Thursday, January 1, 2015

Ringing in 2015

Ringing in 2015: The US in 15 fascinating numbers

As we say 'goodbye' to 2014 and 'hello' to 2015, here are 15 numbers that symbolize key trends and events.

Christian Science Monitor
By Mark Trumbull 16 hours ago
A new year offers the chance to take a fresh look at things, including some of the defining features of American life. In honor of 2015, here are 15 numbers that symbolize key trends and events, from science to sports and beyond.
13,000
The number of troops who will remain in Afghanistan (mostly Americans but also some NATO forces) despite the end of Operation Enduring Freedom. That 13-year combat operation was the longest war in US history. The new mission for the remaining personnel? Training and counterterrorism efforts.
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20,000 m.p.h.
The speed of the Orion spacecraft on its first flight, Dec. 5. The spacecraft flew, uncrewed, to test its heat shield, avionics, parachutes, and computers for missions that could eventually include a manned trip to Mars. That 20,000 miles per hour is a high speed by earthling standards, but for the record, Apollo astronauts went 24,000 m.p.h. in their 1969 journey to the moon.
320 million
The US population as estimated by the Census as the new year dawns. The total is rising in number but shrinking as a share of the world population (7.2 billion).  And in a symbol of the Sun Belt’s continued growth, New York was just eclipsed by Florida as the third most populous state.
1996
The last year in which the nation’s champion college football team was a first-timer for that honor. (It was the Florida Gators in that year.) Is that about to happen again? You won’t have to wait long into 2015 to find out. The University of Oregon is the team that could do it. A first test will come Jan. 1 in the Rose Bowl as Oregon plays Florida State. A win there would set up a shot at the title against either Ohio State or Alabama.
2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit
The projected rise in temperatures “in most areas of the United States over the next few decades,” according to a 2014 US National Climate Assessment, prepared by climate scientists for Congress. “What is new over the last decade is that we know with increasing certainty that climate change is happening now,” the report said. It warned of damaging impacts, but said efforts such as greater reliance on solar power could help mitigate those effects.
7th
The day in January when a “brand new” comet might offer best viewing, even with just the naked eye. Comet Lovejoy, discovered by an amateur astronomer in August, will be visible near the constellation Orion. “Grab the binoculars, or if you live in a location free of urban glow, just use your eyes,” says Monitor science writer Pete Spotts. “By Jan. 7, the comet will be appearing to the right of the bottom half of Orion's bow.”
$2.26 per gallon*
The current average price of regular gasoline. (*Note: Prices at your local station may vary.) Gas prices have fallen by more than a dollar since the end of 2013 as global oil prices have plunged. How much lower will it go? We’ll see. It will depend a lot on whether oil producing nations tighten supply or keep competing for market share.
2/3
The number of new marriages that won’t end in divorce, based on current trends tracked by economist Justin Wolfers. Mr. Wolfers was quoted in a New York Times article debunking the notion that half of marriages end in divorce.
21
The number of states where the minimum wage is rising in 2015. In all, some 29 states will have base pay for workers set above the federal level of $7.25 per hour. Changes enacted since 2013 will be a financial win for 7 million workers, White House economists estimate. The gains are centered especially in low-paid industries such as fast food and retailing.
0
The number of comprehensive federal reports that track incidents in which people are killed by police each year. The lack of such statistics came into view amid public outcries over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner this year. Incidents in which police died in the line of duty, tracked by a nonprofit foundation, rose in 2014.
19
The number of states where control of government will be split between Republicans and Democrats. The 2014 election caused a big jump in the ranks of these “purple” states, so get ready for some new tests of whether “divided government” works better at the state level than it does in the nation’s capital. Incoming Republican governors will face off against Democratic legislatures in places like Illinois, Maryland, and Massachusetts.
83 million
The number of households and small businesses affected by a data breach at the giant bank JPMorgan Chase. That was just one of the high profile cases of online vulnerability – an email hack at Sony Pictures being another – that made headlines in 2014, cementing cyber security as an issue that’s sure to stay big. (Keep an eye on The Christian Science Monitor’s focused coverage of this arena at http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode).
24 percent
The share of Hispanic Americans who are former Catholics. That’s according to a Pew Research Center report on “The Shifting Religious Identity of Latinos in the United States.” The Pew survey found that 55 percent of Hispanic adults in the US identify their religion as Catholic, while 22 percent are Protestant, 18 percent are “unaffiliated,” 3 percent “other Christian,” and 1 percent “other.”
17 percent
The decline in America’s homeless population since 2005. A key factor behind the success: the rise of a “housing first” approach to helping people who lack places to call home, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, which reported the drop in homelessness. The idea is to help with shelter even if other problems in a homeless person’s life are unresolved. The alliance’s Stephen Berg called the success a “giant untold story.”
80 percent
The share of high schoolers who are graduating in four years. That historic high (since tracking began) was measured in the 2011-2012 school year and reported in 2014. Big urban school districts generally lag far behind the 80 percent average, but successes in places such as Houston (79 percent) show this is “not a chronically unfixable problem of poverty or demography or circumstances of birth,” education expert John Bridgeland said.
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76,000 people were killed in Syria in 2014 including 3500 children

