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| KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF JUNE 29, 2009
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Introduction
A. No Korner in 8 years of doing this has ever garnered the shear volume of e-mails received after the Michael Jackson Special Edition June 25th. All but one of the notes received were from those touched by the piece. Amazing to remember that Michael was already a superstar & 26 years of age when he co-produced “We Are The World” released in 1985.
Bless Michael Jackson for bridging Blues & Pop and in doing so, bridged yet another racial chasm with his music; starting with our youth and moving beyond to impact all ages, whether you liked him, his music & dance, or not.
Michael’s life in photos says it all:
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This great report on Michael’s life from ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas will bring back alot of memories:
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One would hope Michael is finally inducted into the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009. “The Kennedy Center Honors are awarded annually for exemplary lifetime achievement in the performing arts,” from their website:
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"THERE COMES A TIME, WHEN WE HEED A CERTAIN CALL, WHEN THE WORLD MUST COME TOGETHER AS ONE..."
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Thanks to all of you who wrote and touched me with your thoughts!
B. “Simon Cowell wants to set the record straight.
In a letter to the Daily Mail on Saturday[ June 19], the “American Idol” and “Britain’s Got Talent” judge weighed in on the controversies surrounding the UK show, which gained a worldwide audience via YouTube this year...
And as for Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer who has captured the world’s attention but has had troubles dealing with the pressures of fame, Cowell also said he could’ve done things better. “It has become clear to me that we didn’t handle the situation with Susan as well as we could have,” Cowell continued,” quoting Access Hollywood.
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Susan Boyle is on the “Britain’s Got Talent” tour and is expected in Ireland this week:
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C. "In the United States, Independence Day (commonly known as the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain” and is “the only holiday that celebrates the United States”, from Wikipedia.
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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY - INDEPENDENCE DAY IN THE USA!
1. “THE GRID WE LIVE IN”
“What is the Matrix? It might be more than a cult movie classic, if you side with Nobel-winning physicist Frank Wilczek. In his new book, "The Lightness of Being," Wilczek sets forth the concept that at its most basic level, our universe exists as a vibrant energy field he calls "the Grid." (He says he might have considered calling it the Matrix, "but the sequels tarnished that candidate.")...
In Wilczek's view, mass arises because the Grid is permeated with a not-yet-understood property that "slows down" some of the interactions in the field, just as electrons are slowed down in a superconducting medium. In the medium known as the Grid, we perceive that slowed-down quality as mass,” quoting MSNBC.
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2. “35,000-YEAR-OLD FLUTE FOUND IN GERMANY”
“A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a complex and creative culture.
A team led by University of Tuebingen archaeologist Nicholas Conard assembled the flute from 12 pieces of griffon vulture bone scattered in a small plot of the Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany.
Together, the pieces comprise a 8.6-inch instrument with five holes and a notched end. Conard said the flute was 35,000 years old.
'It's unambiguously the oldest instrument in the world,' Conard told The Associated Press this week. His findings were published online Wednesday by the journal Nature,” quoting ABC News.
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And, from the Journal Nature:
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3. “DOCTORS BAFFLED, INTRIGUED BY GIRL WHO DOESN’T SEEM TO AGE”
“Brooke Greenberg is the size of an infant, with the mental capacity of a toddler.
She turned 16 in January.
‘Why doesn't she age?’ Howard Greenberg, 52, asked of his daughter.’"Is she the fountain of youth?’
Such questions are why scientists are fascinated by Brooke. Among the many documented instances of children who fail to grow or develop in some way, Brooke's case may be unique, according to her doctor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine pediatrician Lawrence Pakula, in Baltimore,” quoting ABC News.
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4. “MAN STRUCK BY LIGHTENING LIVES TO TELL TALE”
“Few people are ever hit by lightning. Even fewer live to tell the tale. Wendell Hansel is one of them.
