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UPDATUMED 24 April
https://www.superstation95.com/index.php/world/1214
Apr 23, 2016
Earth's "Magnetosphere" COLLAPSED in
space TODAY for two+ hours! Trouble ahead for all of
us
…This morning at 01:37:05 eastern US Time, which is
05:37:05 UTC, satellites from the NASA Space Weather
Prediction Center detected a complete collapse of
earth's magnetosphere! It simply vanished for just
over two hours, resuming as normal around 03:39:51
eastern US time, which is 07:39:51 UTC…
SOURCE:
NASA (NASA.gov)
Goddard Space Flight Center (gsfc)
Community Coordinated Modeling Center (cmcc)
Integrated Space Weather Analysis System (iswa)
http://iswa.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/IswaSystemWebApp/index.jsp?i_1=581&l_1=568&t_1=77&w_1=501.333&h_1=334.333&s_1=2016-04-23%2009:27:51.0_1_300_3&i_2=578&l_2=17&t_2=159&w_2=543.333&h_2=507.333&s_2=2016-04-23%2009:27:51.0_1_300_3&i_3=579&l_3=698&t_3=367&w_3=501.333&h_3=334.333&s_3=2016-04-23%2009:27:51.0_1_300_3
Public
Sex : Ted Cruz soliciting a poliprostitute...
http://dailybail.com/home/busted-video-catches-ted-cruz-bribing-a-delegate.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-pwGx4vv2g
TED CRUZ BRIBING DELEGATE, CAUGHT ON
CAMERA!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/trump-surrogate-ted-cruz-bribing-delegates-222143
Cruz Campaign Bribing Delegates
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/how-rubio-delegates-can-be-bribed-and-why-its-probably-legal/
Marco Rubio’s Delegates Can Now
Be Bribed And It’s Legal
Don't hold your breath --
Technocracy needs that dinitrogen :
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160421145805.htm
April 21, 2016
Chemists shed new light on global
energy, food supply challenge
All living
things require nitrogen for survival, but the world
depends on only two known processes to break nitrogen's
ultra-strong bonds to allow conversion to a form humans,
animals and plants can consume. One is a natural,
bacterial process on which farmers have relied since the
dawn of agriculture. The other is the century-old
Haber-Bösch process, which revolutionized fertilizer
production and spurred unprecedented growth of the global
food supply.
"We live in a sea of nitrogen, yet our bodies can't access
it from the air," says Utah State University biochemist
Lance Seefeldt. "Instead, we get this life-sustaining
compound from protein in our food."
But now, Seefeldt and colleagues announce a light-driven
process that could, once again, revolutionize agriculture,
while reducing the world food supply's dependence on
fossil fuels and relieving Haber-Bösch's heavy carbon
footprint. The research team, which includes USU's
Seefeldt, Derek Harris, Andrew Rasmussen and Nimesh
Khadka; Katherine A. Brown and Paul W. King of Colorado's
National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Molly Wilker, Hayden
Hamby and Gordana Dukovic of the University of Colorado
and Stephen Keable and John Peters of Montana State
University, publishes findings in the April 22, 2016 issue
of the journal Science.
"Our research demonstrates photochemical energy can
replace adenosine triphosphate, which is typically used to
convert dinitrogen, the form of nitrogen found in the air,
to ammonia, a main ingredient of commercially produced
fertilizers," says Seefeldt, professor in USU's Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry and an American Association
for the Advancement of Science Fellow.
Any way you slice it, he says, nitrogen fixation is an
energy-intensive process.
"The Haber-Bösch process currently consumes about two
percent of the world's fossil fuel supply," Seefeldt says.
"So, the new process, which uses nanomaterials to capture
light energy, could be a game-changer."
"Using light directly to create a catalyst is much more
energy efficient, says Brown, NREL research scientist.
"This new ammonia-producing process is the first example
of how light energy can be directly coupled to dinitrogen
reduction, meaning sunlight or artificial light can power
the reaction."
Energy-efficient production of ammonia holds promise not
only for food production, but also for development of
technologies that enable use of environmentally cleaner
alternative fuels, including improved fuel cells to store
solar energy.
In addition to its practical applications, the research
sheds light on fundamental aspects of how bacterial
enzymes known as nitrogenases function; an area of
chemistry Seefeldt has studied for nearly two decades.
The research at USU was supported by the U.S. Department
of Energy.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6284/448
Science, 2016; 352 (6284): 448
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2091
Light-driven dinitrogen reduction
catalyzed by a CdS:nitrogenase MoFe protein
biohybrid.
K. A.
Brown, D. F. Harris, M. B. Wilker, A. Rasmussen, N.
Khadka, H. Hamby, S. Keable, G. Dukovic, J. W. Peters,
L. C. Seefeldt, P. W. King.
Enzymes make fertilizer with sunlight
Nitrogenase
enzymes catalyze the biological production of fixed
nitrogen. Because this is not enough to sustain modern
agriculture, industrial fertilizers containing ammonia are
produced via the energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process.
Brown et al. developed a way to use nitrogenase enzymes
from nitrogen-fixing bacteria to make ammonia in vitro
without other biological steps or high-energy inputs.
Light-activated CdS nanorods provided electrons to the
FeMo nitrogenase enzyme to reduce nitrogen and produce
ammonia at rates up to 64% of biological nitrogen
fixation. These nanoparticle-protein complexes show the
potential for solar-driven ammonia production.
Abstract
The
splitting of dinitrogen (N2) and reduction to ammonia
(NH3) is a kinetically complex and energetically
challenging multistep reaction. In the Haber-Bosch
process, N2 reduction is accomplished at high temperature
and pressure, whereas N2 fixation by the enzyme
nitrogenase occurs under ambient conditions using chemical
energy from adenosine 5′-triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis. We
show that cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanocrystals can be used
to photosensitize the nitrogenase molybdenum-iron (MoFe)
protein, where light harvesting replaces ATP hydrolysis to
drive the enzymatic reduction of N2 into NH3. The turnover
rate was 75 per minute, 63% of the ATP-coupled reaction
rate for the nitrogenase complex under optimal conditions.
Inhibitors of nitrogenase (i.e., acetylene, carbon
monoxide, and dihydrogen) suppressed N2 reduction. The
CdS:MoFe protein biohybrids provide a photochemical model
for achieving light-driven N2 reduction to NH3.
US7862796
METHOD OF PREPARING CADMIUM SULFIDE NANOCRYSTALS
EMITTING LIGHT AT MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS, AND CADMIUM
SULFIDE NANOCRYSTALS PREPARED BY THE METHOD
Inventor:
JANG EUN JOO, et al.
Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD [KR]
A cadmium sulfide nanocrystal, wherein the cadmium sulfide
nanocrystal shows maximum luminescence peaks at two or
more wavelengths and most of the atoms constituting the
nanocrystal are present at the surface of the nanocrystal
to form defects.
Don't worry -- Be happy ! The Big One
will rupture ALL the tanks !
http://www.king5.com/news/local/investigations/catastrophic-event-at-hanford-prompts-emergency-response/140990679
Leak worsens in massive Hanford tank
holding nuclear waste...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160418120049.htm
A new way to get electricity from
magnetism
'Inverse spin Hall effect' works in several organic
semiconductors
By showing that a phenomenon dubbed the 'inverse spin Hall effect'
works in several organic semiconductors -- including carbon-60
buckyballs -- physicists changed magnetic 'spin current' into
electric current. The efficiency of this new power conversion
method isn't yet known, but it might find use in future electronic
devices including batteries, solar cells and computers.
By showing that a phenomenon dubbed the "inverse spin Hall effect"
works in several organic semiconductors -- including carbon-60
buckyballs -- University of Utah physicists changed magnetic "spin
current" into electric current. The efficiency of this new power
conversion method isn't yet known, but it might find use in future
electronic devices including batteries, solar cells and computers.
"This paper is the first to demonstrate the inverse spin Hall
effect in a range of organic semiconductors with unprecedented
sensitivity," although a 2013 study by other researchers
demonstrated it with less sensitivity in one such material, says
Christoph Boehme, a senior author of the study published April 18
in the journal Nature Materials.
"The inverse spin Hall effect is a remarkable phenomenon that
turns so-called spin current into an electric current. The effect
is so odd that nobody really knows what this will be used for
eventually, but many technical applications are conceivable,
including very odd new power-conversion schemes," says Boehme, a
physics professor.
His fellow senior author, distinguished professor Z. Valy Vardeny,
says that by using pulses of microwaves, the inverse spin Hall
effect and organic semiconductors to convert spin current into
electricity, this new electromotive force generates electrical
current in a way different than existing sources.
Coal, gas, hydroelectric, wind and nuclear plants all use dynamos
to convert mechanical force into magnetic-field changes and then
electricity. Chemical reactions power modern batteries and solar
cells convert light to electrical current. Converting spin current
into electrical current is another method.
Scientists already are developing such devices, such as a
thermoelectric generator, using traditional inorganic
semiconductors. Vardeny says organic semiconductors are promising
because they are cheap, easily processed and environmentally
friendly. He notes that both organic solar cells and organic LED
(light-emitting diode) TV displays were developed even though
silicon solar cells and nonorganic LEDs were widely used.
Vardeny and Boehme stressed that the efficiency at which organic
semiconductors convert spin current to electric current remains
unknown, so it is too early to predict the extent to which it
might one day be used for new power conversion techniques in
batteries, solar cells, computers, phones and other consumer
electronics.
"I want to invoke a degree of caution," Boehme says. "This is a
power conversion effect that is new and mostly unstudied."
Boehme notes that the experiments in the new study converted more
spin current to electrical current than in the 2013 study, but
Vardeny cautioned the effect still "would have to be scaled up
many times to produce voltages equivalent to household batteries."
The new study was funded by the National Science Foundation and
the University of Utah-NSF Materials Research Science and
Engineering Center. Study co-authors with Vardeny and Boehme were
these University of Utah physicists: research assistant professors
Dali Sun and Hans Malissa, postdoctoral researchers Kipp van
Schooten and Chuang Zhang, and graduate students Marzieh Kavand
and Matthew Groesbeck.
From spin current to electric current
Just as atomic nuclei and the electrons that orbit them carry
electrical charges, they also have another inherent property:
spin, which makes them behave like tiny bar magnets that can point
north or south.
Electronic devices store and transmit information using the flow
of electricity in the form of electrons, which are negatively
charged subatomic particles. The zeroes and ones of computer
binary code are represented by the absence or presence of
electrons within silicon or other nonorganic semiconductors.
Spin electronics -- spintronics -- holds promise for faster,
cheaper computers, better electronics and LEDs for displays, and
smaller sensors to detect everything from radiation to magnetic
fields.
The inverse spin Hall effect first was demonstrated in metals in
2008, and then in nonorganic semiconductors, Vardeny says. In
2013, researchers elsewhere showed it occurred in an organic
semiconductor named PEDOT:PSS when it was exposed to continuous
microwaves that were relatively weak to avoid frying the
semiconductor.
But Boehme and Vardeny say the electrical current generated in
that study by the inverse spin Hall effect was small --
nanovoltages -- and was obscured by microwave heating of the
sample and other undesired effects.
"We thought, let's build different devices so these spurious
effects were eliminated or very small compared with the effect we
wanted to observe," Boehme says.
In the new study, the researchers used short pulses of more
powerful microwaves to utilize the inverse spin Hall effect and
convert a spin current to electric current in seven organic
semiconductors, mostly at room temperature.
One organic semiconductor was PEDOT:PSS -- the same material in
the 2013 study. The others were three platinum-rich organic
polymers, two so-called pi-conjugated polymers and the spherical
carbon-60 molecule named buckminsterfullerene because it looks
like a pair of geodesic domes popularized by the late architect
Buckminster Fuller.
The carbon-60 proved surprisingly to be the most efficient
semiconductor at converting spin waves into electrical current,
Vardeny says.
How the experiments were performed
The Utah physicists take multiple steps to convert spin current to
electrical current. They begin with a small glass slide, about
2.1-inches long and one-sixth-inch wide. Two electrical contacts
are attached to one end of the glass slide. Thin, flat copper
wires run the length of the slide, connecting the contacts at one
end with a "sandwich" at the other end that includes the glass at
the bottom, the organic polymer semiconductor being tested in the
middle and a nickel-iron ferromagnet on top.
This device then is inserted lengthwise into a metal tube about
1-inch diameter and 3.5 inches long. A nonconducting material
surrounds the device inside this tube, which then is inserted into
a table-sized magnet that generates a magnetic field.
"We apply a magnetic field and leave it more or less constant,"
Boehme says. "Then we hook up the two contacts to a voltage meter
and start measuring the voltage coming out of the device as a
function of time."
With just the magnetic field, no electrical current was detected.
But then the Utah physicists bombarded the organic semiconductor
device with pulses of microwaves -- as powerful as those from a
home microwave oven but in pulses ranging from only 100 to 5,000
nanoseconds (the latter equal to one 200,000th of a second).
"All of a sudden we saw a voltage during that pulse," Boehme says.
Vardeny says the microwave pulses generate spin waves in the
device's magnet, then the waves are converted into spin current in
the organic semiconductor, and then into an electric current
detected as a voltage.
Compared with the 2013 study, the use of microwave pulses in the
Utah experiments meant "our power is much higher but the heating
is much less and the inverse spin Hall effect is about 100 times
stronger," Boehme says.
In effect, the pulsed microwaves provide a way to enhance the
inverse spin Hall effect so it can be used to convert power,
Vardeny adds.
The new study also showed that the conversion of spin current to
electric current works in organic semiconductors via "spin-orbit
coupling" -- the same process found in inorganic conductors and
semiconductors -- even though the phenomenon in inorganic and
organic materials works in fundamentally different ways, Boehme
says.
This coupling is much weaker in organic than in nonorganic
semiconductors, but "the big achievement we made was to find an
experimental method sensitive enough to reliably measure these
very weak effects in organic semiconductors," Boehme says.
Nature Materials, 2016;
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT4618
Inverse spin Hall effect from pulsed
spin current in organic semiconductors with tunable
spin–orbit coupling.
Dali Sun, Kipp J. van Schooten, Marzieh Kavand, Hans Malissa,
Chuang Zhang, Matthew Groesbeck, Christoph Boehme, Z. Valy
Vardeny.
Abstract
Exploration of spin currents in organic semiconductors (OSECs)
induced by resonant microwave absorption in ferromagnetic
substrates is appealing for potential spintronics applications.
Owing to the inherently weak spin–orbit coupling (SOC) of OSECs,
their inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) response is very subtle;
limited by the microwave power applicable under continuous-wave
(cw) excitation. Here we introduce a novel approach for generating
significant ISHE signals in OSECs using pulsed ferromagnetic
resonance, where the ISHE is two to three orders of magnitude
larger compared to cw excitation. This strong ISHE enables us to
investigate a variety of OSECs ranging from π-conjugated polymers
with strong SOC that contain intrachain platinum atoms, to weak
SOC polymers, to C60 films, where the SOC is predominantly caused
by the curvature of the molecule’s surface. The pulsed-ISHE
technique offers a robust route for efficient injection and
detection schemes of spin currents at room temperature, and paves
the way for spin orbitronics in plastic materials.
Flashback :
http://www.naturalnews.com/046630_CDC_whistleblower_public_confession_Dr_William_Thompson.html
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
BREAKING: CDC whistleblower confesses
to MMR vaccine research fraud in historic public statement
by Mike Adams
CDC whistleblower William Thompson has now gone public with a
statement posted on the website of the law firm representing him,
Morgan Verkamp LLC. (See the full statement reprinted below.)
The statement opens with a blatant admission of scientific fraud
at the CDC:
My name is William Thompson. I am a Senior Scientist with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where I have worked
since 1998. I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically
significant information in our 2004 article published in the
journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African
American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months
were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding
which findings to report after the data were collected, and I
believe that the final study protocol was not followed...
Tripedia & Autism :
http://www.davidwolfe.com/2-tbs-coconut-oil-60-days-brain/?c=pwf&vp=merc
MAN EATS 2 TBS OF COCONUT OIL TWICE A DAY
FOR 60 DAYS AND THIS HAPPENS TO HIS BRAIN!
Dr. Mary Newport has a theory that ketone bodies, which the body
makes when digesting coconut oil, may be an alternative fuel for
the brain. She believes that coconut oil may offer profound
benefits in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. If her theory
is accurate, it could be one of the greatest natural health
discoveries in years.
The Backstory
Dr. Newport has her own personal history with Alzheimer’s. Her
husband, Steve, suffered from progressive dementia for at least
five years in his mid-50s, then had an MRI that supported a
clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. She recounts her story
in a case study. “Many days, often for several days in a row, he
was in a fog; couldn’t find a spoon or remember how to get water
out of the refrigerator… One day I would ask if a certain call
came that I was expecting and he would say ‘No.’ Two days later he
would remember the message from so-and-so from a couple of days
earlier and what they said.”
Dr. Newport noted that her husband had no short-term memory, yet
the information was still filed somewhere in his brain. She had a
gut feeling that his diet had something to do with it. He began
taking medication in hopes that it would help slow the process,
but he became depressed, lost weight, forgot how to cook, use a
calculator or even perform simple addition. Steve forgot how to
perform many common tasks, but would spend all day working in the
yard or in his garage and remained in good physical condition.
Finding Hope
A few studies about the potential use of medium chain
triglycerides or ketone bodies to not only treat but prevent
Alzheimer’s disease caught Dr. Newport’s eye. Medium chain
triglycerides are also regarded as a potential treatment for
Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, multiple sclerosis,
drug resistant epilepsy, and diabetes. Dr. Newport explains,
“Ketone bodies may help the brain recover after a loss of oxygen
in newborns through adults, may help the heart recover after an
acute attack, and may shrink cancerous tumors. Children with drug
resistant epilepsy sometimes respond to an extremely low
carbohydrate ketogenic diet.”
The body’s cells may be able to use ketone bodies as an
alternative fuel when glucose is unavailable. Ketone bodies do not
normally circulate in the body unless it has been starving for a
few days, or if one is on a very low-carb diet, such as Atkins.
Dr. Newport explains, “In Alzheimer’s disease, the neurons in
certain areas of the brain are unable to take in glucose due to
insulin resistance, and slowly die off… if these cells had access
to ketone bodies, they could potentially stay alive and continue
to function.”
The Results
To make a long story short, Dr. Newport started giving a daily
dose of coconut oil to her husband, Steve. Just 60 days after he
started taking it, Dr. Newport recalls that Steve was alert and
happy, talkative and making jokes, and the tremor he’d developed
was less noticeable. He was able to concentrate on one task
instead of being easily distracted. Steve receives about 2
tablespoons of coconut oil twice a day, to make sure that there
are no periods where ketone bodies aren’t circulating.
After a year of the natural treatment, Dr. Newport says her
husband is a different person. She notes that he still has
difficulty finding some words, but he recognized relatives on a
family trip, participated actively in conversations, and his
facial expressions were more animated.
She adds, “For now, we are very pleased with where he is at and
should coconut oil stop or slow down the progress of his disease,
it will be worth every drop that he takes.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls6VE3ZagUI
Coconut Oil Touted as Alzheimers
Remedy - CBN.com.mp4
http://draxe.com/homemade-remineralizing-toothpaste/
Homemade Mineralizing Toothpaste
INGREDIENTS:
4 tbsp coconut oil
2 tbsp baking soda
1 tbsp xylitol powder
20 drops Cinnamon or Clove essential oil
20 drops Peppermint essential oil
30 drops Trace Minerals
Toothpaste Tube
DIRECTIONS:
Put all ingredients into bowl and mix well together. (You can also
use a food processor for this)
Remove homemade toothpaste and store in glass jar with a lid. If
it starts to dry out, add a bit of water
http://www.amjdent.com/Archive/2009/Stamatova%20-%20December%202009.pdf
Probiotics : Heealth Benefits in the
Mouth
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2897872/
Eur J Dent. 2010 Jul; 4(3): 348–355.
PMCID: PMC2897872
Probiotics and Oral Health
Anna Haukiojaa
Abstract
The number of products containing probiotics, viable bacteria with
proven health benefits, entering the market is increasing.
Traditionally, probiotics have been associated with gut health,
and most clinical interest has been focused on their use for
prevention or treatment of gastrointestinal infections and
diseases; however, during the last decade several investigators
have also suggested the use of probiotics for oral health
purposes. The aim of this review is to examine potential
mechanisms of probiotic bacteria in the oral cavity and summarize
observed effects of probiotics with respect to oral health. The
review focuses on probiotic lactobacilli and bifidobacteria,
genera that are most used in various probiotic products.
Dental Factoid # 47453
Cranberry juice contains a chemical that blocks cavity-causing
bacteria from sticking to teeth. Drinking some unsweetened
cranberry juice during the day can reduce cavities.
Yawn Alert : Arrogant mealy-mouth
megalomaniac lying shill whoremonger politico fart-talker
invokes theocracy ( viz., pseudo-spiritual fascism ) in
desperate attempt to pander to dogma-dupes for their
faux-votes --
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160420/1038295229/cruz-ny-president-god-trump.html
Ted Cruz Tells New York’s Orthodox
Jews That God Chose Him to be President
The Texas Senator and Republican presidential primary contender
known for #TedCruzSexScandal releases a Yiddish ad claiming it is
the Will of the Divine that he become President…
The Cherokee Rattlesnake Prophecy
"When the Earth sees the fingers of Spearfinger strike Jupiter,
when the ages of the Rings and wheels tell it is the ending of the
ages of cycles of 5, this will be the sign for the whole earth,
for all the earth will see this thing, to wake up from sleep. "
Spearfinger may have been the comet Schumaker-Levy which struck
Jupiter in the 1990s.
St Anthony the Great
"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone
who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you
are not like us."
Prophetess Countess Francesco de
Billiante
( early 20th century )
" I see yellow warriors and red warriors marching against Europe.
Europe will be completely covered with a yellow fog [mustard gas?]
that will kill the cattle in the fields. Those nations which have
rebelled against the law of Christ will perish by fire. Europe
will then be too large for them who survive. May the Lord grant to
my grand-children the grace of persevering in the true Faith.”
Coming soon to you : Cannibalism ! Yummy
yummy yummy, I've got Mommy in my tummy !
Isa. 9:20 -- And he shall snatch on the right hand,
and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall
not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own
arm:
Gal. 5:15 -- But if ye bite and devour one another, take
heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Lev. 26:29 -- And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and
the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Updatumed 17 April
Dutch Sinse calls the shots
again & again :
http://dutchsinse.com/
4/16/2016 — LARGE M7.8
(M7.4) EARTHQUAKE STRIKES EAST PACIFIC / SOUTH
AMERICA / ECUADOR
A large
M7.4 earthquake (now revised up to M7.8) has struck
near the shores of Ecuador South America in the East
Pacific.
This large East Pacific earthquake was something we
were specifically watching out for.
The East Pacific was named as a location to watch for
a large earthquake to strike as compensation movement
for the massive amount of activity taking place in the
WEST Pacific near Japan.
