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Comet Strikes Increase as We Pass Through the Galactic Plane
There are just so many ways the Universe is out to get us. Astronomers have already considered the threat from our Sun's orbit around the center of the Milky Way. When our Sun rises up out of flat plane of the Milky Way, it appears we might be less protected from intergalactic radiation and cosmic rays. Well, it looks like passing through the middle of the galactic plane might have its own share of risks: an increased number of comets might be hurled towards the Earth because of gravitational interaction with the densest parts of our galaxy.
Researchers at the Cardiff Centre of Astrobiology have built a computer model of the Solar System's journey around the Milky Way. Instead of making a perfectly flat orbit around the galaxy's centre, it actually bounces up and down. At times it can rise right up out of the galactic plane – getting 100 light years above – and then dip down below it. They calculated that we pass through the plane every 35 to 40 million years.
And this time period seems to match dangerous periods of impacts on Earth. According to the number and age of craters on Earth, we seem to suffer increased impacts every 36 million years. Uh oh, that's a match.
In fact, one of these high points of comet activity would have been 65 million years – the same time that an asteroid strike wiped out the dinosaurs.
And here's the bad news. According to their calculations, the Solar System will be passing through the galactic plane in the near future, and should see an increased risk of impact. Our risk of impact could increase 10-fold.
There might be a silver lining to the bounce, though. The impacts might have helped life spread across the galaxy.
While the "bounce" effect may have been bad news for dinosaurs, it may also have helped life to spread. The scientists suggest the impact may have thrown debris containing micro-organisms out into space and across the universe.
Centre director Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe said: "This is a seminal paper which places the comet-life interaction on a firm basis, and shows a mechanism by which life can be dispersed on a galactic scale."
Here's more info on the story from Bad Astronomy.
Original Source: Cardiff News Release
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So if the last one was 65 million years ago, and they happen about every 35-40 million years, arn't we over due for one by about 37 million years? Are we now about the time of the second 37 million year mark to have one?
Dang, should of ordered the pizza and beer!
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..and perhaps life on earth was the result of an impact somwhere else..
I believe that the comet shower hypothesis better explains the extinction of the dinosaurs better than the asteroid shower theory. I had a publisher interested in a book on comet showers. This is not to say that an asteroid did not strike the Earth. A sea drill in the Pacific showed a stony asteroid fragment. Robert Rochia of the French Atomic Energy Commission did the work in 2000 off Japan. He believed it was a mile wide.
That is a different type of asteroid than the recent theory on asteroid showers. It also does not rule out another asteroid hitting us too.
There is a double crater in Russia, but I believe this happened from a binary asteroid. Again, this may be related to the comet shower.
Utah has Upheaval Dome. There is Eagles Butte in Alberta. These are 65 million year old craters. We also have the Boyish crater in Russia. Another crater is the Silver Pit Crater in the English Channel. Venus also has a twin of the main dinosaur crater just as old and as big.
In the K-T boundary, there are signs of Tunguska Events from comets. It means comets played a role. Now, we do not have enough data to match all of these up to a comet shower, but there are many holes in the ground at the right time.
There are also Permian craters. We do not have it confirmed, but there is probably a larger crater under the ice in Antarctica. There may be one off Australia. Both of these line up with the Siberian basalt flats. Rocheouart is another crater that dates back from that time. Add in St. Martin's Crater in Canada. We also have the Obolon Crater in the Ukraine and the Red Wing Crater in North Dakota.
The Sudbury impact came when the Earth was in this unlucky position, but it has no other evidence that has survived. At least there is none that I am aware of, and I am happy to be corrected.
The Devonian did have impacts but the Earth was not in a position for this. A star still may have traveled through the Öort Cloud and caused this. Tau Ceti has 12 times the dust it should with a red dwarf within a light year of it.
There is a crater in Nevada, another in Australia, and a third in Germany. There is a fourth crater in Sweden called Siljan. We also have a crater chain from this epoch in the Midwest with a crater every six miles in almost a straight line from Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas. A comet probably broke up and did this. There is some evidence of an ocean impact from this time as well.
The Eocene had a comet that created Chesapeake Bay and a piece hit off the Palisades off New Jersey. There is another in Russia. Again, Earth was in the plain of the galaxy in a spiral arm. There is also another from this period.
There is some evidence for the Triassic to have ended with a smaller comet shower. The same thing happened in the Jurassic.
Be aware that there were other signs of stress with life at these times. Should the Earth have passed through a molecular cloud, it would also have effects on the climate, but the answer is probably more complex than this.
Oh, we are going to have another comet shower if you want to wait 500,000 years. The Earth will enter a molecular cloud. It will shrink the heliosphere, severiring the connection with the Interplanetary Magnetic Field. Dust will drift into the atmosphere, changing the chemistry.
Some of you may not want to wait that long, so expect one when a red dwarf named Gilese 710 enters Oort Cloud in 27,000 light-years. Bernard's Star will get 1.1 light years from us sooner but may not cause a comet shower.
Interesting that this is coming out now, since it is hardly new information. The fact that comet activity is correlated to galactic plane crossing has been well documented in the literature for several years. It also correlates to ice age epochs. See Gies & Helsel, ApJ, 2005, for an excellent analysis of this idea.
I hope my coffin won't be at risk.
Was the effect of the dark matter "halo" considered in the calculation? This might produce a different period for the "bobbing" or eliminate it altogether. If the sun were "bobbing", wouldn't this imply that many (or even all) other stars were also "bobbing"? By analogy with coupled harmonic oscillators, this could lead to a regular distribution of steller masses centered on the galactic plane. Has such a relation been observed? Why doesn't the Sag A debris field "bob" too? Can the existence of large scale galactic structures, which have endured over billions of years, be reconciled with "bobbing" stars?