Syria Deaths in 2014 Hit a New High, Group Says

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More than 76,000 people died in Syria's civil war in 2014, including more than 3,500 children, a monitoring group reported on Thursday.
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Syria Deaths in 2014 Hit a New High, Group Says

By and MOHAMMAD GHANNAM
Carrying milk for sale in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria. A monitoring group said over 3,500 children were among more than 76,000 civil war fatalities in 2014. Mahmoud Hebbo/Reuters
More than 76,000 people died in Syria’s civil war in 2014, including more than 3,500 children, a monitoring group reported on Thursday. The figures would make last year the deadliest in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011.
The figures from the monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, put the total number of dead in the conflict as of Wednesday at 206,603.
The group, based in Britain, uses a network of contacts inside Syria to tally casualties, and its figures cannot be independently corroborated. The United Nations, which once regularly documented the numbers of dead and wounded in Syria, discontinued the practice some time ago.
But the United Nations said in December that more than 200,000 people had been killed in the conflict, which began as an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad and has since evolved into a civil war that has destabilized the Middle East.
The Syrian Observatory’s 2014 casualty figures include 17,790 civilians, among them 3,501 children.

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The rest include Syrian soldiers and allied militia members, rebel fighters and members of jihadist militant organizations that have joined the fighting.
The Syrian Observatory’s total of 76,021 deaths for 2014 compared with its total of 73,447 in 2013, 49,294 in 2012 and 7,841 in 2011.
The number of wounded in the Syria conflict has been even harder to determine, partly because of restricted access to combat zones and the collapse of the country’s public health system.
Last month, the World Health Organization’s Syria representative, Elizabeth Hoff, said the cumulative number of wounded was approximately one million.
Ms. Hoff made the estimate as part of a United Nations annual appeal for funding at a donors conference in Berlin. The organization said it was seeking $8.4 billion in 2015 to help nearly 18 million victims of Syria’s conflict, mostly displaced civilians and refugees.
The 2014 casualty figures were issued as Syria’s state-run news agency reported that Mr. Assad, in a New Year’s Eve morale-boosting gesture, had visited soldiers on the front lines in Jobar, an embattled suburb of Damascus. Images posted on the news agency’s website showed Mr. Assad, minus his signature mustache, greeting his troops.
Antigovernment activists said that they doubted that Mr. Assad had ventured into Jobar, which they said was contested or rebel-controlled, and that the images shown by the state media appeared to be from Zablatani, a government-held area nearby.
Some images showed a building with a sign that read Damascus Transportation Department, and several Damascus residents said they knew of such a building in Zablatani, not in Jobar.
Rick Gladstone reported from New York, and Mohammad Ghannam from Beirut, Lebanon.
A version of this article appears in print on January 2, 2015, on page A4 of the New York edition with the headline: Syria Deaths in 2014 Hit a New High, Group Says. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Back In 2000, The CIA Made These Predictions For 2015

