Earth Shift (Part 2)

What I failed to mention is that it’s also darker in the mornings. It used to be quite light by 8:00 am but now it’s still quite dark at 8:00 am... So it looks like there has been a 1 hour shift, or rather, the Earth has shifted off its axis so that there is now a one hour difference in sunrise and sunset times.

I’m no scientist or mathematician, but if you take the Earth as being a sphere (360 degrees) and you divide that by 24 (hours in a day) you get 15 degrees /1 hour ... So the Earth then moves 15 degrees every hour to complete one rotation (1 day or 24 hours) So that means that if we have a one hour time change in sunrise, sunset, then we have had a 15 degree Earth shift.

I was talking with a friend and she said that the shift occurred on 2008 Dec 21 to Dec 23 so the change wasn’t sudden. I feel that it wasn’t noticed as during that time we also had several snow storms (Canada - US) and if it wasn’t storming, it was overcast... and then with it all happening during the Xmas hubbub, it wasn’t noticed...... and it appears it still isn’t being noticed my the masses...

Things that make you go Hummm?

Earth shift? - Time shift? - Have you noticed?

I’ve been noticing recently that it’s not getting as dark at night. By that I mean that here we are just past the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year and it’s 5 pm and overcast and cars are driving without their headlights on. In other years, it used to start getting dark around 4:00 pm and by the time 5:00 pm rolled around you were working and driving in the dark, as if it was 3:00 am and not this twilight.

It has nothing to do with the time change as the clocks were set back an hour in November as has been the practice for years. My explanation is that I feel that the Earth has shifted on its axis that we in the northern hemisphere have moved closer to the equator. I don’t know if or how much we have moved as I’m not familiar with this geographic location and being in a city, I can’t se the stars so I don’t have a real fix on where the stars were, and where they are now.

I remember back in 2001 or 2002 that Irene (where I was staying at) and I were told by out Spirit guides to go outside and look at the stars. We went out and what surprised us was that the North Star had shifted to the East by what I’d guesstimate to be a good 70 degrees. It wasn’t just the North star, but that the entire heavens had shifted to the right, or East, big dipper, little dipper, Cassiopeia and all. The heavens didn’t shift to the right or East, but the Earth shifted, not to the East, but to the West, to give the illusion that the heavens had shifted. So that means that from our position, the Earths North pole shifted toward the west.

We studied the phenomena for an hour or so and then went back inside to have another cup of tea. Before I called it a night and went to bed, I went out to have another look and the north star was back to where it was before, which was from the back deck, looking at the clothes line pole and then at arms length, my little finger was on top of the pole and my thumb was just covering the north star. We got that it was a sign of things to come. Hummm? I wonder if this is that time? time shift, getting dark later, 20 degrees, stars …

JR

E-18 Scientists study Earth's missing crust

Scientists study Earth's missing crust

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands - British scientists have embarked on a mission to study a huge area on the Atlantic seabed where the Earth's crust is mysteriously missing and instead is covered with dark green rock from deep inside the planet.


The 12-member expedition to take an unprecedented peek at Earth's mantle left the Canary Islands on Monday with a new high-tech vessel and a robotic device named Toby that will dig up rock samples at the site and film what it sees.

The main site — there is at least one other in roughly the same area and a third is suspected — is about three miles below the surface of the Atlantic and located about 2,000 nautical miles southwest of the Canaries.

It is part of a globe-spanning ridge of undersea volcanos, the kind of structure that forms when Atlantic tectonic plates separate and lava surges upward to fill the gap in the Earth's crust.

But that apparently did not happen this time. Where there should be a four-mile-thick layer of crust, there is instead that much mantle — the very dense, dark green rock that makes up the deep inner layer of the Earth.

Scientists have seen chunks of mantle that have been spewed up with lava, but never such a large, exposed stretch.

"It is like a window into the interior of the Earth," Bramley Murton, a geophysicist who is taking part in the six-week mission, said Tuesday from the research ship RRS James Cook as it headed to the site, still five days away.

This exposed layer is irregularly shaped, about 30 miles long and perhaps that distance or more at its widest. It was detected about five years ago with sonar from a surface vessel.

There are two main theories as to what happened, Murton said: A fault ripped away huge chunks of crust, or in an area of crust-forming volcanoes, this area was mysteriously devoid of that outer material, Murton said.