Hansel, 37, said he was going outside to check his boat Sunday afternoon when the world exploded in front of him,” from WLWT –NBC in Cincinnati:
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5. PLANET ‘SPOTTED’ IN ANDROMEDA GALAXY”
“Astronomers believe they may have discovered the first planet ever detected in another galaxy. The new world was apparently glimpsed in the closest giant spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, Messier 31 in the constellation of Andromeda. It lies an incredible 2.5 million light-years away - too far normally to be seen. But it revealed itself thanks to a phenomenon called microlensing where the gravitational field of an object closer to Earth acts like a magnifying glass,” quoting Scientific American.
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6. “...'SWINE FLU’ HAS INFECTED AN ESTIMATED 1 MILLION IN THE U. S.”
As this astute Korner reader e-mailed:
“With all the focus on Michael Jackson, note what came out in the LA Times:”
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7. “ISRAELI MILITARY TESTING ‘ROBOTIC’ SNAKE”
“According to news reports, the Israeli military has developed a "robotic" snake that can transmit video and audio as it crawls through difficult terrain,” quoting the AP.
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8. WEATHER NEWS IN RECENT DAYS
A. “THE SCIENCE OF PREDICTING WEATHER”
“Weather guru has a “secret science” predicting weather up to a year in advance,” from ABC News:
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B. CLOUD FORMATIONS MAKE NEW YORKERS LOOK UP LAST WEEK
“This was taken on our cell phone last night (6/26/09) as the sun was setting after a severe thunderstorm in the East Village, NYC. Amazing! Looks like floating cotton balls,” from I Report.
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9. YOU GOTTA SEE THIS VW FACTORY IN GERMANY
“On of the most innovative car factories in the world in Dresden,” from YouTube:
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More on VW’s Phaeton from Wikipedia:
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And from Car & Driver:
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10. NEW CARS TO HIT THE ROAD WITHOUT PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
A. “Hydrogen car to be 'open source'
From the BBC:
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B. “Denmark to power electric cars by wind in vehicle-to-grid experiment“
From UK’s Guardian:
link here .
11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “WSU scientist prepares for new disease” on wheat crop
From the AP:
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B. Great photo from 200 miles above Russian island in the Pacific of an erupting volcano
From NASA:
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C. “WA air quality risk among worst in nation”
From KING-5 News:
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D. “Pets Pass Superbug to Humans”
From LiveScience:
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E. You must see these tiny houses:
From Tumbleweed Houses:
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12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. Strongest Emergency & Disaster Preparedness Dome Tent Shelters
From Shelter Systems:
link here
B. “Destroying Indigenous Populations”
About uranium mining in the USA and elsewhere. From Truthout:
Destroying Indigenous Populations
link here
C. “Iran's Women Protest: Shoulder to Shoulder With Men”
From the AP on Truthout:
link here
D. Need help in touring the Rennes Le Chateau area of southern France?
Rhedae Travel (Rhedae is the ancient name of Rennes-le-Chateau, dating from the time when about 36.000 people lived here) provides organizational services, all in and around the beautiful area of Rennes-le-Chateau, France.
link here
E. Stores accepting silver for payment
From YouTube:
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F. “Renters Hit by Foreclosure Crisis Too”
From the Washington Independent:
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THE NATION
A. June 18th talk by Rep, Ron Paul (R-TX):
“Having practiced medicine for over 30 years, Congressman Paul gives his perspective on the past and future of medicine in this country, and the effects of government and special interests on quality, costs and access.”
From YouTube:
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B. “Jay Weidner's fierce presentation at the 2012 Conference in San Francisco. Part 1 of 6.
"2012 and the End of Time: a Meeting of Minds in San Francisco" is the best of the best DVD of this 3 Day Conference,” from YouTube December, 2008.
[Ed. Note: One of the most spot-on talk I have ever heard on the subject. Be sure to see all 6 parts, they’re short.]
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C. “Obama's Regulatory Plan Strengthens Federal Reserve”
[Ed. Note: Obama is owned like all of the other Presidents to allow this!]