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Back In 2000, The CIA Made These Predictions For 2015

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By Nicholas Carlson 11 hours ago
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REUTERS/STR New The CIA's 2000 report guided George W. Bush. Back in 2000, the CIA published a 70-page report on what the world would be like in 2015.  Here were some of those predictions, according to a December 2000 story from the Telegraph. 
"International affairs are increasingly determined by large and powerful organisations rather than governments." Verdict: Probably true. Though it is sometimes hard to distinguish between non-state actors and state actors. Just look at the Islamic State or the possibly-not-North Korean hackers who took down Sony.
"Between now and 2015 terrorist tactics will become increasingly sophisticated and designed to achieve mass casualties." Verdict: Definitely true. Sadly, this prediction became true within months.
"Iraq and Iran [will] develop long range missiles in the near future. Iran … could be testing such weapons by as early as the coming year, and cruise missiles by 2004." Verdict: Both true and false. Iran is definitely working on an ICBM, but it won't test it till next year.
"The world population will grow by more than one billion, to 7.2 billion." Verdict: True.
"Energy resources will be sufficient to meet demand." Verdict: Nailed it. Companies are actually canceling plans to dig up more natural gas because oil is abundant right now.
"China's economy will grow to overtake Europe as the world's second largest but still behind the United States." Verdict: True-ish. By some measurements, China's economy is now larger than the US economy.
"Europe will not achieve fully the dreams of parity with the US as a shaper of the global economic system." Verdict: Correct. The report was way too bullish on the European economy, which is "going nowhere" these days.
"Aids, famine, and continuing economic and political turmoil means that populations in many [African] countries will actually fall." Verdict: False. Africa's population rose from 800 million in 2000 to 1.1 billion in 2014.
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Korean American teaches English in 2011 in Pyongyang: writes book about it

I had heard this lady who wrote this book speak about it on CNN on TV. Considering what has happened the last few weeks I thought you might be interested in this too.

