar to so many Libertine honors, the position of host is both ceremonial and temporary. A host is simply any voter who donates his space to the order for an Assembly or debate. A mage who routinely hosts meetings or who sacrifices his time or money to create a great environment might retain his local status for weeks after an Assembly. The mage who merely lets his fellow Libertines use his basement when it's his turn enjoys the benefits of status only as long the meeting lasts. To represent the lasting influence enjoyed by a hosting character in simple game terms, do this: Roll Presence + Expression, Persuasion, or Socialize + order Status: Free Council as an extended action with each roll representing one hour of hosting. Only a number of rolls equal to or less than the Size of the venue may be made. The same Skill doesn't have to be used for each roll. For every five guests after the first five, apply a -1 die penalty to the roll. Each success extends the host's Status for one day.
Letter Carrier ( Status 2 - 4 ):
The so-called letter carriers exist in only a few Consilii nowadays. Letter carriers are, to a large extent, emissaries, but nostalgia and a history of sacrifice lend them an aura of additional prestige. In casual language, a letter carrier may be any emissary who travels abroad to carry a message on behalf of the order. Historically, a letter carrier is specifically an emissary who allows his memory to altered with Mind spells so that even the courier himself may not have access to the message. In a few areas, where the Free Council was especially paranoid about Seer surveillance, letter carriers were even ensorceled into believing they were traveling for their own reasons, not on order business. Some letter carriers may still be carrying around hidden messages in their psyches and not even know it until the mental barriers isolating the message from their own memories begin to erode. The position of letter carrier started as little more than a local custom and a nickname somewhere in the Eastern United States around the late 1930s. During the thick of the cold war, when paranoia was in fashion, letter carriers were more common throughout the United States. Today, they've gone the way of the milkman in most Consilii. The majority of Libertines who still identify themselves as letter carriers are in their 60s or 70s now and keep the title out of nostalgia more than anything else. But the title still carries an aura of old-fashioned dedication.
Citizen Agent ( Status 2 - 4 ):
The title of citizen agent is reserved for those Libertines who go beyond the call of the minutemen and serve the order as watchmen, spies, and covert operatives. A citizen agent's identity as an operative of the Assembly is seldom kept secret. His missions almost always are. It is an oddity of the order's desire for democratic transparency and its needs for security. Citizen agents may be combative, but they're just as often explorers and infiltrators. Whether they're descending into abandoned military bases on climbing harnesses in search of resonant technology or scheming up improbable magical deaths for Seer mages, the common factor in all citizen agent missions is peril. These mages jeopardize their lives for the sake of the order, and in exchange they gain celebrity, clout, and a degree of unofficial authority. No real command structure exists for the citizen agents. They take on missions passed by a vote in Assembly or, more often, in a Column. They work together largely on a volunteer basis or when directed to by election or strategoi. They have no real subordinates and no generals to guide them. In theory, the body politic provides everything its citizen agents need, but of course this isn't always possible. In practice, a citizen agent has good intelligence only if he is investigative and good weapons only if he arms himself.
Strategos ( Status 3 - 5 ):
The strategoi are the generals, pundits, experts, and directors of Free Council Consilii. They're like straight-jacketed presidents, managers, and executives of their small area of authority, but powerless outside their purview. The position of strategos is an artifact of Libertine hope, however. (Some would say it is a sign of the order's self-importance.) The role of the strategos makes the most sense in areas where Libertines are numerous enough to make rapid communication and quick decision-making difficult. Not that many Consilii have so many mages, much less so many Libertines, that the role of strategos can be kept adequately apart from other roles in the order. A strategos represents a willful surrender of democratic power on the part of the people -- the voters' authority is invested in the strategos with the understanding that it will be paid back later. As an investment, many Libertines expect their power, or the order's, to be more valuable when it is returned. The people give up a degree of their liberty to the strategos, who gains a great deal of authority but also becomes responsible for the safekeeping of that liberty. It's a quietly cherished rule of the Free Council that a strategos who hoards authority and shirks liberty can be toppled by popular revolt. (But, of course, history has shown that tyranny alone is sometimes not enough to provoke the people to action.) In practice, the kind of responsible and dedicated personality that makes a mage suitable for the role of strategos is uncommon enough that no more than one or two area mages are trusted enough by the Awakened masses to take on the role. But the traditions of the Free Council prohibit a single mage from serving as a strategos in more than one area of expertise, so even if a single experienced and brilliant wizard is the ideal candidate to take on responsibility for both affairs of medicine and affairs of science, she must be restricted to one or the other. In some regions, where Free Council mages are few, every mage is given the title of strategos over some area of experience (if not expertise), to prevent one strategos from wielding too much power over the three or four other mages who make up the Consilium. This kind of patronizing, token promotion goes against the spirit of the platonic strategos -- a rare and celebrated expert worthy of the people's trust -- but is sometimes the only way to foster the sense of fairness that allows trust to develop. A city of strategoi inevitably becomes a house divided, however, as each vaunted mage tries to steer others according to his own "expertise."