Clif High calls the shots
again & again in the latest ALTA Report :
http://www.halfpasthuman.com
Keywords
-- 'planetary expansion' 'large island' 'inhabited'
'shift' 'away from (the local) mainland' 'large
island' 'massive scale' 'few fatalities'
Text -- "Other problems directly attributable to the
'planetary expansion' are showing as coming when a
'large island' that is 'inhabited' will 'shift' a bit
more 'away from (the local) mainland'. There are a
great many candidates for this 'large island'
including 'New Zealand', “Britain', 'Sicily', “Sri
Lanka” and “Taiwan” to name but a few. The data sets
are clearly indicating that 'damage' on a 'massive
scale' will result, though happily, there are many
sets for the idea of 'few fatalities'.
http://dutchsinse.com/
4/16/2016 — WHOLE
PORTION OF SOUTH JAPAN MOVES FROM NORTHEAST TO
SOUTHWEST DURING MAJOR SHIFT
[ ~ 1
meter shift & and 9 inch rise ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRal5Eg_X3c
June 27, 2015
Global Wireless
Energy Transmission
http://globalenergytransmission.com
http://getcorp.com/#sthash.UfspcAxY.dpuf
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/final-call-to-build-planetary-energy-transmitter#/story
TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
How it works
Surface wave is formed
by superposition of reactive evanescent modes of waveguide
formed by the earth crust and ionosphere...
Features
Large transmission
distance making GET technology transformational and
disruptive
The only scalable transmission solution
Absence of heavy transmission infrastructure
Inherently self-balancing...
Environmental impact
GET technology brings extraordinary environmental impact
by reducing CO2 emission...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXL4_Yas2k
Tom Brown / Eric
Dollard - Tesla's Longitudinal Dielectricity (Scalar
Demonstrations & Wireless Transmission)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlMgkxBdog0
Top 5 Bike
Inventions you must have ( 3 )
Technology of the
future! Best and most amazing inventions, cool gadgets,
futuristic new technology, tech inventions and things you
didn't know existed. These inventions are either being
developed or sold at the moment, we may even see them
being regularly used in the future.
Loopwheels -- http://www.loopwheels.com
Cargo Node -- http://www.ternbicycles.com/us/
The E-Mountainbike -- http://www.bionicon.com/
Switch Aero System -- http://www.redshiftsports.com/
FUBi fixie -- http://www.fubiefixie.com
Loopwheel Suspension --http://www.loopwheels.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL-zgSwIR-w
5 New Electric Bike
Inventions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbm4-AyA86o
Top 3 Bike
Inventions You Must Have
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAdxCX_Pl68
Top 5 Bike
Inventions you must have ( 2 )
AirDonkey Bike Sharing -- http://donkey.bike/bike-owners
BeeLine Navigation -- https://beeline.co/
The NEO Bike Light -- https://www.reelight.com/en/
The HAIZE Bike Navigation -- http://www.onomo.net/
See Sense Bike Light -- http://seesense.cc/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wnUXlmXsIE
5 Futuristic
Motorcycles Available Now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixVFOOf_YrE
5 Futuristic
Transportation Devices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvRkS9qI-5g&ebc=ANyPxKoB1Jv5NqiEgYLlyAYKWA97D6-B3GMYm69L_xsMoZg8F8CFvxtuS1A9KK1sZ0q_O09G_xf4v1AKrfD6U4ZD3NksdP6apQ
5 Futuristic
Inventions For Sidewalk Mobility
Hoverboard - http://hoverboard.com/ - Travel
the sidewalk like never before with this gyro-stabilized
electric board that's visually hover-esque in appearance.
Smart Ped - http://flykly.com/smart-ped -
The Smart Ped is an electric bike/scooter with a unique
kick-assist system. Its light weight and foldability makes
it even more intriguing.
RevoBot - http://revobot.com/
- RevoBot is a
souped-up self-balancing "hoverboard:" that tops out at 7
MPH, boasts two Bluetooth speakers and maintains a 2-hour
charge on its Samsung battery.
Onewheel - http://rideonewheel.com/ - This
self-balancing board features a single large rugged wheel
that's perfect for both sidewalks and off the beaten path
exploration.
AirWheel A3 - http://www.theairwheel.com/ - This
double-wheeled auto-balancing invention can travel up to
40 miles on a single charge. Choose to sit or stand while
riding.
Clif High predicted this several months ago in his ALTA
Reports ( The May 2016 Report is available now @ http://www.halfpasthuman.com
)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuXPdQqMYW0
Mermaid 3000 Feet
Deep Off the Coast of Greenland Mermaid Caught on Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvsXiryu8jA
Amazing Mermaid On
The Rock "Sirena"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvsXiryu8jA
German tourists
were filming this mermaid on a boat trip in Mallorca,
Spain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPVsy43qVPs
Amazing Mermaid
Pictures Taken Off Greek Island By Fisherman
Updatumed 14 April
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6ayb02bwp0&nohtml5=False
America : Freedom to Fascism
Excerpts :
https://mainerepublicemailalert.com/2016/04/13/there-is-no-law-requiring-you-to-pay-income-tax/
There is No Law Requiring You to Pay
Income Tax
Clear thinking :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1KPfycfCIQ
Ralph Abraham gets wordsmithed by
Terence Mckenna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv2g3vyvxO4&ebc=ANyPxKrkyIs1ZlKDQQMsSjQ_KGbimTqamp5Dcx8KqE_K8-rIxYyB7WCbooIJQmOPzDTBOsAghQUxBDz6lPF8qsZUdnyxKJ4r8Q&nohtml5=False
The Evolutionary Mind - Trialogues #1
#2 #3 - Terence McKenna Ralph Abraham Rupert Sheldrake
(1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtkGwHnZM6M&nohtml5=False
Terence McKenna - The Last Word
More clear thinking vs. the banality of Evil :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXaE1_r9bTE
Dr. Steven Greer : ETs are Afraid of Humans
Nibiru Come Home ! We Love & Miss You
! All is Forgiven ! Signed, Mommy Earth & Daddy Sol !
http://yowusa.com/2016/03/planet-x-signs-update-no-6/
March 27, 2016
Planet X Signs — Update No. 6
Jennifer Masters
https://www.rt.com/news/339129-solar-panels-graphene-rain/
10 Apr, 2016
Solar power 24/7 (at least if it
rains) in breakthrough tech concept
Super-thin graphene and solar panels are both great ideas, but
combining them produces near-magical results. A group of
researchers from the Ocean University of China in Qingdao has
discovered what the wonder material can do for clean energy when
introduced to water.
For so long the world’s scientists were stumped as to how to
extract the maximum potential from solar energy, which for obvious
reasons is not available 24/7. The answer was found in the
properties inherent in graphene, something scientists are still
continuing to explore.
The researchers posited that the world can easily extract energy
using solar panels even when it’s raining, or during night time.
This capability is achieved via a chemical reaction that happens
when water drops are introduced to graphene.
Read more
A worker inspects solar panels at a solar farm in Dunhuang, 950km
(590 miles) northwest of Lanzhou, Gansu Province. © Carlos Barria
China proposes $50tn global renewable energy network
But not just any old water will do the trick. It's rain water that
the researchers are after, because it consists of various other
chemicals including salts, which can split up into positive and
negative ions. The graphene sheets in place of ordinary panels
separate the positively and negatively charged ions, thus
generating electricity.
To prove that the concept works, the scientists used a cheap thin
dye-sensitized solar cell, then added a thin layer of graphene on
top. The resulting sandwich was then placed atop a layer of indium
tin oxide and plastic. The positively-charged ions then interact
with the graphene, producing a double layer that contains the
electrons. Now this top double layer begins to interact with the
negatively-charged ions in the layer below. The charge difference
between them is enough to create an electrical current.
Using slightly salty water, the researchers achieved 6.53 percent
efficiency during conversion from solar to electric power, and
produced hundreds of microvolts.
At the moment this is all still ‘proof of concept,’ but that’s
arguably the most important part, as the Ocean University team
sets out to refine and iron out quirks in the idea. They hope the
technology will become ubiquitous in future, as well as contribute
to speeding up policy changes in the sphere of renewable energy.
The team is now analyzing rain water to uncover the variety of
ions it contains and put them to use. This is not easy as they’re
normally found in quite low concentrations, but progress is
certainly being made.
Wonder-material graphene was discovered less than a decade ago,
and has already found its way into all sorts of everyday
technologies. It earned wide renown thanks to its uncanny, bendy
qualities. It’s also not the first time scientists have thought of
using graphene for improvements in solar power generation – in
fact, it's not even the first time this year.
Earlier in 2016, British scientists arrived at a graphene-based
material capable of storing ambient heat and light. This is a big
leap, as we’ve only known solar panels to be effective in direct
sunlight. This new concept, however, wants them to be practically
anywhere and still capture and retain any indirect heat and light
for future use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u_aj61dJS8
Over 8000 Terrorist Came With
Refugees! Migrants Hitting Women, Girls, And Destroying
Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W56BBtaWvFs
Muslim migrants shouting in London
“This is our country now, GET OUT!”
http://www.vaxxedthemovie.com/
http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/vaxxed-cdc-lied-about-mmr-autism/
April 10, 2016
VAXXED: The Documentary That Destroys
The CDC’s Lies About Autism and Vaccines
By
Tami Canal
I had the incredible opportunity this weekend to watch what I
believe will ultimately end up being the most powerful documentary
of our lifetimes, VAXXED: From Cover-up to Catastrophe.
After seeing this deeply troubling film, I can honestly say that I
am done.
I am done trying to argue vaccine safety with people who
vehemently trust information from someone strictly because they
wear a lab coat. I am done trying to convince people how dangerous
vaccine additives are and that carcinogens, genetically modified
antigens and neurotoxins have no business being plunged into the
muscle tissue of a developing child in the name of immunity from
diseases that haven’t seen our shorelines since our grandparents
were children. I am done trying to save those so blinded by Big
Pharma talking points that they are willing to sacrifice their
innocent children to the contents of a toxic syringe.
What I am not done doing is voicing loudly the deep corruption
that exists at the CDC. I am not done doing my part to expose how
senior scientists have destroyed damaging research that would have
jeopardized the billion dollar vaccine industry. The callous
destruction of evidence that has literally destroyed countless
lives calls into question every single safety assurance made by
this agency. If the CDC blatantly lied about something as profound
as an MMR/autism link, what else are they lying about? What other
research has been destroyed at the expense of our children?
VAXXED: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe focuses on recorded phone
calls between Dr. Brian Hooker and Dr. William Thompson, a senior
research scientist at the CDC, which reveal a high-ranking and
well-respected research team destroyed critical evidence linking
the MMR vaccine and autism. Dr. Thompson, unaware he is being
recorded, provides in detail the lengths that were gone to hide
the damaging research, asserting a secret meeting took place
between the scientists, a trash can and the shocking findings.
The film provides proof that Dr. Frank DeStephano (who runs the
Vaccine Safety Division), Dr. Coleene Boyle (Director of the Birth
Defects & Developmental Disabilities Department), and former
CDC director, Dr. Julie Gerberding (who is currently the executive
vice president at pharmaceutical giant Merck) were involved in the
literal destruction of research that proved an autism/MMR link,
primarily in black children under the age of 3 who had as much as
a 236% increase in the chance of developing autism following the
common childhood vaccine.
I certainly wasn’t able to watch without tears as undeniable proof
is presented in the film that the CDC has known for over ten years
that the MMR vaccine was more than just casually linked to the
development of autism. I couldn’t help but cry for the countless
lives who have been forever altered by the CDC’s allegiance to the
pharmaceutical industry, no matter the cost to innocent children
or their families.
The film provides concrete video evidence of one child in
particular who was severely damaged by the MMR vaccine. This
sweet, blonde baby had reached all of his developmental
milestones, and is documented on film laughing, running, smiling
and interacting with his parents and sister. And then the MMR
vaccine was administered. The footage following the vaccine
portrays an entirely different child. The heartbreaking footage
shows the toddler, who just days before was walking and even
running, so confused that he can barely stand. He continues to try
and stand repeatedly, only to take a couple steps, stumble and
fall. Before the footage cuts off, you can see him try to walk on
his head and hands, clearly frustrated and confused.
Dr. Andrew Wakefield narrates the film and should be regarded
globally as a hero in an effort to save our children from the
murderers running the CDC. Another thing I am done with is
tolerating any mud-slinging or bashing of Dr. Wakefield. It is
intolerable what the media and medical industry have done to this
heroic man. I encourage you to learn the facts of the true story
involving Dr. Wakefield. VAXXED does an amazing job of showing his
courage despite the fact that so many have tried to destroy him
for simply telling the truth. He believes the combination of the
measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and the age that it is
administered is what is of concern and actually states in his
VAXXED interview that he believes the shots should be given
individually. But as VAXXED documents, the CDC knows allowing
children to be vaccinated in single doses would destroy the
billion dollar vaccine program.
Anyone that wants to argue that Dr. Andrew Wakefield is
“anti-vaccination” or a “quack” really needs to go do some
independent research.
The documentary is emotional and extremely well done. A portion of
the movie focuses on the Hear This Well movement which came to be
following a mainstream media attempt to overshadow vaccine dangers
with a television anchorwoman ignorantly stating “Hear this well,
vaccines do not cause autism.” VAXXED shows just a few of the
numerous submissions to the Hear This Well campaign and it’s hard
not to feel a lump in your throat at the emotional testimony of
the parents of these innocent children who are now serving a life
sentence with a disease that very likely could have been avoided
if scientific integrity had been demonstrated.
Regardless of your position on vaccination, the bottom line is
that corruption exists at the CDC. This is an agency that is
institutionally conflicted. Senior scientists are complicit and
directly involved with the destruction of research that has harmed
hundreds of thousands of lives. Instead of punishment for these
heinous actions, promotions are doled out and everyone get richer.
Regardless if you are of of the lucky ones, like myself, whose
child wasn’t harmed by vaccines, the fact remains that there are
children who have been harmed or killed. A vaccine injury court
exists which uses tax payer dollars to compensate the families of
babies and children who have been killed or damaged by vaccines.
To remain neutral or even in denial to the fact that vaccines are
hurting and killing children makes you complicit to the
potentially civilization-ending epidemic we are facing. Regardless
if your baby didn’t die following a round of vaccinations doesn’t
mean that it hasn’t happened or that it won’t continue to happen
as long as the CDC is allowed to get away with this blatant
evidence tampering.
The film also points to the fact that CDC
scientist-turned-whistleblower Dr. Thompson has turned over all of
this evidence to Congressman Bill Posey of Florida. Posey has had
the information for over a year while doctors continue to inject
children with this highly questionable vaccine and trick
unsuspecting parents that vaccines are the greatest thing to
modern medicine.
Where is the congressional hearing? Where is the national
attention to this life-destroying lie that has been told for over
a decade? Where is the president? Where are the health officials
demanding answers and accountability?
I cannot express how deeply troubled I feel after seeing VAXXED. I
don’t know how it is possible to see this film and not feel anger
at a lie that has been perpetuated so the pharmaceutical industry
could profit in the billions. I don’t know how someone could see
this movie and not rethink and question every single assurance of
safety ever made by their doctors. These are our children, for
crying out loud! As parents, we are their protectors and it is up
to us to make the best possible choices for their health. But how
can we possibly do that when critical information is being kept
from us?
I encourage you to see this film before considering vaccination.
It is important to realize that every vaccine-injured child has a
parent who once trusted in vaccines. The film makes you realize
that we are all fumbling around in the dark for answers because
the truth is not what we have been told. VAXXED will have you
rethinking everything when it comes to the health decisions of our
most precious humans. Doctors are using the CDC’s research to
practice medicine, treat patients and educate parents. The sooner
you realize that everything your doctor has told you originates
from the morally bankrupt CDC, the closer we will be to saving a
soon-to-be lost generation.
http://laserhacker.com/?p=543
DIY Graphene SuperCapacitors
Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder :
http://www.beautyhealthpage.com/10000-women-develop-cancer-because-of-this-powder/
10,000 Women Develop Cancer Because of
This Powder
The baby powder is usually found in every household, even when
there is no baby. Most women use the talc-based powder because it
makes the skin younger looking and soft. If you are one of them,
you need to stop that. Baby powder, like that one from Johnson and
Johnson, is increasing the risk by 33% of women of being diagnosed
with ovarian cancer. The epidemiologist Dr. Daniel Cramer thinks
that minimum 10,000 women get ovarian cancer because they use this
baby powder every day.≥.
Via http://www.keelynet.com
Cilantro is a cheap and
renewable water filter
Similar to dandelions and parsley, when dried out, crushed up
cilantro absorbs metal from water, particularly lead and nickel.
Both dangerous metals to have present in drinking water, lead and
nickel are absorbed through cell walls of cilantro in a unique
display of biosorption. It can be used in tea bags, which are
placed in a pot of water for three minutes and then removed, or by
stuffing it in a tube and dripping water through it (similar to a
Britta filter). The lead researcher of a study taking place
outside of Mexico City, Douglas Schauer, noted that a “handful of
cilantro will nearly cleanse a pitcher full of highly contaminated
water of its lead content.”
This has proved a successful filter in areas around the world
where the activated carbon filters, like those manufactured by
Brita, are expensive, particularly in regions of rural farming.
People can go grab some from the ground when a new filter is
needed.
More study is being done, including trying to find out if arsenic
and mercury are absorbed by the herb as well and if there is some
sort of “synergy” when multiple metals interact with the herb at
once.
Blue Light Kills :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZZSLQFZnQM
Dr Jack Kruse On Biohacking Your
Water, EMFs, Blue Light, DHA, Cold, Sun and Sleep
https://www.jackkruse.com/index.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeKpCDfyQ_o
The Flyboard Air could be the
hoverboard we've been waiting for
Read the Flyboard Air Crave article here - http://cnet.co/1WqBHsI
Zapata Racing posted a video this week of what looks like a true
jet-propelled hoverboard. The company has been tight-lipped about
details on the Flyboard Air, but we can already tell we want one.
http://tradcatknight.blogspot.com/2015/05/rigord-of-saint-denis-prophecy-wormwood.html
Rigord of Saint Denis Prophecy
The French chronicler Rigord of St. Denis lived in the 12th
century. He wrote a prophetic text in Latin, which was later
translated and printed by Fritz Baer. The following parts pertain
to our future:
"At that time from the sea will rise a very strong wind,
which will strike terror in the hearts of men, and it will raise
sand and dust from the surface of the earth, until it will cover
the trees and the towers... And there will be heard in the air
quakes and thunder and voices which will strike terror in the
hearts of men, and all the countries will be covered with sand and
dust... For that wind will rise from the west corner and reach
until the west corner, encompassing all the countries of Egypt and
Ethiopia... and also the lands of Rome.
"After those events of the winds, five miracles will come to pass
one after another.
"First, a most wise man will arise from the east, versed in secret
wisdom, that is, in wisdom which is beyond man. And he will walk
in justice and will teach the law of truth, and he will cause many
to return to straight mores from the darkness of ignorance, and
from unbelief to the way of truth, and he will instruct the
sinners in the way of righteousness, and he will not pride himself
with being counted among the prophets.
"Secondly, a man will come forth from Elam and will assemble a
multitude of great forces (Daniel 11:1), and will wage a great war
against the nations (Zechariah 14), and he will not live long.
"Thirdly, up will rise another man who will say that he is a
prophet. He will hold a book in his hand and say that he was sent
by God and by His prophets. And with his teachings he will cause
many nations to go astray, and will seduce even more. But that
which he will prophesy will come upon his own head. And he, too,
will not live long.
"Fourthly, a comet will be seen in heaven -- a star, that is, with
a tail or appendage -- and this apparition will signify
destructions and tumults and hard strifes, and withholding of
rains, and dryness of the earth, and mighty battles, and the
flowing of blood upon the earth of the east, and from beyond the
River Habor it will reach to the very end of the west. And the
just and the truly righteous will be oppressed and will suffer
persecutions, and the house of prayer will be destroyed.
"Fifthly, there will be an eclipse of the sun, like the color of
fire, until the whole body of the sun will be obscured, and at the
time of the eclipse there will such darkness over the earth as
there is at midnight on those nights when there is no moonlight,
in the days of the rains…"
http://beinsadouno.org/e_pri_i.htm
The Last Prophecy of Peter Deunov (
1944 )
"During the passage of time, the consciousness of man traversed a
very long period of obscurity. This phase which the Hindus call
"Kali Yuga", is on the verge of ending. We find ourselves today at
the frontier between two epochs: that of Kali Yuga and that of the
New Era that we are entering.
A gradual improvement is already occurring in the thoughts,
sentiments and acts of humans, but everybody will soon be
subjugated to divine Fire, that will purify and prepare them in
regards to the New Era. Thus man will raise himself to a superior
degree of consciousness, indispensable to his entrance to the New
Life. That is what one understands by "Ascension".
Some decades will pass before this Fire will come, that will
transform the world by bringing it a new moral. This immense wave
comes from cosmic space and will inundate the entire earth. All
those that attempt to oppose it will be carried off and
transferred elsewhere.
Although the inhabitants of this planet do not all find themselves
at the same degree of evolution, the new wave will be felt by each
one of us. And this transformation will not only touch the Earth,
but the ensemble of the entire Cosmos.
The best and only thing that man can do now is to turn towards God
and improve himself consciously, to elevate his vibratory level,
so as to find himself in harmony with the powerful wave that will
soon submerge him.
The Fire of which I speak, that accompanies the new conditions
offered to our planet, will rejuvenate, purify, reconstruct
everything: the matter will be refined, your hearts will be
liberated from anguish, troubles, incertitude, and they will
become luminous; everything will be improved, elevated; the
thoughts, sentiments and negative acts will be consumed and
destroyed.
Your present life is a slavery, a heavy prison. Understand your
situation and liberate yourself from it. I tell you this: exit
from your prison! It is really sorry to see so much misleading, so
much suffering, so much incapacity to understand where one's true
happiness lies.
Everything that is around you will soon collapse and disappear.
Nothing will be left of this civilization nor its perversity; the
entire earth will be shaken and no trace will be left of this
erroneous culture that maintains men under the yoke of ignorance.
Earthquakes are not only mechanical phenomena, their goal is also
to awaken the intellect and the heart of humans, so that they
liberate themselves from their errors and their follies and that
they understand that they are not the only ones in the universe.
Our solar system is now traversing a region of the Cosmos where a
constellation that was destroyed left its mark, its dust. This
crossing of a contaminated space is a source of poisoning, not
only for the inhabitants of the earth, but for all the inhabitants
of the other planets of our galaxy. Only the suns are not affected
by the influence of this hostile environment. This region is
called "the thirteenth zone"; one also calls it "the zone of
contradictions". Our planet was enclosed in this region for
thousands of years, but finally we are approaching the exit of
this space of darkness and we are on the point of attaining a more
spiritual region, where more evolved beings live.