As to those ages not marked by the signatures of encounters through the more populated areas of the galaxy, some encounters may be more dangerous than others, characterized by less density of "object" from mole cloud to red giant to "dumb luck."
It's an engaging theory, but as I've pointed out to the folks at Cardiff, its not original. This idea is at least as old as the discovery of the K-T Boundary and has been put forth as one way to explain periodic extinctions for more than twenty years.
So, the Solar System "bobs" up and down the galactic plan, crossing it once every 35-40 million years. This sound like it is ORBITING something, at a distance of 100 lights years. Whoa. It's gotta be BIG. Or at least massive. I wonder what it is?
Our Solar System will align perfectly with the Galactic Plane on December 21, 2012.
Didn't Phil from Bad Astronomy mention this?
We are 67 light-years north of the galactic plane. Unless the Earth goes into warp drive, we will not be in the galactic plain any time soon. In fact, the Earth is moving at 20 kilometers a second. This is 12.5 miles per second, or 45,000 miles per hour.
So when can we expect some extra activity. Does anyone else hear that frequency, even with my ears closed, is it the sun? or galaxy core getting louder, resinking our galaxcy to the same frequncy?
Msybe a little late to post this but …
So suppose a comet hits us 2012. It will spit up a gaint dust cloud, and blocks the sun.
1) We have technology that can make artificial light to grow food
2) It's going into winter anyway and it should (hopefully), correct me if I'm wrong, clear by spring?
And Waylander 348, what do you mean when you say "north" of the galactic plain?
Just as the earth orbits the sun, the sun oribits the center of the milky way. Just as the earth moves periodically higher and lower (north and south) in it's orbit around the sun, so does the sun in it's orbit around the galactic center. The Sun (and hence, the earth) is now quite far North of the galactic plane in our orbit around the galactic center. If you are waiting for a crossing of the galactic plane, you have a few million years to wait.
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UNC inpatient Psychiatry
PGY-1 residents rotate on three of the seven inpatient units in the UNC Neurosciences Hospital, located within the UNC Hospitals complex in Chapel Hill: the Crisis Stabilization Unit; the Psychotic Disorders Unit; and the Adolescent Unit. Daily rounding and close supervision with teaching attendings is provided in all settings along with a team-based model that involves social work, case management, occupational therapy, physical therapy, pharmacy, and education plans when appropriate.
UNC Emergency Department
The Emergency Psychiatry Service is an interdisciplinary clinical learning assignment in the context of a general hospital medical/surgical emergency room. During this assignment (two 2-week blocks), the resident assumes full-time responsibility for the emergency care of patients presenting with psychiatric concerns, providing evaluation and assessment. Interns deal not only with medical colleagues and hospital staff, but with family members, police, and security personnel as well.
UNC Family Medicine
The UNC Family Medicine Department, ranked the #2 Family Medicine program in the country, admits both adult and pediatric patients from an extensive network of practitioners in North Carolina. Patients admitted to the service have a wide diversity of presentations and diagnoses, and an acuity comparable to that of an Internal Medicine service. On this rotation, interns function as family medicine practitioners and become integral members of the treatment team.
CRH Medicine
This assignment provides a unique perspective into the interaction between psychiatric and medical diagnoses. Residents acquire broad-based general medical training experience in the context of caring for medically-ill psychiatric patients at CRH. Interns spend time in the dedicated inpatient medical service integrating the basic principles of internal medicine in a psychiatric population with acute medical concerns.
UNC Neurology
On the Inpatient Neurology teaching service (two 2-week rotations), residents are exposed to a variety of neurologic illnesses and their neurobehavioral comorbidity and sequelae. The Neurology service is located within the UNC Neurosciences Hospital, the same building that houses all of the UNC Inpatient psychiatric units. Patients admitted to the service have a wide variety of presentations, facilitating a broad exposure to neurological diseases.
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UNC Family Medicine: Two weeks per block is spent on days (six 12-hour shifts), and two weeks on night float (five 12-hour shifts).
UNC Neurology: Call is every other day until 8:00pm.
UNC inpatient: 2 - 3 weekend call shifts per block (8:00am - 4:30pm).
UNC Emergency Department: 5 shifts per week (Monday - Friday 10:00am - 6:00pm)
CRH inpatient: Call is every third weekday, and lasts until 8:00pm Monday - Thursday and 10:00pm on Friday. Residents also spend 2 weeks per block on night float. There is no call on weekends.
CRH Medicine: Interns have one weekday call (until 8:00pm) and one weekend day call per week (8:00am - 8:00pm). Residents do however have one Golden Weekend per block (no call).


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This meeting of the Coordination Group was focused on in depth discussions of topics and of progress and plans for the implementation of the NSDI Strategy.
This meeting was a two day session for the purpose of conducting more in-depth discussions of topics and progress and plans for the implementation of the NSDI Strategy. This report will only cover the result of those discussions.
Persons Attending
Fred Broome, (Cultural and Demographic); Bruce Spear (Ground Trans); MK Miles, Nancy Blyler, (Facilities); John Stewart (DOE); Win Lyday (NACo); Jerry Dobson, David Mark, Tom Palmerlee (UCGIS); Gerry Barton (NOAA); John Spencer, Milo Robinson, Rich Yorsick (Geodetic Control); Millington Lockwood (Bathymetric); Alan Gaines (NSF); Dave Soller (Geologic): Mark DeMulder (Standards); Don Buhler (Cadastral); Bill Wilen (Wetlands); Hank Garie (NSGIC); Dick Kleckner (Base Cartographic, Earth Cover); Gale TeSelle (Earth Cover); Angela Bottom (International Boundaries); Dave Danko (NIMA); Gene Thorley (Chair, Coordination Group) John Moeller, Denise Perreca, Bruce McKenzie, Barbara Poore (FGDC Secretariat)
Note: Several additional persons who attended during the two days may not be listed.