Syndic ( Status 1 - 5 ):
At their best, the syndics are statesmen, transforming complex and often delicate issues into surmountable topics for debate and eventual voting at Assembly. At their worst, they're two-faced politicos, reducing complicated issues into hot-button rhetoric and obfuscated schemes to manipulate voters and disguise the truth. As representatives, they can be shining champions using words like spells to clear away fogs of fear, confusion, and prejudice. As self-aggrandizing power-grabbers, they can be lying tricksters, creating illusory threats and fearsome shadows out of non-issues and buzzwords, subjecting their supposed allies to a confounding blindness derived from fear, from which only the syndic can protect them. In the platonic model of the Free Council, syndics would be clear-minded orators embodying the issues of the day and battling like champions in contests of reason and words against friendly and honorable combatants. They are meant to be a kind of idealized Greek debater clairvoyant neo-Ciceros shaping the ideals of a shining future. In the eyes of the founding Libertines, the syndics might be idolized and revered certainly they should be appreciated and respected -- but they should not be elevated above the voters. In theory, a syndic is merely an agent of simplicity, translating many voices in a single cogent argument. But a syndic is meant to enjoy no more power than any other Libertine. A syndic gets one vote, the same as any other mage. A syndic should have responsibility, not authority. For that she deserves thanks, not obedience. In practice, syndics are as greedy, defensive, deceitful, and power-mad as many mortal politician -- or more so. Syndics can achieve a kind of celebrity, and with that comes status and prestige. Some syndics avoid this kind of fame, but find it thrust upon them like a crown laid on the head of a reluctant hero. Other syndics cultivate their celebrity, constructing a new road to power and prominence out of hollow promises and empty poise. Some syndics sit down with their constituents, make eye contact, and absorb their opinions and agendas for the future, then carry those ideas to Assembly. Other syndics come to the mages they represent, sit them down, and say, "Here's what we're doing, and here's how we should vote." No special social mechanisms exist to keep syndics honest -- only the pressures that come from close contact with one's people. The voters must keep their syndic honest and informed. Enlightened reason among Awakened minds should be enough to elevate syndics above traditional democratic squabbles and temptations of power. But, too often, it's not. Is magic an acceptable means of keeping a syndic honest and ensuring that the relationship between the citizens' voice and the syndic's ears stays clear and true? This an ongoing issue within the Free Council. Philosophically, voluntary submission to spells is the only acceptable way to affect a syndic's behavior through wizardry. But how can the Consilium be certain that the citizenry are not secretly manipulating -- or even just tracking -- their syndics with sorcery? And in an Awakened society, why isn't that as valid a process as mundane speech and oversight? These are matters for serious debate. It is the syndics who will make the arguments.
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The Edwardian period represents in many ways the last period of English furniture craftsmanship in which bench-made furniture pieces played a central role, with later styles of furniture more or less abandoning traditional precedents in favor of cheap materials and machine production. Today, only a handful of English furniture manufacturers continue the tradition preserved by Edwardian craftsmen, among them the third-generation cabinetmaker who supplies our own line of furniture.
So named for King Edward VII's reign from 1901-1910, the Edwardian period continued the Victorian tradition of reviving and blending older styles. Georgian furniture inspirations occupied the forefront of Edwardian furniture-making, however, and thus the period produced a kind of neo-Georgian style, with key differences. Among these, for instance, was the revived prominence of Queen Anne style furniture, which tended to employ cabriole legs, serpentine curvatures in chests, and chair backs curved to fit the body, with walnut as a favourite wood type. The Art Nouveau style was also a contemporary of the Edwardian period.
Typically, Edwardian furniture makers used mahogany, often in butterfly or quarter-veneer styles. Square tapered legs and spade feet were common. Satinwood was the favoured wood type for inlays, usually in combination with ebony. Satinwood inlay patterns included fan, swag, festoon, and string inlays. In fact, very often Edwardian furniture would include a combination of all of these inlays, producing a richly ornamented appearance, even in the absence of heavily worked carvings, and in this respect Edwardian craftsmen favoured the simple yet elegant Georgian approach to ornamentation.


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The throwing of rice, bird seed or confetti, as well as the use of bubbles, balloons, poppers, etc. are strictly prohibited, in order to avoid any hazard to safety and to minimize custodial work.
If you have flowers at your wedding, it is appreciated if you would leave an arrangement to be used during our weekend Masses. Flowers are to be arranged in a place that does not obscure the assembly's vision. Flowers are never placed on the altar. Use of aisle runners is not encouraged. Should you choose to use one, it must be pre-approved by the wedding coordinator. Know that the main aisle is 56 feet long. Pew bows are allowed; however, they are to be applied only with clip on pew holders; the following is not allowed on the pews: tape or thumbtacks, glue guns or staples. There are no candles allowed on the center or side aisles.
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On Jan. 1, 2046, the hardiest members of that noisy, 78-million member club known as the Baby Boomers will be celebrating their 100th birthdays.
The very oldest boomers began turning 60 last year, and "The Boomer Century: 1946-2046," a documentary to be broadcast tomorrow night on PBS, explores how life after 60 might look to the generation known for challenging authority and redefining everything from race relations to marriage.
Will the boomers quietly — and uncharacteristically — get off the stage and leave the messy questions about the environment and the social safety network to the youngsters? Or as science extends life, will they lead the charge in reshaping notions of age in the 21st century? Just imagine: TV shows like "Grandmother Knows Best," third and fourth careers, old-age communes with families of choice. But if millions of people routinely live to be 100, what about challenges as varied as social security and failing health for the largest elderly population in American history?
The two-hour "Century" asks those questions and poses those questions to a raft of experts and commentators in health, academe, politics and the arts: a crowd that includes Tony Snow, Erica Jong, Julian Bond, J. Craig Venter, Oliver Stone and Alvin Toffler, among others. They talk about their own experiences and offer predictions, along with the familiar film footage of Vietnam, Woodstock and civil rights protests.
"Boomers who turn 60 this year have an actuarial life expectancy of 82.5 years," says Ken Dychtwald, a gerontologist and psychologist who conceived the film and acts as host, narrator and executive producer.Continue reading the main story
"What I actually think is going to happen is that in the near future, there are going to be mind-boggling breakthroughs that will make living to 90, or even 100 commonplace," says Dr. Dychtwald, the author of numerous books on aging and the founder of Age Wave, a consulting firm. "Because of the longevity revolution, the whole landscape and mindscape of adulthood is about to be dramatically altered," he says in the film.