The earth is now following an ascending movement and everyone
should force themselves to harmonize with the currents of the
ascension. Those who refuse to subjugate themselves to this
orientation will lose the advantage of good conditions that are
offered in the future to elevate themselves. They will remain
behind in evolution and must wait tens of millions of years for
the coming of a new ascending wave.
The earth, the solar system, the universe, all are being put in a
new direction under the impulsion of Love. Most of you still
consider Love as a derisory force, but in reality, it is the
greatest of all forces! Money and power continue to be venerated
as if the course of your life depended upon it. In the future, all
will be subjugated to Love and all will serve it. But it is
through suffering and difficulties that the consciousness of man
will be awakened.
The terrible predictions of the prophet Daniel written in the
bible relate to the epoch that is opening. There will be floods,
hurricanes, gigantic fires and earthquakes that will sweep away
everything. Blood will flow in abundance. There will be
revolutions; terrible explosions will resound in numerous regions
of the earth. There where there is earth, water will come, and
there where there is water, earth will come. God is Love; yet we
are dealing here with a chastisement, a reply by Nature against
the crimes perpetrated by man since the night of time against his
Mother; the Earth.
After these sufferings, those that will be saved, the elite, will
know the Golden Age, harmony and unlimited beauty. Thus keep your
peace and your faith when the time comes for suffering and terror,
because it is written that not a hair will fall from the head of
the just. Don't be discouraged, simply follow your work of
personal perfection.
2
You have no idea of the grandiose future that awaits you. A New
Earth will soon see day. In a few decades the work will be less
exacting, and each one will have the time to consecrate spiritual,
intellectual and artistic activities. The question of rapport
between man and woman will be finally resolved in harmony; each
one having the possibility of following their aspirations. The
relations of couples will be founded on reciprocal respect and
esteem. Humans will voyage through the different planes of space
and breakthrough intergalactic space. They will study their
functioning and will rapidly be able to know the Divine World, to
fusion with the Head of the Universe.
The New Era is that of the sixth race. Your predestination is to
prepare yourself for it, to welcome it and to live it. The sixth
race will build itself around the idea of Fraternity. There will
be no more conflicts of personal interests; the single aspiration
of each one will be to conform himself to the Law of Love. The
sixth race will be that of Love. A new continent will be formed
for it. It will emerge from the Pacific, so that the Most High can
finally establish His place on this planet.
The founders of this new civilization, I call them "Brothers of
Humanity" or also "Children of Love" They will be unshakeable for
the good and they will represent a new type of men. Men will form
a family, as a large body, and each people will represent an organ
in this body. In the new race, Love will manifest in such a
perfect manner, that today's man can only have a very vague idea.
The earth will remain a terrain favourable to struggle, but the
forces of darkness will retreat and the earth will be liberated
from them. Humans seeing that there is no other path will engage
themselves to the path of the New Life, that of salvation. In
their senseless pride, some will, to the end hope to continue on
earth a life that the Divine Order condemns, but each one will
finish by understanding that the direction of the world doesn't
belong to them.
A new culture will see the light of day, it will rest on three
principal foundations: the elevation of woman, the elevation of
the meek and humble, and the protection of the rights of man.
The light, the good, and justice will triumph; it is just a
question of time. The religions should be purified. Each contains
a particle of the Teaching of the Masters of Light, but obscured
by the incessant supply of human deviation. All the believers will
have to unite and to put themselves in agreement with one
principal, that of placing Love as the base of all belief,
whatever it may be. Love and Fraternity that is the common base!
The earth will soon be swept by extraordinary rapid waves of
Cosmic Electricity. A few decades from now beings who are bad and
lead others astray will not be able to support their intensity.
They will thus be absorbed by Cosmic Fire that will consume the
bad that they possess. Then they will repent because it is written
that "each flesh shall glorify God".
Our mother, the earth, will get rid of men that don't accept the
New Life. She will reject them like damaged fruit. They will soon
not be able to reincarnate on this planet; criminals included.
Only those that possess Love in them will remain.
There is not any place on earth that is not dirtied with human or
animal blood; she must therefore submit to a purification. And it
is for this that certain continents will be immersed while others
will surface.
Men do not suspect to what dangers they are menaced by. They
continue to pursue futile objectives and to seek pleasure. On the
contrary those of the sixth race will be conscious of the dignity
of their role and respectful of each one's liberty. They will
nourish themselves exclusively from products of the vegetal realm.
Their ideas will have the power to circulate freely as the air and
light of our days.
The words "If you are not born again." apply to the sixth race.
Read Chapter 60 of Isaiah it relates to the coming of the sixth
race the Race of Love.
After the Tribulations, men will cease to sin and will find again
the path of virtue. The climate of our planet will be moderated
everywhere and brutal variations will no longer exist. The air
will once again become pure, the same for water. The parasites
will disappear. Men will remember their previous incarnations and
they will feel the pleasure of noticing that they are finally
liberated from their previous condition.
In the same manner that one gets rid of the parasites and dead
leaves on the vine, so act the evolved Beings to prepare men to
serve the God of Love. They give to them good conditions to grow
and to develop themselves, and to those that want to listen to
them, they say: "Do not be afraid! Still a little more time and
everything will be all right; you are on the good path. May he
that wants to enter in the New Culture study, consciously work and
prepare."
Thanks to the idea of Fraternity, the earth will become a blessed
place, and that will not wait. But before, great sufferings will
be sent to awaken the consciousness. Sins accumulated for
thousands of years must be redeemed. The ardent wave emanating
from On High will contribute in liquidating the karma of peoples.
The liberation can no longer be postponed. Humanity must prepare
itself for great trials that are inescapable and are coming to
bring an end to egoism.
Under the earth, something extraordinary is preparing itself. A
revolution that is grandiose and completely inconceivable will
manifest itself soon in nature. God has decided to redress the
earth, and He will do it!
It is the end of an epoch; a new order will substitute the old, an
order in which Love will reign on earth."
UPDATUMED 9 April
http://www.naturalnews.com/053556_wild_hog_bait_sodium_nitrite_processed_meat_additive.html
April 05, 2016
Chemical added to hot dogs, sausage
and bacon now being developed by USDA as deadly bait that
poisons wild hogs to death... and you're EATING it for
breakfast!
by
Mike Adams
A preservative chemical that's routinely added to hot dogs, beef
jerky, bacon and breakfast sausage is now being deployed by
government researchers as a fatal bait to poison wild hogs to
death. Development of the deadly hog poison is being pursued by
none other than the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the same
agency that legalizes the same toxic chemical to be used in
processed meat products approved for human consumption.
The chemical, known as sodium nitrite, is a cancer-causing "color
fixer" and meat preservative added to processed meat products to
give them a pink hue that consumers mistake for being "fresh."
When sodium nitrite combines with the hydrochloric acid (HCl)
found in stomach acid, it forms cancer-causing nitrosamines. These
nitrosamines go on to directly promote pancreatic cancer,
colorectal cancer, leukemia, brain tumors and other cancers
throughout the body -- facts that I have been warning readers
about for over a decade. Sodium nitrite is the reason why
processed meats drastically raise the risks of cancer, heart
disease and diabetes...
In the feral swine analysis published by the USDA, sodium nitrite
is already labeled a "vertebrate pesticide" and its toxicological
effects are described by the USDA as follows:
In brief, [sodium] nitrite causes methemoglobinemia, which results
in rapid depletion of oxygen to the brain and vital organs. Pigs
are highly susceptible to this mode of action because they lack
methemoglobin reductase, the naturally occurring enzyme required
to reverse the toxicosis. Nitrite causes a rapid death in domestic
pigs in approximately 1 hour (IMVS 2010) and in feral pigs in 1.5
hours (Cowled et al. 2008a), with symptoms (detailed above)
lasting less than 30 minutes (IMVS 2010). Nitrite toxicosis
through methemoglobinemia has been independently assessed as
humane (IMVS 2010)..
http://mindsbasis.blogspot.com/2016/03/physical-units-factor-tables-puft-i.html
Physical Units Factor Tables (PUFT)
by
Enon Harris
The Physical Units Factor Tables organize 50 types of physical
units by their factors of length, time, mass and charge so that
the mathematical relationships between physical units are easy to
see.
The Physical Units Factor Tables encourage anyone who can multiply
and divide simple fractions to deduce equations in mechanics and
electromagnetics .
The single-page document is also marginally legible when
printed in color on a single sheet of letter-size paper, but
students and teachers with access to computers will likely find
the electronic version easier on the eyes.
Each move left represents multiplication by length, each move down
is division by time ( = multiplication by frequency). Similarly,
moving right represents division by length and each move up
represents multiplying by time. These factors are the same in all
tables in the stack, with each lower table having an additional
factor:
light blue table = * mass
green table = * 1/charge
pink table = *
mass/charge
purple table = * mass/charge^2
The names of the unit types are taken from Alan Eliasen's
wonderful calculator and physically-typed programming
language, Frink. (Except for the ones whose top line is in
parentheses; these names aren't listed in Frink, though it can
easily compute using such quantities.)
Units types included: time, volume, area, length, dimensionless,
linear spatial frequency, area spatial frequency, volume spatial
frequency, flow, area per second, velocity, frequency, specific
energy, acceleration, frequency squared, moment of inertia,
kilogram-meters, mass, linear mass density, areal mass
density, mass density, angular momentum, momentum, mass flow,
viscosity, energy, force, surface tension, pressure, power, heat
flow density, magnetic field strength, current, electrical dipole
moment, moment of inertia per coulomb, mass per charge, magnetic
flux,
vector potential, magnetic flux density, electric potential,
electric field strength, inductance, permeability, electric
resistivity, electric resistance, inverse permittivity, inverse
capacitance, electric current density, magnetic field
strength, electrical dipole moment, magnetic moment, charge,
linear charge density, surface charge density, electric charge
density, temperature, thermal resistance, thermal resistivity,
thermal insulance, thermal inductance , entropy, heat capacity,
enthalpy, specific heat capacity, molar heat capacity, thermal
capacitance, entropy flow, thermal conductivity
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160406124943.htm
April 6, 2016
How bioceramics could help fight gum
disease
Severe gum disease known as periodontitis can lead to tooth loss,
and treating it remains a challenge. But new approaches involving
silicon nitride, a ceramic material used in spinal implants, could
be on the way. The surface of silicon nitride has a lethal effect
on the bacteria that commonly cause periodontitis. Now scientists,
reporting in ACS' journal Langmuir, are examining why this
happens. Their findings could help inform future efforts to treat
the disease.
About half of American adults have some form of gum disease. It's
caused by bacteria that infect the tissue around teeth, resulting
in gum inflammation. If the condition progresses, the bacteria can
damage the bone that supports the teeth. In addition to tooth
loss, periodontitis can increase a person's risk of heart attack
or stroke. Options for treatment include scaling and root planing,
topical antibiotics and surgery. Giuseppe Pezzotti and colleagues
wanted to find a new alternative by studying the reactions of
bacteria to antimicrobial silicon nitride.
The researchers investigated how the ceramic material changes the
metabolism of Porphyromonas gingivalis -- the bacteria species
primarily responsible for periodontitis. They found that chemical
reactions at the surface cause the bacteria's nucleic acids to
degrade and drastically reduce the amounts of certain proteins and
fats. While further studies are needed, the results show silicon
nitride holds promise as a therapeutic aid for treating severe gum
disease.
Langmuir, 2016; 32 (12): 3024
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b0039
Silicon Nitride Bioceramics Induce
Chemically Driven Lysis inPorphyromonas gingivalis.
Giuseppe Pezzotti, Ryan M. Bock, Bryan J. McEntire, Erin
Jones, Marco Boffelli, Wenliang Zhu, Greta Baggio, Francesco
Boschetto, Leonardo Puppulin, Tetsuya Adachi, Toshiro
Yamamoto, Narisato Kanamura, Yoshinori Marunaka, B. Sonny Bal.
Organisms of Gram-negative phylum bacteroidetes, Porphyromonas
gingivalis, underwent lysis on polished surfaces of silicon
nitride (Si3N4) bioceramics. The antibacterial activity of Si3N4
was mainly the result of chemically driven principles. The lytic
activity, although not osmotic in nature, was related to the
peculiar pH-dependent surface chemistry of Si3N4. A buffering
effect via the formation of ammonium ions (NH4+) (and their
modifications) was experimentally observed by pH microscopy. Lysis
was confirmed by conventional fluorescence spectroscopy, and the
bacteria’s metabolism was traced with the aid of in situ Raman
microprobe spectroscopy. This latter technique revealed the
formation of peroxynitrite within the bacterium itself.
Degradation of the bacteria’s nucleic acid, drastic reduction in
phenilalanine, and reduction of lipid concentration were observed
due to short-term exposure (6 days) to Si3N4. Altering the surface
chemistry of Si3N4 by either chemical etching or thermal oxidation
influenced peroxynitrite formation and affected bacteria
metabolism in different ways. Exploiting the peculiar surface
chemistry of Si3N4 bioceramics could be helpful in counteracting
Porphyromonas gingivalis in an alkaline pH environment.
IT1246508 / EP0492285
Sintered composite material based on silicon nitride.
Inventor: PEZZOTTI GIUSEPPE
Described is a sintered composite material with highly
satisfactory mechanical characteristics which is suitable for
applications at high temperatures and is composed of silicon
nitride and silicon carbide, the latter being in the form of flat
chips. This composite material is prepared by mixing, thoroughly
and uniformly, 70 to 90% by volume of silicon nitride powder with
10 to 30% by volume of silicon carbide powder formed of chips
whose average dimensions of the flat surface vary from 10 to 40 mu
m and a thickness from 1 to 10 mu m. Placing the mixture thus
obtained in a continuous mould, after a premoulding cycle, and
finally hot isostatic pressing the premoulded body.
Clif High / halfpasthuman ALTA gets some competition :
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-06/this-startup-is-predicting-the-future-by-decoding-the-past
April 5, 2016
This Startup Is Predicting the Future
by Decoding the Past
At Predata, an Internet-scraping algorithm provides a glimpse
of the future.
When James Shinn was working for the CIA as a senior East Asia
expert more than a decade ago, he longed for the tools of a
weatherman. He wanted to be able to predict that the chance of
North Korea test-firing a missile within a month was, say, 60
percent. It remained a fantasy, he says, until now.
Shinn and his 14-person team at Predata have developed software
that numerically describes political volatility and risk. It
vacuums up vast quantities of data from online conversations and
comments, compares them with past patterns, and spits out a
probability. (A version of Predata’s service is accessible on the
Bloomberg Professional service.) Shinn likens his product to
sabermetrics, the statistics-driven baseball strategy popularized
in Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. “By carefully gathering lots and
lots of statistics on their past performance from all corners of
the Internet, we are predicting how a large number of players on a
team will bat or pitch in the future,” Shinn says, by way of
analogy.
Predata doesn’t replace human analysts so much as offer them a new
tool. Without people choosing what to follow, metadata scraping
has limited use. Moreover, Shinn argues, while risk-analysis
companies are increasingly offering clients numerical percentages,
the data are often pulled from the air. “This is a machine-driven,
carefully calculated risk index,” says Shinn, the company’s
founder and chief executive officer. “There is no arbitrary
scoring by a human analyst.”
Each day, Predata monitors about 1,000 Twitter feeds, 10,000
Wikipedia pages, 50,000 YouTube videos, and several dozen
newspapers and magazines in some 200 countries. It covers 300
topics, including news about individual companies, the debate over
the U.K. leaving the European Union, and interest rate decisions
by central banks.
Historical data is paramount. For instance, Predata didn’t make a
statistically useful prediction for the March 22 attacks in
Brussels, in part because Belgium had experienced few such
incidents. The software needs at least five previous events to
find a correlation between digital conversations and an act of
terrorism, according to Shinn. France, on the other hand, had
witnessed 13 incidents prior to the Paris attacks on Nov. 13; the
company says that its model indicated the likelihood of an event
being at least 61 percent a month in advance. Similarly, on Dec.
27, Predata says it calculated a 68 percent chance that North
Korea would engage in some activity regarding weapons of mass
destruction within 45 days. Almost two weeks later, on Jan. 6, the
Kim Jong Un regime conducted the nation’s fourth nuclear test.
Shinn, who served as an assistant secretary for East Asia at the
U.S. Department of Defense after his CIA stint, began developing
the technology in 2014 while teaching at his alma mater,
Princeton, and serving on the advisory board of Kensho
Technologies, an analytics software developer for investment
management. Kensho’s CEO, Daniel Nadler, and Shinn experimented in
their free time with a crude prototype that monitored online
conversations among labor unions in South Africa, thinking the
data offered a handle on the country’s volatility. They found that
back-and-forth argumentation in English and Afrikaans on sites as
public as the Wikipedia pages of the unions spiked before mining
strikes, after which gold and platinum prices surged.
Shinn recruited one of his students, Andrew Choi, to build a more
sophisticated algorithm, a part of which used a specification
devised by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity,
an organization that leads research into innovative technology
under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
“Predata is now sampling a larger, more complex pattern before and
after events,” Choi says. “We are characterizing larger patterns
of behavior by many people on the Internet and then looking for
the recurrence of these patterns as ‘early warning’ that an event
of that type is about to recur.”
Choi, now Predata’s chief technology officer, says the company can
draw direct links from digital conversations to geopolitical
volatility, and from there to collective actions such as strikes,
protests, and troop movements. There was a surge of comments
posted to news articles about Russia and Ukraine before Russia’s
invasion of Crimea, for example, and a sharp rise in participants
conversing on the French-language Wikipedia page for Islamic State
before the Paris attacks. “There is a characteristic way that the
narrative of a certain event is constructed before and after that
event has taken place,” he says.
As the activity intensifies, Predata gathers the metadata—such as
how many people edit a Wikipedia page about a terrorist attack and
how quickly those edits are disputed—and retroactively matches the
statistical signals against sets of historical events to predict
the likelihood of similar events, Shinn says. “The Russians spend
a lot of time and money molding the narrative about Russian
intentions and actions, and the guys in Beijing do the same about
the South China Sea.” The result, he says, is that actors leave
footprints; their propaganda interests trump their desire for
operational security.
Governments started using the first computational models in World
War II to decode German messages and automate the targeting of
anti-aircraft weapons. In the 1960s, corporations and research
institutions began commercializing models for a variety of uses,
from deciding credit risk to predicting the weather. The business
has evolved into hundreds of companies pursuing three general
approaches to managing risk and volatility: prioritizing new and
better sources of data, focusing on better ways to condense data,
and combining the two to forecast probability. Microsoft
co-founder Paul Allen invested in Seattle-based BlackSky Global,
which plans to launch a fleet of 60 satellites next year to scan
most of the planet as many as 70 times a day. San Francisco-based
Spaceknow combines the imagery of more than 6,000 industrial
facilities with algorithms to create an index of China’s factory
production. Companies such as Banjo, Cytora, and Dataminr monitor
social media and the Internet to track events as close to real
time as possible. They specialize in detecting riots or protests
as soon as they’re reported on the Web, alerting clients to
developments and making the information easily digestible.
Predata is alone so far in producing an algorithm-generated
forecasting metric. The company is already broadening its
findings, applying them to equity indexes, foreign exchange rates,
commodities, and credit-default-swap spreads, and it says it’s
found a correlation between the signals it measures and prices of
various assets. Predata also tracks chatter about YouTube videos
of central bank governors’ press conferences to predict rate
decisions.
Kalev Leetaru, a senior fellow at George Washington University,
started the GDELT Project in 2013, a free, publicly available
database of all the world's media in print, broadcast and web
formats in more than 100 languages, stretching back from Jan. 1,
1979 to present day. GDELT uses more than 40 algorithms to
translate into English and process metadata from the media into
tables, allowing individuals and organizations to run customized
risk analytics. It also provides a real-time timeline measuring
instability in countries, Leetaru said, adding that GDELT plans to
roll out a series of prototype templates later this year,
forecasting risk by location and type of volatile events.
One risk to Predata’s approach is the potential of being gamed by
a savvy hostile party. Shinn and Choi argue, however, that the
Internet’s “democratic checks and balances” and abundance of data
points will keep Predata’s technology relatively safe from
attempts to fool it. Says Choi, “It’s not even that you are trying
to talk about a topic in a favorable light. It’s that you are
talking about that topic at all—that’s a signal.”
Excellent Cycle Analysis-Prediction :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-EscbOiy4
Bo Polny - Biblically Bad Economic
Crash Coming
Cycle analyst Bo Polny says the time it takes the stock market to
hit bottom from its prior top is getting shorter. The 2007 top to
the 2009 bottom in the stock market took a little less than two
years. The latest top happened in July of 2015, and Polny says
this top to bottom crash will take half the time of the last
crash. Polny predicts, “The next bottom will happen between now
and this coming August. . . . This is going to be Biblically bad .
. . . You are going to have a day where the Dow might drop 4,000
points . . . the next turn is going to be a crash low, and that’s
supposed to come in the next few months. Being long in the market
is crazy. We keep having lower highs. . . . Being long in the
market is extremely dangerous.”
Polny closed by pointing out, “The reason for the crash will be
because gold and silver will be exploding higher. That is going to
create a huge derivative issue. That, then in turn, triggers the
collapse and the meltdown of the stock market.”
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/software/
Earthquakes
USGS provides several ways to obtain real-time earthquake lists,
in addition to web-based maps and event pages. Earthquakes are
broadcast (i.e., through email, CSV, ATOM, CAP alerts, etc.)
within a few minutes for California events, and within 30-minutes
for worldwide events.
Real-time Data Feeds
This site provides a single source for all USGS supported products
associated with a particular earthquake. Specifically, the catalog
includes the date/time of the earthquake along with the following
products (if available): location, magnitude(s), depth, moment
tensor, focal mechanism, DYFI, ShakeMap, PAGER, event posters,
tectonic summaries, Finite Fault, Exposure, lists of significant
events, phase data, residuals. Customized searching is available
along with output download capabilities.
Nuclear Waste Transmutation : Additional
References
http://www.gdr.org/nuclear_half.htm
Radioactivity Deactivation at High
Temperature in an Applied DC Voltage Field Demonstrated in
1964
By
Larry Geer & Cecil Baumgartner
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Superbomb-ignites-science-dispute-Pentagon-2585695.php
Superbomb Ignites Science Dispute at
Pentagon
...In January 1999, an international team led by [ Carl ] Collins
claimed it had unleashed startling amounts of energy -- far more
than theoretically expected - - from the hafnium-178 isomer. They
did so, they reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, by
bombarding the isotope with X-rays from an ordinary dental X-ray
machine.
Besides Collins, the article's 13 co-authors included scientists
at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque; Russia's
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research; and Sandia National
Laboratories, a nuclear weapons lab in New Mexico. Collins himself
has a weighty reputation. A decade earlier, the Texas Academy of
Sciences had named him "Distinguished Texas Scientist" of the year
for his research on high-energy lasers.
Elsewhere, other scientists tried to replicate Collins' work by
bombarding the isotope with radiation from large particle
accelerators, which are far more powerful than the Collins team's
dental X-ray machine. Results: negative.
