Penmanship so "impressive"(What could go wrong?)

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The new president said: "That's true, I guess I have to have a Cabinet, don't I?"
Media gushes: "His penmanship, I must say, is excellent & impressive."

From ace and lgf:
"Banks closing, millions of homes in foreclosure, a major recession; so what does the Democrat-controlled Congress do?
They give every member an extra $93,000 in petty cash. BIG SCREEN

Obama's "We Can" actually means "The Government Can"...
Remembering millions who only asked for a fair vote, but were completely left out of their future. The progressiveness of their plight, is worth taking note.
Are we the next group who await a 'flick of the pen' policy?


The Gov. held a Petition to guarantee that the British people will not be permitted a referendum on the new EU reform Treaty.VIEW.

YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG WHEN NEW LEADERSHIP:
1) Claims to have liberated America from racism, while meeting to conspire to distribute the stimulus according to skin-color...
VIEW VIDEO: HERE.

2) Claims that Socialism is so great , but didn't run on a Socialist ticket.

3) Pledged transparency, & then waved these standards from their party's fraud, waste, mismanagement, corruption, and numerous tax-evasions...
VIDEO: Where are Chris Dodd’s Mortgage Papers? VIEW.

4) Holds numerous pushes to change outcome of votes…

Today's Quotes...
"Speak up; for he that withholds his opinion shall inherit the winds of tyranny” -politicalwrinkles (Great quote)

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. -Ludwig Wittgenstein

We do this by vote... As have the Iraqis, and (hopefully) the Irish. read.

And as Obama applauds the government he nearly prevented from having the opportunity of a safe and peaceful election. READ.
He mentions NOTHING of the success of our soldier's surge...

Congratulations Steele! (Chairman RNC)

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Congratulations...
The Man of Steele!
Steele (a centrist) just elected GOP party leader. Confidence in businesses & people; rather than empowering big Government...

Image: Getty

Gateway has the video:
Chairman of the G.O.P. Acceptance Speech VIEW

Judging Steele's policies and examining the poll figures which best represent the checks & balances of election 2009's undecided; Steele might have provided job stability today, had he run in this election...

I believe that we'd have likely seen Stock Markets stabilize, providing the sort of confidence employers needed, to avoid job cuts...

And look at this VIDEO:
Left Media (once again) fixates on... (yawn) "skin-color" VIEW.

-VIDEO: Remembering Steele's Speech in 2006...(prior to Obama Run)

Today's Links...
Gatewaypundit: Here come the Trade Wars-- Expansion of Welfare State & Nationalize Health care: Read.

More tax cheats for the Obama Administration: Tom Daschle
"Why do they choose these people for jobs that MUST represent integrity?"

Shaking their fingers at companies who have leveraged everything (pre-bailout) and place the funds back... While Democrats empower felons, tax-evaders, and lobbyist funding...
-VIDEO: Where are Chris Dodd’s Mortgage Papers?? VIEW.

Big bills- Bad history (Dems w/out clue)

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Who gets the Bill: read.
Why they rushed it: read.
"Support for Plan Slips to 42%!"
instapundit: Vote quick!
"It’s like the whole thing is just about steering money to supporters and cronies."

ACE says, "Opinion Dynamics poll says the public favors tax cuts over new spending as far as stimulus by 50% to 29%"

If it quacks like a duck...


We're the 50% of Taxpayers who pay 97% of All Taxes! read.
Obama speaks of "Pursuing our own version of happiness”.. Dems claim to make the stimulus available online; then can't explain the wasteful spending!

VIDEOS of those asked:
Neil asks Obama's 'Americans United for Change' about the non-stimulus:
VIEW VIDEO

Pelosi's explains how hundreds of millions for STD's stimulate jobs:

LINK

(wsj) Sovereign Debt Risk Looms Large This Year:
US shouldn't consume all available lending

ACE: Obama Attacks Greedy Wall St. Types With Noted Tax Evader Mistake Maker Next To Him: read.