Report of Decisions and Actions from Meeting
Standards Development
Standards of the Subcommittees and Working Groups are intended to be those needed to develop the NSDI and are intended to be national in scope. To achieve this, Subcommittees and Working Groups will strive for the fullest participation practicable by all sectors in the development and implementation of standards.
The NSDI standards development process will be broad in scope and will include all categories and themes of data needed to build the NSDI.
To ensure that needed standards are being addressed and to help allocated Subcommittee, Working Group and Staff resources, an assessment will be conducted of needed standards and their priorities. A format will be provided by the FGDC Secretariat. After receipt of responses, an analysis of the responses will be brought back to the Coordination Group for further discussion and action.
The FGDC Standards Development process will be used to provide a mechanism for linkage and input into the standards activities of the International Standards Organization (ISO) and other similar organizations. FGDC will provide a forum for facilitating this interaction.
The FGDC will provide the mechanism for presenting a single federal voice on geospatial data standards.
The FGDC will work with NACo, NSGIC, NLC, OGC, UCGIS and others to ensure a that there are ways to obtain participation and involvement of the various sectors in standards activities.
The FGDC Standards Working Group will prepare an issue paper detailing the alternatives for ensuring that FGDC Standards are incorporated into ANSI and other standards activities.
FGDC Subcommittees and Working Groups will work with NACo, NSGIC, UCGIS, OGC etc. to obtain participation in standards activities.
Standards Implementation
In order to ensure that FGDC Standards address implementation, the following positions were agreed to:
- That all FGDC Standards will have an informative annex containing one or more examples of implementation of the standard and/or tools for implementation.
That all standards have a compliance section defining full and other levels of compliance.
That this be required only of standards which have not been into public review.
- That for all future standards development activities, implementation needs and approaches be discussed early in the development process.
In addition two Chairs volunteered to offer Standards from their Subcommittee/Working Group as tests:
Bill Wilen offered to provide the implementation procedures for the Wetland Classification Standard for review by members to see if they give adequate guidance.
M K Miles offered to incorporate implementation examples in the review of the Facilities Working Group Standards.
Standards Approval
The preferred process for approval of FGDC Standards is by discussion and action of the Steering Committee in an FGDC Steering Committee Meeting. However, with the increasing number of standards under development there is more potential for the need to approve a standard before a scheduled Steering Committee Meeting. Therefore the following is proposed as an alternative process for standards approval:
Procedures for approval of a Standard by ballot:
- Steering Committee members only will vote
- Ballot will be conducted via E-mail unless otherwise arranged by the member's office. A courtesy copy will be provided to Coordination Group members.
- A non-returned ballot will not count either for or against approval of a standard. Only ballots returned to the FGDC Secretariat will be counted.
- In order to be approved by ballot at least 50% of the ballots must be returned with all votes in favor of approval.
- If there is insufficient return or dissenting votes the Standard will be referred to the next Steering Committee Meeting for discussion and action.
FGDC/NSDI Partnership Funding Programs
The Partnership Funding Programs (Cooperative Agreements Program, Framework Demonstration Projects Program, and NSDI Benefits program) are viewed as critical in providing incentives and seed funding for partnership projects among organizations to share data and help build the NSDI. The following focus is to be followed for 1998.
- Continue the Programs at approximately the same level as in 1997.
- Conduct a review by an independent entity in 1998 to supplement the FGDC review done in 1997.
- Prepare write-ups of success stories and use them to help broaden the awareness, understanding and support for the NSDI.
- Solicit members of the panels that reviewed projects for approval to also review project reports and to assess the projects results against that proposed.
- As part of review activities take a look at some of the projects not funded to see what happened to those efforts.
University Consortium for Geographic Sciences
The UCGIS is setting up teams to prepare assessments of each of the 10 Research Topics identified by the Consortium. FGDC, NSGIC and NACo have been invited to provide comments and names of contacts to UCGIS for any or all of the 10 Topics. UCGIS will determine the requirements for government participation on the Work Teams to the Coordination Group which will then coordinate the identification of participants. The UCGIS 1998 Summer Assembly will be in Park City, Utah and Work Team participants will be expected to attend the meeting. Other FGDC members will also be able to attend the Assembly as they have need or interest.
Action: Provide comments and contact names to Tom Palmerlee of UCGIS at or prior to next Coordination Group Meeting.
Status of items from the April 30, 1997 FGDC Steering Committee meeting.
At the April 30, steering Committee meeting several items were identified for joint action of the participants in the meeting. In summary, these items and their status are:
- Increase resources for development of foundational data sets to enhance collaborative decision-making
- Status: Kathy Clement and Gene Trobia have done initial work with further follow-up planned
- Improve understanding and ensure participation of federal field offices in local spatial data coordination and development
- Status:Initial ideas were sent to a small group identified after the April 30 meeting. Subsequent discussions have identified that an increased focus on federal office interaction through regional meetings, interaction with state/regional coordinating organizations and building on some existing or planned cooperative efforts will be a better approach than a set of guidelines or directions from the FGDC or national level offices. This approach is being further developed.
- Assure participation of state and local representatives in the collaborative development of national standards
- Status: NSGIC has initiated a process to identify participants to selected Standards Activities that are of highest priority at this time. NACo is exploring a similar process.