Read the specifics of Obama’s Plan in the Wall Street Journal. [Ed. Note: More government and corporation inter-mingling – this is the first signs of a sell-out by the Obama Administration – expect more to come!]
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The Audit the Fed movement is growing in Congress from Campaign for Liberty:
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D. “Buffett's gloomy economic predictions”
“The Oracle of Omaha says the worst is yet to come.”
From MSN:
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E. Oath Keepers Motto:
"Military, Veterans, and peace officers who will honor their oaths to defend the Constitution, will NOT “just follow orders,” will stand for liberty, and will save the Republic, so help us God. Our motto is:
"Not on Our Watch!"
[Ed. Note: This is an incredible group – a must-read for all Americans.]
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Stewart Rhodes Founder and Director of Oath Keepers was recently interviewed twice on Beyond the Ordinary internet radio as July 4th approaches!
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Please read Declaration of Orders We Will NOT Obey:
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& Principles of Our Republic We Are Sworn to Defend.
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F. “Homeland Security drone patrolling NNY”
From ABC-TV in Watertown, NY:
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RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. JZ Knight donates Ramtha One on One to CSE
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B. RSE Presents: An Experience Of A Lifetime - One Hour With Ramtha
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C. André Cyr recently retired as professor of Ornithology in the University of Sherbrook (Quebec) after 30 years. Bird Protection Quebec (BPQ) recognized Dr. Cyr with its Quebec Education Award for 2008 in honour of his significant educational contributions to Quebec birding, presented to him on May, 11, 2009. With Jacques Larivée he is the author of the Seasonal Atlas of the Birds of Quebec. Congratulations to André!
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D. Carolyn GiaMarco just completed the quarter at SPSCC on film editing. Her first music video is "I Hate Litter” on YouTube:
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E. George Feiszthammel of Agaf Flooring, Inc. offers quality and creative marble, tile & granite installation on walls, floors and counter tops. 10 years of experience.
From MastersConnection:
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F. "In 1932, during the great depression, Lucy Jeanne's grandmother lived south of Nevis for three years with her two young children. The family wrote back and forth to their father, a street car driver in Minneapolis, daily. Lucy's family has preserved these letters and their valuable story on the website":
link here
G. RSE Press Release: New Home Study Program at Ramtha's School
"Yelm, WA. June 25, 2009 - Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, located in Yelm, Washington, has recently launched its new Home Study Program. Officially launched at the end of February, there are over 550 new students in the Home Study Program."
link here .
LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. Yelm area residents burdened by Harding era debt accumulation
B. Annual CSE fund-raising event – largest in the area
C. Librarian Blalack’s departure after 35 years of service
D. Yelm Prairie Days
E. Improv & Firearms classes offered in area
F. NVN misquotes this blog – yet again!
G. Remembering Michael Jackson – in perspective
H. Introducing local business: Paradise Studio Art
I. Small towns help to shape county/IT transit ins national award
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
American Statesman
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Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2009.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner,
click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives"
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| KLEINER'S KORNER SPECIAL EDITION FOR JUNE 25, 2009
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Dear Readers;
No matter what each of us may feel about Michael Jackson's flaws, his were no different than our own. These define the human condition that are all of our roadblocks towards evolution. His were just more publicized than ours!
We have a generation alive today that truly do not know the contribution that this man made to our evolving society; emerging from the ignorance, blindness and prejudice of the inequities amongst races.
Let THIS and his whole genre of works be Michael Jackson's legacy. That there be no one untouched and unmoved by this man's co-production of this piece the world-over is fitting this day, I say!