-Republicans Object to Stimulus Dollars for ACORN.
It’s like the whole thing is just about steering money to supporters and cronies.

How much do they need to create their 'Zombie' community? 100 trillion? Maybe they'll trying to 'wing-it' on 10? Big bills, Bad history, and Dems abhorrent to the history; and 'protectionist policies' that caused the big "D".

God Help Us All: Video
This global crisis, contains all different issues... Some securities, some commodities, some inflationary spending. Note this video: Complaints come from leaders who are not accepted here, directly proportionate to the 'threat-level' they pose. Although I do not agree with all in the video (link above) it's BAD history of International groups; and a brunette lady, and collapse Lehman (and then, husband's group, AIG)... And today, NO trail is pursued!

Much preparation was required to lead the masses toward the choice of economical fear and scarcity; and much more preparation is required to lift oneself beyond it... Keep positive...(more later)

NASA: January's Day of Remembrance

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Amidst all of man's triumphs, lie his fragility, memories, and his sorrows... The NASA family pauses every January for a Day of Remembrance, honoring the fallen heroes of Apollo 1. Challenger and Colombia and all of those who have given their lives in the cause of exploration and discovery." Source.


"As President Ronald Reagan said of the Challenger crew, "We will always remember them, these skilled professionals, scientists, and adventurers, these artists and teachers and family men and women, and we will cherish each of their stories-- stories of triumph and bravery, stories of true American heroes."
View wonderful tribute. -Also: here.

"Humanity must rise above the Earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will we fully understand the world in which we live." -Socrates, 500 B.C.

"All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct."
-Carl Sagan

-NASA set forth a safer evolution in space, in memory of these pioneers... The once anxiety of blame, has 'fallen away' from humanity's renewed hope to explore...


-View full series: VIDEOS
Some gave all: From Ed.

A PERSONAL NOTE: The memory of the fateful 1986 Challenger mission held personal significance for me, as it happened the day after my Grandfather died. He was a very great patriot and humanitarian; and although I was just a little girl who did not understand much about death; I always had thought that he went up ahead of them...

Today's Links:
Dec. 18, 1986, the Challenger flag was returned to Troop 514 by astronaut Guy Bluford (second from right) in a ceremony at Falcon Air Force Base, Colorado." read more.
As the Challenger wreckage was brought up from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, rescuers found this flag, still in its sealed plastic bag, intact and completely unscathed. The souvenir medallions had melted into lumps." more.


About the Challenger Centers:
"With determination and vision, the Challenger families turned this tragedy into a monumental educational opportunity for children and adults alike."

Dem's Pass their T$ Debt Act (we vote NO!)

Ace: It's their 40-year wish-list...
"Democrats are wasting no time wasting all the money they were prevented from wasting since Reagan." read.

All they wanted to do was pass something, (anything)... Now run-a-way inflation and inverted yield curves will be the hallmark of Obama's Presidency...
Obama Adviser says:
Stimulus Plan is 'Totally Impractical'

IMAGE: Barbay Photoshop

ht: ace & slublog
Replay of Obama's campaign promises:
"And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account -- to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day -- because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government."

You mean, like Government Social Security?

What "Stimulus Spending" Is Really About:
more.
George warned us about this...



Obama's Topsy-Turvy Stimulus Plan:
James Pethokoukis writes:
"What would help? A lower corporate tax rate, as well as a permanent extension of the 2008 expensing provisions and the 2003 dividend and capital gains and top marginal income tax rates." read more.


ALL Republicans and (11) Democrats, tried to stop Obama's Stimulus Plan...
Pethokoukis gives 10 reasons why: read.




Today's Links...
Barroso: "Europe expects a lot from Barack Obama."

euronews: "But when you speak of say protectionism in the economy, is this just speculation, or a risk we might face with Obama?"