One of Collins' original collaborators on the 1999 paper, nuclear
physicist James Carroll of Youngstown State University, has since
been unable to replicate the Collins experiment on his own. He
suspects the energy-unleashing process "is more complex than
(Collins) originally thought and needs further study," Carroll
said in an interview.
Furthermore, scientists from Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Argonne National
Laboratory found "no evidence" of unusual energy emissions from
hafnium-178 exposed to X-rays at Argonne's hefty Advanced Photon
Source accelerator, they reported in Physical Review Letters in
2001.
The hafnium-178 controversy was also investigated by the members
of "Jason, " which has functioned for decades as a kind of supreme
advisory council of military science. Mostly distinguished
physical scientists based at universities and private companies,
these scholars -- often collectively known as "the Jasons" -- use
their expertise to critique the Pentagon's more ambitious schemes
for expensive, futuristic weapons.
CLAIMS CHALLENGED
Claims that hafnium-178 can unleash intense energy are based on
experiments that are "poorly characterized and ill-described,"
Jason member Steve Koonin wrote in 1999, summarizing the group's
findings in a letter to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency. The claims are "a priori implausible -- extraordinary
claims demand extraordinary proof," but that's lacking so far,
added Koonin, a nuclear physicist and provost of the California
Institute of Technology.
"It is extraordinarily unlikely that there is something here" that
portends a new generation of futuristic weapons, Koonin said in a
phone interview. However, he noted that Collins and others have
reported new results since 1999, and that he'd support a new Jason
analysis if the Pentagon or Energy Department requested it.
Collins has stuck to his guns. In a number of e-mail responses to
a Chronicle inquiry, he compared the critics to early 20th century
naysayers who denied the feasibility of atomic energy.
Collins insists his findings have "been confirmed at about all of
the world's third-generation (most advanced) synchrotron radiation
sources, except the DOE facility at Argonne. . . . Naturally, that
causes controversy, but it is a strength of the scientific method
that continued study and measurement will resolve the
controversy."
One reason some critics have been unable to verify his original
claim, Collins said, is that their instrument was "blind" to one
of the spectral lines, the so-called 130 line, that he used in
measuring energy from hafnium- 178. Hence, "they could not
possibly have seen the results" even "if they had succeeded in
doing it."
But physicist John Becker of Lawrence Livermore said that to the
best of his knowledge, no scientist has verified Collins' claim
except Pat McDaniel, a researcher at Sandia who was one of
Collins' original collaborators. McDaniel has not published his
results, Becker said. McDaniel could not be reached for an
interview.
"I don't think there's any controversy at all: We've done two
experiments, and we cannot reproduce his (Collins') results,"
Becker said in an interview. The Becker team has used instruments
that are "a hundred thousand times more sensitive" than Collins'
dental X-ray machine, and "in spite of our best efforts, we cannot
reproduce those results."
The Pentagon isn't discouraged by skeptics' doubts about the
hafnium-178 isomer. In fact, it's trying to figure out how to mass
produce the stuff. According to one knowledgeable source who
insisted on anonymity, a full-scale hafnium-178 facility, if
approved, "would probably (cost) tens to hundreds of millions of
dollars."
At one Pentagon Web site, dubbed the Military Critical
Technologies List, under the section titled "Armaments and
Energetic Materials," the text explains that hafnium-178's
reported "extraordinary energy density has the potential to
revolutionize all aspects of warfare."
Recently, amid their post-Iraq-war anxieties over U.S. military
and foreign policy, European media have sounded an alarm about
possible hafnium-178 weapons. New Scientist, a respected popular
science journal in England, ran a story on Aug. 13 declaring,
"Gamma-ray Weapons Could Trigger Next Arms Race."
By coincidence, that same day, five members of the HIPP panel and
10 other experts signed a letter to federal officials citing "the
numerous objections raised by the (Jasons) and others over any
projected use of the hafnium isomer. " The letter urged the
officials to launch an independent scientific review of the
subject "before proceeding to study (military) applications that
may not make physical sense."
http://www.NewsWithViews.com
March 31, 2016
PROOF: GOOGLE CHROME TRIGGERS MALWARE
ALERTS FOR, AND CENSORS CONSERVATIVE AND ANTI NWO ARTICLES
By
Jim Kouri
NWV Senior Political News Writer
Visitors to conservative web sites may encounter problems
accessing news stories and political commentary regarding the
Republican Party, conservative issues and pro-Donald Trump
postings thanks to a major Internet search engine company that
also controls a top web browser that's successfully competing with
Microsoft, Firefox, Safari and others.
According to a number of subscribers and readers of the
conservative Internet publication, NewsWithViews.com, readers are
being falsely informed by a popular web browser, Google Chrome,
that "malware" exists on the web site, specifically columns that
address political and social issues from a conservative or
libertarian perspective, according to several writers and the
editor at NWV.
Readers attempting to access NWV content were met by warnings that
falsely claimed "malware" that was hazardous to personal computers
existed on the web site. A number of emails were received by the
NWV editor complaining about the problem and saying they were
fearful of damaging their desktop or laptop computers by accessing
news stories and opinion columns.
For example, one of the top columnists, Kelleigh Nelson, who
frequently writes on political issues had problems with readers
not being able to access her opinion pieces appearing on NWV.
Kelleigh is 100% pro Trump.
"A number of my readers [had] emailed me that when they tried to
access my archived articles, a malware warning would always pop
up. All of them were using Google Chrome when this happened," said
Nelson. "I immediately alerted Paul Walter, Senior Editor of
NewsWithViews.com, and he did a virus check. Nothing showed as
being malware within any of my archived articles."
Ms. Nelson believes that Google Chrome covertly putting these
malware warnings on every article they politically disagree with,
and she believes that NewsWithViews is not the only target. There
are other websites being targeted, including The Marshall Report,
and The Conservative Tree House. "If you want the truth in these
and other articles, then use any other search engine and the
articles and websites will come up, just not with Google Chrome,"
said Kelleigh Nelson
Following a lengthy investigation by the NWV editor, Paul Walter,
it was confirmed that the "malware alerts" were the product of
only one web browser: Google Chrome. All of the complaints
regarding "malware alerts" were generated by readers who were
Chrome browser users. Those readers using the other Internet
browsers such as Firefox, Safari, Explorer, and other popular
browsers were not experiencing this suspected form of censorship.
"It appears that Google Chrome is the only browser suspected of
deceptive political activity that benefits the Democratic Party
especially in this heated [presidential] election cycle," said
political consultant and attorney Michael Baker. "In fact, other
web sites are experiencing similar problems and they all trace
them to Google Chrome."
Baker said that reputable news and information web sites such as
Breitbart's series of web pages and the Conservative Base are also
experiencing the same problems with Google Chrome. "It's a safe
bet that if it's happening to these top sites, it's probably
happening to the lesser-known sites with fewer visitors," he said.
When NWV senior editor Paul Walter received complaints from both
readers and some columnists about the suspected malware hoax, he
contacted his Internet hosting company on March 10, 2016 located
in Los Angeles and N.J. for a complete examination of the
NewsWithViews.com web site and their dedicated server. The company
reported conducting full scans and exams of NWV and found no
evidence of there being any type of malware or virus within the
system. NWV was given a clean-bill-of-health by the hosting
company and yet, the complaints kept pouring in from all over the
country about the malwere problem that didn't exist.
Walter said "I'm almost 100% certain that you won't be able to
find this news article on the Google search engine."
In the case of another web site experiencing the exact same
problem with malware alerts where there were none, Conservative
Base which coincidentally, like NWV, supports the candidacy of GOP
presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
The Conservative Base’s webmaster, Ben Thole, also conducted virus
scans and the like and also found there were no problems with the
web site or the server. Thole is an experienced web site designer
and webmaster who has worked for the Republican Party, celebrities
and companies that require first-rate Internet coverage.
Besides the Chrome browser, when Internet users are conducting a
search with Google’s search engine they are warned that the web
site itself may harm your computer.
This is an actual example of those insidious messages that are
designed to detour visitors to other web sites: ***
NewsWithViews.com columnist, Ron Ewart, President of the National
Association of Rural Landowners, when he discovered the activities
of Google, launched his own action against the media giant.
During a telephone conversation with this reporter, Mr. Ewart
mentioned his own investigation and a column he will have
published by NWV that reveals the political ties between the
Democrat Party and the Google founders, Larry Page and Eric
Schmidt. He also reports that there are thousands of Google
employees who are also in cahoots with the Democrats:
“Few Silicon Valley companies have ever embraced a political party
as passionately as Google has. Its executive chairman, Eric
Schmidt, has been described as a "kind of guru" to President
Obama's campaign manager, and Google employees emerged as the No.
2 donor to the Democratic National Committee in the last
election,” stated Ewart.
Ewart also mentioned during the telephone interview with this NWV
reporter that the Google Chrome Malware Alerts suddenly appeared
on conservative articles right after Donald Trump, during a
televised rally with 20-thousand cheering supporters, held up an
article from the NewsWithViews.com website that verified he
assertion about media bias and the NWV website received an
astounding 1,000,000 hits in just one day.
Efforts by NWV to contact Google and discuss these serious
allegations met with negative results. The person who only gave
the name “Heather” said the Google browser is not involved in
politics.
However, Ron Ewart wrote a thorough letter to the Google
executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, which he plans to publish
on NewsWithViews.com.
“I hope conservatives will start to take action,” said Ewart. “The
whole political system is corrupted and people must awaken and
take action before ‘malware alerts’ will be the least of their
problems,” he added.
Besides the covert activities suspected, a new Google Chrome
“extension” allows users to scrub mentions and photos of Donald
Trump from their browsing experience. Trump Filter is a Chrome
extension that searches websites for references to the Republican
presidential candidate and replaces it with a blank space.
“Eliminate Donald Trump from all your web browsing without leaving
the Internet,” a description for Trump Filter boasts. “In a
political atmosphere where ascendance can be manufactured through
attention, the only way to deflate Trump’s political star is
through suffocation. Trump can only lose if we turn off the TV.
“Thus, the Trump Filter is presented as part of the antidote for
this toxic candidacy. This Chrome extension will identify parts of
a web page likely to contain Donald Trump and erase them from the
Internet. Share with your friends and eliminate the only currency
Trump can spend to win: brand recognition,” the description reads.
“I hope folks will take this opportunity to learn more about the
wide field of candidates out there,” Mr. Spectre told CNN.
http://emediapress.com/2016/04/08/lossless-electric-current/
2016-04-08
Lossless Electric Current
Aaron Murakami
Ferromagnetic properties allow electric current to flow over the
surface of special films but normally only under very low
temperatures.
Something of great importance is that this electric current is
generated spontaneously and without any kind of external magnetic
field – electric current without magnetism.
Using Cr as an atomic sized magnet and Sb and Te to help
“glue” their alignment into place, apparently allows this electric
current to be not only lossless but at room temperature.
Read more here: https://solarthermalmagazine.com/2015/12/29/63464/
Published paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151119/ncomms9913/full/ncomms9913.html
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/04/09/senior-darpa-scientist-warns-of-widespread-lethal-attacks-upon-the-public-coming-from-microwave-towers/
Senior DARPA Scientist Warns of
Widespread LETHAL ATTACKS Upon the Public Coming From
Microwave Towers
Former DARPA Senior Scientist, Dr. Paul Batcho, asserts that cell
phone towers pose an intentional and immediate lethal threat
against the general public of the United States…
I would like to bring to your attention an ongoing threat with
regards to harmful communications transmitting from the cellular
towers in central Florida, and Tampa St Petersburg. It is not
clear to me whether it is due to the USCENTCOM in Tampa or it is
targeting US civilians…
I seem to have stumbled across an advanced technology that I would
classify as synthetic telepathy. It clearly uses the cellular
towers to transmit illegal signals. It sounds unbelievable but it
is actual technology being used on civilians of the US.
My basic research does indicate that such technology can exist and
dates back to the V2K (P300) mind wave technology of the 1970s.
This does appear to be a much more advanced version that allows
open communication of human mind to mind bridges.
Please forward my email to the appropriate DoD security office and
I would like the issue investigated. Human brains appear to
transmit and receive at the RF bands around 450MHz and microwave
transmissions can be highly damaging in turns of induced
bio-effects...
The technology being used is clearly based on the methods outlined
in the following patents based on microwave transmission directed
at human brain frequencies.
The active technology has been in use for approximately 3 1/2
years, roughly corresponding to the expiry of the 1992 and 1994
patents funded by DARPA, US Patent # 5,123,844 & US Patent #
5,289,438.
These systems stimulate the brain with RF frequencies and wave
forms.This is not CDMA 450MHz:450MHz-470MHz transmissions.
There is unlawful use of the various lethal aspects of the
technology. The technology is active and civilians are being
targeted with harmful health effects.
Please investigate the transmission of the various frequency
signals in the 450 MHz range. The band from 437MHz to 478Mhz with
peaks at roughly 6 MHz intervals appear to have sizable spectral
energy components.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0144268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144268
PLOS, January 13, 2016
Anthropogenic Radio-Frequency
Electromagnetic Fields Elicit Neuropathic Pain in an
Amputation Model
Bryan Black , Rafael Granja-Vazquez , Benjamin R.
Johnston , Erick Jones, Mario Romero-Ortega
Abstract
Anecdotal and clinical reports have suggested that radio-frequency
electromagnetic fields (RF EMFs) may serve as a trigger for
neuropathic pain. However, these reports have been widely
disregarded, as the epidemiological effects of electromagnetic
fields have not been systematically proven, and are highly
controversial. Here, we demonstrate that anthropogenic RF EMFs
elicit post-neurotomy pain in a tibial neuroma transposition
model. Behavioral assays indicate a persistent and significant
pain response to RF EMFs when compared to SHAM surgery groups.
Laser thermometry revealed a transient skin temperature increase
during stimulation. Furthermore, immunofluorescence revealed an
increased expression of temperature sensitive cation channels
(TRPV4) in the neuroma bulb, suggesting that RF EMF-induced pain
may be due to cytokine-mediated channel dysregulation and
hypersensitization, leading to thermal allodynia. Additional
behavioral assays were performed using an infrared heating lamp in
place of the RF stimulus. While thermally-induced pain responses
were observed, the response frequency and progression did not
recapitulate the RF EMF effects. In vitro calcium imaging
experiments demonstrated that our RF EMF stimulus is sufficient to
directly contribute to the depolarization of dissociated sensory
neurons. Furthermore, the perfusion of inflammatory cytokine TNF-α
resulted in a significantly higher percentage of active sensory
neurons during RF EMF stimulation. These results substantiate
patient reports of RF EMF-pain, in the case of peripheral nerve
injury, while confirming the public and scientific consensus that
anthropogenic RF EMFs engender no adverse sensory effects in the
general population.
US 20060073976
Method of Gravity Distortion and Time
Displacement
A method for employing sinusoidal oscillations of electrical
bombardment on the surface of one Kerr type singularity in close
proximity to a second Kerr type singularity in such a method to
take advantage of the Lense-Thirring effect, to simulate the
effect of two point masses on nearly radial orbits in a 2+1
dimensional anti-de Sitter space resulting in creation of circular
timelike geodesics conforming to the van Stockum under the Van Den
Broeck modification of the Alcubierre geometry (Van Den Broeck
1999) permitting topology change from one spacelike boundary to
the other in accordance with Geroch's theorem (Geroch 1967) which
results in a method for the formation of G{umlaut over (
)}odel-type geodesically complete spacetime envelopes complete
with closed timelike curves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRpT711Psao
JOHN LENARD WALSON telescope-videos of
satellites
YouTube Channel :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHg0Cdx1PQ8xkkvnwGRMUQ
Mauro Ferrari, et al. :
In Situ Nanoparticle Generator vs Cancer
http://houstonmethodist.org/1285_houstonmethodist/1315_newsroom/1316_newsroom_newsandevents/newsdetail/?key={03d8d7ae27034b5cb632a6f3fb2c700b}
March 14, 2016
First injectable nanoparticle generator
could radically transform metastatic breast cancer treatment
Gale Smith
gsmith@houstonmethodist.org
Landmark preclinical study cured lung metastases in 50 percent of
breast cancers by making nanoparticles inside the tumor
A team of investigators from Houston Methodist Research Institute
may have transformed the treatment of metastatic triple negative
breast cancer by creating the first drug to successfully eliminate
lung metastases in mice. This landmark study appears today in
Nature Biotechnology (early online edition).
The majority of cancer deaths are due to metastases to the lung
and liver, yet there is no cure. Existing cancer drugs provide
limited benefit due to their inability to overcome biological
barriers in the body and reach the cancer cells in sufficient
concentrations. Houston Methodist nanotechnology and cancer
researchers have solved this problem by developing a drug that
generates nanoparticles inside the lung metastases in mice.
In this study, 50 percent of the mice treated with the drug had no
trace of metastatic disease after eight months. That’s equivalent
to about 24 years of long-term survival following metastatic
disease for humans.
Due to the body’s own defense mechanisms, most cancer drugs are
absorbed into healthy tissue causing negative side effects, and
only a fraction of the administered drug actually reaches the
tumor, making it less effective, said Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D,
president and CEO of the Houston Methodist Research Institute.
This new treatment strategy enables sequential passage of the
biological barriers to transport the killing agent into the heart
of the cancer. The active drug is only released inside the nucleus
of the metastatic disease cell, avoiding the multidrug resistance
mechanism of the cancer cells. This strategy effectively kills the
tumor and provides significant therapeutic benefit in all mice,
including long-term survival in half of the animals.
This finding comes 20 years after Ferrari started his work in
nanomedicine. Ferrari and Haifa Shen, M.D., Ph.D., are co-senior
authors on the paper, which describes the action of the injectable
nanoparticle generator (iNPG), and how a complex method of
transporting a nano-version of a standard chemotherapy drug led to
never before seen results in mice models with triple negative
breast cancer that had metastasized to the lungs.
“This may sound like science fiction, like we’ve penetrated and
destroyed the Death Star, but what we discovered is
transformational. We invented a method that actually makes the
nanoparticles inside the cancer and releases the drug particles at
the site of the cellular nucleus. With this injectable
nanoparticle generator, we were able to do what standard
chemotherapy drugs, vaccines, radiation, and other nanoparticles
have all failed to do,” said Ferrari.
Houston Methodist has developed good manufacturing practices (GMP)
for this drug and plans to fast-track the research to obtain
FDA-approval and begin safety and efficacy studies in humans in
2017.
“I would never want to overpromise to the thousands of cancer
patients looking for a cure, but the data is astounding,” said
Ferrari, senior associate dean and professor of medicine, Weill
Cornell Medicine. “We’re talking about changing the landscape of
curing metastatic disease, so it’s no longer a death sentence.”
The Houston Methodist team used doxorubicin, a cancer therapeutic
that has been used for decades but has adverse side effects to the
heart and is not an effective treatment against metastatic
disease. In this study, doxorubicin was packaged within the
injectable nanoparticle generator that is made up of many
components.
Shen, a senior member of the department of nanomedicine at Houston
Methodist Research Institute, explains that each component has a
specific and essential role in the drug delivery process. The
first component is the nanoporous silicon material that naturally
degrades in the body. The second component is a polymer made up of
multiple strands that contain doxorubicin. Once inside the tumor,
the silicon material degrades, releasing the strands. Due to
natural thermodynamic forces, these strands curl-up to form
nanoparticles that are taken up by the cancer cells. Once inside
the cancer cells, the acidic pH close to the nucleus causes the
drug to be released from the nanoparticles. Inside the nucleus,
the active drug acts to kill the cell.
“If this research bears out in humans and we see even a fraction
of this survival time, we are still talking about dramatically
extending life for many years. That’s essentially providing a cure
in a patient population that is now being told there is none,”
said Ferrari, who holds the Ernest Cockrell Jr. Presidential
Distinguished Chair and is considered one of the founders of
nanomedicine and oncophysics (physics of mass transport within a
cancer lesion).
The Houston Methodist team is hopeful that this new drug could
help cancer physicians cure lung metastases from other origins,
and possibly primary lung cancers as well.
Additional researchers who collaborated with Ferrari and Shen on
the Nature Biotechnology paper were: Rong Xu, Guodong Zhang,
Junhua Mai, Xiaoyong Deng, Victor Segura-Ibarra, Suhong Wu,
Jianliang Shen, Haoran Liu, Zhenhua Hu, Lingxiao Chen, Yi Huang,
Eugene Koay, Yu Huang, Elvin Blanco, and Xuewu Liu (Department of
Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston,
Texas); Jun Liu (Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,
The University of Texas-Houston Medical School); and Joe Ensor
(Houston Methodist Cancer Center, Houston, Texas).
The work was supported by grants from Department of Defense
(W81XWH-09-1-0212 and W81XWH-12-1-0414), National Institute of
Health (U54CA143837 and U54CA151668), and The Cockrell Foundation.
Nature Biotechnology is the highest rated publication in the
Nature family of journals, with an impact factor of 41.5.
To speak with Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., contact Gale Smith, Houston
Methodist, at 281.627.0439 or gsmith@houstonmethodist.org.
Video Interview ;
https://vimeo.com/155722401
Nanoparticle Cancer Drug Delivery
Patents :
US2016051481
MULTISTAGE DELIVERY OF ACTIVE AGENTS
Inventor(s): FERRARI MAURO [US]; TASCIOTTI
ENNIO [US]; SAKAMOTO JASON [US] +
Multistage delivery vehicles are disclosed which include a first
stage particle and a second stage particle. The first stage
particle is a micro or nanoparticle that contains the second stage
particle. The second stage particle includes an active agent, such
as a therapeutic agent or an imaging agent. The multistage
delivery vehicle allows sequential overcoming or bypassing of
biological barriers. The multistage delivery vehicle is
administered as a part of a composition that includes a plurality
of the vehicles. Methods of making the multistage delivery
vehicles are also provided.
POROUS PARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF
US2016032480
US2014010879
COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING THERAPY RESISTANT
CANCER AND USES THEREOF
https://www.rt.com/news/336753-new-cancer-treatment-russia/
22 Mar, 2016
‘More effective than other drugs’:
Russian company says it has revolutionized cancer treatment
Russian pharmaceutical group Biocad has introduced a breakthrough
new cancer drug, with early tests suggesting it is more effective
in battling the disease than foreign analogues, the company says.
The new drug activates inner powers to fight cancer, the company’s
press release said. It was created on the base of monoclonal
antibodies, and blocks interactions between the proteins PD-1 and
PD-L1, which mask tumor cells as healthy ones. After the
neutralization of PD-1, the organism starts to recognize cancer
cells and eliminate them.
“The development of drugs for immunotherapy is an innovational
approach to curing oncological diseases,” said Roman Ivanov,
Deputy CEO for Biomedical Studies and Development, according to a
press release published on Biocad’s website.
“Such drugs have a systematic effect on the whole tumor process,
destroying not only the tumor itself but also its metastases
including remote ones,” he added, stressing that unlike
chemotherapy, such treatment does not damage healthy body tissue.