Roger Searle of Durham University, one of the lead researchers, said the study aims to provide insight on everything from the chemistry of oceans to the mechanisms of how the Earth behaves under so much water.

The robotic device will land on the exposed mantle, deploy a drill, and dig into the rock to bring back samples.

The project is being financed by Britain's National Environment Research Council and the Department of trade and Industry's Large Scientific Facilities Fund.

E-17 New Year.. times are a changing.... No more new posts

Other than for my personal Blog “Saysame,” I will not be adding any more posts to any of my “other” Blogs. The original intent and purpose of those Blogs was to present and document the unloving denials present in our society and so show how the different religions, governments, organizations, customs and traditions are all related and how the truth is distorted, manipulated and controlled by denial, omission, or in stating part truths meant to confuse and deceive. In all our history, nothing has really changed except the form of the experiences and no real healing or true understanding can take place as long as these conditions, fueled by unlovingness and old imprints, programs and beliefs are present.

What is happening globally now is merely the lull before the storm, a momentary pause in the on-going and escalating hatred and violence, creating the illusion of a possible peace, but that is only a façade. Rest assured that each side with its religion, government and its social structure and order is silently preparing for either a new offensive or defensive maneuver. Nothing has changed except, as mentioned, the “form” of the experience and now a "new" element will be brought into the conflicts to create the appearance that this is a new and different problem and issue and so the cycle continues, going around and around as it also escalates.

The coming times and Earth changes will not be easy as it will bring a total breakdown of society as we presently know it. These changes will not be affecting some other person or people in another part of the world, but will be happening on our personal doorstep where it can’t be denied unless denial is still your intent.

In the next few years everyone will be facing their denials and will be making life and death choices that will have far reaching consequences; more than just our present physical survival, but the survival of our very Spiritual essence. For Humanity to survive, we need to change within, before we can change the without. We need to let go of all our old imprints, programs and beliefs that keep us in this never ending cycle of unlovingness, suffering and death created by denial, guilt and shame that we have been struggling to change and call life. We can’t change it. IT is what it is…. until IT wants to change. What we need to do is to let it go from within us and to allow it to find it’s right place. Those that desire and choose to continue to follow IT need to be allowed to do so to also find their right place.

John

E-16 A 25-square-mile ice shelf breaks off in the Canadian Arctic

Immense ice shelf breaks off in Canadian Arctic: researchers

MONTREAL (AFP) - An enormous ice shelf broke away from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic last year, researchers said, warning it could be another symptom of global warming.

The 66-square-kilometer (25.5-square-mile) ice island tore away from Ellesmere, a huge strip of land in the Canadian Arctic close to Greenland.

The break occurred in August 2005 and was so violent that it caused tremors that were detected by Canadian seismographs 250 kilometers (155 miles) away, but at the time no one was able to pinpoint what had happened.

The Canadian Ice Service contacted geographer Luke Copland of the University of Ottawa, who reconstructed the chain of events by piecing together data from the seismic readings and satellite images provided by Canada and the United States.

"This loss is the biggest in 25 years, but it continues the loss that occurred within the last century," Copland told AFP, saying 90 percent of the the ice cover had been lost since the area was discovered in 1906.

E-15 India has killed 10 million girls in 20 past years - Renuka Chowdhury

India has killed 10 million girls in 20 years - Renuka Chowdhury
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ten million girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were born or immediately after, a government minister said on Thursday, describing it as a "national crisis". ... A UNICEF report released this week said 7,000 fewer girls are born in the country every day than the global average would suggest, largely because female foetuses are aborted after sex determination tests but also through murder of new borns.

"It's shocking figures and we are in a national crisis if you ask me," Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury told Reuters.

Girls are seen as liabilities by many Indians, especially because of the banned but rampant practice of dowry, where the bride's parents pay cash and goods to the groom's family.

Men are also seen as bread-winners while social prejudices deny women opportunities for education and jobs.

"Who has killed these girl children? Their own parents."

In some states, the minister said, newborn girls have been killed by pouring sand or tobacco juice into their nostrils.

"The minute the child is born and she opens her mouth to cry, they put sand into her mouth and her nostrils so she chokes and dies," Chowdhury said, referring to cases in the western desert state of Rajasthan.