Barroso: "Can I tell you something? Certain leaders in the developing world, most of them on the left, have told me privately that they would have preferred a Republican candidate to win. That’s because they fear the protectionist policies of a Democratic President and Democratic Congress."

When bad scare turns to coincidence

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Snapped this picture tonight, alone with boat trouble, and still a distance from my home.. Sun was quickly falling, water was getting choppy, and soon it would be dark...

Image Stranded in my Boat

This time of year everyone is away; so I was worried that I'd be stranded... And then (somehow) I remembered this video, from earlier, of the calm waters and swan... (see below) ... Not sure what happened, but my craft started!
Here's the tiny coincidence... Check where this Video is from!
View Link: HERE!

Global Econ nothing short of El Chorro

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The El Caminito del Rey walk-way of 1921; built by king Alfonso XIII, for the inauguration of the dam Conde del Guadalhorce, is said to have taken a handful of years to complete; but due to years without maintenance, and (perhaps) other priorities; the walk-way lapsed into a highly dangerous state of deterioration...


Global financial picture suffers for almost the opposite reason; but many a synchronicity is found on this path... Splendid accompaniment in the few minute clip; with history & positive links (at bottom of post) Happy hike


Narrow gorge in El Chorro, "Camino Del Rey" (via ferrata)
High Quality: VIEW (New Window)
Music: Michael Darius - Magic Of Politics (Original Mix)


About: The walk-way measures one meter (3 ft) in width, and is over 700 feet (200 m) tall. Nearly all of the path has no handrail. Some parts of the walkway have completely collapsed and have been replaced by a beam and a metallic wire on the wall. Many people have lost their lives on the walkway in recent years...

After four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000, the local government closed the entrances. However, adventurous tourists still find their way into the walkway... The regional government of Andalusia budgeted for 2006 a restoration plan estimated at € 7 million. Source. (Maintenance, safety guarantee, return on investment, and a multitude of considerations.)

Today's Links...
ht: instapundit
Keep Positive... Here's Some Optimism read.
JOHN STOSSEL says, Don’t Panic!
"Have we become so fragile that we can’t handle any recession?" read.
How to Eliminate Risk... without even trying.
theatlantic sites link, worth the read...

Ambrose Evans Prichard Article: Very Positive.

And Cool... A link about King Alfonso XIII Here.
There's even a little bit of my European family tree listed... :)
View Video Galeries: HERE.

Moon 6º Aquarius: water carrier of change

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NASA map: Solar Eclipses: 2031 - 2040
Animated Annular Solar Eclipse: 1.26.09
Image:Jeff Haynes


Asia, India enter into the Annular Solar Eclipse. Just in time for an usher in of year of the NIU , and the realization of the New Moon 6º Aquarius... Though would have terrified us during the Obama campaign (Haha)
-The application of belief has profound celestial influence...

Astrology is the shadow which follows Astronomy, therefore interesting "behavior analysis"... but (for me) not a prediction...
They are simply studies in behavior...

We're a tiny world of a greater force beyond our expectation…

The water carrier...




















Interesting article from Spaceweather.com: Source
STRANGE ASTEROID: Newly-discovered asteroid 2009 BD is slowly passing by Earth today only 400,000 miles away. The small 10m-wide space rock poses no threat, but it merits attention anyway. The orbit of 2009 BD appears to be almost identical to the orbit of Earth. 2009 BD may be a rare co-orbital asteroid, circling the sun in near-tandem with our planet.

Extrapolating the motion of 2009 BD into the future, we see that it remains in the vicinity of Earth for many months to come, never receding farther than 0.1 AU (9.3 million miles) until Nov. 2010. Future observations may reveal the nature of this strange asteroid; stay tuned! [3D orbit] [ephemeris]

-Earth has a "second moon." Asteroid 2003 YN107: More.