Tales Told Out of School in Pyongyang Cause Stir

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A memoir by a Korean-American author about teaching English to adolescent boys at a private university in Pyongyang was certain to anger the North Korean government.
But the author, Suki Kim, may have provoked even more anger among the university’s Christian educators. They have denounced Ms. Kim for breaking a promise not to write anything about her experiences and said her memoir contains inaccuracies, notably her portrayal of them as missionaries, which could cause them trouble with the North Korean authorities.
The private university, the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, was approved in 2001 by the North Korean authorities, despite their distrust of outsiders. Fenced and heavily guarded, the university opened eight years later. It was there that Ms. Kim secretly took notes as she taught English in 2011 to 50 teenage boys and young men drawn from North Korea’s most privileged families.
It is unclear whether the school will suffer any repercussions because of the book, “Without You, There Is No Us” (Crown Publishers), named for a lyric in an ode to the ruling Kim family, often sung by the students in their regimented routines.
Suki Kim wrote a book about her experiences teaching at a North Korean university. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
But the school’s president and founder, James Chin-Kyung Kim, said that because of the book, he had been sharply questioned by the North Korean authorities about Ms. Kim.
The book, which has been acclaimed by some Western experts on North Korea, has added another irritant to the troubled relations between North Korea and the United States. A Korean-language version is planned for this spring.
Ms. Kim, who is not a practicing Christian, conceded in an interview that she had been deceptive in applying for a teaching position at the school and clandestinely taking notes for the purpose of a book.
Ms. Kim said she would furtively scribble memorable quotes and anecdotes, destroy any paper notes after transcribing them secretly onto her laptop, then copy the transcriptions to thumb drives and erase them from the laptop. She wore the thumb drives around her neck like pieces of jewelry, she said, or stashed them in the garbage can in her residence on campus.
All faculty members, she said, were constantly monitored and North Korean officials subjected their belongings to occasional unannounced searches.
She hid her intentions not only from colleagues but also from Dr. Kim, a Korean-American entrepreneur who also founded a similar school in northeast China.
“I do feel really bad for hurting them,” she said. “Some of them were really nice, good, hardworking people.”
However, Ms. Kim argued, her fellow teachers had another motive. “As much as they say they wanted to educate North Korean kids for no reason, and poured money — life’s savings — into this school, really the larger goal was to convert them, one day, if North Korea were to open up,” she said. “It’s a long-term project of turning them to Jesus, that’s really their larger goal.” Dr. Kim denied her allegations, saying that the school is committed to education, not proselytizing.
Publication of the book has come as both proselytizing and human rights in North Korea are in the news.
Two of the three Americans who were incarcerated in North Korea, and only recently released, had been accused of hostile acts by seeking to spread the Christian faith. And the North’s state media has reacted with outrage over the past few weeks to an American-backed resolution at the United Nations urging that North Korean leaders face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
Ms. Kim, 44, immigrated to the United States with her family from South Korea when she was a child. A recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, she had her first book, “The Interpreter,” a novel about a Korean-American court interpreter in New York, published in 2003. She has been traveling to North Korea as a journalist since 2002.
She said she had been drawn to teaching at the Pyongyang school partly because it offered an opportunity to get beyond what she called the superficial reporting that often comes out of North Korea.
“I realized this was the only chance that I have of actually telling a longer story,” she said.
Her most worrisome inner conflict, she said, was in causing inadvertent danger to her students, with whom she had established trusting relationships. She gave them pseudonyms and muddled their identities in the book, she said, so the North Korean authorities would not seek retribution by punishing them.
Dr. Kim sent her what she described as a series of angry and distressed emails when he found out about her plans to publish the book. At least two of her former fellow teachers also wrote, imploring her to scrap the idea.
In a telephone interview from China, Dr. Kim sought to rebut the entire book.
“I am really upset about the attitude, her writings, her telling lies, her cheating us,” he said.
He was especially critical of what he called the erroneous assertion that the other teachers were missionaries. “We are educators,” he said.
If the North Korean authorities thought that the school was seeking to convert the students to Christianity, Dr. Kim said, “we would have trouble.”
“They know we are Christian, we do not hide that,” he said. “But we are not missionaries. Christians and missionaries are different.”
Ms. Kim acknowledged that the university’s Christians did not want to be called missionaries or proselytizers. “It’s far more subtle than that,” she said. “It’s why they call themselves educators. It’s another code word for what they’re doing.”
Correction: December 23, 2014
An article on Nov. 30 about the angry reaction to a memoir by Suki Kim, a Korean-American who taught English in North Korea, misstated, in some editions, part of the name of the university where she taught. It is the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, not the Pyongyang Institute of Science and Technology.
A version of this article appears in print on November 30, 2014, on page A18 of the New York edition with the headline: Tales Told Out of School in Pyongyang Cause Stir. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Thanks again for being interested in what I tend to be interested in and Happy New Year!!!
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New Virus Unlike Anything Ever Seen: Video



New Virus Unlike Anything Ever Seen

John Douglas was recently talking about how insecticides and herbicides are creating really dangerous viruses and things. And the worst things he has seen inside of people were people who were farming in the Midwest or who lived in farming communities and also some places in China. So, it isn't surprising to me that you would see something this fatal come from a farmer in a farming area in the Midwest because of insecticides and herbicides building up for the last 50 years in the air and soil there. What happens is super insects and superbugs (both actual bugs and really small organisms) tend to survive and flourish because of all the other things that died who couldn't survive the insecticides and herbicides. So, what survives is Superbugs and super organisms that will be fatal to human beings and other species in the long run. It is a similar problem to what Anti-biotics are creating worldwide too over time.