"I think we're going to see new forms and new kinds of families in later lives," Daniel Goleman, the psychologist who wrote the book "Emotional Intelligence," predicts in "Century." Eve Ensler, the playwright famous for "The Vagina Monologues," says her fantasy of being older is "living with a whole group of women, you know, in some wonderful way and with a couple of great men."
But "Century" starts at the beginning, defining the boomers. From 1946 until 1964, 92 percent of all women who could have children did, Dr. Dychtwald says, producing a birthrate of a baby roughly every eight seconds for 18 straight years. That's an average of more than 4 million a year, with 2 million baby-boom age immigrants joining the 76 million native boomers.
While that means plenty of company for those turning 50 and dealing with both existential and real aches, being a baby boomer is defined as much by sensibilities as demographics, says Dr. Dychtwald, who himself turns 57 today. Using the conceit of a "great American baby-boom exhibition hall," where he is the curator taking visitors on a journey through the boomer century, he explores how baby boomers became a culturally cohesive group by sharing formative experiences, transmitted by the magic of television, music and books.
"I grew up in Newark, New Jersey," Dr. Dychtwald says in the film, "but if I got off a plane in Oklahoma and turned to somebody who was within five years of me and I said, 'M-I-C, they would go, K-E-Y...M-O-U-S-E.' "
Mr. Snow, the White House press secretary, who was born in 1955, recalls growing up in a neighborhood where people came over to borrow that proverbial cup of sugar. "There were fewer than half as many people in the United States as there are today," Mr. Snow says of his childhood years. "It was a much smaller country, and therefore I think it was at least easier to maintain that kind of small sense of community."
Lest anyone get too nostalgic for that mom in pearls and apron, sugar bowl in hand, Mr. Bond, the chairman of the N.A.A.C.P., reminds viewers that the discrimination of the '50s and '60s meant it was not a great time to be black. "Television created a kind of aspiration of what could be," Mr. Bond says. "So this medium did an enormous job in both creating aspiration and demonstrating how far you were from that aspiration."
Ms. Jong, whose books, like "Fear of Flying," documented the sexual revolution and the feminist movement, observes, "You have to see the boomer generation in opposition to the Depression generation, or you really can't understand it at all." She continues, "Lot of confidence, a lot of beans, a lot of 'I can do it — anything.' That's the boomer generation."
Ms. Jong, who turned 65 yesterday, adds that one of the gifts of the baby-boomer feminists was to men. "We made it mainstream for men to parent," she says.
"The Boomer Century" is a film that Dr. Dychtwald said he imagined for a long time, despite no shortage of earlier examinations of boomers, from the books they read to their political impact. His ambition, he said in an interview, was to pull it all together and to look ahead. "How did we get to be the way we are internally?" he said. "I wanted to go beyond looking at boomers from the outside."
Dr. Dychtwald says in "Century" that he has identified four common boomer traits: idealism, anti-authoritarianism, embracing change and self-empowerment.
Fernando Torres-Gil, the director of the Center for Policy Research on Aging at the University of California, Los Angeles, is among those in "Century" looking at the potential dark side of a huge older population.
Besides health concerns, neither Social Security nor Medicare were designed to match the number or longevity of the boomers, experts on aging in the film note, and many boomers have not saved enough money at a time when problems with pensions, social security and the like are increasingly evident. Will baby boomers use their electoral clout to provide leadership, they ask, or will they demand that government bail them out? Or will they stand on the sidelines?"
It depends on who you ask. "The Boomer Century" is meant to provoke discussions about the many questions confronting his generation, Dr. Dychtwald said.
"Three assassinations and a war created a generation never really satisfied with the status quo," he said, referring to the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Vietnam. "I think we'll bring some of those sensibilities to maturity. Or as Daniel Goleman, the psychologist, said, 'It's not how you enter the stage, but how you exit that people remember.' I don't think we've thought enough about who we'll become."
An article in The Arts yesterday about "The Boomer Century: 1946-2046," a documentary on most PBS stations tonight, misstated the year Tony Snow, the White House press secretary, who appears on the program, was born. It was 1955, not 1957.


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RGA Spends $1.7M on Ads, DGA Donates $500K
The Republican Governors Association plans to spend $1.7 million on TV ads for Bob McDonnell in Northern Virginia starting tomorrow, according to several sources familiar with the ad buy.
The RGA has been airing $2 million worth of ads across the state since late August, but this will be the first time the group is spending money in the pricey Washington market. The $1.7 million will pay for ads for the next three weeks.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Governors Association wrote Creigh Deeds another check this week -- this one for $250,000. The DGA gave Deeds a total of $500,000 in September on top of $500,000 in June. The DGA has spent more on this year's Virginia governor's race -- $4 million in cash and TV ads -- than any other race in the group's history.
Anita Kumar
September 30, 2009; 8:37 PM ET
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Evidence Based Practice Clinical Guideline Review
WHO Guidelines on the Pharmacological Treatment of Persisting Pain in Children with Medical Illnesses
Author(s): World Health Organization (WHO)
Date of publication: 2012 | Date of Review: October 2014
Method of Review: The Evidence Based Practice Protocol Review Subcommittee conducted a group review of the clinical guideline, followed by voting to arrive at a consensus recommendation.
Review Summary: This protocol is written specifically for the pediatric population. It is very comprehensive, and would serve as a thorough guideline for the management of pain in pediatric patients. The guidelines do specifically address pain in pediatric patients with cancer and sickle cell disease. Because this is written for international use, there are some recommendations that are not suitable for US patients (namely, some medications that are not approved or available in the US). There are also some recommendations that are outside typical US oncology guidelines (ex. Using Ibuprofen for mild pain which is contraindicated in the oncology population). The research cited is current, and the language is easy to understand.