For those that are too young to know or to jar your memory from 24 years ago [yes, 24 years ago; Michael was 26!]:
"USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa), was the name under which forty-five predominantly U.S. artists, led by Harry Belafonte, Kenny Rogers, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985. The song was a US and UK Number One for the collective in April of that year. The considerable profits from the enterprise went to the USA for Africa Foundation, which used them for the relief of famine and disease in Africa; critics, however, claim that this money went directly to the (often military) governments of the affected countries rather than the people. A recording of the live performance was released with the Live Aid DVD set released on November 8, 2004," quoting YouTube. ">link here
And, the final released version of the song went viral & touched the world in 1985 long before cell phones, laptops, I-Phones, Twitter, Facebook & Blogs! click ">link here here
Bless Michael Jackson for bridging Blues & Pop and in doing so, bridged yet another racial chasm with his music, starting with our youth and moving beyond to all ages.
"THERE COMES A TIME, WHEN WE HEED A CERTAIN CALL, WHEN THE WORLD MUST COME TOGETHER AS ONE..."
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On Friday, June 19th, President Barack Obama brought some men (and a bunch of kids!) to the White House to talk about fatherhood. Check out a video of the event:
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1. “TEEN OUTSMARTS DOCTORS IN SCIENCE CLASS”
“When doctors didn't give a Washington state high school student the answers she wanted, she took matters into her own hands.
Eighteen-year-old Jessica Terry, brought slides of her own intestinal tissue into her AP science class and correctly diagnosed herself with Crohn's disease…
So when local pathologists stopped in to teach students in her Biomedical Problems class how to analyze slides, the high school senior decided to give her own intestines a look.
What she found? A large dark area showing inflammation, otherwise known as a granuloma--a sure sign of the intestinal disease,” quoting NBC.
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2. “11-YEAR-OLD BOY REINCARNATED?”
From Cleveland, Ohio’s FOX News:
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“The video looks at the case of an 11-year-old boy who has had startling memories from the WWII era - and gave specific details to a war hero's surviving family,” quoting the Seattle Examiner.
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“Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot (Hardcover)”
[Ed. Note: This child, James Leininger, says reincarnation IS real!]
From Amazon.com:
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3. WORDS OF WISDOM FROM A YOUNG MAN IN TEXAS!
An amazing story of survival and wisdom at a very young age, 12!
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“Boy is OK after tree branch skewered his neck”
“12-year-old fell off dirt bike; could have bled to death if he’d pulled it out,” from the Today Show on NBC:
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4. “THE UNIVERSE IN YOUR HEAD”
“Biomedical researcher Robert Lanza has been on the frontier of cloning and stem cell studies for more than a decade, so he's well-acclimated to controversy. But his book "Biocentrism" is generating controversy on a different plane by arguing that our consciousness plays a central role in creating the cosmos.
‘By treating space and time as physical things, science picks a completely wrong starting point for understanding the world,’ Lanza declares…
Lanza admits that the reviews haven't all been glowing, particularly among some physicists. ‘Their response has been much how you'd expect priests to respond to stem cell research,’ he told me Monday [June 15th].
Other physicists, however, point out that Lanza's view is fully in line with the perspective from quantum mechanics that the observer plays a huge role in how reality is observed,”
quoting MSNBC’s Cosmic Log.
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Lanza’s book Biocentrism:
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5. “NASA KICK-STARTING LUNAR SCIENCE”
“If you're in the planning stages of sending people back to the moon, as NASA is, you'd better know as much as possible about it.
That's one of the reasons NASA launched, in late 2007, the Lunar Science Institute (LSI), an organization with an annual budget of $10 million for the study and research of the moon, as well as the role of supporting and inspiring new generations of lunar scientists.
According to Greg Schmidt, LSI's deputy director, it is a "virtual" institute with a staff of just eight or nine people at any given moment. LSI is focused on collecting and sharing Web data and communications, chiefly among the scientists doing research on behalf of the institute, and who work in teams around and outside the country that are competitively selected,” quoting CNET.
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6. “CHINA’S FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH”
“Small village in China with six centenarians may hold key to fountain of youth,”
from ABC News.
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7. INTRODUCING THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN
“The mission of I.M.O.W. is to value the lives of women around the world.