Helix nebula, the closest planetary nebula to Earth at 450 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius: NASA's Helix nebula image

Gong Hei Fat Choi! (more later)
The Year of the Ox is beginning with a solar eclipse! On Monday, Jan. 26th, the same new Moon that triggers the Chinese Lunar New Year will pass directly in front of the sun--dead center--covering 93% of the solar disk. The ensemble will form a stunning "ring of fire" visible across the Indian Ocean:
Source

Heavy Snow hits Desert Emirates

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Heavy snow fell on the highest mountain in Ras Al Khaimah, leaving the Jebel Jais range covered in a thick white blanket of snow. read.

Well, ice-age confirmed... And just as the Arctic penguins were over-joyed by the bigger and slower fish, I have an idea that other animals will adjust beautifully...

Get ready fo it! VIDEO (haha)

Not sure what this says.. Sorry if I'm repeating myself, here...

في دولة الامارات سقوط الثلوج بكثافة على اعلى جبل في امارت راس الخيمه وانخفاض درجات الحراره




Random Snow Links...
Still one of the Funniest Snow Clips: VIDEO
(Saudis, don't try this!)

A little Science...
When the snow falls, it takes water out of the atmosphere, leaving it drier. Snow on the ground also reflects sunlight back into space, which helps cool the planet.
Image: NASA night instruments



So learning to portray global snowfall correctly in computer climate simulations is critical for accurately predicting how the real climate will behave in the future. read more.

VIDEO: 2008 Snow: BIG SCREEN

Furthered Modernization of Afghanistan

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There is a dark side to Afghanistan, and then (perhaps) there can be a new and legitimate side. Medicinal properties for Poppies: read.

To end the funding of terrorism, & horrible path for addictions; is to provide hope for farmers who will break the cycle.

Image: Alternatives/manufacturing



This is central to the issue, and (in my view) the only way by which civil society (via economical progress) can turn about the need for stability in this region... Otherwise, there is only musical chairs as militants hostile to moderate east & regional west; simply re-group to the region of less security.

Human nature reveals that people fight for whatever is most profitable... While aid delivery and cultural developments, become the essential benefit of a secure society...

Image Afghan School



Over 100,000 of our brave men have served in Afghanistan; and as in Iraq, they promised and succeeded (amidst troop casualty) to clear the region of land mines...
If they say that they are going to do something, they just do it.

I thought that our Messiah was going to go to talk to those of the Middle East, to end the fighting... And that his visits to stop violence, would be consummated without drones... Is that off the chalk-board now?



Papaver somniferum L. The poppy seeds and fixed oil that can be expressed from the seed are not narcotic, because they develop after the capsule has lost the opium-yielding potential. Poppy seed is generally recognized as safe for human consumption as a spice or a natural flavoring...

Papaver rhoeus L., known as corn or field poppy, is an annual herb native to Europe and Asia. Extracts of the plant are used in medicine and beverages...

Finally Arrived at Home, Today

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Anticipation, amidst a surprisingly blue sky; the boat passed along the chilly water route... I'm home! Quick post, as I get settled...

Light was streaming down upon the Golden-girl; seen here, still feeding the swans...(Haha)
...Everything, just the way I left it...

Funny... I didn't see a single swan or duck...
This would be the south they're looking for. :)

Anyway.. I tried to use the movie feature on cell...
A 30 second 'bad result'... Or would have looked very much like this:
BIG SCREEN VIDEO

Image: Barbay; Golden Girl w/Swan




Found a video! Great lighting, and even a little music, too. :#
Of course it's California (US) and not Geneva; but hey..


More links...
Beautiful Places Around the World
BIG SCREEN VIDEO

NOTE: My caretaker (Palestinian/Americans) are at Grandmothers snowy home!... They were excited beyond words (Haha) ...Please make life count people.. Don't wait for anything that is not, embrace what is... This is absolutely a key...
Have a beautiful day... Will post more later...

Their Hope & Change "is best for you?"