Spreading the NSDI Message
After discussion about the need for increased communication activities and potential involvement of all Subcommittee and Working Groups it was agreed to establish a Communication Working Group. The first step is to propose a Charter for review by the Coordination Group. Action will be with the FGDC Secretariat.
1997 Reports and 1998 Plans of FGDC
Subcommittee and Working Group Reports and Plans
For calendar year 1997 Subcommittees and Working Groups have developed and worked against Plans that address implementation of Goals and Objectives of the NSDI Strategy. Reports of the progress and activities on these Plans as well as plans for calendar year 1998 need to be prepared. It was agreed that each Subcommittee and Working Group would prepare a 1997 Report and a Draft 1998 Work Plan by December 1, 1997.
1997 Reports
Two products will be prepared
- 1) Report by each Subcommittee and Working Group on 1997 activities and progress. Format:
- Status of planned activities
- Value or benefit of work in NSDI implementation
- Problems or difficulties
Due Date: December 1, 1997
2) A synthesis report of NSDI Implementation
Will be done after individual reports are completed Draft 1998 Plans
- Will be prepared similar to the 1997 Plans using the NSDI Strategy Goals and Objectives as the building blocks. Format for the Plans is included as an attachment.
- Due Date for Draft 1998 Plans: December 1, 1997
Agency Reports
The Coordination Group agreed that it is desirable to prepare Agency Reports for 1997 NSDI implementation actions. John Moeller will develop ideas for a Matrix to use for these reports for discussion at the October 7, 1997 Coordination Group Meeting.
Next Coordination Group Meeting
The next meeting is scheduled for:
October 7, 1997 from 9:00-12:00
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Attachment 1998 WORK PLANS
GUIDANCE TO SUBCOMMITTEES AND WORKING GROUPS The Goals and Objectives of the Strategy for the NSDI were in the spring of 1997 and published in April 1997. 1998 Subcommittee and Working Group Work Plans should now be prepared with implementation actions that support the goals and objectives as defined in the strategy document.
Emphasis is placed on actions that will be effective in accomplishing the stated goals of the Strategy. Work plans should include actions that will have tangible results in increasing the usefulness and applicability of NSDI to solve geographically based community problems.
With the limited resources available, it is important to plan actions that will have an impact in moving the NSDI toward full implementation. Groups are not expected to address every goal in their 1998 Work Plans; however, the actions should be tied to the goals that are supported, and may also be tied to a specific objective under a goal.
A suggested format is attached. Please use 12 point type and 1" margins all around.
Please submit your 1998 Draft Work Plan on or before December 1, 1997. October 1, 1997
1998 NSDI Work Plan
Introductory paragraph if desired.
- Goal Two: Develop common solutions for discovery and access of geospatial data in response to the needs of diverse communities of users.
- Objective: Continue to develop a seamless National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse.
Action: Provide hands-on workshop(s) for personnel in 2 Federal agencies on how to use and encode Metadata to place legacy cadastral data in the clearinghouse.
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If you are a FGCS, you are not alone! In fact, it is estimated that nearly 30 percent of college students are FGCS. Research has shown that FGCS are more likely to postpone attending college after graduating from high school or earning a GED; go to college on a part-time basis, and be employed at least part-time while being a university student. Many FGCS are women, have families that are of a low socioeconomic background; belong to ethnic or racial minority groups, and/or are older than 22. Frequently, FGCS often do not receive assistance from their families or even guidance counselors during the college process.
FGCS often enter college with many strong qualities such as resilience, high motivation, humble pride, and a sense of responsibility. They may feel eager and enthusiastic to be the first in their families to attend college; this is an opportunity FGCS have been waiting for years to achieve and an experience that may have seemed very unlikely earlier in their life.
At the same time, FGCS may also confront some stressors that are unique to their FGCS status. Here are some examples of potential obstacles to their achieving success:
- Having to both work and attend school at the same time
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- Being misunderstood by friends, faculty, and staff, especially those who are not FGCS
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Barack Obama was bulldozed at a recent rally in Mount Vernon, Iowa, thanks to a group of small business owners who teamed up to send him a message: We did build this, despite what you might think. The message is conveyed with a large red, white, and blue bulldozer with "Romney-Ryan 2012" painted across the blade in front.
Along with greeting Obama at the recent rally, J.J. Scheckel Heavy Equipment Corporation's bulldozer will be displayed at what they're calling "strategic locations" for the next three weeks until Election Day 2012.
The idea was inspired in response to Barack Obama's comments in July: "Look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. … If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
J.J. Scheckel employee Dick Steines drives the bulldozer and didn't like Obama's message anymore than did his boss, co-workers, and other small businesses who played a part in creating a piece of heavy equipment intended to bulldoze Barry in Iowa. Said Steins, "My boss built his business from scratch and he wants others to succeed." "It's the person you are who builds the business," he went on.
Scheckel employees, with the help of other small businesses, painted the bulldozer, says Steins — and it's already creating quite a stir, according to him. "I saw a lot of people looking in their rear-view mirrors like, 'What the heck did I just pass?'" said Steins.
The vehicle made its debut at a pro-Romney rally in Mount Vernon, just blocks away from where Obama was set to speak later that night. The Romney rally also attracted College Republicans from the University of Northern Iowa. "We're not happy with President Obama," UNI student Christie Tague of Cedar Falls said. "I'm sick of hope. I haven't seen any."
Tague went on to cite several friends unable to find jobs after graduating thanks to Obama's notion of hope and change that never materialized on his watch.