"They bury infants into pots alive and bury the pots. They put tobacco into her mouth. They hang them upside down like a bunch of flowers to dry," she said.

E-14 Deadly winds cause havoc in Seattle, Vancouver

Deadly winds cause havoc in Seattle, Vancouver

SEATTLE/VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A storm packing heavy rains and winds gusting at more than 90 mph (145 km/h) slammed into an already-soggy Pacific Northwest, killing three people, officials said on Friday.

The high winds began hitting the Pacific Coast region of Canada and the United States late on Thursday, and had begun to slow as daybreak arrived on Friday, but not before gusts of up to 69 mph (111 km/h) were recorded by weather forecasters in Seattle and 59 mph (95 km/h) in Vancouver, British Columbia, early Friday morning.

Puget Sound Energy estimated about 700,000 customers, or about two-thirds of its customers had lost power. "The storm's ongoing damage rivals, and may even exceed, the notorious Inaugural Day storm of 1993," The Washington state utility said.

British Columbia Hydro said an estimated 250,000 customers were without power in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, where crews were still struggling to repair damaged from storms that had hit earlier in the week.

E-13 Scientists grapple over sunspot cycle

Scientists grapple over sunspot cycle
SAN FRANCISCO - Scientists are deadlocked over the severity of the next sunspot cycle, which could produce powerful solar storms that can disrupt communication systems on Earth.
A panel of space weather forecasters has been sifting through about three dozen predictions from 15 nations that differ widely in how intense the next solar cycle will be. The group, run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and funded by NASA, aims to make an official prediction in spring 2007.

While scientists have observed sunspots — dark, cool blemishes — on the sun's surface since the days of Galileo, they've been unable to accurately forecast the severity of the eruptions associated with the spots. Sunspots are best known for triggering solar flares.

E-12 NASA telescope sees black hole gulping remote star

NASA telescope sees black hole gulping remote star

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A giant black hole displaying horrifying table manners has been caught in the act of guzzling a star in a galaxy 4 billion light-years away, scientists using an orbiting NASA telescope said on Tuesday....For the past two years, scientists have monitored the dramatic events as the star, residing in a galaxy in the Bootes constellation, was ripped apart by the black hole.

Scientists used NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, an orbiting telescope sensitive to two bands of ultraviolet wave lengths, to detect an ultraviolet flare coming from the center of a remote elliptical galaxy.

"This ultraviolet flare was from a star literally being ripped apart and swallowed by the black hole," Suvi Gezari of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and lead author of the paper describing the findings in Astrophysical Journal Letters, said in an interview.

E-11 Say Hello to the Goodbye Weapon

Say Hello to the Goodbye Weapon
The crowd is getting ugly. Soldiers roll up in a Hummer. Suddenly, the whole right half of your body is screaming in agony. You feel like you've been dipped in molten lava. You almost faint from shock and pain, but instead you stumble backwards -- and then start running. To your surprise, everyone else is running too. In a few seconds, the street is completely empty.

You've just been hit with a new nonlethal weapon that has been certified for use in Iraq -- even though critics argue there may be unforeseen effects.

According to documents obtained for Wired News under federal sunshine laws, the Air Force's Active Denial System, or ADS, has been certified safe after lengthy tests by military scientists in the lab and in war games.

The ADS shoots a beam of millimeters waves, which are longer in wavelength than x-rays but shorter than microwaves -- 94 GHz (= 3 mm wavelength) compared to 2.45 GHz (= 12 cm wavelength) in a standard microwave oven.

Documents acquired for Wired News using the Freedom of Information Act claim that most of the radiation (83 percent) is instantly absorbed by the top layer of the skin, heating it rapidly.

The beam produces what experimenters call the "Goodbye effect," or "prompt and highly motivated escape behavior." In human tests, most subjects reached their pain threshold within 3 seconds, and none of the subjects could endure more than 5 seconds.

E-10 Animals now attacking other animals and people too

Pelican swallows pigeon in park Families and tourists in a London park were left shocked when a pelican picked up and swallowed a pigeon...... The unusual wildlife spectacle in St James's Park was caught on camera by photographer Cathal McNaughton....... He said the Eastern White pelican had the unfortunate pigeon in its beak for more than 20 minutes before swallowing it whole.