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ht: Matt
Dems To Spend Nearly $1 Trillion and Can't Promise 1 Job?
Republican Member Dave Camp (R-MI) presses staffer from the Joint Committee on Taxation about job creation in the Democrats' proposed stimulus bill.

Nationalization Elections come with severe consequence...


On travel today... Will post more later...
Confused Republican and Democrat friends:
Bi-partisan Financial Info (More later)

To Saudi and UAE friends...
BIG SCREEN VIDEO for you: View

Until Gateways produce the key...

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We remain within the confines of planet Earth...
Many of us hold the distinct reality that man is beckoned beyond earth.
And as we view the stars at night; feel the pull of the cosmos...

-According to Physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku:
We Earthlings are likely type 1 human; living in 2-D (as are fish)

INTERESTING VIDEO: -Dr Kaku: BIG SCREEN (new window)

We must increase our explorations or innovations; as are not likely to hear a signal from a distant life... Yet, potential may be there to reach.
-About Physicist, Dr. Kaku: VIDEO.

An (intermediate) explanation about worm holes & gateways...
(Of which 'enormity of distance' remains unfathomable.)


Deeper knowledge is on its way to shift mankind's options...
Perhaps much about gateways will be mastered in water...
(Not necessarily in the bath).. :#

Big Media cleans strewn inaugural debris by not reporting it (Historic: 130 tons!)

Looks like Obama will be busy over-hauling his "volunteerism" and
"personal responsibility" network; after this trash soiree...
(They're the "change.")

Monument looks like a swarm of locusts hit it.
Image: D. Report & Ace
The Trash Was Historic, Too. read
(Exceeding Earth Day record)


Some say that the cluttered Mall near the Smithsonian's American History Museum (as a result of failure to pick up after themselves) and a stark contrast to how grand the event had been. read

UPDATE: ht: Slublog
Thanks to Citizen journalism, here's a video...

Maybe we should start "hope and change" by having everyone clean up their own trash! They whine about 'global warming'; and then toss their debris with a cigarette in their hand...


Earlier...
I guess the "pitch in" message is only good once a year; and this wasn't it...
We're supposed to be their new bankers??
Part of the 150 million?

UPDATE: At the same time: 33,000 google searches...
Media wasted no time in reporting on: Bush Sr. defaced monument

Announcement to join the American fold

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Andrew says:
"This video (below) illustrates that the current celebrity class are not citizens but serfs. They need a leader to put their minds in the right place to do the right thing." Read.

Video: gateway pundit

And Odd that they're saying and pledging all of the things that Republicans (and most of us) have actively been doing for the last eight to "16+ years!" Maybe it's because, when issues crop up, and studio bosses take objection; "ping!" -They do things most wouldn't...

Anyway, they've finally joined the United States... Woo-hoo.

'Elected officials' are ALL civil servants

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"By the People- for the People"
We're a country who, even in our most liberal of distinctions, have crushed societal slavery; and aren't ready to abolish the right to retain the "Fruits of our Labor."

US Inauguration : 2 Million witnesses





Americans true praise and adulation here, is in our ability to impact a new 'civil servant'... And for our ability to witness his promise to uphold our constitution; and not re-write it after the festivities...

Awkward moment:
Obama benediction prays that "red man can get ahead"...
FACT: Indians live in the clutches of "failed Government-imposed Socialism!"
Traditionally distinguished prayer became 'back-petal' humor; as Americans viewed (perhaps) the most shallow Inaugural Benediction in US history...


I'm for holding ALL civil servants accountable for preserving the distinction set forth in our Constitution... All the same, good thing this "Inaugural Benediction" wasn't 2000; or they'd have set the Capital on fire!

In conclusion...
Lincoln sought to preserve the fruits of man's labor, as hundreds of billions of dollars are promised from two generations of Americans, not yet born...

I have always said that "self-esteem counseling" is all that would have been needed in the bail-out here... We have all worked side-by-side, amidst some of the "WORST 1980's POLICY EVER IMPACTED, IN US HISTORY"!!