There are currently only two anti-cancer medicines based on
monoclonal antibodies – developed by MSD and Bristol-Myers Sqibb –
but both of them are not available in Russia. Moreover, clinical
tests revealed that Biocad’s drug is more effective than its
foreign analogues, the company claimed.
Biocad researchers hope that their drug will allow the survival
rates of metastatic stage melanoma patients to increase from 10 to
30-40 percent. They also believe the treatment will be effective
against lung and renal (kidney) cell cancer.
Preliminary tests were conducted on primates, and were carried out
all last year, the company’s press release said.
Currently, the new drug is being prepared for clinical tests, with
cancer patients from all over the world set to take part. Russians
would be the first to have access to the breakthrough therapy, and
the treatment should become available in 2018-2019, researchers
say.
Researchers across the world are searching for effective cancer
treatment, and have offered various methods of fighting the deadly
disease. Last May UK scientists said they had created a modified
herpes-based virus that can kill cancer cells. In January
Australian researchers said they had successfully tested a drug
targeting protein that helps cancer cells survive.
TW201538524
Anti-IL-17 antibodies, a method for producing and using
thereof
Inventor: ULITIN ANDREYBORISOVICH [RU]
EVDOKIMOV STANISLAVRUDOLFOVICH, et al.
Applicant: CLOSED JOINT STOCK COMPANY BIOCAD [RU]
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/scientists-hail-creation-flu-trap-effort-stop-spread-000301657.html
Scientists hail creation of 'flu
trap' in effort to stop spread of infection
A "flu trap" that captures viruses could help prevent the spread
of infection, scientists claim.
Researchers at the University of Manchester have developed a
fabric coating for masks and air filters that isolates the viral
particles responsible for influenza.
The technology mimics carbohydrate structures on the surfaces of
cells lining respiratory airways and the oesophagus, or food pipe.
Paul Hope, director of the biotec company Virustatic that is
seeking to commercialise the idea, said: "It's a whole new
preventative approach to disease and if implemented could be
transformative."
"We're now at the stage where we're looking for strategic partners
to take this technology forwards in terms of developing new
products."
The team found a way to anchor sugary glycoproteins first to
carbon cloth and then cheaper materials such as cotton.
The molecules were able to capture and trap more than 99% of the
flu viruses that came into contact with them.
Dr Ian Rowles, from the University of Manchester, said: "This has
been an exciting collaboration with Virustatic, and our research
does indeed show that this technology can slow the spread of flu
viruses.
"We hope that eventually we'll be able tackle all pathogens by
using this technology. So watch this space."
The scientists aim to develop the technology further to capture
other potentially deadly viruses such as those responsible for
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) and Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (Sars).
http://www.livescience.com/312-fake-shark-skin-navy-fleet-faster.html
July 15, 2005
Fake Shark Skin Could Make Navy
Fleet Faster
by
Robert Roy Britt
Few creatures spawn more fear than sharks. But these complex fish
also have provided inspiration for several useful technologies.
One new idea has captured the interest of the U.S. Navy.
Shark skin has been used by many cultures as sandpaper. It's kept
shipmates safe in slippery-when-wet conditions. Swimsuits modeled
on shark skin are said by Speedo to reduce drag by up to 4
percent.
Now, research by two separate groups could lead to synthetic shark
skin that would make ships and submarines faster and less
expensive to operate.
Few creatures spawn more fear than sharks. But these complex fish
also have provided inspiration for several useful technologies.
One new idea has captured the interest of the U.S. Navy.
Shark skin has been used by many cultures as sandpaper. It's kept
shipmates safe in slippery-when-wet conditions. Swimsuits modeled
on shark skin are said by Speedo to reduce drag by up to 4
percent.
Now, research by two separate groups could lead to synthetic shark
skin that would make ships and submarines faster and less
expensive to operate.
If the research pans out, submarines -- already stealthy and
shark-like -- could become even more so.
The problem
The growth of barnacles, mussels, algae and other organisms adds
to fuel costs for the military and shipping industry, increasing
drag by up to 15 percent, scientists say. In the industry, it's
called bio-fouling.
The Navy spends about $600 million each year to power ships and
submarines. At least $50 million of that cost is directly related
to bio-fouling, says Navy scientist Stephen McElvany.
Paints laced with deadly biocides curb the problem, but they are
also toxic to other marine life.
Some fish, and also whales, are fouled by hitchhiking marine life.
But not sharks. Scientists have figured out that the secret to
clean sharks is in the complex design of their scales.
Amazing scales
Shark scales are made of a hard material called dentin. Basically,
the scales are tiny teeth. They all point backward, so a shark
would feel smooth if you dared to stroke it from head to tail, but
rough if you ran your hand the other way.
Studies have found that the scales act as armor for a shark and
also create tiny vortices that reduce drag to make them faster.
The scales also allow sharks to swim silently compared to other
fish that generate considerable noise when they ply the water.
The design has proved useful to humans in many ways.
Norwegians applied real shark skin to the soles of their boots to
prevent slippage on wet ship decks. In the 2000 Olympics, swimmers
began wearing full-body suits modeled on shark skin.
Now, research by two separate groups could lead to synthetic shark
skin that would make ships and submarines faster and less
expensive to operate.
If the research pans out, submarines -- already stealthy and
shark-like -- could become even more so.
What's good for the shark ...
Importantly, shark scales flex individually, constantly changing
and limiting the amount of exposed surface area on which organisms
can attach, scientists have learned.
Ralph Liedert of the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen,
Germany has developed a synthetic shark skin of elastic silicone
that similarly reduces the contact surface, making it harder for
barnacles to gain a foothold.
While simpler in design than shark scales, the ship skin reduced
bio-fouling by 67 percent in tests, Liedert will report this week
at the Society for Experimental Biology's annual meeting in
Barcelona.
Mussels and barnacles make some of the strongest adhesives known
(other scientists try to mimic the properties to make better
household glue). But the glue of a barnacle, Liedert found, can
only penetrate so far into a rough surface, explaining why the
scales prevent them from sticking.
With the fake skin applied, a ship moving at 4-5 knots becomes
self-cleaning, removing most organisms, Liedert found.
Military interest
In separate work funded in part by the U.S. Navy, scientists at
the University of Florida have developed a similar coating, made
of tiny diamond-shaped scales that flex in and out to impede the
growth of organisms.
The coating was tested in a lab using a common algae. The algae's
spores had a very hard time attaching to the surface.
"It normally sticks to everything, but we have reduced spore
settlement by 85 percent," said Anthony Brennan, a University of
Florida professor of materials science. "The only place the spores
land right now is where we have a defect in the pattern."
While the high-tech skins could reduce costs for the shipping
industry, they could prove a strategic advantage for the military.
McElvany called the finding “exciting" but said there are still
challenging research hurdles to clear before the technology could
be deployed.
"If achieved, this improved coating could not only be exempt from
future environmental constraints and regulations, it would also
provide increased fuel efficiency and velocity of Navy vessels,"
McElvany said.
EISER WOLFGANG, et al. :
WO2011098266
ANTIFOULING FILM
The invention relates to an antifouling film for protecting parts
that are in contact with sea water, wherein the film (1) made of
thermoplastic synthetic material has a breaking elongation in the
range of 100 to 200%, a 2% modulus in the range of 15 to 25 N/15mm
and a tensile force in the range of 25 to 40 N/15mm. The film
comprises a ridge structure that is formed by ridges, wherein a
ridge has a width (b) of 1 to 15 [mu]m and a height (h) of 30 to
60 [mu]m. The distance (a) of adjoining ridges ranges from 40 to
80 [mu]m and the opening angle (w) of the ridge flanks ranges from
30 to 45 DEG .
Anthony BRENNAN, et al. :
NZ593291
METHOD OF PATTERNING A CURVED SURFACE WITH NANOSCALE FEATURES
TO PREVENT BIOLOGICAL GROWTH
Disclosed is an article with a curved surface with a printed
pattern to prevent the growth of living organisms. The article
comprises a curved surface; the curved surface having disposed
thereon a plurality of patterns; each pattern being defined by a
plurality of spaced apart features attached to or projected into
the curved surface, the plurality of features each having at least
one neighbouring feature having a substantially different
geometry, wherein an average spacing between adjacent spaced apart
features is 1 nanometre to 1 millimetre in at least a portion of
the curved surface, wherein the plurality of spaced apart features
are represented by a periodic function, wherein each pattern is
formed on the curved surface.
WO2011163327
ANTIFOULING SURFACES, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND
ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME
Disclosed herein is an article comprising a substrate; a polymer
disposed upon the substrate; the polymer having a number average
molecular weight of about 2,000 to about 5,000 grams per mole;
where each polymer is separated from a neighboring polymer by an
average distance of 2.5 Angstroms to 5,000 Angstroms. Disclosed
herein is a method comprising disposing upon a substrate a
polymer; the polymer having a number average molecular weight of
2,000 to about 5,000 grams per mole.
WO2011071892
SURFACES FOR CONTROLLED BIOADHESION, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE
THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME
Disclosed herein is an article comprising a first plurality of
spaced features; the spaced features arranged in a plurality of
groupings; the groupings of features comprising repeat units; the
spaced features within a grouping being spaced apart at an average
distance of about 1 nanometer to about 500 micrometers; each
feature having a surface that is substantially parallel to a
surface on a neighboring feature; each feature comprising a
hydrogel.
US9016221
SURFACE TOPOGRAPHIES FOR NON-TOXIC BIOADHESION CONTROL
paced features are arranged in a plurality of groupings; the
groupings of features include repeat units; the spaced features
within a grouping are spaced apart at an average distance of about
1 nanometer to about 500 micrometers; each feature having a
surface that is substantially parallel to a surface on a
neighboring feature; each feature being separated from its
neighboring feature; the groupings of features being arranged with
respect to one another so as to define a tortuous pathway. The
plurality of spaced features provide the article with an
engineered roughness index of about 5 to about 20.
US8997672
Surface Topographies for Non-Toxic Bioadhesion Control
An article has a surface topography for resisting bioadhesion of
organisms and includes a base article having a surface. A
composition of the surface includes a polymer. The surface has a
topography comprising a pattern defined by a plurality of spaced
apart features attached to or projected into the base article. The
plurality of features each have at least one microscale dimension
and at least one neighboring feature having a substantially
different geometry. An average feature spacing between adjacent
ones of the features is between 10 [mu]m and 100 [mu]m in at least
a portion of the surface. The surface topography can be
numerically represented using at least one sinusoidal function. In
one embodiment, the surface can comprise a coating layer disposed
on the base article.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/03/24/fukushimas-dark-secret-keshe-tech/
March 24, 2016
Fukushima’s Dark Secret: Keshe Tech
by
Ian Greenhalgh
Whistleblower Reveals Hard Evidence: Keshe foundation Tech
Being Used to Clean Fukushima Contamination in Japan. Government
and Industry in Japan Suppressing this Truth!
In the latest Keshe Foundation Workshop (March 24.2016) evidence
is presently by a Fukushima whistleblower/insider that Keshe tech
has and is being used to clean radioactivity out of Fukushima.
Keshe stated, two years ago, that he contacted government/industry
in Japan and offered his tech to help with the clean-up.
Photographs and testimony is given by a Fukushima
insider/whistleblower that Keshe GANS tech is/was being used …THIS
VALIDATES KESHE TECH.
Keshe tech is being used to purify the radioactively contaminated
water in Fukushima.
Keshe told us years ago that his tech was being used, but the
companies and government in Japan refused to acknowledge or give
Keshe any credit.
They also fired the person who was the go between Keshe foundation
and the companies doing the clean up – Tepco and other companies.
Here is the link to the workshop:
http://livestream.com/KFWorkshops/KSworkshops
The whistleblower was shown initial tests of Keshe tech in
Fukushima and was told not to speak about it… but he is now
speaking out because of the injustice.
Initially, mice were tested with “CO2 gans” in their daily diet
(contaminated mice)…THEY ALL RECOVERED, THEY ALL DID NOT DIE. The
mice were given contaminated water….some with CO2 gans in the
water, others without it…. the GANS MICE RECOVERED, the mice that
were not given GANS died. The water was highly contaminated and
put on the mouse food, absorbed into the food…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Ru6C562P0
SECOND SUN! Planet x... No Big Secret To
JPL, Technicians!
They've been tracking, documenting inbound and outbound neutral
helium, hydrogen for a long, long time. Even internal Graphs show
them tracking inbound helium and hydrogen..
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/papers/Esko-
Anomalous-Metals-Electrified-ICCF17-ps.pdf
Edward Esko Transmutation S, Li, Pb,
Cu > K, Au
PAUL BABCOCK'S MOTOR VIDEO
Paul's motor proves that magnets are indeed a source of energy. If
all input can be accounted for in heat and resistive losses, then
the rotor is turning for free. The only other source of potential
energy that is doing work are magnets. Paul explained much of the
basic operating premise and theory of his motor in Magnetic Energy
Secrets Parts 1, 2 & 3 here:
http://www.emediapress.com/go.php?offer=&pid=65
It is highly recommended that you study Paul Babcock's work in
this area because it is very important to the entire breakthrough
energy movement. He keeps it simple, uses nothing more than basic
algebra and shares concepts in down to earth ways that most people
can understand.
To see this new video clip - go here:
http://emediapress.com/2016/03/25/paul-babcocks-motor-video-released
US8860273
EXTERNAL FIELD INTERACTION MOTOR
Inventor: BABCOCK PAUL, et al.
Apparatus and associated methods involve thrust generation by
interaction of an armature field with a stator field in an
arrangement with substantially reduced flux coupling from the
armature to the stator coil. In an illustrative example, solenoid
coil segments may be arranged as the stator along a path of motion
for the armature. In some examples, each armature may surround and
overlap with at least one of the toroidal coil segments.
Counter-electromotive force may be substantially reduced, for
example, by stopping current flow in a stator coil while
overlapped by the armature or while substantial armature flux
couples to the stator coil. Thrust may be generated, in some
examples, by interaction of armature and stator coil flux in
arc-shaped regions external to and between each of the leading and
trailing edges of the armature and their respective nearby stator
coils.
On 3/26/2016 12:58 PM, madius wrote:
"there is a part of Grebennikov's book where he explain everything
on his platform , this part was taken from the book and not
published except for the first books, do you have any information
on that part of the book?"
Sorry no...I never heard or read that claim before and would take
it with a big block of salt as to being true....it was long ago
(15 years now) but I recall when Grebennikov wrote me he said this
was his first and only edition of this book...and gave me
permission to translate and print in english if I wanted to...
Where did you get this bit of information? There are so many
flakes and liars on the net who are looking for their 15 minutes
of fame...who make up stories that have no basis in fact.
The ONLY part of the book, that is the only edition I am aware of,
contained Chapter 5 which my friends paid $300 to have translated
and let me post it at;
The Natural Phenomena of AntiGravitation and Invisibility in
Insects due to the Grebennikov Cavity Structure Effect (CSE);
http://www.keelynet.com/greb/greb.htm
I have seen many faked videos claiming to have discovered the bug
but some have no audio so the effects shown could easily be faked
with compressed air off camera...or magnets or electrostatics.
Antigravity in elytra (as Grebennikov );
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syuFR9X_uVQ
Lockers Zlatko in the footsteps of Victor Grebennikov;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oyPyYsfmco
Hovering Elytra;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-VV7Dab9I
GREBENNIKOV SOLVED ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaxmhD7vG4
No one believed any of it and it took me a few weeks for
everything to come together and in the case of Davidson, it took
me 6 months to convince him there might be something there.
Now he runs with it like he found it and is closest to figuring it
out. Not a clue.
Grebennikov's Flying Platform - Bio-Gravitics ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ChsZUwqTeE
I have also seen wild stories that make no sense...I offered Greb
$1000US to send me just two of the insect shells. I don't
even need the name of the bug. We could first verify the
shells do actually repel, use an electron microscope to determine
unique geometry (star, triangle, tetrahedron?) and we know it is
dielectric chitin, we should be able to duplicate the effect in
sheets....based on claims in Chapter 5 (V) in the book;
"How and why did I come to this discovery? In the summer of 1988,
as I was examining under a microscope the chitin shells of
insects, their pinnate (feathery) feelers, and the thinnest
structure of butterflies' wings, I got interested in an amazingly
rhythmical microstructure of one large insect detail.
It was an extremely well-ordered composition, as though pressed on
a complex machine according to special blueprints and
calculations. As I saw it, the intricate sponginess was clearly
not necessary either for the durability of the detail, or for its
decoration. I had never observed anything like this unusual
micro-ornament either in nature, in technology, or in art.
Because its structure is three-dimensional, so far I have been
unable to capture it in a drawing, or a photograph. Why does an
insect need it? Besides, other than in flight, this structure at
the bottom of the wing case is always hidden from the eye-no one
would ever see it properly.
Was it perhaps the wave beacon with "my" multiple cavernous
structures effect? That truly lucky summer there were very many
insects of this species, and I would capture them at night:
neither before, nor after was I able to observe these insects.
I put the small, concave chitin plate on the microscope shelf in
order again to examine under strong magnification its strangely
star-shaped cells. I again admired this masterpiece of nature, and
almost purposelessly placed it on top of another, identical plate
that had the same unusual cells on one of its sides.
But no!-the detail broke loose from my tweezers; for a few seconds
it hung suspended above the other plate on the microscope shelf,
turned a few degrees clockwise, slid to the right, turned
counterclockwise, swung, and only then abruptly fell on the desk.
You can imagine what I felt at that moment... When I came to my
senses, I tied a few panels with a wire-it wasn't an easy thing to
do, and I only succeeded when I positioned them vertically. What I
got was a multi-layered chitin block. I put it on the desk.
Even a relatively large object-such as a paper tack-could not fall
on it-something pushed it up and aside.
When I attached the tack on top of the "block", I witnessed such
incredible, impossible things (for example, the tack for a few
moments was lost from sight) that I realized it was no beacon, but
something else entirely.
And again I got so excited that all the objects around me became
foggy and shaky. It was with a huge effort that I managed to pull
myself together in a couple of hours and continue working.
So, this is how it started. Of course, much still remains to be
understood, verified, and tested. I will certainly tell my readers
about the finer details of my machine, about its propulsion
principles, about distances, heights, speeds, equipment, and all
the rest-but in my next book."
I wrote him two letters in Russian and sent a thick packet of
science articles that backed up the idea that there could be
natural materials which could deflect gravity...as much of it as I
could I had translated to Russian.
I explained to him my theory that he used something like flat wood
popsicle sticks on which he glued the concave shells, roughly 10
per stick all facing up like mini satellite dishes...these
popsicle sticks were connected with a control rod which could be
turned to cause them to open up like a japanese fan.
The idea being that gravity is a pushing effect of the aether/zpe
into matter...and it comes into the earth and all masses in lines
like magnetic flux lines...the more lines you cross, the more
reaction you get.
When this japanese fan with all the concave shells are folded
closed...they only block a few lines...but when you open it up,
you cover more area, and thus block more lines to give you a
controlled local gravity repulsion.
I explained to him I thought he mounted 4 of these japanese fan
'blocks' as he calls them...one at each corner, underneath the
platform.
The control handles were like motorcycle handgrips, connected to
the japanese fans...
When you turn the handle on one side (right or left), it opens the
two japanese fans in front....the other handle opens the two fans
in back...
You can open them a little bit to control your height or open all
four of them all the way to achieve maximum lift with the maximum
height of 1,000 feet based on his weight and the lifting capacity
of the number of shells he had.
Once in the air, to move forward, you partially close the two fans
in front, which will cause the platform to tilt and move
forward...you can tilt your weight to either side to go left or
right, like riding a surfboard.
Grebennikov wrote back and said that was exactly how it worked.
So I would like to know where you chanced on the idea there was
more than one version of his book and that the missing one
contained full details about the platform.
I have seen a few articles which had far more details which I
thought came from his papers and magazine articles. I
have not collected those and I guess I should in order to add to
what is posted on Keelynet.
Here is it, some 15 years later and we are no further along in
discovering which insect he was using or understanding the effect
enough to duplicate it using other methods. So much for the
genius of humans.
Maybe if we put all the known information on Grebennikovs story
and whatever correlations or other antigrav and physics info we
had into an artificial intelligence program, it might be able to
extrapolate a testable hypothesis or two.
I would like to know where you got the story about there being
other versions of the book. All I know of is one or two
magazine articles that had what they claimed was Grebennikov
explaining how his platform was controlled (which sounded bogus to
me). I'm not sure I copied the file when I was there.
Thanks!
Jerry @ Keelynet y mas (and more)
http://knowledgeglue.com/category/science/
May 5, 2015
Innovative cattle farmer feeds
4,000+ pounds of beef from a space the size of a closet
by
Brandon
Recently I came across the journal of a farmer who made a pretty
amazing claim. He said that he could grow more than enough food
for his 4 beef cattle in just the size of a large bedroom closet.
At first, I didn’t believe it was physically possible, but then I
saw the pictures and was completely blown away. Not only was he
growing enough food to support more than 4,000 pounds of cattle,
he also was producing surplus food for other livestock. His unique
method has cut his food cost to raise cattle by a staggering 60%
to 90% once all costs are accounted. He might not say it, but what
he’s doing could be nothing short of revolutionary.
The whole system he’s built to feed his cattle is much more simple
than you think. So shockingly simple that most people might be
able to get most of it up and running after a trip to the hardware
store.
Vertical farming for beef production
The secret is in something called “Vertical farming”. Recently,
Japan has made headlines stating that they could feed a city of
millions of people by vertical farming in a retrofitted
skyscraper. Vertical farming is somewhat similar to aqua-phonic
farming, however it is much more dense. Literally thousands of
plants can be contained in a small room simply because you’re
stacking multiple layers of plants on top of each other.
Each tray may not look like much, but they contain vitamin-rich,
extremely calorie dense barley sprouts. Barley sprouts contain an
amazing amount of energy and calories that not only help cattle
gain weight, but is also said to produce the best tasting beef in
the world (At least according to Canada).
The barley grows like a weed once it's exposed to the right
conditions. So much so that it actually deprives the room of co2
and produces significant amounts of oxygen.
The barley grows like a weed once it’s exposed to the right
conditions. So much so that it actually deprives the room of co2
and produces significant amounts of oxygen. It takes only 6-8 days
for the seeds to sprout an produce an abundance of nutritional
value.
The mat of barley is cut into blocks and fed to cattle.
The mat of barley is cut into blocks and fed to cattle.
Many interesting side-effects have been noticed with the
introduction of the vitamin-rich replacement diet.
Interesting story about the Chickens…
They (The people who introduced us to sprouting) have a single
Americana bird that is about 14 years old and belongs to another
of their daughters as a pet since she was little. A few months
after they started feeding just the fodder they started getting
little green eggs again, after not seeing eggs from that hen for
the last 5 years or so. Pretty impressive. We have also noticed
that after being on the fodder for a while, you just about need a
hatchet to get the shells open, so they are getting plenty of
calcium too.