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The Camper You Wish You Owned: $500,000: Video

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Counseling or Mood Altering Drugs?

Many people these days are choosing to take mood altering drugs like Prosac (and all the others) instead of going into counseling. Because they think it is an easier way to fix their problems.

However, from my point of view this is like putting blinders on and walking through a battlefield. If people were machine gunning each other and you just put blinders on and put earplugs in what do you think is going to be the result?

The likely result might be you would be dead or wish you were.

So, I advocate counseling over taking mood altering drugs like prosac or others.

At least in counseling you might actually find what is making your life hell.

For example, when I encountered psychology in Psychology Today (a magazine) in the Palomar College Library when I was going to college there in 1971 it began my own healing process.

I learned that about 90% or more of my problems I had had nothing at all to do with and that they were just hand me downs from thousands of years of the problems my relatives had had in various ways.

With this load lifted off my shoulders I could actually begin to create the life I wanted to live slowly but surely and led eventually to a relatively happy fulfilling life with traveling all over, starting businesses and running them, raising my family (three biological kids, two step kids and 2 God Daughters) and having a really amazing life.

But, finding out that 90% of my problems weren't even my own fault prevented me from just killing myself one day from overwhelm.
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Supplements to extend quality of life for men over 50

Note: There is a Centrum made for women that you could replace number 1 with if you are a woman. And you won't need Prostate Supplement or DIM either if you are a woman. However, everything else here might be helpful to you.

These are some of the supplements I have found in my own life to extend the quality of my life on a daily basis over the years. I'm presently in my late 60s.

1. Centrum Silver Multivitamin for men over 50
This has been found in studies to increase lifespans by up to 9 years just by taking this one multivitamin.

2. NatureMade Balanced B-100 Complex (timed release)
This allows my cousin to continue to work (which he likes) after 70 years of age (He is presently 72). He says if he takes one of these in the morning he doesn't fade out around 2 pm in the after noon and can last until the end of the day by taking one of these each day. Everyone I have met over 40 or 50 says the same thing who takes them, including me.

3. Trader Joe's sublingual B-12s 1000 mcg. and 100 tablets (very small plastic bottle)
These go under the tongue and enter the bloodstream there instead of through the stomach. This bypasses the stomach which for many people over 50 cannot process B-12 or any b vitamins after age 50 or so worldwide. This not getting enough B-12 cause among other things Senile dementia and possibly Alzheimers too. So, if you are 50 or older you need to be either getting B-12 shots or taking under the tongue sublinguals to prevent dementia setting in in some people.

4. DHA by Nordic Naturals from purified Fish Oil (supports Memory, learning and mood)
90 softgells 500 mg. each.
This is a highly purified form of fish oil which has filtered out mercury and other harmful chemicals in most fish these days. So, you get all the benefits from fish oil like clean arteries and veins (not clogged) which can prevent heart attacks and strokes. However, your diet is important to in staying alive. You can't expect these to do all the work for you. But, they are going to help a lot in your quality of life if you take one of these each day. I used to take 2 a day but found it upset my stomach to much so I went back to 1. Possibly you could take one in the morning and one at night and that might work. I might try that too.

5. NOW Prostate Support 90 softgells (Saw Palmetto, Stinging Nettle and Lycopene). This supports prostate health and because of that also prevents prostate cancer in men. It also supports your sex life because a prostate controls erections among other things. So, for example, in myself I still have a healthy sex life in my late 60s partly because I use this product and partly because I eat good organic food and exercise and travel to keep my body and mind alert and happy.

6. Bioresponse DIM 150 Microencapsulated for proven absorption. This product my doctor uses and found this is the only product of it's kind that he trusts. He and I use it now for increasing urinary flow. Over 50 or 60 being able to urinate whenever you want to can sometimes become a problem. So, to lessen this problem I take 2 of these every morning with my other vitamin supplements for better results.