Strives that there be no exception..

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Dr. Martin Luther King dreamt, not of prominent society, nor strives to place within it... He dreamt that there would someday awaken, the absence of "one man as exception over another"... Where all men were judged by character, and in the name of God's Love, this sameness would be revealed.



Today is Declared: Nation Sanctity of Life Day: January 18th
...And would have been an historic occasion for Dr. King, Jr...

"All human life is a gift from our Creator that is sacred, unique, and worthy of protection. On National Sanctity of Human Life Day, our country recognizes that each person, including every person waiting to be born, has a special place and purpose in this world. We also underscore our dedication to heeding this message of conscience by speaking up for the weak and voiceless among us." more.

Credits: John Legend: "In The Name of Love". With respect for Dr. King.

Obama’s Link with King and Gandhi L.A. Watts Times
His deeds and words transformed a nation The Virginian-Pilot
Martin Luther King Day inauguration: more.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stridently denounced abortion as a form of genocide in many speeches." (Lifelines, Winter 1997, p.14 online.) Planned Parenthood used Dr. King in order to promote birth-control; a practice he would have vehemently agreed with... But today, pro-Choice advocates use the memory of Dr. King to promote abortion; a practice which he vehemently disagreed with...

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." -Ayn Rand

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From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years WSJ.com
Recent article: "Being conversant in Ayn Rand's classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement." more.

Exclusionists: Republicans forbidden from this!



Of course, no bias existed back then... So surely couldn't have enabled these "exclusionists" to wear-down & source-out Americans' prosperity, to 2000... They angrily assign Rand's novels as "fiction", while playing them out accurately, in Washington D.C...

Notice the Media-correspondent's parting shot to guest:
"One of the people "other people" are interested in...


Nobody will ever agree 100% with everything; but tolerance and acceptance of the peaceful philosophies of others, represents the only opening for understanding, ever to be achieved for any society...

Cover the road with sharp stones, but it's still the only path to "PEACE."

The National Center for Public Policy Research, DC:
At Energy and Commerce Hearing, House Conservatives Call CEOs to..#

"The alignment of corporate and government agendas for the so called "social good" is eerily similar of the warnings in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged which...read.

Which Government is the Most Laissez-Faire?
VIDEO: Past & Future- Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

Ayn Rand’s "Atlas Shrugged": Novel:
Stephen Moore writes that the central themes of Ayn Rand’s massive book are playing out even now in Washington DC as an incompetent government hurries to... read.

Aristotle Quotes...
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances...

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill...

'New Scientist' explores hologram world

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Our world may be a giant hologram
New Scientist - January 15, 2009
"Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface. No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true." more.

Image: Sunlight passing through windows in morning mist. (High-rise behind parking structure)

The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. Today, GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time.

-It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level... #

View 27 min- 36 second 1992 Video featuring (late) Michael Talbot's theory.
He explains manifestation of uncertainty principal; & overlapping realities.
VIDEO: BIG SCREEN: VIEW.
NOTE: Talbot died from Leukemia in 1992, at age 38.
Basic Understanding of Holographic Universe: (VIEW VIDEO)

Lively little imagery...

What if Dark energy is the true reality? (And we're just memory.)
Dark Energy Found Stifling Growth In Universe. Solved!


Today's Links... (Links leave site)
Stars forming just beyond black hole's grasp at galactic centre
"The centre of the Milky Way presents astronomers with a paradox: it holds young stars, but no one is sure how those stars"...More Astronomy...

Hubble finds stars that go 'ballistic'
"Even some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas." Images from...

VIDEO: Valéry Uvarov: Bizarre Human Holograms! Oooh my!

Michael Talbot's Novels: The Delicate Dependency - 1982 ; To the Ends of the Earth - 1986; The Bog - 1986; Night Things - 1988; A Wilful Woman - 1988

The Stars of Asteroidea...