What’s so impressive is that the barley for the animals is being
grown in a purpose-built shed that’s only 8×8 feet big. Even more
amazing is that less than half of the shed is being fully utilized
for growing the barley.
A normal cow’s diet consists either of grass (hay) or corn. A
normal cow that is fed corn its entire life may require up to
2,800 pounds of corn before it is butchered. This amount of corn
will typically require *about* 14,550 square feet of farmland.
This is extraordinarily high compared to the 4 square feet
required for the barley sprouting operation. However corn-fed beef
can’t hold a candle in terms of space required to feed compared to
grass fed beef which ranges from 1-4 acres per cow (43,650sf to
174,600sf respectively).
Of course, it still takes normal acreage to grow the barley in the
first place. However the space is generally quite low due to the
fact that the sprouts are so dense in nutrition. The results of
sprouting seem to indicate that you can take raise a cattle on
LESS than 400 pounds of barley. This compared to 2,500 pounds of
corn is a pretty amazing difference. The gain is still huge even
considering the lower bushels-per-acre yield of barley vs corn
(49.5bu/ac for barley and 150bu/ac for corn).
http://preventdisease.com/news/16/030716_Foods-Packed-Pigment-Linked-Younger-Biological-Age.shtml
MARCH 7, 2016
Foods Packed With This Pigment
Linked To Younger Biological Age
by
MAE CHAN
Carotenoids are a class of more than 600 naturally occurring
pigments mostly synthesized by plants. These richly colored
molecules are the sources of the yellow, orange, and red colors
found in many fruits and vegetables. A new study from Seoul
National University in Korea showed that increased level of blood
carotenoids slow cellular aging.
Carotenoids are neither vitamins nor phytochemicals, but are
proving to be very important for health. Dietary carotenoids are
thought to provide health benefits in decreasing the risk of
disease, particularly certain cancers and eye disease. The
carotenoids that have been most studied in this regard are
beta-carotene, lycopene, lutein, and zeaxanthin. In part, the
beneficial effects of carotenoids are thought to be due to their
role as antioxidants. beta-Carotene may have added benefits due
its ability to be converted to vitamin A. Carotenoids benefit our
skin and reduce cancer risk.
Data from the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey (NHANES) indicated that doubling levels of the carotenoids
alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, and beta-cryptoxanthin were
associated with 2% longer telomeres, DNA sequences at the end of
chromosomes that shorten as cells replicate and age.
The findings, published in the European Journal of Nutrition, show
only correlation and not causation, and therefore some caution
must be exercised when interpreting the data. Despite this, the
researchers noted: "[The findings] suggest that carotenoids have a
protective effect on telomere loss and that a high intake of these
carotenoids may potentially prevent or delay the aging process and
age-related diseases."...
The Korean scientists used data from 3660 participants of NHANES
and found that blood alpha-carotene, beta-carotene (trans+ cis)
and beta-cryptoxanthin were significantly associated with 1.76%,
2.22% and 2.02% longer telomeres, respectively.
On the other hand, blood lutein/zeaxanthin and trans-lycopene did
not show any statistical significance, said the researchers.
In addition, compared to the lowest average levels of
alpha-carotene, beta-carotene (trans+ cis) and beta-cyptoxanthin,
the telomere length increased from 5-8% in the highest average
carotenoid levels.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292154197_Association_between_leukocyte_telomere_length_and_serum_carotenoid_in_US_adults
European Journal of Nutrition · January 2016
DOI: 10.1007/s00394-016-1152-x
Association between leukocyte telomere
length and serum carotenoid in US adults
Kyoung-Bok Min, Jin-Young Min
Abstract
Purpose: Telomere length is a biomarker for aging. It is known
that oxidative stress can accelerate telomere shortening, whereas
antioxidants can delay their shortening. Carotenoids as
antioxidants are favorably associated with health- and
aging-related diseases caused by oxidative stress, but their
association with telomere length is less certain. We investigated
the association between blood carotenoid levels and leukocyte
telomere length in a representative sample of US adults. Methods:
We analyzed 3660 participants aged 20 years and older in the
1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The
levels of carotenoids-alpha-carotene, beta-carotene (trans + cis),
beta-cryptoxanthin, combined lutein/zeaxanthin, and
trans-lycopene-were measured using high-performance liquid
chromatography. The leukocyte telomere length (T/S ratio) was
assayed using the quantitative polymerase chain reaction method.
Results: A doubling of blood alpha-carotene, beta-carotene (trans
+ cis), and beta-cryptoxanthin was associated with approximately 2
% longer telomeres. Compared with the lowest carotenoid quartile
of alpha-carotene, beta-carotene (trans + cis), and
beta-cryptoxanthin, telomere length for adults with the highest
quartiles was significantly increased by 5-8 %. Conclusion: We
found that increasing levels of blood carotenoid were
significantly associated with longer leukocyte telomeres in US
adults. High intake of carotenoid-rich food may play a role in
protecting telomeres and regulating telomere length.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cataract-surgery-using-stem-cells-shows-promise-in-babies/
March 9, 2016
First-of-its-kind cataract surgery
using stem cells shows promise
by
Mary Brophy Marcus
A new form of cataract surgery using a patient's stem cells has
restored vision in babies for the first time, and someday the
technique may hold promise for millions of older Americans who
undergo traditional cataract eye surgery every year, say
scientists who developed the new procedure.
Eye experts across the country who spoke with CBS News are
alternately excited and cautious about the findings, published
Wednesday in the journal Nature.
The procedure, developed by researchers at the University of
California San Diego and China, is less invasive than traditional
cataract treatment, said the scientists.
Cataracts are most common in older adults. As most people age, an
opaque film slowly forms over the lens -- the part of the eye that
helps with focusing on images at various distances. It clouds
vision and can lead to blindness.
In cataract surgery, which has been around for several decades,
eye surgeons make an incision in the front of the eye and remove
the lens from its supporting capsule. Then they replace it with an
artificial lens.
The new procedure described in Nature involves making a slim
incision at the side of the lens capsule, removing the entire
lens, yet preserving the empty capsule bag or "scaffold." A
certain kind of stem cell, called endogenous stem/progenitor
cells, when left intact, then begins to repopulate the damaged
lens and essentially grow a new, healthy lens.
Study author Dr. Kang Zhang, the chief of ophthalmic genetics at
UC San Diego's Shiley Eye Institute, told CBS News, "Unlike [the]
current way of cataract surgery, which destroys over half of lens
stem cells and requires implantation of a plastic intranet ocular
lens, we devised a new surgery to make a very small opening at the
side of a cataractous lens bag, remove [the] cataract inside,
allow the opening to heal, and promote dormant lens stem cells to
regrow an entirely new lens with vision."
Pioneering surgery tested in babies
The experimental procedure was done in 12 infants who were born
with a congenital cataract condition.
By using a less invasive procedure, Zhang and his colleagues
report that they were able to leave the lens epithelial stem
cells, also called LECs, intact. These LECs regenerated the eye's
lens in the children, eliminating the need for implants. The same
technique was also successfully performed in animals.
In little ones with congenital cataracts, eye surgeons need to
intervene early so that light can get to the brain and allow for
normal, healthy growth, said Suraj Bhat, associate professor of
ophthalmology and director of the Vision Molecular Biology
Laboratory at the UCLA Stein Eye Institute. Bhat was not involved
in the new research, but said it's "extremely exciting" because it
offers an alternative to "an extraordinarily invasive" procedure.
"In early childhood cataracts are very bad. We need light to enter
into the eyes at a young age to get proper brain function,
otherwise, information does not get transferred to the developing
brain," said Bhat.
Traditional surgery can cause opacity in the line of a child's
vision and, because the eye is still growing, it is difficult to
provide good vision with eye glasses, explained Julie T. Daniels,
from University College London Institute of Ophthalmology, in an
accompanying commentary in Nature.
Many children also later go on to suffer from glaucoma.
Daniels wrote that to correctly refract light onto the retina at
the back of the eye, the cornea and lens must remain transparent
throughout life. Current treatments for the cornea and lens
involve donor transplants or artificial implants, but the
procedures can be risky. She said the new procedure, which coaxes
stem cells to regenerate normal tissue in the body, offers
promise.
"The study's stem cell engineering has led to the regeneration of
transparent lens tissue in children, showing that the concept
offers a potential therapeutic approach," Daniels wrote.
She noted a second study in Nature that used transplant tissue
grown in the laboratory from stem cells to treat damaged corneas,
saying it also holds promise.
Zhang said their results need to be validated in a large number of
patients "and with a longer follow-up period."
Will it work in older eyes?
One major question remains to be answered: Can it be applied to
age-related cataracts, the leading cause of blindness?
According to the National Eye Institute, about 24.4 million
Americans suffer from cataracts. Between 2000 and 2010, the number
of cataract cases in the U.S. went up by 20 percent, and it's
expected to continue to grow as the population ages.
"We are now planning a study to test this approach in this old
patient population. In addition, we are testing if this approach
can be used in treating other leading causes of blindness, such as
macular degeneration and glaucoma," said Zhang.
He hopes the surgery will be available to the general population
within four to five years.
"I would anticipate that it may be available after several
independent studies with a large number of patients," he said.
Feast your eyes: 8 nutrients to help protect your sight
Some other experts in the field saw great promise in the research.
"Everyone's working on this. Stem cells are like the Holy Grail of
vision research," Dr. James Tsai, M.D., president of the New York
Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, told CBS News. "To me, it's
very exciting data. They may be on to something."
But he tempered the hope the study offers by noting that the lens
regeneration work is also "very controversial" and could impact a
multimillion-dollar industry.
"This is potentially a new surgery. If you think about the
implications in the long run, lens implants may not be necessary,"
he said. "There are a lot of doctors who will want to see more
data."
He also pointed out that the study involved infants, and that
adults -- the most common cataract patients -- have a different
regenerative capacity of lens epithelial stem cells.
In the meantime, Tsai said it's hopeful news for some babies with
congenital cataracts like the children who participated in the
study. "As a glaucoma specialist, the way we do congenital
cataracts, there's a great risk these babies will develop glaucoma
for a lifetime and maybe with this new surgery, they won't have
that glaucoma risk."
Dr. Maria Valeria Canto-Soler, assistant professor of
ophthalmology and director of the Retinal Degeneration Research
Center at Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, said she was
impressed by the research.
"The main excitement for me is the ability to regenerate an organ
or a tissue within an organ," said Canto-Soler, a retina
specialist.
"From what I know, I'd say this is the first demonstration where
you can use endogenous stem cells for replacing tissue within the
eye. It's something we are all looking for. They have actually
done it in humans."
She said, even without answers to the question of whether it will
work in aging eyes, it creates hope for children with congenital
issues. "If you can create it in children, that's a big thing. You
are giving sight back to little kids and that change their lives."
Larger studies, "more eyes" needed
Dr. Kathryn Hatch, an ophthalmologist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear
in Boston, told CBS News the procedure "seems very exciting," but
more research is needed.
"I'd need to see a larger study with more eyes, and we need to see
some reproducibility, and see how long it would take for the lens
-- if it's able to regenerate -- what are the visual results.
Because that's what patients really care about. Their vision. If
it takes months to get to an outcome, it's not superior to the
lens technologies we have now. I'm not sure what the advantage is.
Most patients don't even want to wait. They want to get back to
work, their life," Hatch added.
She also had questions about how the procedure was done with such
a tiny incision. "I don't understand how they're doing the surgery
with such a tiny hole without tearing the capsule. If we make a
three millimeter incision [in traditional cataract surgery],
that's really small in an adult."
Cataract surgery is "traditionally done by hand with a bent
needle. That's one of the most difficult steps to learn as a
surgeon. One of most important steps to learn," she said and there
could be major eye damage if a surgery was compromised by a tear.
She also noted that baby eye surgery is different from adults in
that the infant cataract is much softer compared to an adult's
harder cataract.
UCLA's Bhat noted another limitation in the study: "These are all
genetic cataracts. This study wasn't long enough. They [cataracts]
may come back," he said, but it's also possible the genetic defect
may not reappear.
He's said it's unclear if the results will be mirrored in older
cataract patients, the same concern expressed by others in the
field.
"Cell division is slower in older people," Bhat said. "The biggest
problem as we grow older, particularly beyond 50, is cell division
which keeps on decreasing. Our ability to make new cells is
significantly lost. The process that these people are depending
upon is tremendously dependent on cell division."
Bhat said he also paused when he read the statement in the paper
that claimed a 100 percent success rate three months after
surgery.
"I don't know them. I can't second guess them. You've got to
believe the written word."
http://sputniknews.com/world/20160327/1037030861/hiv-treatment-vaccine.html
Key to HIV Treatment Found in Human
Blood
A group of scientists from Scripps Research Institute (TSRI )
discovered that immune cells able to conquer HIV are present in
the human body.
Some people infected with HIV can produce antibodies that
effectively neutralize many strains of the dangerous, rapidly
mutating virus. A healthy person, however, would need to be
immunized with special antigens in order to produce the required
antibodies.
The success of a potential vaccine depends on the ability of the
immunogen to bind with cells called B-lymphocytes and to activate
them so that they produce antibodies. A team of scientists wrote
in a new study published in Science magazine on March 24 that most
people have so-called "embryo" precursor cells in their bodies
which can generate VRC01 antibodies needed to conquer HIV cells.
The scientists tried to develop a special kind of immunogen which
would bind certain B-lymphocytes, potentially responsible for
immunity against HIV. The immunogen has to be very unique because
the required progenitor cells are very rare among other
B-lymphocytes.
"We found that almost everybody has these broadly neutralizing
antibody precursors, and that a precisely engineered protein can
bind to these cells that have potential to develop into HIV
broadly neutralizing antibody-producing cells, even in the
presence of competition from other immune cells," said the study's
lead author, TSRI professor William Schief.
The immunologists synthesized protein immunogen EOD-GT8 60mer. The
research showed that mice vaccinated with the protein generate
VRC01 antibodies. If EOD-GT8 60mer can trigger the same reaction
in humans, the scientists may then develop several more immunogens
that will jointly cause the synthesis of a wide range of
antibodies able to conquer HIV.
In a recent article published in Scientific Reports magazine,
genetic scientists wrote that CRISPR/Cas9 technology is able
to remove HIV virogenes from infected T-lymphocytes which the
virus usually attacks. The finding may help to develop new methods
of therapy for people with AIDS.
Otis Carr Utron Experiments :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trgY5HoC9QA
Wiring the OTC-X1
A presentation of the approach being taken by the pods to wire and
test Otis T. Carr's Tesla-inspired design of his Circular Foil
Craft -- the OTC-X1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSOIrPpXjD0
90,000 RPM UTRON Test
A UTRON is spun at 90,000 RPM and introduced to a magnetic field,
which presents a breaking force on the UTRON causing a reduction
in RPMs. Nothing anomalous was observed during this test.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35398-climate-disruption-in-overdrive-submerged-cities-and-melting-that-feeds-on-itself
28 March 2016
Climate Disruption in Overdrive:
Submerged Cities and Melting That "Feeds on Itself"
by
Dahr Jamail
As the presidential campaign circus dominates headlines across the
US, glaring signs the planet is undergoing abrupt anthropogenic
climate disruption (ACD) abound.
A major study published in Nature Climate Change shows that the
planet is warming a stunning 50 times faster than when it comes
out of an ice age. The implications of the rapidity of this
warming, for those who care to digest it emotionally, are
horrifying.
[ http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n4/full/nclimate2923.html
]
The study shows that even if carbon reduction targets are achieved
and the planet's temperature is kept below the 2 degree Celsius
warming threshold, sea-level rise will still inundate major
coastal cities around the world, forcing one-fifth of the total
world population of humans to migrate away from the coasts. New
York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Jakarta, Cairo, Kolkata and Shanghai
will all be underwater.
As though to reinforce this point, NASA recently released data
confirming that February was the warmest month ever measured
globally, at 1.57 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial baseline
temperature average. The new record easily smashed the old global
temperature record, which was set just one month before, in
January.
[ http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
]
This means that while it took from the advent of the industrial
age until October 2015 to warm the planet 1 degree Celsius, humans
have managed to warm the planet another .57 degrees Celsius in
just the next four months since then.
Let that sink in for a moment before reading further.
Carbon emissions are now the highest they have been since the age
of dinosaurs, 66 million years ago.
As if that isn't enough, a study recently published in the journal
Nature Geoscience
[ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-carbon-idUSKCN0WN1QR
]
revealed that carbon emissions are now the highest they have been
since the age of dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. According to the
study, the current pace of emissions is even beyond the
highest-known natural surge of carbon that exists in fossil
records, an event that occurred 56 million years ago that was
believed by many to be caused by the release of frozen stores of
greenhouse gases from the seabed.
That ancient release, which drove temperatures up 5 degrees
Celsius, is now surpassed by our current surge of carbon release.
"Given currently available records, the present anthropogenic
carbon release rate is unprecedented during the past 66 million
years," the scientists of the new study wrote.
Another ominous sign of escalating ACD: The entire Northern
Hemisphere surpassed the 2 degree Celsius mark for the first time
since human civilization began. Bear in mind that 2 degrees
Celsius is the arbitrary, politically agreed-upon warming limit,
above which warming is considered "dangerous" to humanity. Former
NASA scientist James Hansen debunked that goal over two years ago,
when he published a paper showing that 1 degree Celsius was the
scientifically proven point of no return.
[ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/03/un-2c-global-warming-climate-change
]
Parts of the Arctic were 29 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal
in February, which even brought large portions of the Arctic above
freezing and into temperature levels more common in June.
Dozens of countries across Europe and Asia set or tied all-time
temperature records, and cities across the United States saw
record warm temperatures, in which the 2015-2016 winter was the
warmest ever recorded.
Winter in the US, according to meteorologists, technically takes
place from December through February. This year, that winter was
4.6 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal, breaking the previous
record, which was set in 1999-2000. This winter, all six of the
states that comprise New England had their warmest winters ever.
Meanwhile, every single US state had winters nearly 2 degrees
Fahrenheit warmer than normal, and Alaska's winter was an
incredible 10.6 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal.
[ http://www.adn.com/node/3273696
]
Underscoring the severity of what is clearly a planetary warming
crisis, the New Scientist reported in early March that earth had
its highest-ever annual increase in carbon dioxide levels ever
recorded, with atmospheric levels breaching 404 parts per million.
[https://www.newscientist.com/article/2079995-highest-ever-annual-rise-in-carbon-dioxide-levels-recorded/
]
The Arctic is where warming continues to be the most blatantly
obvious. In early March, the start of the famed Iditarod sled dog
race looked more like something out of a dystopian science fiction
movie, as snow-starved Anchorage had snow hauled hundreds of miles
down from Fairbanks to cover the dry streets upon which the dogs
would run. Then, the typically 11-mile long ceremonial start was
shortened to three miles.
Meanwhile, melting in Greenland is occurring so intensely and
quickly that it is "feeding on itself," according to a recently
published scientific study. Greenland alone contains enough ice to
raise global sea levels by 20 feet.
[ http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/477/2016/
]
This information is emotionally challenging to take in. It is
understandable that people prefer to distract themselves with the
minute-to-minute antics of the political and media charade that is
the US election cycle, yet it has never been more important to
understand what the planet upon which we live and depend is
undergoing.
Earth
There are several indicators this month of how rapidly the planet
is changing under increasing stressors from ACD.
In North America, millions of acres of forests are struggling and
under increasing threat, due to the fact that the speed at which
the planetary climate is changing is now far, far ahead of the
forests' ability to adapt to the hotter and drier conditions ACD
has ushered in across vast areas of the United States and Canada.
New research shows that all of the forests in the US are
officially under threat from ACD.
[ http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/03/08/us-forests-struggle-as-drought-and-climate-change-bite/
]
And it's not just forests that are being impacted. The
agricultural sector is in big trouble, as crops are being impacted
dramatically by the rapidly changing climate.
For example, in Montana, a recent study shows that agricultural
losses due to ACD could total up to $736 million annually.
[ http://billingsgazette.com/news/farm-report-montana-to-lose-millions-to-climate-change/article_dee1053c-b722-5aae-959c-6f3430844e11.html
]
Panning out, another recent study shows that food scarcity caused
by ACD would cause at least half a million deaths across the world
by 2050, due to food production being impacted by the effects of
ACD.
[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/03/02/food-scarcity-caused-by-climate-change-could-cause-500000-deaths-by-2050-study-suggests/
]
In the continental US alone, millions of people are already at
risk of being forced out of their homes because of sea-level rise.
Making matters worse, a group affiliated with the UN recently
released a study showing that an ongoing decline of pollinating
species now poses a very dire threat to the global food supply.
The report warns that the species responsible for pollinating and
promoting the growth of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of
crops are facing extinction.
Another study, this one published in Nature Climate Change, shows
that high-latitude insects, like those in Scotland, face severe
declines in population from ACD, due to the fact that they are far
more sensitive to warmer temperatures than previously believed.
[ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/science/decline-of-species-that-pollinate-poses-a-threat-to-global-food-supply-report-warns.html?_r=2
]
Even as far north as the Arctic, ACD's growing impact on insects
is obvious. A recent study published in PLOS ONE shows that
warming temperatures are impacting beetle populations, and hence
the entire biodiversity of the Arctic. The temperature change is
causing the insects to migrate into new habitats, which is having
a domino effect that is upsetting the natural balance.
For humans in the far north, ACD's impacts are even more obvious.
Intensifying heat is threatening the way of life of the Indigenous
population in the Arctic. With the ice disappearing and
temperatures continuing to rise, the life cycles and numbers of
fish, marine mammals, caribou and polar bears are being altered,
which is causing Indigenous communities to face food shortages.
The leaders of First Nations and Inuit communities in the Arctic
are now also speaking out about the mental health cost of ACD. The
Native populations of the Arctic are dealing with growing despair
over the effects of ACD on their lives and communities, and
observers are connecting this to a growing array of mental health
and social problems.
In addition to this, ACD has caused the onslaught of rising sea
levels, melting permafrost and other impacts that have positioned
residents of the Arctic in a losing battle to stay in their homes.
Housing shortages are now the norm as land is washing and melting
away into the rising seas.
Meanwhile, across the lower latitudes, recent satellite images
show that tropical rain forests ranging from the Amazon to the
Philippines are vanishing far more abruptly than was previously
believed, according to recent research. As usual, ACD, drought,
wildfires and deforestation are to blame.
Water
As usual, ACD-induced extremes of water, either far too much or
far too little, are stark this month.
In Africa, at least 36 million people are facing hunger due to
record-high temperatures and drought, which have had a
catastrophic impact on crops across the eastern and southern
regions of that continent.
[ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/16/drought-high-temperatures-el-nino-36m-people-africa-hunger
]
Meanwhile in the Arctic, February saw alarming melting of Arctic
sea ice, where record-high temperatures brought with them other
records -- including record lows for that month's extent and area
of Arctic sea ice.