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Lawyers for Justice in Libya takes the opportunity of International Women's Day to celebrate women's achievements throughout history and across nations.
This is also an opportunity to acknowledge the fundamental role that Libyan women have played throughout history and in achieving Libya's freedom during the February 17 Revolution. Libyan women are also playing a major role in the process of the democratisation and reconstruction of a new Libya, which cannot be accomplished without their full participation. Read more.
18 January 2012
Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) would like to congratulate all Libyans on the first anniversary of the 17 February Revolution. LFJL is proud of the accomplishments of the Libyan people in achieving freedom and ending a reign of oppression. Read more.
24 December 2011
Lawyers for Justice in Libya supports many of the demands made by the protestors in Benghazi asking the National Transitional Council (NTC) to clarify the remit of its authority and powers. LFJL welcomes the recent statement by the Chairman of the NTC addressing some of these concerns. However, the NTC has yet to meet many of the targets it has set itself previously and many of the promises it has made to the Libyan people.
23 November 2011
Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) welcomes the formation of the new Libyan interim government. The formation of the interim government, led by the NTC elected Dr Abdulraheem El-Keeb, marks the first ministerial government to accede to executive power in Libya since 1977. Whilst the formation of the interim government is an important milestone in Libya's transition from autocracy to democracy, the new interim government must be mindful of its limited remit as it has not been democratically elected and is therefore not a representative government.


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Do you really think sitting around and complaining is going to do anything for yourself? It won't… And may possibly do more harm than good.
Why is discussing politics and religion so controversial? Some people don't seem to believe in either one but can spend so much (negative) energy venting frustrations about them.
Let's take God (religion) for example. If He really does exist, then He is outside of our ability to comprehend or understand, beyond what He chooses to reveal about Himself…. Just the nature or description of "God" suggests a "higher" order or being.
So, you make a choice to seek Him and believe what you find, or not… No use complaining that others chose to believe in Him.
Same with politics… don't you think? If someone believes in President Obama, (and elects him), what is complaining going to accomplish? The (election) system does not make sense to me, but I'm not going to allow other people to influence "my thoughts" about it.
Ok, so I have an unfair advantage since I have spent the last 35 years practicing how to control my own mind, and not letting others do so….
It's really pretty simple, once you get over yourself. We tend to be our own worst enemy when it comes to things within us.
Mankind knows very little about the invisible (unseen) properties of our existence, but one thing stands out as true. We all have the same ability and power "to choose" for ourselves what we think and believe…. So make a choice and quit complaining already. The best way to stay away from frustration is to make sure other people do not think for you… if it does not work out the way you want, you might start blaming, complaining and get yourself all tweaked over things you can't control.
Now… enough of my rant… and on to the Obamanator…. Those of you that elected him are feeling pretty good right now. Those that did not, may be feeling…. not so good. This is a great opportunity to practice "taking back your mind," which is one (maybe the only) area that no one has rights to. If he has you upset beyond your control, then keep reading.
If you have the power, money and control to change things, go ahead, but if you are like me and do not have any influence over anything other than yourself, use "this time" to your full advantage.
It has been proven (to me) that our bodies are designed to function best when calm and peaceful. It's not rocket science to know that relaxation allows a better flow of blood and energy throughout our entire bodies. This promotes healing and rejuvenation that meds just won't give you. We actually keep ourselves from peace by our negative thoughts, words and actions. Once you get control of your thoughts, your body will follow… and yes, I have experienced extreme circumstances, to put into practice what I preach…. The final vote is, Peace is much better than anxiety.
For more details and some tips on how to relax yourself in stressful circumstances, read the our post titled "Do you need (or want) peace that money and fame could never buy?"
Otherwise, he is in office now, so make peace with yourself and stop letting others get you troubled.
If you want to vent in a useful way by doing enough research to speak the truth about President Obama, then let us know. We are looking for guest bloggers that know more about politics than we do.
One more thing, there is a profound passage in the Bible (John 14:27) that tells us "Jesus offered us His peace, not as the world gives"…. It's worth checking out….
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Our Savages, Ourselves
Sarah Park
The discovery of the New World not only broadened the topographical horizon of Europe, but also seemed to herald triumphant new beginnings for European nations. A clean slate with fresh resources to exploit, wealth to amass, and strange indigenous people to enslave and convert to respective factions of Christianity, America was the land of opportunity from the outset. However, as these two worlds came into contact and collided, the complexity of rationalizing colonization became apparent and the values and norms held by the Europeans were suddenly challenged. Both Michel de Montaigne's "Of Cannibals" and Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition are sympathetic to Native Americans and expose their own struggles with European culture, but with significantly different approaches. While Montaigne idealizes the Americas as a magnificent Eden of rebirth, a second chance at a purer life like that of the "noble savage," Cabeza de Vaca depicts the harsh reality of the wilderness that he is thrust into and his disillusionment with the "savages" that lead him back to civilization.
As Cabeza de Vaca is plunged into the unknown, his concepts about the natives are also shattered. He encounters peaceful Indians, hostile Indians, "docile" Indians (Cabeza de Vaca p.83), and Indians that are "great liars and drunkards" (Cabeza de Vaca p.51).. _________________
When the indigenous people of the Americas were encountered, numerous European accounts surfaced deeming them barbaric for being unclothed, primitive cannibals. Michel de Montaigne disputes this in "Of Cannibals," arguing that there is beauty in the naivety of the Tupinamba Indians from Brazil. He states that "prying so narrowly into their faults, we are so blinded in ours" (Norton Online) and what ensues is a profound critique of European culture. As Montaigne deems fruit "altered by our artificial devices and diverted from their common order" (Norton Online) a savage crime against nature, it becomes quite evident that he himself is fantasizing about a simpler time. He laments the urbanization and modernization of Europe, projecting his fantasy for an unspoiled world, "unchoked" (Norton Online) by mankind onto the Americas and its natives.