The length and depth of the guideline is a bit daunting, however, it does provide very comprehensive education on pain management options and techniques.
Recommendation for use: Recommended with modifications in pediatric oncology.


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Business Q & A
5 questions with Scott Wise, vice president, Gard'n Wise Distributors
Scott Wise probably knows as much about lawn and garden products as one person can know.
Wise is vice president of Gard'n Wise Distributors, a lawn and garden product wholesaler at 1515 E. 29th St. North. He started in the business, developed by his father, Robert, when he learned to drive.
Today the company has locations in Wichita, where it was founded, Denver, Salt Lake City and Lubbock, Texas.
Wise, 54, is married to Jennifer and they have two children, one at Kansas State and the other at Andover High School.
Do people stop gardening in a recession?
"In tougher times our business doesn't suffer as much because people do spend more time around their homes. Maybe they aren't taking as many fancy vacations and instead they spend a little extra money on maintaining their home and the landscaping."
Does that means the business is bulletproof?
"A lot of it has to do with what Mother Nature gives us.... In our business, we want a little rain on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and beautiful the rest of the time... so people can get out in their yards and plant their annuals, perennials or whatever."
Organic is a big movement in gardening, but you say the market for it is actually pretty limited. Why?
"The reality is people say they want to use them, but when it comes down to it, they're going to use something that works and works fast. And the organics tend to work a little slower, and they are more expensive. They may work over time or they may take more applications."
If you're so busy in the spring, who keeps your yard looking nice?
"My wife plants — oh, last year she did 28 containers of various sizes, and she does a really good job at it. She likes it; it's therapy. That's what's nice about our industry — in tougher times, there is a core group of people out there that like to spend time out in their yards, like to plant, they like to get pretty color in the spring. There are people who are just waiting for the weather to warm so they can go to the garden center.... It's their getaway."
What's something few people know about you?
"This is only the second job I've ever had. My first was at The Wichita Eagle, but I've been doing this ever since I could drive, helping out after school in the warehouse, driving trucks, doing delivery. It wasn't a grand plan to do this for a living, but I just grew into it."


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The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced Friday it had settled two separate lawsuits with Credit Suisse alleging violations of federal and state securities laws in connection with private-label mortgage-backed securities (PLS) purchased by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae during 2005-2007.
As conservator for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the FHFA filed two lawsuits against Credit Suisse, FHFA v. Credit Suisse, et al. as well as FHFA v. Ally Financial Inc., et al. The two groups settled, with Credit Suisse to pay $885 million to the FHFA.
"Under the terms of the agreement, Credit Suisse will pay approximately $234 million to Fannie Mae and approximately $651 million to Freddie Mac and certain claims against Credit Suisse related to the securities involved will be released," according to a release issued by the government agency.
The language of the legal settlement noted, "The Parties agree that this Agreement is the result of a compromise," and that, "This Agreement does not constitute an admission by any of the Credit Suisse Defendants of any liability or wrongdoing whatsoever..."
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In news that does not surprise anyone anymore who is a fan of football, especially local football, the Singapore Under 18's loss again in a friendly last night. This time, they were beaten by New Caledonia 2-1 at Bishan Stadium. So, anyone knows were New Caledonia is?
It is actually a French territory comprising dozens of islands in the South Pacific with an estimated population of 278,000.


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Welcome and thank you for joining us for Day 3 of our Christmas in July Blog Hop! This is a three day hop starting July 22 and ending today July 24. You should have arrived here from Sylvia. If you just happened to stumble upon this hop, please be sure to go back to Elaine's blog @ ExpressionsByElaine so you don't miss any of the wonderful projects we have to share.
Be sure to visit & follow all the blogs to be entered for the Grand Prize! After you have stopped at all the blogs head back to the beginning blog Elaine @ ExpressionsByElaine and leave your name in the inlinkz.
For my project today, I made a card with a removable ornament.
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In an era of backing tracks and studio wizardry, only the true talents rise up to the top. Aretha Franklin never needed Auto-Tune or any assistance when it came to her voice, and throughout six decades, she proved time and time again why she was "The Queen of Soul."
With the passing of Franklin, one of music's most gifted voices goes silent, but the breadth of awe-inspiring performances she leaves us is truly breathtaking. Here are just seven notable performances from her astounding career.
"Won't Be Long" - The Steve Allen Show (1964)
A 22-year-old Franklin delivers a show-stopping performance and makes it look effortless.
Aretha Franklin - Won't Be Long - Steve Allen Show - 1964
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"Chain of Fools" (with Annie Lennox) - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concerts (2010)
Franklin was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock Hall in 1987, so when it was time to celebrate the institution's 25th anniversary, she naturally stepped forward and was joined by Annie Lennox.
Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary shows
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"My Country Tis of Thee" - Inauguration of President Barack Obama (2009)
With the world watching and in below freezing temperatures, Franklin delivered a moving rendition of "My Country Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's 2009 Inauguration.
Aretha Franklin Performs at the Inauguration of President Obama
Aretha Franklin sings "My Country Tis of Thee" at the Inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20th, 2009. (This video is public domain)
"Nussun Dorma" - 40th Annual Grammy Awards (1998)
Filling in last-minute for Luciano Pavarotti, Franklin performed the tenor aria "Nussun Dorma" from the Giacomo Puccini opera Turandot, and at its stirring conclusion, there wasn't a single soul sitting in their seat.