7. COQ10 by Whole Foods with Vitamin E and Lecithin 200gm.  60 tablets
This is an antioxident that supports a healthy heart and also supports staying as young and vital as possible at every age.

8. D-Ribose Jarrow formula 90 tablets dietary supplement Berry flavor.
These are sort of like eating a chewable vitamin or candy. What they do is they support Muscle recovery (including your heart muscle) and the best time to take these chewables is before or after exercising as it is a sugar that builds or rebuilds muscles specifically.
A friend of mine who is a Masseuse told me about them when he found I had had a heart problem coming back from Maui, Hawaii during an ongoing Solar Flare hitting Earth around 2012 in the fall. So, he wanted me to regain my heart health as soon as possible so I began taking them with good results ever since along with my above vitamin regimen.

9. If you don't live in too dry a place docusate sodium stool softener might be useful to you as well. they usually come in around 100 softgells in a bottle and one in the morning can help make your bowel movements more of a happy experience because your stool is softened so there is less danger of constipation or bleeding over 50 or 60 years of age.

10. Pearls Elite (delivers 5 billion probiotics) for digestive support, colon care and overall health. These I take at least one a day of these to help keep my immune system in tip top shape.

For example, probiotics are the opposite of anti-biotics that you take to kill infections. Probiotics you take to help your immune system rebuild after having to take anti-biotics so you don't feel weak for months after taking an anti-biotic.

So, Pro biotics help to not get colds, flues or infections by keeping your immune system strong all the time. This way your taking anti-biotics is going to be moved to a minimum over the years which also helps life on earth because anti-biotics are a problem for the long term survival of life on earth at this point for a variety of reasons.

11. 5-HTP Neurotransmitter support 100mg. Natural source Supports positive mood.
I keep these on hand and only take these one day to 5 days a year when I feel myself slipping towards clinical depression when someone I love  or care about dies or a 9-11 event happens that upsets everyone. I only do this one in emergencies to keep the chemical balance in my brain from slipping into a state where it starts to go into an unbalanced state by too many fear based chemicals being produced by the brain at one time.

I don't take these every day because it is a little like coffee. If you drink it every day then you have to drink it to work or stay awake. So, I only drink coffee when I need it to drive when I'm sleepy or need to stay awake or something like that so it is available to me when I need it.

In other words if you take 5-HTP every day then you are going to have to take it to be normal or the way you want to be. But then, you have nothing for emergencies.

It is a way to stay "emotionally balanced" through any calamity.

Another thing you can take when going through some type of crisis or death or divorce or something like that is B-Complex Stress Tabs. Here is one I used when going through a divorce in 1994:

12. Solaray Mega B-Stress Fast acting first stage Timed release Second Stage.
This type of vitamin helps replace B-Complex which is quickly burned up by the brain during stressful times. It also has a calming effect because of other herbs usually added too. 

I chose to do this instead of taking Prosac or other mood altering drug. I had seen what mood altering drugs do to emotionally disturbed teenagers (male and female) that I had been counseling. And this class of drug often creates the suicide that it is supposed to prevent by putting the patient into such a disassociative state so disconnected from who they are that they just kill themselves in the confusion.

I didn't want to be another victim of mood altering drugs so I chose to take Solaray Mega B Stress Tabs instead.
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The Temperature in Pasadena this morning was 36 Degrees Fahrenheit

So, if you were watching the girls in bands in front of them at the Rose Parade twirling batons just remember they were basically moving so they didn't freeze to death or get hypothermia. But, when you are young almost anything can be possible including marching in a bathing suit basically at 36 degrees.

Later:

Actually, a newsman and a newslady reported a temperature of 33 degrees Fahrenheit and one couple brought a metal dish to build a fire while waiting for the parade to keep warm there by the side of the road.  They showed them on TV.
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Portlandia (2011----)

  1.  Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein (both I think started in SNL or Saturday Night Live years ago now. 