This is, of course, problematic as Montaigne claims the Indians have "no knowledge of letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate nor of politic superiority, no use of service, of riches or of poverty, no contracts, no successions, no partitions, no occupation but idle, no respect of kindred but common, no apparel but natural" (Norton Online). As these are evidently all corrupt institutions he despises in his own society, he is making the sweeping assumption that the natives lack these institutions and is therefore playing into the assertion that they are uncivilized and need to be brought to Christianity. Furthermore, he states the Indians do not have words for "lying, falsehood, treason, dissimulations, covetousness, envy, detraction, and pardon" (Norton Online) and creates some sort of Utopia where the inhabitants lack all human flaws, and as a result, lose the privilege of humanity.
The natives supposedly even point out certain European flaws, asking why strong, grown men bow down to a child king instead of voting on a leader and why there is such a severe disparity in wealth. This, once again, is a reflection of Montaigne's own grievances against the political and societal norms so many of his contemporaries blindly accept. He even defends the alleged cannibalistic acts and warlike behavior of the Indians to be "noble and generous" (Norton Online) compared to the atrocities committed by Europeans against each other "under pretense of piety and religion" (Norton Online).
Montaigne's projection of yet another fantasy is even more telling, and quite troublesome. He declares that there is a correlation between how many wives a man has and how valiant he is reputed to be, and deems this system to be "wondrous strange and remarkable" compared to how European wives hinder "the love and affection of other women" (Norton Online). Believing the native women to be so above jealousy and self-centeredness that they try to obtain more wives for their husbands' reputations, Montaigne misinterprets the oppression of women in a patriarchal society for his own desire for extramarital affairs. He implies the natural state of a woman's nobility lies in her subservience to her husband, and once again, alienates the "self," the white, male European, from the "other," the native woman.
Unlike Montaigne, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca experiences numerous indigenous tribes firsthand, although not by choice. He is initially sent as a conquistador to colonize present-day Florida, and yet he is shipwrecked, separated from his men, and left "naked" at the mercy of the very people he was sent to oppress. This shift in power allows Cabeza de Vaca to reevaluate everything he thought he knew about both Europe and the Americas, and come to respect the natives as human beings. In Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, Cabeza de Vaca even records each of the tribes' distinct languages, customs, and diets, rather than generalizing or idealizing their cultures.
Whereas Montaigne believes the nakedness of the Indians reveals their innocence and strength, Cabeza de Vaca realistically depicts his nakedness after the shipwreck as incredibly vulnerable and a sense of rebirth into a harsh, cold truth. As the crew of the Narváez expedition literally falls apart, Cabeza de Vaca looks to Governor Narváez for orders, and yet his superior answers that "this [is] no time for orders" and "that each one should do the best he could to save himself" (Cabeza de Vaca p.30). The only system of political and martial hierarchy Cabeza de Vaca has ever known betrays him in the wilderness and the only thing he has to hold onto is his Christian God.
As Cabeza de Vaca is plunged into the unknown, his concepts about the natives are also shattered. He encounters peaceful Indians, hostile Indians, "docile" Indians (Cabeza de Vaca p.83), and Indians that are "great liars and drunkards" (Cabeza de Vaca p.51). At the hands of the peaceful, he is shocked to find such empathetic, and dare we say humane treatment. He states, "Upon seeing the disaster we had suffered, our misery and misfortune, the Indians sat down with us and began to weep out of compassion for our misfortune" (Cabeza de Vaca p. 33). Despite this, Cabeza de Vaca and his men still believe they will be sacrificed by the natives, and yet they are fed and treated well. When Cabeza de Vaca does encounter the cannibalism Montaigne so earnestly defends, it is in fact the Christians eating each other out of desperation and the Indians are violently "startled at this" (Cabeza de Vaca p.37). It is remarkable that Cabeza de Vaca chooses to emphasize, "In the two thousand leagues we traveled, on land, and by sea in boats, and in the ten months more after our rescue from captivity that we untiringly walked across the land, nowhere did we come upon either sacrifices or idolatry" (Cabeza de Vaca p.102). While Montaigne claims "barbaric" behavior is natural, Cabeza de Vaca states that there is no barbaric behavior at all, and that the actions of the natives do not go against God.
Perhaps the most poignant part of Cabeza de Vaca's account is when he finally finds Spanish colonies, and he unexpectedly disputes with the Christians, "for they wanted to make slaves of [his] Indians" (Cabeza de Vaca p.95). When the Christians try to explain that Cabeza de Vaca and his men are their subordinates and have no authority at all, the Indians defend them, saying "that we cured the sick, while they had killed those who were healthy; that we went naked and barefoot, whereas they wore clothes and went on horseback and carried lances" (Cabeza de Vaca p.95). In this profound moment, there is a mutual sense of empathy and respect between Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians, where the boundaries between the "self" and the "other" are blurred... something that is inherently lacking in Montaigne's argument.
It is through the Eurocentric lens that these writers perceive the Americas, and yet Montaigne's introspective journey and Cabeza de Vaca's odyssey allow us to understand what the New World meant to Europeans beyond pure exploitation. Unfortunately, both of their writings, despite Cabeza de Vaca's anthropological efforts, did not thwart the destruction of the Indians. Nonetheless, it is undeniable that the idea of being able to start fresh, whether for conquest or for liberation, filled the Old World with an invigorating sense that immigrants today know very well. It is through these accounts of cross-cultural contact between the "self" and the "other," that we learn to look at the "self," and learn what it means to be empathetic beings.