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"Ooo Baby Baby" (with Smokey Robinson) - Soul Train (1979)
Franklin and Robinson seemingly spontaneous performance of the Miracles' classic "Ooo Baby Baby" is nothing short of chill-inducing.
Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson - Ooo Baby Baby (soul train live)
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"Take My Hand, Precious Lord" - Dr. Martin Luther King's Memorial Service (1968)
Dr. King was a family friend, and when the civil rights icon was assassinated, Franklin sang the gospel standard, which was also his favorite song, at his memorial service.
Aretha Franklin Precious Lord (Martin Luther King Funeral)(1968)
A clip of a heart broken Aretha singing, 'Precious Lord' at Dr. Martin Luther King's memorial service.
"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" - Kennedy Center Honors (2015)
Songwriter Carole King received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015 and was honored with a surprise performance from Franklin of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." Anyone else lose it with Aretha threw off that fur coat? Just unreal!
Aretha Franklin (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Kennedy Center Honors 2015
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The studio is well equipped and acoustically treated, with everything being manipulated in the digital domain.Thomas holds licenses for all the sofwares used in his studio.
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When I express my opinion on any issue (which I think is just still legal in this country of ours) I also listen to a counter argument or point of view.
I adjust my position if I think I am mistaken and regarding my original letter a fortnight ago on the harbour marina, I stand by every single word.
As a locally-born resident of Bridlington running a family business, established for 217 years, I obviously wish the town to prosper. I am totally behind the proposed new plan for the smaller marina and vastly improved harbour facilities for the commercial businesses. In my role as a councillor ERYC I will support all efforts to achieve that aim.
I have no bias at all against the leisure craft owners of the harbour or the future marina, many of them are my friends. The point totally missed by Mr Smith, is that any successful business of whatever nature, needs to prioritise its service to its major financial benefactor – that is not to say it discriminates against other users of its service. The harbour has been administered by local unpaid knowledgeable individuals for well over a century. It has been kept financially afloat by the successful fishing and shellfish industry for the last 50 years.
They pay for the greatest share by far, for its maintenance and functioning. The harbour or new marina will never cover its running costs without the commercial sector. The
Commissioners are a fine body of people often maligned and criticised by very ignorant people, both in manner and knowledge. They need congratulating for successfully running a very tight ship and preserving the finest asset on this coast, both north and south for many miles. They do so at a cost to themselves, giving up their time from their businesses and have (as far as I know), never asked for a penny from the rate payers. Should the council ever gain control of the harbour and future marina, they would be subject to the identical cut backs being applied to all council service,s with devastating results for the users of the harbour.
The enormous cost of the two enquiries both to the Council and the Commissioners was unavoidable, as both parties were called to give evidence to the inspectorate and had to be represented by expensive barristers for a very long time. This combined cost was well over two million pounds and the Council emphatically lost both cases in its attempt to compulsory purchase the Harbour Estate.
This cost was paid for by the hard working users of the Harbour, on the one hand and the rate payers on the other. Unbelievable. The proposed marina and improved harbour facilities will cost £100 million (my own average estimate based on the lower and higher costing predictions). This will be an absolute minimum and it is my honest opinion, we will not be given it.
Finally I am proud of the public service that I have given to my home town over the last 40 years.
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UPDATE AT END OF POST: CNN issues apology.
Eight days after playing the song "Stupid Girls" before a story about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, the scoring geniuses at CNN were at it again.
After coming out of a break following a long segment about the Sikh temple shootings in Wisconsin, viewers of Monday's Starting Point were treated to Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
At 8:37 AM, substitute co-host Ali Velshi opened a segment with the breaking news from Wisconsin that the suspected Sikh temple shooter was former Army soldier Wade Michael Page.
Narinder Singh, the chairman of the board of trustees for the Sikh Coalition was then introduced to discuss the massacre and inform viewers about his religion.
After about a six minute discussion, the program cut to a commercial break. Upon return, viewers were greeted with Billy Joel:
Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
Ah but they never told you the price that you pay,
For the things that you might have done...
Only the good die young
That's what I said
Only the good die young
Only the good die young.
For those not familiar with Starting Point, the show allows guest contributors to offer a song playlist for their appearances.
This little diddy was chosen by guest Hank Sheinkopf.
Honestly, on a day when the nation is grieving a massacre at a temple, couldn't someone at CNN notice how inappropriate this was, especially following a segment about the shootings?
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Well Google's Nexus One arrived today Here's a little video of the unveiling or at least it being taken out the box.
Android 2.1 (Eclair) doesn't look that different to other versions of Android, but some applications acted a bit weirdly and hung for a while and Android then noticed and offered to "kill the offending program" or "wait", sometime waiting would work, others not.
It's definitely a pretty phone and the screen is very nice to look at, however it takes getting used to, especially pressing it as you seem to have to be holding the phone with the hand that's pressing a button/etc or it may not respond. Lying the phone on a table and hitting buttons on screen doesn't seem to work.
The phone is pretty fast and the Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU running at 1GHz is noticeable, but some applications still seem sluggish.
The Nexus One comes with a Facebook client, which can sync data between Facebook and contacts on the phone, either all FB contacts (which will just be used in the FB app), just those in the Android contacts or none. You can upload or view pictures, notifications etc. However when a mail notification comes in, you're sent to the mobile Facebook website to actually read it. Even the Blackberry FB client can read and compose FB mail within the app itself.
In order to run things properly you MUST have a Google Email account, this hooks into Mail, Contacts, Calendar etc. Anything that requires sign-in will use that Google address if available. That can make life very easy, but does mean Google know exactly what you're doing on the device (there's a surprise).
The 5MP autofocus camera works well and the LED flash is a bonus. It can do photos and video.