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A little mind-clearing from the events of today...
A view of what we don't often see... From the sea :)
Enjoy your day...

النـَجميّـاتُ starfish / Asteroidea: VIDEO: BIG SCREEN
They're Echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea... Five or 6 sided "arms" that radiate from an indistinct disk (pentaradial symmetry); its evolutionary ancestors are believed to have had bilateral symmetry...

From Aimaram:
Starfish do exhibit some superficial remnant of this body structure, evident in their larval pluteus forms. Starfish do not rely on a jointed, movable skeleton for support and locomotion (although they are protected by their skeleton), but instead possess a hydraulic water vascular system that aids in locomotion. The water vascular system has many projections called tube feet on the ventral face of the starfish's arms which function in locomotion and aid with feeding.

The star fish usually hunt for shelled animals such as oysters and clams. They have two stomachs. One stomach is used for digestion, and the other stomach can be extended outward to engulf and digest prey. This feature allows the starfish to hunt prey that is much larger than its mouth would otherwise allow. Starfish are able to regenerate lost arms. A new starfish may be regenerated from a single arm attached to a portion of the central disk...

نجم البحر نجمي الشكل ويتركب من قرص مركزي يستطيل استطالة شعاعية إلى خمسة اذرع مثلثة الشكل ومتينة ولها أطراف مسننة وجسمه مفلطح وله سطحان سطح علوي ويسمى السطح مقابل الفمى وسطح سفلى ويسمى السطح الفمي وتمتد من الفم خمسة مجاري ُيبقي نجم البحر فمه دائما تجاه السطح الذي يزحف عليه كقاع البحر أو جوانب الصخور ويتغذى على المحار مثل بلح البحر وله القدرة على فتح صدفة المحار ويلتهم الحيوان الذي بداخلها، كما انه يتغذى على الشعاب المرجانية الحية وإذا كثر انتشاره كان ضرره كبير على البيئة البحرية لذا يجب الحفاظ على نسبة عالية من تواجد خيار البحر الذي يتغذى على يرقات نجم البحر ويحد من انتشاره وسبحان الله الذي جعل كل شئ بميزان .جلد نجم البحر مغطى بشويكات جيريه مدببة الأطراف وله القدرة على الانثناء لدرجة لابأس بها لان الألواح الصلبة التي تغطي السطح الخارجي متصلة ببعضها بواسطة أنسجة رخوة تتصلب بعد موت الحيوان كما إن نجم البحر له القدرة على فصل اذرعه الخمسة الواحدة بعد الأخرى عند وجود الخطر وللتخلص من أعدائه وبقدرة الله عز وجل تتكون له اذرع جديدة وينمو نجم البحر إلى طول يصل إلى 40 سم، ويوجد نجم البحر بالقرب من الشواطئ وعلى الصخور وكذلك يوجد على عمق يزيد عن 80 متراً تحت سطح البحر.

Stellar Unrest has us beat by light years

-Posted by D. Worth (US) | for- M. Barbay (France)

The Snowflake Cluster
These patterns result from the tumultuous unrest that accompanies the formation of open cluster stars:
NGC 2264.

The Snowflake cluster.
Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, P. S. Teixeira (CfA)

So ending tiny earth unrest, should be an easy challenge...


Credits: Cef Navelino- View Gallerie
Painter: Cef Navelino
Cafnavelino (at) Lycos.com
Music: "Ever After" (Bonnie Bailey)

Quick post... On travel today.
A few words here:
Be Grateful...
Give much....
And above all, be Charming...

And you should be just fine. :)
(more later)




UPDATES:
Today’s Links…
Pilots save the Lives of all -on downed liner: #
Miraculously, every single passenger and crew member was rescued from the frigid waters thanks to a "remarkable" emergency landing procedure by the pilots. Read here, and: here.

Citizen Journalism (Jkrums) ht: via instapundit View.