(This essay was originally submitted for a Survey of American Literature I class)
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Plastic model of the Apollo command module on a wood base. The teardrop-shaped command module has four windows, it is painted on both sides with "UNITED STATES" above an American flag sticker. The brass plaque on base is engraved: Apollo command module 1/15 scale presented to John F. Kennedy, President of the United States on the occasion of his visit to NASA Manned spacecraft center Houston, Texas 12 September, 1962.
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NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI THE PRINCE. 'Under the pretext of teaching kings, he has taught important lessons to the peoples. Machiavelli's The Prince is the book of republicans.' Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Book III, Chapter VI in The Social Contract
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'Under the pretext of teaching kings, he has taught important lessons to the peoples. Machiavelli's The Prince is the book of republicans.'
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Book III, Chapter VI in The Social Contract
'The employment of cunning or duplicity in statecraft or general conduct.'
From the description of 'Machiavellianism' in the Oxford English Dictionary.
If to ask what are the ends of life is to ask a real question, it must be capable of being correctly answered. To claim rationality in matters of conduct was to claim that correct and final solutions to such questions can in principle be found. (Berlin, 68)
Berlin's point, which he also sees as Machiavelli's, is that there is no determinate or objective 'end of life', only the subjectively determined 'ends' of individuals. An individual in power is in a relatively unique position to be able to realise their 'ends'.
'Men have imagined republics and principalities that never really existed at all. Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation; for a man who strives after goodness in all his acts is sure to come to ruin, since there are so many men who are not good.' (Machiavelli, XV)
'The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other [feared and loved]; but because it is difficult to combine them, it is far safer to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.' (Machiavelli, XVII)
'Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite. '(Machiavelli, XVIII)
the commonest view of him, at least as a political thinker, is still that of most Elizabethans, dramatists and scholars alike, for whom he is a man inspired by the Devil to lead good men to their doom, the great subverter, the teacher of evil, le docteur de la scheleratesse, the inspirer of St Bartholomew's Eve, the original of Iago. This is the ' murderous Machiavel' of the famous four-hundred-odd references in Elizabethan literature. His name adds a new ingredient to the more ancient figure of Old Nick. For the Jesuits he is 'the devil's partner in crime', 'a dishonourable writer and an unbeliever', and The Prince is, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'a handbook for gangsters' (compare with this Mussolini's description of it as a 'vade mecum for statesmen', a view tacitly shared, perhaps, by other heads of state). (Berlin, 35)
Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile;And cry content to that which grieves my heart;And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,And frame my face to all occasions.I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;I'll play the orator as well as Nestor;Deceive more slily than Ulysses could;And, like a Sinon, take another Troy:I can add colours to the cameleon;Change shapes with Proteus for advantages;And set the murderous Machiavel to school.Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?Tut, were it further off, I'll pluck it down!
Henry VI (Part III, Act III, Scene ii, 182-95)
However this 'Machiavellian' reading of The Prince is only one of the legacies of Machiavelli's short but potent text.
[Machiavelli's] name and the adjective 'machiavellic' still recall the brutal and perverse aspects of political power, because he 'described' what politics really was (and perhaps always will be), rather than suggesting what politics could be.
Gramsci and Machiavelli leave us with an important question: what is the 'educational' function of a precise description of the mechanisms of political power, and, in the case of Gramsci, of the mechanisms of ideology? That of educating people toward a realistic approach and therefore towards the political struggle opposing one power with another, or that of revealing to the people the hidden side of politics, to make them diffident and independent from political power in living their lives and choosing their opinions?...Gramsci poses to himself and to all of us these questions: 'whom' was Machiavelli addressing when writing The Prince? and what was his aim and his 'policy'? It seems to be evident that he did not wish, and he did not need, to teach rulers how to achieve power and how to maintain power, but rather he wanted to explain and make known the real mechanism of politics. The 'policy' of Machiavelli is not 'politics' according to Machiavelli, because the educational effect of a critical understanding of politics made new classes more aware and therefore more powerful against the old aristocratic ruling class. (Monasta, 8)
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Chabod, F. (1958) Machiavelli and the Renaissance,London: Bowes & Bowes
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LOS ANGELES --Attorney General Jerry Brown will ask the California Supreme Court to review a ruling that overturned a state ban on felons owning or wearing body armor. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is urging Brown to appeal the decision, saying body armor gives violent criminals the upper hand.
The legislature imposed the ban after a 1997 gun battle in North Hollywood between police and two bank robbers wearing military-grade body armor.
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After 10 years of development and more than 5,000 flight test hours, the Airbus Military A400M has received its Type Acceptance at the contractual Initial Operating Clearance (IOC) Standard from OCCAR.
The Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation is managing the A400M program on behalf of the Launch Nations (Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom).
This first military standard acceptance is the last step prior to the aircraft acceptance of MSN7, the first serial aircraft, by the French Defence Procurement Agency DGA and its subsequent delivery to the French Air Force in the coming days, Airbus Military said.
The common basis for Military certification was approved on 19 July following a recommendation by representatives of the seven launch nations known as the Certification and Qualification Committee (CQC). And Airbus Military accordingly received on 24 July the Military Type Certificate (Certificat de Type) for A400M aircraft from DGA.


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According to Bill Tarlton, a volunteer with the North Carolina Baptist Conference, he and his volunteers have recently been receiving an average of 10 to 15 phone calls a day from people who need help cleaning up their property.
Tarlton said he has a backlog of more than 170 cleanup jobs, and that more are likely to come in.