[ http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35283-arctic-sea-ice-volume-nears-record-low
]
Until this year, the previous records for sea ice extent and area
for February were set in 2011. Moreover, the total volume of the
Arctic sea ice, which many scientists see as the most important
factor determining the health of Arctic sea ice, reached its
second-lowest level ever recorded that same month. The record low
for sea ice volume was set in 2012, a record that could fall this
year or next, according to scientists.
Global rainfall extremes continue to be elevated by ACD. A new
study published in Nature Climate Change basically warns us to get
ready for rain, and lots of it. The study shows that ACD is
already driving increases in rainfall and snowfall extremes around
the world, even in arid regions. This trend, according to the
study, will continue, and likely amplify further.
[ http://www.nature.com/news/global-warming-already-driving-increases-in-rainfall-extremes-1.19508
]
In the oceans, things continue to look grim.
Recent research shows that coral growth is already being weakened
by increasingly acidifying oceans. One-quarter of the carbon
dioxide released as a result of human activities is absorbed into
the world's oceans, where it alters their chemistry and reduces
coral growth.
Meanwhile, a severe coral bleaching event in the most pristine
portions of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia has caused
authorities there to raise an alarm over severe local coral
bleaching, caused by warm ocean temperatures.
[ http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/coral-growth-already-being-affected-by-acidifying-oceans-new-research-finds-20160223-gn1vs4.html
]
Another study shows how ACD is pushing fish toward both poles,
which means that traditionally poorer countries near the equator
have even less access to one of their primary food sources. The
fish migrations are due to global temperature increases in the
oceans.
[ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-fish-study-idUSKCN0VX2X2
]
Meanwhile, sea levels continue to rise ahead of worst-case
predictions. A study recently published in Nature Climate Change
warns that in the continental United States alone, millions of
people are already at risk of being forced out of their homes
because of sea-level rise. The study shows that sea-level
increases will cause the homes of 4 million Americans to be
inundated during high tides with three feet of sea-level rise by
2100, although the pace of sea-level rise is consistently ahead of
that projection.
[ http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2961.html
]
"Once you take into account growth of population, the numbers end
up being two to three times more in terms of overall population
that's going to be impacted than if you just look at current
populations," said Stetson University landscape ecologist Jason
Evans, who contributed to the study. "Florida really pops out."
With six feet of sea-level rise, which many scientists believe is
inevitable, more than 4 million people, in Florida alone, will
lose their homes.
Fire
In the Southern Hemisphere, ACD-fueled wildfires continue to burn
apace.
In Tasmania, bushfires have grown so severe that 1,000-year-old
trees are burning to ash while dried-out peat bogs are on fire.
Experts there are warning that what is happening in Tasmania is a
human-caused calamity as severe as the razing of the temples in
Palmyra by ISIS.
It's also worth noting that in the United States, wildfire season
is already underway (albeit earlier than normal of course), with
one massive wildfire having already burnt more than 72,000 acres
across Oklahoma and Kansas.
Air
This month, there are many bright neon warning signs in the Air
category.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have reached new heights,
signaling an alarming increase. February 2015 to February 2016 saw
the highest year-to-year growth ever recorded.
Pieter Tans, lead scientist of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference
Network, said the new record accompanied four straight years of
increases of over 2 parts per million in the atmosphere. Of this,
Trans said, "We've never seen that. That's unprecedented."
Temperatures across the globe continue to escalate.
Melbourne, Australia, saw its hottest March night ever recorded,
breaking the previous record by more than 1 degree Celsius. The
previous record was set only three years prior.
Moving northward, the rapidly increasing temperatures in the
Arctic prompted climate scientist Dr. Peter Gleick, president of
the Pacific Institute in California, to warn that this accelerated
increase could have a "catastrophic" effect on the planet's
climate. He explained that the higher temperatures are driving the
creation of dangerous storms across the Northern Hemisphere, and
that since early February, the area of the Arctic covered by sea
ice has been lower this year than any of the last 30 years.
Gleick posted a graph of the diminishing sea ice on Twitter with
the message: "What is happening in the Arctic now is unprecedented
and possibly catastrophic."
In parts of the Arctic, February shattered all previous
temperature records as the entire month reached a staggering 18
degrees Fahrenheit above normal in some regions. Fort Yukon,
Alaska, a place that has recorded the lowest temperature on record
in that state, is experiencing record warm temperatures, causing
people there to say that the warming trends "have robbed the
Arctic of its winter."
To make matters worse, methane, a greenhouse gas 100 times more
potent than carbon dioxide on a 20-year time scale, spiked in
February to more than 3,000 parts per billion in the atmosphere.
This was the largest spike of methane ever recorded.
Denial and Reality
Apparently, impending catastrophe doesn't mean much to some of the
United States' wealthiest people. Once again a report has arisen
documenting how fossil fuel millionaires pumped more than $100
million into Republican presidential super PACs last year. That
means that $1 out of every $3 donated to Republican candidates
coming from hyper-rich individuals came from people who made their
fortunes from fossil fuels. In boosting GOP politicians, these
funders were simply acting to protect their cash cows from those
of us who happen to give a damn about the planet.
A recent report by the Center for American Progress Action Fund
shows that more than six out of every 10 Americans are represented
by someone in Congress who denies the reality of ACD. According to
the report, 59 percent of the Republican House caucus and an
amazing 70 percent of the Republicans in the Senate deny ACD is
real. The report also reveals that, according to the US Census,
202,803,591 Americans are represented by an ACD denier.
Florida, a state notorious for having a government led by ACD
deniers, faces yet another reality check from ACD. Fort
Lauderdale, which is a boomtown of growth and construction, and
also expects its population to grow by one-third in the next 15
years, is hurtling headfirst toward the reality of ACD. Sea-level
rise will eventually cause the city to be abandoned to the ocean.
Another blow for deniers came in the form of recent polling data,
which shows a record number of Americans now see ACD as a threat.
According to Gallup polling, 41 percent of US adults believe ACD
poses a "serious threat" to them during their lifetimes -- a 4
percent increase over 2015, and the highest level ever recorded by
Gallup.
Gallup data also shows that 64 percent of those polled worried
about ACD "a great deal" or at least "a fair amount," which is the
highest level recorded since 2008. Meanwhile, only 36 percent of
Americans said they did not worry about it, or only worried about
it a little. Additionally, 65 percent of Americans now believe ACD
is due to greenhouse gases released by human activity, a 10
percent increase on this topic over last year.
Another reality check came from Dr. James Hansen, who declared
recently, "We have a global emergency" due to ACD. Hansen noted
that ACD is poised to render large parts of the world essentially
uninhabitable by 2100 due to extremely hot temperatures.
Recent data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration revealed that the planet saw an "explosive" amount
of annual carbon dioxide growth in the atmosphere during 2015, as
the amount of carbon dioxide saw its largest single annual
increase since record-keeping began.
A recent study by the University of Queensland gave yet another
sobering warning, stating that global temperatures could rise much
faster than expected, possibly even breaching the 2 degree Celsius
mark much sooner than predicted (thus missing the politically
agreed-upon goal of keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius).
The final reality check for this month's dispatch comes in the
form of a cruise ship. For the first time ever, the Arctic passage
that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is going to be
opened up to cruise liners this summer. The first of them, the
Crystal Serenity, will take more than 900 passengers paying over
$100,000 each through the perilous route that at one time foiled
most explorers, due to there being too much thick ice throughout
the summer -- given that it is, after all, the Arctic.
Not anymore.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3515735/Could-HERB-secret-living-100-Diet-rich-rosemary-linked-good-health-long-life-expectancy-Italian-village.html
30 March 2016
Could a HERB be the secret to living
to 100?
Diet rich in rosemary linked to good health and long
life expectancy in Italian village
by
Kate Pickles
Rosemary could be the secret to living to 100 according to
researchers investigating 300 centenarians in a remote Italian
village.
For the herb appears to be commonly used by a group of pensioners
who have a most remarkable record of not just living longer but
free of heart disease and Alzheimer’s.
Teams of medical experts have been given permission for the first
time ever to examine the residents of a coastal hamlet called
Acciaroli, near the resort of Salerno.
Nestled between the sea and the mountains the area has a
population of a couple of thousand or so yet among them are at
least 300 men and women who are already 100 years old or more.
This is a phenomenal ratio compared to, for instance, America
where just 0..02 per cent of the population will live that long.
It is believed that factors for their long life and low rates of
both mental and physical illness include the famously healthy
Mediterranean diet that is popular throughout the region.
But rosemary is particularly prevalent in their cooking, said
researchers from the University of California San Diego School of
Medicine and University of Rome, who are carrying out the study.
Other influences include, perhaps obviously, the fresh air and
walking - the residents regularly walk or hike through mountains
to go to the shops or to work for instance as part of their daily
routines.
San Diego doctor Professor Alan Maisel said: ‘We are the first
group of researchers to be given permission to study this
population in Acciaroli, Italy.’
The teams will look at diet, lifestyle and take blood samples and
distribute questionnaires to the 300 centenarians of Acciaroli.
Professor Maisel added: ‘The goal of this long-term study is to
find out why this group of 300 is living so long by conducting a
full genetic analysis and examining lifestyle behaviours, like
diet and exercise.
‘The results from studying the longevity of this group could be
applied to our practice at UC San Diego and to patients all over
the world.’
http://truthstreammedia.com/
March 5, 2016
Why the System is Set for Tyranny
by
Aaron Dykes
The metaphor of society run by the levers of the machine, and the
"system" that operates government and industry became much more
literal in the post-war age of cybernetics.
Mathematics and other related fields have got all that behavior
down to a somewhat exact science.
The use of algorithms and feed back mechanisms to track behavior
has allowed the social scientist to manage people in mass, in
often very subtle yet deeply meaningful ways.
Here, Stafford Beer explains a concept outlined by Ross Ashby
about the natural order and tendencies of systems - including some
obvious pitfalls that are being played out today.:
Stafford Beer explains the Law of Requisite Variety, also called
Ashby's Law in honor of W. Ross Ashby his cybernetician friend.
Beers ponders on the dangers of the inability to foresee the
consequences of the variety explosion due to come in the future as
everybody wants more and more autonomy.
In political and social terms, this means there must be enough
inputs for members to give their feedback in order for the system
to correct to a state that is more "fair" and "democratic" and
"inclusive," etc.
Using automation and goal directing to manage and control all
sectors of society, or the entire machine itself, cybernetics
creates a closed loop for corrective action that is automated, and
in which man has little direct input.
When there is not a proper balance of power, and there are not
meaningful channels of communication for dissent, and the exercise
of liberty, then tyranny is inevitable.
When the system is not properly configured, the injustice of the
power of the state becomes even greater.
The same is true for economics, where the draconian policies of
controlling and manipulating, especially through tightening, of
the monetary supply and the price of business already created a
rigged game.
Today, though, high speed, automatic trades based on complex
computer algorithms dominate the marketplace and create an arena
that is programmed to let insiders win at the expense of everyone
else.
It is an entirely different sense of order out of chaos - which
indeed has been anticipated and modeled by mathematicians and
computer engineers for more than half a century.
Stafford Beer - A Computer Runs Chile - A
Trekkie Geeks Out
Stafford Beer was a leading cybernetician from the UK who was
invited to run the Chilean government - using cybernetic machine
communiqués - during the short-lived reign of President Salvador
Allende.
After being elected openly and fairly in 1970, Allende was removed
by a CIA coup on September 11, 1973 - plotted with then-National
Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.
Allende was a Marxist and socialist who nationalized industry and
collectivized social interaction with government.
In a video address explaining how cybernetics works in government,
Beer expresses his genuine respect for Allende and his policies,
and obviously felt he was sincere.
He believed a just government was being erected - even in the
hands of a machine.
Many of these sentiments are well placed.
In the first video (above), Beer makes clear that self-sufficient
and free people is the goal, and indeed it should be.
In the end, Stafford Beer only had a couple of short years, and
the promise of political progress - flawed or not - was cut short
and went unfulfilled (though Beer continued his work in the UK and
other Latin American countries).
The New Yorker wrote a thorough piece on Stafford Beer's project
in cybernetic socialism:
The consultant, Stafford Beer, had been brought in by Chile's top
planners to help guide the country down what Salvador Allende, its
democratically elected Marxist leader, was calling "the Chilean
road to socialism."
Beer was a leading theorist of cybernetics - a discipline born of
midcentury efforts to understand the role of communication in
controlling social, biological, and technical systems.
Chile's government had a lot to control: Allende, who took office
in November of 1970, had swiftly nationalized the country's key
industries, and he promised "worker participation" in the planning
process.
Beer's mission was to deliver a hypermodern information system
that would make this possible, and so bring socialism into the
computer age.
The system he devised had a gleaming, sci-fi name: Project
Cybersyn.
Beer was an unlikely savior for socialism. He had served as an
executive with United Steel […] He had a lavish life style […]
To convince workers that cybernetics in the service of the command
economy could offer the best of socialism, a certain amount of
reassurance was in order. In addition to folk music, there were
plans for cybernetic-themed murals in the factories, and for
instructional cartoons and movies. Mistrust remained.
"Chile Run by Computer," a January, 1973, headline in the Observer
announced, shaping the reception of Beer's plan in Britain.
At the center of Project Cybersyn (for "cybernetics synergy") was
the Operations Room, where cybernetically sound decisions about
the economy were to be made. Those seated in the op room would
review critical highlights - helpfully summarized with up and down
arrows - from a real-time feed of factory data from around the
country.
The prototype op room was built in downtown Santiago, in the
interior courtyard of a building occupied by the national telecom
company. It was a hexagonal space, thirty-three feet in diameter,
accommodating seven white fibreglass swivel chairs with orange
cushions and, on the walls, futuristic screens.
Tables and paper were banned. Beer was building the future, and it
had to look like the future.
One wall was reserved for Project Cyberfolk, an ambitious effort
to track the real-time happiness of the entire Chilean nation in
response to decisions made in the op room.
Beer built a device that would enable the country's citizens, from
their living rooms, to move a pointer on a voltmeter-like dial
that indicated moods ranging from extreme unhappiness to complete
bliss.
The plan was to connect these devices to a network - it would ride
on the existing TV networks - so that the total national happiness
at any moment in time could be determined.
The algedonic meter, as the device was called (from the Greek
algos, "pain," and hedone, "pleasure"), would measure only raw
pleasure-or-pain reactions to show whether government policies
were working.
In many respects, Beer's cybernetic dream has finally come true
[in the current age of Big Data]: the virtue of collecting and
analyzing information in real time is an article of faith shared
by corporations and governments alike.
Beer took the metaphor of the body politic seriously in crafting
his cybernetics model for Chile - as a means of managing an entire
country - and even had a control room with Star Trek-inspired
chairs.
However, a genius mind working among the "game makers" of our
world cannot be so naive as to think that a pure democracy can be
operated cheerfully by a cybernetic government.
Once the powers are created to control the masses, and force
everyone (or even most) onto a centrally-controlled, automated
system, the abuse of rights is inevitable.
The system is geared towards goals for the "greater good" in a
collectivist society - and individual needs are routinely seen as
"noise in the signal", and interference with the goal:
vaccine mandates
forced quarantines
mandatory education
federal income tax
social security
health care systems,
...and more have been forced onto society without meaningful
choice, and with tremendous levels of propaganda from
establishment media outlets.
And that is when the system is operating in neutral.
In the wrong hands, Stafford Beer's system could make,
police states
austerity
a firm iron grip,
...operate at the height of efficiency.
This was seen in pre-cybernetics days with Stalin, who ruled
ruthlessly and absolutely (and who notoriously demanded Soviet
cybernetics be rejected on grounds of being ‘imperialist').
After his death, it took over Soviet management.
During the height of cybernetics, it was East German Stasi who
used cybernetics to direct a hyper-efficient surveillance state
model that repressed absolutely everyone, induced fear of arousing
suspicion and compelling neighbors and family members to snitch
out their close companions for crimes against the state.
Collectivism is Tyranny, and the Destruction of the Individual
Whether in a flourishing modern technological democracy or a
tight-sealed super state, cybernetics ultimately results in,
"computeriz[ing] our political decision-making" leaving
individuality and human freedom more and more on the margins.
Historian Carroll Quigley foresaw the dehumanizing effects of
technology in the management of society - and properly warned that
it would strip freedom down to narrow confines where a few options
exist, but only those which are compatible and acceptable to the
system itself.
On p. 866 in Tragedy and Hope, he sums up the problem of
collectivism - which is happening already in the United States -
where political candidates, the economy and a vast bureaucracy of
social services had reduced man to a number - hardly the goal of a
"free" society:
In effect, average Americans have been reduced to mere serfs, and
will be increasingly shown it as technology takes over everything.
Only non-compliance with the system, and disengagement from the
machine that runs it, can result in greater freedom.
Everything else is organized tyranny - and there may well be many
positive trade offs and conveniences - but engaging the system
means handing over an equal amount of control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRudRhNgy4
Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety: "Only Variety
Absorbs Variety.
Alternating Current is Degaussing
the Geomagnetic Field and Accelerating Pole Reversal
Geophysicists at the University of Antarctica today announced that
the world-wide use of alternating current is demagnetizing Earth's
geomagnetic field and probably is the primary cause driving the
migration of the magnetic poles... [ MORE ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1bF98_8pUU
MASSIVE KILLER/DEATH OF THE MIND
How Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs (Statins)
Destroy The Human Brain & Cause Dementia And Alzheimer’s
Disease.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160331124546.htm
Flat boron is a superconductor
Scientists predict 2-D material -- no longer theoretical --
has unique properties
Rice University scientists have determined that two-dimensional
boron is a natural low-temperature superconductor. In fact, it may
be the only 2-D material with such potential.
Rice theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and his co-workers
published their calculations that show atomically flat boron is
metallic and will transmit electrons with no resistance. The work
appears this month in the American Chemical Society journal Nano
Letters.
The hitch, as with most superconducting materials, is that it
loses its resistivity only when very cold, in this case between 10
and 20 kelvins (roughly, minus-430 degrees Fahrenheit). But for
making very small superconducting circuits, it might be the only
game in town.
The basic phenomenon of superconductivity has been known for more
than 100 years, said Evgeni Penev, a research scientist in the
Yakobson group, but had not been tested for its presence in
atomically flat boron.
"It's well-known that the material is pretty light because the
atomic mass is small," Penev said. "If it's metallic too, these
are two major prerequisites for superconductivity. That means at
low temperatures, electrons can pair up in a kind of dance in the
crystal."
"Lower dimensionality is also helpful," Yakobson said. "It may be
the only, or one of very few, two-dimensional metals. So there are
three factors that gave the initial motivation for us to pursue
the research. Then we just got more and more excited as we got
into it."
Electrons with opposite momenta and spins effectively become
Cooper pairs; they attract each other at low temperatures with the
help of lattice vibrations, the so-called "phonons," and give the
material its superconducting properties, Penev said.
"Superconductivity becomes a manifestation of the macroscopic wave
function that describes the whole sample. It's an amazing
phenomenon," he said.
It wasn't entirely by chance that the first theoretical paper
establishing conductivity in a 2-D material appeared at roughly
the same time the first samples of the material were made by
laboratories in the United States and China. In fact, an earlier
paper by the Yakobson group had offered a road map for doing so.
That 2-D boron has now been produced is a good thing, according to
Yakobson and lead authors Penev and Alex Kutana, a postdoctoral
researcher at Rice. "We've been working to characterize boron for
years, from cage clusters to nanotubes to planer sheets, but the
fact that these papers appeared so close together means these labs
can now test our theories," Yakobson said.
"In principle, this work could have been done three years ago as
well," he said. "So why didn't we? Because the material remained
hypothetical; okay, theoretically possible, but we didn't have a
good reason to carry it too far.
"But then last fall it became clear from professional meetings and
interactions that it can be made. Now those papers are published.
When you think it's coming for real, the next level of exploration
becomes more justifiable," Yakobson said.
Boron atoms can make more than one pattern when coming together as
a 2-D material, another characteristic predicted by Yakobson and
his team that has now come to fruition. These patterns, known as
polymorphs, may allow researchers to tune the material's
conductivity "just by picking a selective arrangement of the
hexagonal holes," Penev said.
He also noted boron's qualities were hinted at when researchers
discovered more than a decade ago that magnesium diborite is a
high-temperature electron-phonon superconductor. "People realized
a long time ago the superconductivity is due to the boron layer,"
Penev said. "The magnesium acts to dope the material by spilling
some electrons into the boron layer. In this case, we don't need
them because the 2-D boron is already metallic."
Penev suggested that isolating 2-D boron between layers of inert
hexagonal boron nitride (aka "white graphene") might help
stabilize its superconducting nature.
Without the availability of a block of time on several large
government supercomputers, the study would have taken a lot
longer, Yakobson said. "Alex did the heavy lifting on the
computational work," he said. "To turn it from a lunchtime
discussion into a real quantitative research result took a very
big effort."
The paper is the first by Yakobson's group on the topic of
superconductivity, though Penev is a published author on the
subject. "I started working on superconductivity in 1993, but it
was always kind of a hobby, and I hadn't done anything on the
topic in 10 years," Penev said. "So this paper brings it full
circle."
Nano Letters, 2016
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00070
Can Two-Dimensional Boron
Superconduct?
Evgeni S. Penev, Alex Kutana, Boris I. Yakobson.
Two-dimensional boron is expected to exhibit various structural
polymorphs, all being metallic. Additionally, its small atomic
mass suggests strong electron–phonon coupling, which in turn can
enable superconducting behavior. Here we perform first-principles
analysis of electronic structure, phonon spectra, and
electron–phonon coupling of selected 2D boron polymorphs and show
that the most stable structures predicted to feasibly form on a
metal substrate should also exhibit intrinsic phonon-mediated
superconductivity, with estimated critical temperature in the
range of Tc ≈ 10–20 K.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160401075118.htm
The Moon may play a major role in
maintaining Earth's magnetic field
The Earth's magnetic field permanently protects us from the
charged particles and radiation that originate in the Sun. This
shield is produced by the geodynamo, the rapid motion of huge
quantities of liquid iron alloy in the Earth's outer core. To
maintain this magnetic field until the present day, the classical
model required the Earth's core to have cooled by around 3,000 °C
over the past 4.3 billion years. Now, a team of researchers from
CNRS and Université Blaise Pascal[1] suggests that, on the
contrary, its temperature has fallen by only 300 °C. The action of
the Moon, overlooked until now, is thought to have compensated for
this difference and kept the geodynamo active. Their work is
published on 30 march 2016 in the journal Earth and Planetary
Science Letters...
Vaccine & Autism -- Case Closed :
http://www.infowars.com/autism-reported-as-vaccine-side-effect-fda-insert-shows/
March 31, 2016
‘Autism’ Reported as Vaccine Side
Effect, FDA Insert Shows
Discontinued vaccine contained thimerosal, aluminum and
formaldehyde
by
Adan Salazar
A vaccine insert available via the US Food and Drug Administration
website lists “autism” as one of many reported severe adverse side
effects.