Whale attacks trainer at SeaWorld SAN DIEGO - Shamu the killer whale injured a trainer during a show at SeaWorld Adventure Park by grabbing his foot and pulling him underwater twice, authorities said...... The 39-year-old man was hospitalized in good condition after Wednesday's show, said Mike Scarpuzzi, a park official. Scarpuzzi, who oversees zoological operations, said he did not know the extent of the trainer's injuries.


California sea lions attack humans SAN FRANCISCO - Tourists flock to Fisherman's Wharf for the seafood and the stunning views of San Francisco Bay, but for many visitors, the real stars are the dozens of playful, whiskered sea lions that lounge by the water's edge, gulping down fish..... Now a series of sea-lion attacks on people in recent months has led experts to warn that the animals are not as cute and cuddly as they appear.

"People should understand these animals are out there not to attack people or humans. But they're out there to survive for themselves," said Jim Oswald, a spokesman for the Marine Mammal Center across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.

In the most frightening of the recent episodes, a rogue sea lion bit 14 swimmers this month and chased 10 more out of the water at San Francisco's Aquatic Park, a sheltered lagoon near the bay. At least one victim suffered puncture wounds.

E-9 10 is the new 15 as kids grow up faster

10 is the new 15 as kids grow up faster Zach Plante is close with his parents — he plays baseball with them and, on weekends, helps with work in the small vineyard they keep at their northern California home. Lately, though, his parents have begun to notice subtle changes in their son. Among other things, he's announced that he wants to grow his hair longer — and sometimes greets his father with "Yo, Dad!"

In some ways, it's simply part of a kid's natural journey toward independence. But child development experts say that physical and behavioral changes that would have been typical of teenagers decades ago are now common among "tweens" — kids ages 8 to 12.

Some of them are going on "dates" and talking on their own cell phones. They listen to sexually charged pop music, play mature-rated video games and spend time gossiping on MySpace. And more girls are wearing makeup and clothing that some consider beyond their years.

Zach is starting to notice it in his friends, too, especially the way they treat their parents.

"A lot of kids can sometimes be annoyed by their parents," he says. "If I'm playing with them at one of their houses, then they kind of ignore their parents. If their parents do them a favor, they might just say, 'OK,' but not notice that much."

E-8 China - Pollution turns Yellow River red

Pollution turns Yellow River red A stretch of China's Yellow River turned red for the second time in a month because of pollution, media says..... Waste water from a heating station near the city of Lanzhou contaminated 1km of the river, the country's second longest, according to Xinhua..

Some 21,000 chemical factories are believed to be located along China's rivers and coastline - more than half on the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, which are relied upon by millions of people..... At the beginning of the year, the country's environment chief warned that more than 100 of those chemical plants posed safety threats.

E-7 Canada named top "fossil" at Kenya climate talks

Canada named top "fossil" at Kenya climate talks NAIROBI (Reuters) - Most countries would be happy to win an award at a major international climate change conference. But they don't want one of these.

As delegates boo-ed loudly, activist Maia Green said Canada had won joint first and second place on Thursday for, among others things, "misleading" the world, "repudiating" the Kyoto Protocol and "flagrantly ... washing its political laundry on the international stage."

Canada has been slammed at the Kenya talks, which are trying to agree a successor to Kyoto, mostly for saying it would be "very, very difficult" for it to meet its promised cuts in the emission of greenhouse gases..... Other "fossil" winners have included Australia, Saudi Arabia, the E.U. and United States.

U.S. President George W. Bush, whose country has rejected Kyoto, was being honored as "Fossil of the Century."

UPDATES: '06 Nov 18
U.N. nations reach deal to cut emissions NAIROBI, Kenya - More than 180 nations at the U.N. climate conference agreed Friday on the next steps toward negotiating deeper future cuts in global-warming gases, after conceding to China that developing nations won't be pressed immediately to reduce emissions.

The 1997 Kyoto pact obliges 35 industrial nations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. The United States rejects that accord, with President Bush contending it would damage the U.S. economy and should have given poorer countries obligations as well...... But developing countries will likely resist considering emissions reductions until they see acceptance of mandatory caps by the United States — a prospect some see as possible after Bush leaves office in 2009. Some Third World delegations had favored delaying the Kyoto review until as late as 2011.