It's a nice slim design and looks good. When setting the system up it defaults to 2G only, though in a modern data centric world that's a bad thing, it does make a huge difference to battery life which gets sucked dry in 3G mode. Having charged the unit fully at about 6pm, there was significantly noticeable drainage by 11pm (just under a 1/3 was gone). Another user reported their Nexus One had completely lost charge and was running around trying to find a charger (it uses the microUSB interface - which is the new 'standard' for phone agreed by several manufacturers, but it's only modern phones that seem to have adopted it.
More info as it comes in.
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The year is 1945, and the Japanese war effort is grinding to a halt. In Hiroshima, the Nakaoka family is working hard to survive in the midst of poverty and persecution. With his father constantly working, six year old Gen has been left in charge of his family, yet stays relentlessly optimistic in the face of hardship. Then, on August 6th, the atomic bomb Little Boy detonated in the center of town, and the people's lives were changed forever. As Gen struggles to cope with the horrific event, his youthful innocence and refusal to give up brings a renewed sense of hope to those around him...
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By MorraLee Keller, Director of Technical Assistance
If you build it, will they come? NCAN spent much of 2015 working with members and content experts to build a suite of e-learning units that our member programs could use to help train new advisors. The units are designed to provide a fundamental set of knowledge is several areas for those new to advising students and parents about the college processes. NCAN's e-learning units are being provided free to members this year as a result of the generous support of the Houston Endowment. College access programs and community-based organizations providing college advising services can have their employees take the units to ensure they are up-to-date on knowledge from the field. If you're attending the NCAN National Conference in Orlando Sept. 28-30, you can stop by NCAN's exhibit table to see a demo.
Come they did. Since these elearning units were in place for training at the beginning of this academic year, NCAN has had several hundred people enroll in the online training. With units that address cultural competence, standardized entrance exams, test prep strategies, the admissions process, the financial aid process, the FAFSA, verification, how's and why's of data tracking, and serving target populations such as homeless and foster youth, programs can choose from the menu for their advisors. NCAN is encouraged by the numbers of advisors and units they are attempting. And they are learning from the best in the business, thanks to NCAN's expert content providers who wrote the curriculum:
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For the ganache: Put the chips in a medium bowl. Heat the heavy cream in a small saucepan just until it bubbles around the sides. Immediately pour the hot cream over the chocolate, give the bowl a good shake and let stand 10 minutes, shaking the bowl occasionally. Then whisk until the mixture is homogenous, 20 to 30 seconds. Chill about 40 minutes, stirring occasionally and scraping down the sides, until the mixture is almost spreadable. Give it another brief whisk, and let stand at room temperature until it's at frosting consistency.
For the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line standard muffin pans with 20 cupcake liners. In a small bowl, stir the chocolate chips into the hot espresso until melted; cool in the refrigerator to room temperature.
Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt into a bowl. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer with a paddle attachment, beat the eggs, granulated sugar, applesauce, oil and vanilla at medium-high speed for about 2 minutes. Beat in the cooled chocolate mixture until the mixture is homogenous. With the mixer on medium-low speed, add the flour mixture and beat just until incorporated, scraping the sides as necessary. It's ok if the batter is slightly lumpy. Using a 1/4-cup ice cream scoop, fill each cupcake liner with batter.
Bake until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 18 to 20 minutes. Transfer the pans to cooling racks and cool for about 10 minutes, and then transfer the cupcakes to the racks to cool completely before filling and frosting.
While the cupcakes cool, make the filling: In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, whip the cream and confectioners' sugar to firm peaks. On low speed, whisk in the espresso. Use immediately, or hold in the refrigerator until ready to assemble.
To assemble: Use an apple corer or melon baller to remove the center from each cupcake, about three-quarters of the way into the cupcake. Use a pastry bag to pipe some of the espresso cream filling into the centers. Pipe a large rosette of dark chocolate ganache on top of each cupcake.
Tip: Applesauce replaces some of the oil and sugar in these cupcakes to bring moisture and sweetness to the table.


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Seamless rings, also known as segment rings, are frequently worn in nostril, septum, eyebrow, lip and nipple piercings. Seamless rings work similarly to captive bead rings, in that they are C-shaped and use tension to hold the ring closure in place. Unlike bead rings, segment rings give the appearance of a continuous hoop that moves freely through the piercing. A tool called ring expanding pliers allows you to pop out the closing segment without bending the ring.
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Rotate your jewelry, so that the closure segment is on the outside of the piercing.
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I was missing the green-ness of home when I suggested to my husband and brother-in-law that we check out Falls Lake. This is a tiny little lake located within the Coqhihalla Summit Recreation Area. While I would like to have explored more of the park we came rather late in the afternoon of a sunny weekend. It was distinctly cooler and damper in this area compared to Merritt which lies within the southern interior bio-climatic zone. Forests of fir, cedar and pines cover the mountains and I saw wild blueberry among other plants.
The hike in is a kilometer and a half mostly uphill but nothing strenuous. It opened out onto a shore that had small boat access and plenty of room to set up a tent although there are no facilities. The water was alive with little trout coming up for whatever was landing on the water and I imagine the deeper part of the lake holds good sized fish.
It was a nice break from the usual brilliant sunshine of the Nicola Valley and I had to remind myself that one of the best reasons for living in Merritt was because of the absence of such a forceful and damp atmosphere as Falls Lake. It is almost typical of the brooding, misty feeling of the west coast tucked away into the mountains until the sun breaks out and makes it look like there should be a summer camp on the far shore!