Sanofi Pasteur’s whooping cough vaccine Tripedia, which was
designed to be administered in five doses between six weeks and
seven years of age, is no longer available on the market, but the
serum’s insert – last updated in December 2005 – provides hints to
why it may have been pulled…
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm101565.htm
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM101580.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwN0Oj6k0g&ebc=ANyPxKoWm0WLVIRhVhn1BNmG5c8xKahA1_j1F8_Ktm9a4A369OSvUnDNVHVzu0CCRZyu9ig0aOakKs21_98eeRR3DbJy-EJglA
Magnetic Vortex from stone
structures
Michael Tellinger
http://energy.lbl.gov/aet/combustion/LSC-Info/
Ultra-Low Emissions Low-Swirl Burner
Background
Low-swirl combustion (LSC) is an aerodynamic flame stabilization
method discovered in 1991at the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory. Originally intended as as a burner for basic research,
its turbulent flowfield and flame properties have been
investigated by laser diagnostic. The analysis showed that the
basic LSC principle is fundamentally different than the
conventional high-swirl combustion method and defies many
established notions on turbulent flame properties and burner
engineering concepts.
Due to its exceptional capability to burn ultra lean flames that
emit very low levels of oxides of nitrogen (NOx), the novel
low-swirl combustion method has evolved into a simple and robust
ultra-low emissions combustion technology for burners in
industrial heaters and in gas turbines for electricity production.
Low-swirl combustion can be implemented in two ways. The original
approach uses small jets to create the swirling motion. The
low-swirl burner (LSB) developed for heaters and gas turbines uses
a patented vane-swirler .
Basic knowledge gained from the laboratory studies has provided
the scientific underpinning to develop an analytical model,
scaling laws and engineering guidelines for adapting the LSB to
various combustion devices. The LSB remains a mainstay for
fundamental research and a growing number of researchers
world-wide are using the LSB to investigate the fundamental
turbulent flame processes.
The low-swirl burner is scalable. The smallest (left) in
development for residential furnaces is 1 inch in diameter. The
largest LSB in development for industrial heating by Maxon (right)
is 28 inches in diameter. Regardless of the burner sizes, their
performances in terms of turndown, efficiency, and pollutant
emissions are the same. Residential appliances contribute to a
significant amount of air pollution in the urban areas. These
commodity products cannot afford the sophisticated and expensive
pollution reduction technologies developed for the larger
commercial and industrial systems. A simple and truly affordable
ultra-low emission burner such as the LSB will help these
appliances to meet the very stringent emissions standard being
implemented in large metropolitan areas world-wide.
NOx emissions from a low-swirl fuel-injector assembly (LSI)
developed for Solar Turbines' T70 gas turbine are about 2.5 times
less than the levels emitted by the company's current SoLoNOx
injector (HSI) that uses the conventional high-swirl burner
concept. The NOx emissions data were obtained with single injector
tests at partial and full load conditions. A set of LSI was also
tested in an engine and produced equally encouraging results.
(Figures shows NOx data reported in Johnson et. al., 2005)
Technology Transfer
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science's Laboratory
Technology Research program supported the first commercial
development of the LSB. The small 2" diameter burner was
engineered for residential natural gas water heaters of 50 KBtu/hr
(15kW) and lowered the NOx emissions from well over 120 ppm to
below 10 ppm without compromising the efficiency. A significant
finding was that the small LSB has a very high turndown (i.e.
ratio of the maximum to minimum power outputs). It is capable of
operating at up to 2 MMBtu/hr (600 kW). The exceptionally high
40:1 turndown is unmatched by other low-NOx burner technologies
and show that the LSB is scalable to the larger sizes for
industrial processes.
Under the support of California Institute of Energy Efficiency and
DOE's Industrial Technology Program at the Office Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the LSB was scaled to the large
sizes and demonstrated successfully in natural gas furnaces and
boilers. Maxon Corp. of Muncie IN introduce the first commercial
LSB product in 2003. Currently, the company has two lines of LSB
products from 300 KBtu/hr (90kW) to 120 MMBtu/hr (35 MW) all
emitting less than 9 ppm NOx (corrected to 3 %O2) while delivering
exceptionally high performance of 10-15:1 turndown.
Subsequent LSB developments targeted gas turbines that utilize
natural gas for generating electricity in utility power plants,
and in industrial and manufacturing sites. DOE's Distributed
Energy Resources at the Office of Electricity supported LBNL and
Solar Turbines of San Diego, CA to adapt the LSB to small gas
turbines of 5 to 7 MW electricity output. These gas turbines
operate at pressure of up to 15 atmospheres and temperature
exceeding 400 C. The first challenge was to proof that the LSC
method is operable at these conditions. The second is to engineer
the LSB to operating in a gas turbine system. Since a vane-swirler
is a standard component of the high-swirl burner used in gas
turbines, a decision was made to fast track the development by
converting Solar Turbines' current high-swirl burner to operate in
the low-swirl mode. The conversion was successful and produced a
low-swirl fuel injector (LSI) that is a retrofit of the current
SoLoNOx high swirl fuel injector (HSI). The LSI helps reduce the
NOx emissions to below 5 ppm (corrected to 15 % O2) (see chart on
the right). The team was honored by a RD100 Award in 2007.
The LSB has also been adapted to smaller microturbines of 100kW
electricity output. The development was supported by California
Energy Commission (CEC) as part of a Combined-Heat-and-Power
project led by CMC Engineering of Sunnyvale CA. The microturbine
is an integral component of a boiler system to produce electricity
for powering the air blower of a large boiler burner. CEC is also
supporting a new development and demonstration of a microturbine
that operates on digester waste gas from a water treatment plant
in Oakland CA.
With increasing concern regarding the impact of energy use on
global climate change, fuel-flexibility has become a critical
requirement of next-generation gas turbines. The US Department of
Energy's Office of Fossil Energy is supporting the research to
extend the LSB technology to a variety of fuels including syngas
and hydrogen for utility size turbines of over 200 MW electricity
output. This is one of manyprojects in a large effort to develop
Near-Zero Emissions Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC)
Coal Power Plants. For the hydrogen fueled gas turbines in these
power plants, DOE sets a very aggressive goal of less than 2 ppm
NOx operation on syngas and up to 90% pure hydrogen at 2500-2600F
(1371 - 1426 C) turbine firing temperatures. Burning of hydrogen
in a gas turbine presents significant technical and engineering
challenges because of the high reactivity of hydrogen, its fast
flame speed, and the propensity of the H2/air mixture to
auto-ignite and explode. Many conventional approaches may not work
without diluting the fuel/air mixture with inert gases or exhaust
gas NOx cleanup with catalysts.
The development of LSB for H2 is guided by the scientific
principles of the LSC method. An analytical model has been applied
to understand the changes in the LSB flame when switching from
natural gas to hydrogen. Preliminary laboratory tests results are
very encouraging and show that the basic LSB design accepts fuels
from pure natural gas to over 90% H2 at simulated gas turbine
conditions while meeting the < 2 ppm NOx target. Another
important finding is that the model predicts the changes in the
LSB flames with fuel contents to confirm its validity as a basis
for scaling and system adaptation. However, significant amount of
R&D effort is still required to make LSB a reality in hydrogen
fueled gas turbines. It will require a gas turbine manufacturer to
lead the development and address the operational and safety
issues. The basic knowledge on LSC will be an advantage to help
the gas turbine manufacturers to overcome the challenges
associated with the very energetic hydrogen flames.
The low-swirl burner remains cool to the touch because the lifted
flame does not heat up its body. The lifted flame was thought to
be highly undesirable because in other burners it signifies
unstable flame behaviors. But the unique divergent flowfield of
the LSB allows the lifted flame to self-adjust and remain robust
at the very lean conditions where NOx emissions are at their
minimum.
The flowlines through the LSB flame shows that there is no flow
reversal (i.e. flow recirculation) in the vicinity of the flame.
The flowlines spread-out below the flame to indicate flow
divergence. Color contours in the background show that the
disruptive turbulent shear-stresses are insignificant near the
flame. The velocity data was obtained by a method called Particle
Image Velocity on a lean methane air flame similar to the one
shown in the picture above. The studies of laboratory flamse
provided the scientific background to develop a top-order model
and scaling laws for adaptation of LSB to different combustion
systems
How It Works
Lean premixed combustion is the foundation for the technologies in
almost all modern low-emissions combustion equipment. It burns
gaseous fuels mixed thoroughly with an amount of air that exceeds
the quantity needed to consume the fuel (i.e. excessive air
combustion or fuel lean combustion). This is an approach that
deliberately weakens the flame to inhibit NOx formation by lower
the flame temperature. Weakening the flame has many undesirable
consequences including high carbon monoxide (CO) emissions,
incomplete combustion, and most significantly, flame instability
that can trigger severe pressure oscillations to damage or cripple
the engines and equipment. LSB can harness these undesirable side
effects to take fully advantage of lean premixed combustion.
Until now, premixed burners have used the high-swirl flame
stabilization method, which evolved from the non-premixed
combustion technology found in older and more polluting combustion
systems. This traditional method uses a recirculating region (i.e.
back flow or reversed flow) to trap and retain a portion of the
hot combustion products to ignite fresh reactants. Generations of
combustion engineers have been trained to design burners with
swirl intensities well above the vortex breakdown threshold to
ensure strong recirculation. Combustion researchers are still
developing theories and computational methods on high-swirl flames
to predict the strengths and size of the recirculation zone to
support the engineering designs.
The LSB adopts the opposite approach by operating at swirl
intensity well below the vortex breakdown threshold. It produces a
non-recirculating flow characterized by a flow divergence region
where the axial flow velocity decays linearly with the distance
away from the burner exit. The lean premixed turbulent flame
self-propels and burns its most natural state without being
influenced or restrained by the turbulent shear stresses
associated with flow recircluation. The operating principle
exploits the most fundamental property of premixed combustion -
the premixed flame behaves as a "propagating wave" that moves
through and consumes the reactants at a flame speed controlled by
mixture composition, and turbulence intensity. The divergence rate
of the LSB can be aerodynamically "tuned" to accommodate the
turbulent flame speed. And turbulence intensity provides the
feedback for the flame to burn faster and slower with load change.
This theory is fundamentally different than the flame-holding
approach of the traditional high-swirl method.
The LSB show in the photograph at the top of this web page has a
simple design that features an annulus vane swirler surrounding a
cylindrical center channel. The center channel allows a portion of
the reactants to pass without being swirled. The centrifugal
forces of the swirling flow acting on the un-swirling center core
create flow divergence downstream of the exit. In the figure shown
to the left, the divergent nature of the flowfield in the
nearfield region at x < 10 mm is illustrated by streamlines
that spread outward above x = 0. The rate of flow divergence, i.e.
the spreading rate, is a LSB design parameter proportional to the
ratio of the unswirled and the swirled flows. Flow divergence
creates a flowfield where the axial velocity decays linearly with
increasing x. When the velocity at the exit is maintained higher
than the turbulent flame speed, ST, the flame rides on this
velocity "down-ramp" and self propels at the position where the
local flow velocity is equal and opposite to ST.
The divergence rate is adjustable via the parameters that define
the LSI swirl number in Eq. 1. Here a is the vane angle, R =
Rc/Ri, where Rc and Ri are the corresponding radii of the
center-channel and the burner, and m= mc/msrepresents the
flow-split between the unswirled and the swirled flow passages
where mc and ms are respectively the mass fluxes through the
center-channel and the swirl annulus. The presence of m in Eq 1
distinguishes it from the swirl number definition for high-swirl
burners. When m = 0, i.e. no flow through the center, Eq 1 reduces
to the swirl number definition for high-swirl burner. m in a LSB
can be controlled by placing a perforated plate over the open
center-channel to create aerodynamic drag. m is then the ratio of
the drag coefficients (or pressure drops) for the perforated plate
and the swirl vanes. A convenient means to vary the LSB swirl
number, S, is by changing the blockage ratios or hole sizes of the
perforated plate.
The engineering guideline for the LSB is specified in terms of a
range of swirl number (0.4 < S < 0.55), and swirler recess
(2 < Li/Ri < 3). Typically, two of the three parameters in
Eq 1 are fixed by the swirler geometry. To meet the design
criteria, perforated screens with blockages of 30 to 60% are used
to render S within the design range. To a casual observer, the LSB
has a striking resemblance to the high-swirl burner. The key and
fundamental difference is the high-swirl burner has only one flow
passage, and its solid centerbody promotes flow recirculation in
its wake. When the centerbody is removed and replaced by an open
channel, the unswirled flow in the center of the LSB prevents
vortex breakdown to inhibit recirculation.
The most distinct characteristic of the LSB is a detached flame
that is lifted above its exit. This feature is quite unnerving to
engineers who consider lifted flames to be inherently unstable
because they learned from combustion texts that flame detachment
from the flame holder is a prelude to combustion instability and
flame out. The LSB countered this notion by demonstrating that a
change from recirculating to non-recirculating flow offer stable
operation over a wider range of conditions including those that
achieve near zero emissions levels of < 2 ppm NOx and CO. This
exceptional performance is due to a coupling of the self-similar
feature of the divergent flowfield and a linear correlation of the
flame speed with turbulence intensity as expressed in a top-order
analytical model. As flow velocity changes with load (i.e. power
output), the structure of the divergent flow remains unchanged due
to self-similarity but turbulence level increases and decreases
accordingly. The flame "rides" the divergent flow and burns faster
or slower in synchronous with the flow velocity because turbulence
gives the critical feedback to the flame. The net effect is the
flame remaining stationary regardless of the variation in the flow
velocity. This is a unique auto-adjusting mechanism that allows
the LSB to support very lean flames that emit very low
concentrations of pollutants.
The self-similar flowfield of the LSB also accommodates the
changes in flame properties associated with the use of different
gaseous fuels. Due to the variation in chemical properties, some
fuels burn faster than others. Hydrogen is among the fastest
burning fuels and the premixed hydrogen flames respond more
readily to turbulence than natural gas flames. This is expressed
by the value of the turbulent flame speed correlation parameter
for hydrogen being two times higher than the values for methane or
natural gas flames. According to the top-order model, a change in
the value of the turbulent flame correlation parameter implies a
change in the flame position. Recent laboratory studies of LSB
flames with methane and hydrogen flames at standard atmospheric
and gas turbine conditions have provided the data to support the
modeling prediction. These results shows that the flame/flowfield
couping processes described by the model is valid at gas turbine
conditions. Such knowledge is important for future development of
the LSB technology for the hydrogen turbines in near-zero
emissions coal power plants.
Videos
http://energy.lbl.gov/aet/combustion/LSC-Info/LSB%20initiation.mpg
Taking away the bluff-body flame stabilize: When the horizontal
tangential swirl-air jets at the base of the burner are turned on
they produce the divergent flowfield to allow the flame to
detached from the bluff-body and freely propagates.
Patents
NATURAL DRAFT LOW SWIRL BURNER
US2014230701
A new design for a low swirl burner is disclosed in which natural
draft rather than a motorized pump is used to move a fuel-air
mixture through the burner. This new design enables the burn off
of gas at refineries in an environment where electric motors
cannot be used because of the potential for sparks, which could
trigger explosions. Additional modifications to the burner,
including the introduction of flue gas to the burner allows for
the reduction of NOx gas to meet current emission control targets,
without the need for further post combustion emission control
systems.
Mechanical swirler for a low-NOx, weak-swirl burner
US5879148
Disclosed is a mechanical swirler for generating diverging flow in
lean premixed fuel burners. The swirler of the present invention
includes a central passage with an entrance for accepting a feed
gas, a flow balancing insert that introduces additional pressure
drop beyond that occurring in the central passage in the absence
of the flow balancing insert, and an exit aligned to direct the
feed gas into a combustor. The swirler also has an annular passage
about the central passage and including one or more vanes oriented
to impart angular momentum to feed gas exiting the annular
passage. The diverging flow generated by the swirler stabilizes
lean combustion thus allowing for lower production of pollutants,
particularly oxides of nitrogen.
Ultralean low swirl burner
US5735681
A novel burner and burner method has been invented which burns an
ultra lean premixed fuel-air mixture with a stable flame. The
inventive burning method results in efficient burning and much
lower emissions of pollutants such as oxides of nitrogen than
previous burners and burning methods. The inventive method imparts
weak swirl (swirl numbers of between about 0.01 to 3.0) on a
fuel-air flow stream. The swirl, too small to cause recirculation,
causes an annulus region immediately inside the perimeter of the
fuel-air flow to rotate in a plane normal to the axial flow. The
rotation in turn causes the diameter of the fuel-air flow to
increase with concomitant decrease in axial flow velocity. The
flame stabilizes where the fuel-air mixture velocity equals the
rate of burning resulting in a stable, turbulent flame.
Outstanding exposition :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqx1YgIBMw
Wake up America! - Dr. John Coleman
(Illuminati, Committee of 300)
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/01/wolf-messing-predicts-collapse-of-us-in.html
2nd January, 2016
Wolf Messing Predicts The Collapse Of
The U.S In 2016
Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
It just so happened that many of us would like to know in
advance what will happen to them, because being forewarned is
being forearmed. But how can you predict the future not only for a
particular person, but all over the world? For all history of
existence of humanity such abilities have been possessed by
people. One of these unique seers was Wolf Messing. With those
penetrating eyes he looked through time and space, and all that he
foresaw, was absolutely accurate. For example, he called Joseph
Stalin's true date of the end of world war II.
But the seer was able not only to look a few years ahead, but even
more than half a century. For the coming 2016 he also left his
message. In it the famous psychic speaks to the three countries,
which will experience the most significant changes.
So, according to him, this year the USA will cease to be a
superpower, and will be brought down from this position, causing
the country to be overlooked. That is, to be in such a state which
no one seriously thinks of America as an opponent. It will inflict
a crushing blow to the US economy, after which it will simply
collapse. But 2016 will be not only fatal for the United States.
According to Messing, Japan, together with Taiwan, is waiting for
the strongest impact, comparable only with a nuclear one. Where it
will come down on them, the predictor did not elaborate, but added
that the country will suffer huge financial and human losses.
Messing's watchful eye has not, of course, bypassed Russia. For
her, he predicted difficult times. According to him, she will give
way to China's force in the territory, but whether voluntarily or
in the course of hostilities, the seer didn't specify. But this
circumstance does not adversely affect her power, but to the
contrary. In this year, according to him, Russia will become the
most spiritual and influential power in the world.
http://live-smi.ru/another/15295-predskazaniya-messinga-na-2015-god,full.html
Messing Predictions for 2015
Messing predictions about the future for the three countries. So
he predicts that in 2015 the United States will no longer be a
superpower, because it shifts the aggressor, which no one has yet
considered a serious contender. Most likely, we are talking about
China, which will be able in just a few months to get their hands
on the global economy.
Predictions about the future of Wolf Messing say that the United
States will come under the influence of a protracted crisis of
powerful commodity-money strike. It will be the beginning of the
end is the most developed economy in the world.
The predictions for 2015 Messing mentions that Japan and Taiwan
expect a strong destructive nuclear strike. And as mentioned
above, Russia will be forced to cede part of its territory to the
Chinese.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/04/01/america-will-be-invaded-from-seven-simultaneous-directions-the-red-dawn-phase-is-ready-to-commence-part-1/
America Will Be Invaded from Seven
Simultaneous Directions- The Red Dawn Phase Is Ready to
Commence (Part 1)
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/04/01/the-coming-fifth-column-invasion-of-the-u-s-will-bring-unimaginable-death-and-destruction/
The Coming Fifth Column Invasion of the
U.S. Will Bring Unimaginable Death and Destruction
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-great-nausea/
March 28, 2016
Clusterfuck Nation
The Great Nausea
by
Howard Kunstler
Historians of the future, roasting rat kabobs over their
campfires, will look back at the year 2016 and marvel at the death
throes of the zombie republic that died eating its own brains.
This grotesque Deep State lumbers from one misadventure of
governance to the next consuming its prospects for a plausible
future in a fugue of autophagy, inducing the great nausea that now
settles over the land.
President Trump — really? We would be lucky if it only resulted in
a revolt of the generals, and there goes 200-plus years of
institutional heritage. Yet it cannot be denied that the Deep
State needs to be kicked to the curb, stomped, water-boarded, and
hung out to dry. The sad part is that the job might have been done
by men of character, but incredibly the long-vaunted baby boomer
generation did not manage to produce any, nor the so-called Gen-X
now coming into its own power. And if such hypothetical figures do
exist, why are they hiding in the thickets of public life?
Well, there is Bernie, after all. Credit must be given to this
lone crusader for at least opposing the avatar of the Deep State,
she whose “turn” must not be denied in the rotating management of
rackets-and-grift that our politics have sunk to. He thrashed her
roundly in the three primary contests over the weekend — so badly
in the vote count that she may be suffering an existential
hangover as I write. The fabled Democratic Party super-delegates
may also be going through a dark night of the soul as they study
the intractable anti-charisma of Hillary. Much as I admire
Bernie’s chutzpah, his particular Old Left theories of wealth
redistribution do not convince me — though the management of our
dwindling capital surely lies at the heart of our problems. His
nomination would go down in the Ripley’s Believe-It-Or-Not annals
of the world’s greatest improbabilities.
Otherwise, the latest meme spreading across the web wires is how
deeply the voters divide by sex: men flocking around Trump (or
Machine Gun Ted Cruz), and the ladies standing at each mighty
column of Hillary’s azure pant-suit. Yes, a national war of the
sexes. Just what we need with all our shit falling apart. This
sorry diversion results not from the triumph of feminism, as
widely believed, but actually from the failure of American
manhood. Proof of that, of course, is the ascendance of Trump,
this punch-line of a political leader with all the gravitas of a
hood ornament. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as
farce — thank you, Karl Marx, O peevish mischief-maker squirming
upon your fabled boils!
Finally, what will take the Deep State down is not some
lance-wielding armored savior on a white horse but the awful
undertow of financial implosion that awaits as the seasons of 2016
turn. When faith in our money and the instruments represented in
it goes, look out below. There are so many rifts in the
international banking system that the vista begins to look like
the spring ice break-up on the Lake of Nations. When the grifters
can’t cash their checks — or move their pixels into the accounts
receivable column — they will be immobilized. Of course, if that
happens, so will everything else, including your ability to buy
any more frozen pizzas.
Trump, Cruz, Hillary, and Bernie are signs that this poor
paralyzed country needs to go through a convulsion to flush out
all the toxic idiocy of this historical moment. Trigger warning:
it may be the messiest revolution in history when it finally
comes, there is so much dross to clear out of the system. Trump
and Hillary are like two giant fistulas obstructing the national
bowel. Of course, a lot of sentient Americans do not want their
nation dying on the toilet like Elvis. The indignity of it! In the
name of the founding fathers, please, someone, fetch the enema
bag.
Events still lie hidden like bear traps on the path to “Decision
2016” as they like to say on the cable networks. Somewhere in
London, Singapore, Shanghai, or New York, a 25-year-old coked-out
Forex trader is going to tap the untoward keystroke that brings
down a derivatives avalanche… or two brothers of Allah in some
Berlin row-house will go forth one bright morning in vests of
Semtex… and finally enough will be enough.