In a separate set of less-formal talks, to be completed next year, the Kyoto member countries explored ways to bring the United States into a global emissions-reduction regime.

E-6 Ice-melt isolates remote communities in Canada

Ice-melt isolates remote communities in Canada TORONTO (Reuters) - Aboriginal communities in Ontario's far north are becoming increasingly isolated as rising temperatures melt their winter route to the outside world and impede their access to supplies..... "The ice doesn't have its solid blue color any more," said Stan Beardy, the grand chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation, which represents Ontario's remote First Nations. "It's more like Styrofoam now, really brittle."

E-5 Harvesting body parts....from living people

Poor Pakistanis donate kidneys for money

JANDALA, Pakistan - Nassem Kausar has done it. So, she says, have her sister, six brothers, five sisters-in-law and two nephews. Each has sold a kidney to a trade that has led Pakistan's media to dub the country a "kidney bazaar." ..... "We do this because of our poverty," said Kausar, who is in her 30s and lives with her family in Sultanpur Mor, a village in eastern Pakistan.

A kidney nets the donor $2,500, sometimes less than half that amount, while recipients — some 2,000 a year — pay $6,000 to $12,000, compared with $70,000 in neighboring China.

The Sindh Institute's Ali said donors need constant check-ups to keep their blood pressure and sugar under control and protect the remaining kidney. In Jandala, another eastern village, kidney donors said they received no follow-up care..... "I pant. I cannot run. I cannot pick up heavy things," said Allah Yar, a 50-year-old farmer who has suffered poor health for seven years since selling a kidney. The father of six said he needed to pay off a $3,000 loan to his landlord, but got only about $1,200 for his kidney, meaning he remains deep in debt.

Sitting nearby, Mohammed Akram, a 22-year-old brick kiln worker, said he sold his kidney to pay off his father's debt....."I cannot work like I did before. I cannot walk. I cannot run," said Akram. "I did this for my father but destroyed myself."

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It's interesting how I just get into cloning and a couple of days later, it's on a related topic.. harvesting body aprts... The last sentence says it all...

Saysame me, JR

E-4 Cloning.. it's been going on for over half a century..

Australian vote on embryonic cloning sparks controversy

Australian senate approves stem cell cloning

Animal Cloning

How Cloning Works

Cloning Fact Sheet

Genomics, Bioinformatics & MedicineHuman Cloning and Genetic Modification-

Was Mark Spitz a clone... Lots of unanswered questions surround his swimmining abilities....
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MARK SPITZ
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UPDATES:
'06 Dec 06 Australia lifts ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research
'06 Dec 06 UK scientists want human stem cell trials

E-3 Australian Drought

Australia calls drought summit as economy threatenedSYDNEY (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister John Howard has called an emergency drought summit as climate change and rising interest rates threaten a 10-year economic boom -- and his grip on power. ADVERTISEMENT

Shaping up as the worst drought since white settlement more than 200 years ago, the "big dry" is likely to cut agricultural output by 20 percent and
GDP by around 0.7 percent, government officials say.

"Frightening" study predicts hotter, drier Australia

E-2 U.S. defends itself on global warming... denies "IT" is part of the problem

U.S. defends itself on global warming NAIROBI, Kenya - The United States is doing better lately than some countries in restraining growth of global warming gases, and it isn't likely to change its stand against mandatory controls, a U.S. negotiator said Monday as 5,000 delegates opened the annual U.N. climate conference

The chief American delegate was defending the U.S. position as an industrial country that rejects Kyoto's obligatory reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists blame for global warming..... Others here, meanwhile, sounded a more urgent note about growing perils from climate change.

NASA reported last month "dramatic" melting of Greenland's ice mass, at a rate of 41 cubic miles per year, far surpassing the gain of 14 cubic miles per year from snowfall.

E-1 Germany - Sudden Cold freeze and power outage...

Cold snap plunges swathes of Europe into blackness PARIS (AFP) - A sudden weekend surge in Germany's demand for electricity due to freezing weather plunged much of Europe into blackness as France and other power exporting countries found their grids overtapped.

The power outage nearly caused an unprecedented Europe-wide blackout and left 10 million people -- half of them in France -- in the dark and cold, energy supply companies said Sunday.