I.M.O.W. is a groundbreaking social change museum that inspires global action, connects people across borders and transforms hearts and minds by amplifying the voices of women worldwide through global online exhibitions, history, the arts and cultural programs that educate, create dialogue and build community. With its unique focus on cultural change, I.M.O.W. advances the human right to gender equity worldwide,” quoting the I. M O. W. website:
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8. “WORLD’S OLDEST MAN DIES AT 113…”
“Tomoji Tanabe, the world's oldest man, died in his sleep at his home in southern Japan on Friday, a city official said. He was 113...
Tanabe, who was born Sept. 18, 1895, had eight children — five sons and three daughters. The former city land surveyor also had 25 grandchildren, 53 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren, according to a statement from the Miyakonojo city. He was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest man when he was 111 years old,” quoting the AP.
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9. “VIOLINIST JOSHUA PLAYED INCOGNITO IN A WASHINGTON SUBWAY”
“This is a most interesting story,” quoting Urban Legends. [Ed. Note: saying anything else would diminish the impact of reading for yourself!]
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10. “WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD SWINE FLU? NOT ME!”
“You can't turn on the news without hearing about the possible swine flu epidemic. I am getting phone calls and e-mails from people asking what they should do to protect their family. So, I wrote this article to tell you what we are doing at our home. We are simply taking the same steps we would to avoid any type of an illness or outbreak...
FIRST take steps to boost your own immune system!”
from “heal it yourself”
[Ed. Note: This is not an endorsement, rather only to provide information. Always trust your own knowingness!]
link here .
11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “Report: Climate Change Already Affecting US”
From the Washington Post in Truthout:
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B. “Recycled homes, one box at a time”
From CNN:
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C. “Lawmakers Ask Commerce Department to Reject Gulf Fish Farms”
From the Miami Sun-Herald in Truthout:
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D. “Seattle spring dry spell ties record”
From KING-5 TV News:
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&
“Seattle's dry spell ends”
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E. 'We are fighting for our lives and our dignity'
“Across the globe, as mining and oil firms race for dwindling resources, indigenous peoples are battling to defend their lands – often paying the ultimate price”
From UK’s Guardian:
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F. Must-see aerial photo of the new bridge under-construction to bypass the Hoover Dam
From: MSNBC:
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G. “Students join Mrs. Obama in harvesting garden”
“Fifth-graders help pick the lettuce and peas they had planted in the spring”
From the AP:
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H. “Seattle switching street lights to LEDs”
From the AP:
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12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. “'Something different" happening with new flu – CDC”
From Reuters:
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B. “Film aims to expose dangers in U.S. food industry”
From Reuters:
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C. “Climate change worsens disaster risks for poor-UN”
From Reuters:
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D. “‘Green’ jobs outpacing traditional ones”
From Christian Science Monitor:
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E. “Oil and Indians Don't Mix”
From Greg Palast:
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F. “U.N.: Higher prices push hungry over 1 billion”
“Official warns of 'human catastrophe' as more people struggle for food”
From Reuters:
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G. “California's hard times driving people back to the 'Dust Bowl'”
From the Sacramento Bee:
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13. THE NATION
A. “BUT GOVERNOR, YOU CAN CREATE MONEY!
JUST FORM YOUR OWN BANK.”
From Web of Debt:
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B. Keene, NH City Council taking houses for unpaid property taxes
[Ed. Note: is Yelm next to do this? HMMM!]
From YouTube:
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C. “Suitcase With $134 Billion Puts Dollar on Edge”
From Bloomberg News:
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D. “Jimmy Carter to meet Hamas leaders after criticising Israeli PM”
From UK’s Guardian:
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E. “Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited…”
From CNBC:
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RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. The latest RSE Newsletter is just out:
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B. The Masters’ Fund Update:
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C. RSE’s very popular speaker Dr. Ron Mallett appeared on ABC's Good Morning America Weekend Show June 21st:
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then scroll to GMA Weekend Hot List, and click Turning Back the Clock.