To get there you drive to the Falls Lake turnoff which is located midway between Hope and Merritt, B.C. The road in goes for about a kilometer west and from there on you walk in. The Coqhihalla Summit Recreation Area itself is open to fishing, hunting, hiking, cross-country skiing, and horseback riding. It is a very historic area as remnants of the Kettle Valley Railway which operated from the 1900's to the 60'd can still be found here.We concluded our day with a stop at Kingsvale which is located on the Coldwater Road coming into Merritt. Kingsvale appears to have been a small community that established itself along the Kettle Valley Railway. There is one very old but well preserved building beside the road and remains of a bridge and a few smaller structures.


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Get just the amount of coverage you need; don't buy too much insurance or little of it. It might take you a while to figure out just how much money you will need to cover expenses and to provide for your family, doing this will alleviate a lot of your concerns. Think about your mortgage and loans, property taxes, your tax liabilities and other aspects of your personal financial situation as you ponder the proper amount to purchase.
Hobbies and professions that are risky or hazardous to your health can raise the life insurance.If you do anything that puts you at risk like scuba diving, think about quitting bungee jumping, scuba diving, or skydiving. Traveling to dangerous areas may also make you ineligible for discounts.
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Click here for link to 2012 Overview Part 1
Previously part 1 provided an overview of the Mayan Calendar and prophecies which predict some big event on Dec. 21, 2012 at 11:11. Also discussed were the 6,000 yr old Sumerian Clay Tablets with an overview of Zacharia Sitchin interpretation of those tablets, including the rogue planet Nibiru whose orbit around Earth is every 3,600 yrs.
Both theories include changing positions of the North & South poles. This would have unimaginable effects on our magnetosphere.
Devastation would reach far beyond anyone's imagination , the possible temporary loss or weakening of our protective magnetosphere, Hot Solar Storms with the loss of most life & vegetation on a scorched Earth.
The magnetosphere is a bubble of magnetism that surrounds Earth and protects us from solar wind & storms etc.
A report funded by NASA and issued by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in January 2009 predicts a possible powerful Solar Storm in 2012 involving a Coronal Mass Ejection on the Sun
If a Coronal Mass Ejection happened in 2012 which NASA's latest report predicts, that is a 3rd possible large destructive event, regardless of the Mayan & Sumerian propositions.
Coronal Mass Ejection happened in back in 1859, the invention of the telegraph network was only 15 years old and society's electrical framework was truly in its infancy.
Even 144 years ago, many of Earth's inhabitants realized something momentous had just occurred. Within hours, telegraph wires in both the United States and Europe spontaneously shorted out, causing numerous fires, while the Northern Lights, solar-induced phenomena more closely associated with regions near Earth's North Pole, were documented as far south as Rome, Havana and Hawaii, with similar effects at the South Pole.
Today's high technology society with dependence on electricity for virtually all of our existence, would fail to operate if an event of the magnitude of 1859 Coronal Mass Ejection happened.
The projections of just how catastrophic make chilling reading. "We're moving closer and closer to the edge of a possible disaster," says Daniel Baker, a space weather expert based at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and chair of the NAS committee responsible for the report.
Though a solar outburst could conceivably be more powerful, "we haven't found an example of anything worse than a Carrington event", says James Green, head of NASA's planetary division and an expert on the events of 1859. "From a scientific perspective, that would be the one that we'd want to survive." However, the prognosis from the NAS analysis is that, thanks to our technological prowess, many of us may not.
First to go – immediately for some people – is drinkable water. Anyone living in a high-rise apartment, where water has to be pumped to reach them, would be cut off straight away. For the rest, drinking water will still come through the taps for maybe half a day. With no electricity to pump water from reservoirs, there is no more after that.
There is simply no electrically powered transport: no trains, underground or overground. Our just-in-time culture for delivery networks may represent the pinnacle of efficiency, but it means that supermarket shelves would empty very quickly – delivery trucks could only keep running until their tanks ran out of fuel, and there is no electricity to pump any more from the underground tanks at filling stations.
Back-up generators would run at pivotal sites – but only until their fuel ran out. For hospitals, that would mean about 72 hours of running a bare-bones, essential care only, service. After that, no more modern healthcare.
The truly shocking finding is that this whole situation would not improve for months, maybe years: melted transformer hubs cannot be repaired, only replaced. "From the surveys I've done, you might have a few spare transformers around, but installing a new one takes a well-trained crew a week or more," says Kappenman. "A major electrical utility might have one suitably trained crew, maybe two."
Within a month, then, the handful of spare transformers would be used up. The rest will have to be built to order, something that can take up to 12 months.
Even when some systems are capable of receiving power again, there is no guarantee there will be any to deliver. Almost all natural gas and fuel pipelines require electricity to operate. Coal-fired power stations usually keep reserves to last 30 days, but with no transport systems running to bring more fuel, there will be no electricity in the second month.
Nuclear power stations wouldn't fare much better. They are programmed to shut down in the event of serious grid problems and are not allowed to restart until the power grid is up and running.
With no power for heating, cooling or refrigeration systems, people could begin to die within days. There is immediate danger for those who rely on medication. Lose power to New Jersey, for instance, and you have lost a major centre of production of pharmaceuticals for the entire US. Perishable medications such as insulin will soon be in short supply. "In the US alone there are a million people with diabetes," Kappenman says. "Shut down production, distribution and storage and you put all those lives at risk in very short order."
Help is not coming any time soon, either. If it is dark from the eastern seaboard to Chicago, some affected areas are hundreds, maybe thousands of miles away from anyone who might help. And those willing to help are likely to be ill-equipped to deal with the sheer scale of the disaster.
According to the NAS report, the impact of what it terms a "severe geomagnetic storm scenario" could be as high as $2 trillion. And that's just the first year after the storm. The NAS puts the recovery time at four to 10 years. It is questionable whether the US would ever bounce back.