Cleaning up debris is pretty much all that remains to be done, he said, since few homes incurred any damage from the storm.
Tarlton and his group are set up in the Trinity Baptist Church, and they are still working full-time, coordinating the efforts of more than a dozen volunteers on the average weekday and about 80 people on weekends.
While Lin Honeycutt, Tarlton's counterpart in Durham, has closed down the full-time operation he had set up at the Rose of Sharon Baptist Church, Tarlton said that he would not have that option in the near future.
The Thomasville area, he said, was hit harder by the ice storm, and a larger area was affected mainly a stretch about 30 miles along Interstate 85 between Greensboro and Lincoln.
Most of Tarlton's volunteers are from North Carolina, but he did have some teams come from Tennessee and South Carolina three weeks ago.
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Deacon Tower | Bridger Field House | Facility Video Tour | Stadium Policies | Facilities Home
Originally built in 1968, Wake Forest's BB&T Field is the home of the Demon Deacon football team. With a bleacher capacity of 31,500 plus several thousand more behind the endzones, BB&T Field offers an intimate setting with fans right on top of the action.
Considered one of the most beautiful stadiums of its size in the nation, BB&T Field has undergone significant renovations in recent years.
In 2006, a state-of-the-art, "next generation" FieldTurf surface was installed to give the Deacons a top-notch and beautiful playing field year round.
In January 2007, construction began on Deacon Tower, a massive seven-story pressbox that is situated on the west side of the stadium. Deacon Tower, which was built at a cost of $48 million, houses luxury suites, club seats, boxes for the University President, home and visiting athletic directors and print and electronic media.
Construction on Deacon Tower was completed in August 2008, and the facility has since served as the centerpiece of the football stadium complex.
Also in 2008, several new seating options became available to fans. Chairback seating was installed in a portion of both sides of the stadium, and temporary bleachers were added behind the north endzone, offering unique group seating opportunities to Deacon fans.
On Oct. 8, 2011, Wake Forest added a state-of-the-art video board to the South end zone. The board measures 42 feet in height and 90 feet in width. It contains over 1.5 million pixels and 3,780 square feet of active video area.
Behind the north endzone sits Bridger Field House, which serves a number of purposes for the Wake Forest athletic department. Built in 1998, Bridger Field House houses the home and visiting team locker rooms, postgame interview room, specific areas for equipment and sports medicine staff and the Deacon Shop on the first floor. The offices of the Wake Forest Development, Sports Marketing and Ticket Operations are also housed in Bridger.
Dedicated as Groves Stadium on September 14, 1968, in a 10-6 loss to rival NC State, BB&T Field represents an extensive fund-raising effort undertaken by the college during the mid-1960s which, for all practical purposes, made possible Wake Forest's continued membership in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The stadium, which has 31,500 permanent seats, is located between Reynolds and Deacon Boulevards, one mile from the Wake Forest campus. It also is part of the athletic hub of Winston-Salem, which includes the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, home of the Demon Deacon basketball teams and located across the street from BB&T Field, as well as Wake Forest Baseball Park, home of Deacon baseball and adjacent to the football facility.
The history of BB&T Field can be traced back to the original home of the university in the eastern North Carolina village of Wake Forest. When the school announced its planned move to Winston-Salem in 1948, the Groves family, led by Henry (the original stadium's primary benefactor) and his brother Earl, made an additional financial commitment to insure that their family name would remain on whatever new facility that the football program would construct.
The new stadium, however, remained only a dream for nearly two decades. The actual cost of the campus' relocation to Winston-Salem was much greater than first anticipated, and more pressing physical needs in academic areas took precedence.
Finally in 1966, a fund-raising campaign was initiated. And while the $1.5 million raised was less than half of the total price tag, construction began the following year.
After dropping its opening contest at BB&T Field to NC State, the Demon Deacons played Clemson to a 20-20 tie the following Saturday, September 21, 1968. That contest also marked the first televised football game in Wake Forest history, as ABC broadcast the game as part of its regional package.
Wake Forest's first victory in the facility had to wait until after three-straight road dates, when on October 26, 1968, Wake defeated North Carolina, 48-31.
The Deacons have turned in two undefeated home seasons in BB&T Field history. Wake Forest was 4-0 at home during its ACC Championship season of 1970. The 1979 squad improved that figure by one win to a 5-0 mark on its way to a Tangerine Bowl bid. One of the most dramatic BB&T Field victories also occurred during the 1979 season when the Deacons rallied from a 38-20 halftime deficit to defeat Auburn, 42-38. That game marked the first time that two nationally-ranked teams met at BB&T Field.
In 1990, a BB&T Field milestone of sorts was reached when the University of Virginia became the first (and still the only) No. 1-ranked team to appear there.
Wake Forest broke its single-game attendance record at BB&T Field in 2004 when temporary bleachers were installed for the North Carolina game, attracting a crowd of 37,623. The Deacons have recently been among the national leaders in attendance as based on percentage of capacity. Wake Forest averaged better than 100 percent of capacity each year from 2006 through 2009 and also in 2011.
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A former Liberty man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for an alleged $6.2 million fraud scheme.
Henry Thomas Hammond, 57, was arrested Friday in Florida, where he now lives.
The indictment, returned by a grand jury in Kansas City, says that from July 2008 to July 2010, Hammond fraudulently solicited money from investors for various projects, then used the money for his personal expenses such as making payments for a $2 million lake house, hunting trips and personal vehicles.
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Besides the criminal charges, the government also is seeking the forfeiture of $6.2 million as well as any other property obtained as a result of the alleged schemes.