    If you haven't seen Portlandia on IFC on TV it is a very experimental program regarding what life can be like in Porland, Oregon. 

    It reminds me of the 1960s and 1970s in California, Oregon and Washington (and many other parts of the U.S. as well) mixed with all the experimental consciousness of (retired people over 21) who live in Portland, Oregon.

    It is about an experimental way of living and thinking that hasn't died out or gone underground like it has most other places at this point in time.  So, if you like an experimental artistic way of viewing reality you just might like this program which is experimental in it's viewpoint in the extreme.


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  5. Portlandia - Image Results

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Excavation uncovers secret underground Nazi WMD factory

Excavation uncovers secret underground Nazi WMD factory

Suspiciously high radiation levels around the Austrian town of St. Georgen an der Gusen had long fueled theories that there was a buried bunker nearby where Nazis had tested nuclear weapons during WWII. Those suspicions came one step closer to being confirmed last week after the opening of a…
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Excavation uncovers secret underground Nazi WMD factory

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Excavation uncovers secret underground Nazi WMD factory
This undated photo provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia shows part of a seizure of radioactive substances, including iridium-192 and europium-152. (AP Photo/Georgia Interior Ministry)
Suspiciously high radiation levels around the Austrian town of St. Georgen an der Gusen had long fueled theories that there was a buried bunker nearby where Nazis had tested nuclear weapons during WWII.
Those suspicions came one step closer to being confirmed last week after the opening of a 75-acre underground complex was dug out from below the earth and granite used to seal off the entrance, the Times of Israel reports.
The excavation team was led by Austrian filmmaker Andreas Sulzer, who says the site was "likely the biggest secret weapons production facility of the Third Reich"—a facility that probably relied on forced labor from the nearby Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and may have even been the testing location for a nuclear bomb, the Daily Mirror reports.
The weapons facility was believed to have been manned by SS General Hans Kammler and situated near the B8 Bergkristall factory, where the first working jet-powered fighter was created, International Business Times reports; Sulzer first got wind of the site after seeing references to it in an Austrian physicist's diary.
"Up to 320,000 inmates are said to have died because of the brutal conditions in the subterranean labyrinth," Sulzer tells the Sunday Times, per the Times of Israel.
Those inmates were chosen for skills in physics, chemistry, or other sciences that would advance the Nazis' quest for WMD, Sulzer says. Digging at the site was halted by local officials who demanded a permit, but Sulzer says excavation will restart next month.
"We owe it to the victims to finally open the site and reveal the truth," he says, per the Mirror. (The US is still keeping nuclear warheads around to fight … asteroids?)
This article originally appeared on Newser: Secret Underground Nazi WMD Factory Found: Report
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Healing is a State of Mind

What is the opposite of Healing?
Hopelessness.

So, if we want to be in a state of constant healing of ourselves and all around us we must become generators of hope.

How does one become a Generator of hope?

By Praying and meditating upon things that will heal us, our children, and the world.

It is just like that one Junior high School in San Francisco deciding to have the kids meditate 1/2 hour a day and finding it reduced arguments and violence in the school in a quantifiable way.

If you take the time to meditate or pray (similar things) you begin the process of healing internally which then can begin to manifest externally as well.

Within our subconscious minds (whether you believe in God or not) there are natural states of healing present at all times.

By stilling our minds and calming ourselves down we can become in contact with those natural states of healing that are present all the time if we only tune into them.

IF we are only run by the external world around us upon the external world's schedule then often times we become out of sorts and out of touch with ourselves.

IF we are not in touch with ourselves we are not in touch with our own healing states and until we get in touch with our own healing states we cannot usually heal ourselves or help others to heal.

So, in quieting down ourselves by taking time to disconnect from the cares of the world and taking time to connect with our inner spirits (God if you wish) we become healed in all ways and others around us often become healed by our experiences of healing too.
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