"I don't think the NAS report is scaremongering," says Mike Hapgood, who chairs the European Space Agency's space weather team. Green agrees. "Scientists are conservative by nature and this group is really thoughtful," he says. "This is a fair and balanced report."
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The rest of this article deals with the unexpected events which happened in 2007 & 1859.
2007 where solar wind particles streaming into the magnetosphere like an octopus wrapping its tentacles around a big clam, solar magnetic fields draped themselves around the magnetosphere and cracked it open.
Researchers were even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics.
This event demonstrates that we are still in the learning phase & are still space cadets. Great dedicated Space physicists & scientist work in this field, they are putting forward ever increasing knowledge to all.
On June 3, 2007 sensors recorded a torrent of solar wind particles streaming into the magnetosphere, signaling an event of unexpected size and importance.
Above: A computer model of solar wind flowing around Earth's magnetic field on June 3, 2007. Background colors represent solar wind density; red is high density, blue is low. Solid black lines trace the outer boundaries of Earth's magnetic field. Note the layer of relatively dense material beneath the tips of the white arrows; that is solar wind entering Earth's magnetic field through the breach. Credit: Jimmy Raeder/UNH
NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist.
Solar wind can flow in through the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest surprise.
Researchers are even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics.
"The opening was huge—four times wider than Earth itself," says Wenhui Li, a space physicist at the University of New Hampshire who has been analyzing the data. Li's colleague Jimmy Raeder, also of New Hampshire, says "1027 particles per second were flowing into the magnetosphere—that's a 1 followed by 27 zeros. This kind of influx is an order of magnitude greater than what we thought was possible."
The event began with little warning when a gentle gust of solar wind delivered a bundle of magnetic fields from the Sun to Earth. Like an octopus wrapping its tentacles around a big clam, solar magnetic fields draped themselves around the magnetosphere and cracked it open.
The cracking was accomplished by means of a process called "magnetic reconnection." High above Earth's poles, solar and terrestrial magnetic fields linked up (reconnected) to form conduits for solar wind. Conduits over the Arctic and Antarctic.
The circumstances were even more surprising.
Space physicists have long believed that holes in Earth's magnetosphere open only in response to solar magnetic fields that point south.
The great breach of June 2007, however, opened in response to a solar magnetic field that pointed north.
"To the lay person, this may sound like a quibble, but to a space physicist, it is almost seismic," says Sibeck. "When I tell my colleagues, most react with skepticism, as if I'm trying to convince them that the sun rises in the west."
Here is why they can't believe their ears:
The solar wind presses against Earth's magnetosphere almost directly above the equator where our planet's magnetic field points north. Suppose a bundle of solar magnetism comes along, and it points north, too.
The two fields should reinforce one another, strengthening Earth's magnetic defenses and slamming the door shut on the solar wind. In the language of space physics, a north-pointing solar magnetic field is called a "northern IMF" and it is synonymous with shields up!
"So, you can imagine our surprise when a northern IMF came along and shields went down instead," says Sibeck. "This completely overturns our understanding of things."
Northern IMF events don't actually trigger geomagnetic storms, notes Raeder, but they do set the stage for storms by loading the magnetosphere with plasma.
A loaded magnetosphere is primed for auroras, power outages, and other disturbances that can result when, say, a CME (coronal mass ejection) hits.
The years ahead could be especially lively. Raeder explains: "We're entering Solar Cycle 24. For reasons not fully understood, CMEs in even-numbered solar cycles (like 24) tend to hit Earth with a leading edge that is magnetized north.
Such a CME should open a breach and load the magnetosphere with plasma just before the storm gets underway. It's the perfect sequence for a really big event."
Sibeck agrees. "This could result in stronger geomagnetic storms than we have seen in many years."
Back in 1859 the invention of the telegraph was only 15 years old and society's electrical framework was truly in its infancy.
In scientific circles where solar flares, magnetic storms and other unique solar events are discussed, the occurrences of September 1-2, 1859, are the star stuff of legend.
Even 144 years ago, many of Earth's inhabitants realized something momentous had just occurred. Within hours, telegraph wires in both the United States and Europe spontaneously shorted out, causing numerous fires, while the Northern Lights, solar-induced phenomena more closely associated with regions near Earth's North Pole, were documented as far south as Rome, Havana and Hawaii, with similar effects at the South Pole.
What transpired during the dog days of summer 1859, across the 150 million-kilometer (about 93 million-mile) chasm of interplanetary space that separates the Sun and Earth, was this: on August 28, solar observers noted the development of numerous sunspots on the Sun's surface. Sunspots are localized regions of extremely intense magnetic fields.
These magnetic fields intertwine, and the resulting magnetic energy can generate a sudden, violent release of energy called a solar flare. From August 28 to September 2 several solar flares were observed. Then, on September 1, the Sun released a mammoth solar flare. For almost an entire minute the amount of sunlight the Sun produced at the region of the flare actually doubled.
"With the flare came this explosive release of a massive cloud of magnetically charged plasma called a coronal mass ejection," said Tsurutani. "Not all coronal mass ejections head toward Earth.
Those that do usually take three to four days to get here. This one took all of 17 hours and 40 minutes," he noted.
"The question I get asked most often is, 'Could a perfect space storm happen again, and when?'" added Tsurutani. "I tell people it could, and it could very well be even more intense than what transpired in 1859. As for when, we simply do not know," he said
The above information extracted from articles at NASA@SCIENCE
A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field, 12.16.2008
Solar Super Storm October 23, 2003
A report funded by NASA and issued by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in January 2009
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In Babel Running, you'll carry as many stones as you can to build the Tower of Babel. Beware the wrath of the gods, avoid obstacles and improve your score in this arcade game. Earn trophies and spice things up with Bonus mode. Play Babel Running today!
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