And: Dr. Mallett's website:
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D. Introducing Janneman Pienaar’s Misty Mountain Saddlery, “Maker of custom western saddles, saddle trees and knives”
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E. Check-out the latest Yelm Food Co-op Newsletter:
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F. “Followup Review of Dr. Karriem Ali's Swine Flu Lecture”
From MastersConnection:
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And: “5 Part Presentation of PBS 1918 influenza Documentary”
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G. Ramtha.tv, Streaming Event! June 20
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H. Candle Focus at your computer from beyond the Ordinary:
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I. Wishing Harry Brooks, who passed in recent days grand adventures and blessings to his widow, Diana:
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J. Jamie Honey's Improv classes are Friday nights in Rainier. Everyone welcome. For more information, go to:
link here
Jamie has donated a ten session card valued $150 to the CSE Auction this weekend. That can be 10 classes for 1 person or 10 people enjoying 1 class or 5 people twice or any combination.
For more on the CSE Auction:
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K. Join Greg Simmons and Esateys as they speak about the latest updates on the State of the economy, its potential impact on all of us, and necessary strategies for a sustainable future. Greg is very clear and insightful and will provide an important and timely “big picture” analysis of the world we are living in. Do not miss this powerful show.
11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern and 6:00 PM Pacific / 9:00 PM Eastern
During the scheduled time, listen Live:
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or go to archives on
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Programs are usually posted there within 24-48 hours..
LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. Vote America’s Favorite Farmer’s Market Contest
B. Introducing Yelm Refrigeration
C. Yelm Bypass – Update!
D. Public engages Yelm Planning Commission
E. Novel to recycle styrofoam locally
F. City’s debt service comprises water rate hike
G. Introducing Sebastian’s Best Catering
H. Welcome Summer Solstice June 20th in Yelm
I. Cast your vote in NVN Poll
J. Olympia twice in national news last week
K. Two-time Yelm speaker Dr. Ron Mallett appears on ABC’s Good Morning America Weekend
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Austrian neurologist and Founder of psychoanalysis.
From Wikipedia:
link here .
Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2009.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner,
click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives"
at
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Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com .
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Miscellaneous stories of note:
A. Susan Boyle ready to take on the world!
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B. Bob Hope’s widow Delores celebrates her 100th birthday!
See AP photos:
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Delores Hope’s website:
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C. Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere Saturday, June 20th at 10:45PM PDT:
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D. Happy Father’s Day in 52 of the world’s countries Sunday, June 21st. Bless our dad’s, progenitors of our lives:
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1. “UN: HIGHER PRICES PUSH HUNGRY OVER 1 BILLION”
“High food prices have pushed another 105 million people into hunger in the first half of 2009, the head of the U.N. World Food Program said Friday, raising the total number of hungry people to over 1 billion.
Urging rich nations at a meeting of the Group of Eight's development ministers not cut back on aid, Josette Sheeran told Reuters the world faced a "human catastrophe" as more and more people struggle to eat a decent meal,” quoting Reuters.
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2. “FLYING FOR EVER”
“WHEN an airliner takes off for a transatlantic flight it needs to carry some 80 tonnes of fuel, which accounts for around one-fifth of its weight. On really long flights, fuel can account for 40% of a plane’s take-off weight, so that around 20% of the fuel is used to carry the rest of the fuel. Each tonne of fuel burned also produces 3.2 tonnes of carbon dioxide. Yet inside a hanger at a Swiss airfield is the prototype of an aircraft (illustrated above) that does not use any fuel at all. The wings of this aircraft are almost as big as those of an airliner, but they are covered in a film of solar cells that convert sunlight into electricity to drive its engines,” from The Economist:
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3. “...RESVERATROL DEMONSTRATES SIGNIFICANT HEALTH BENEFITS”
“The benefits of alcohol are all about moderation. Low to moderate drinking – especially of red wine – appears to reduce all causes of mortality, while too much drinking causes multiple organ damage. A mini-review of recent findings on red wine's polyphenols, particularly one called resveratrol, will be published in the September issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research; the review is also available at Early View,” quoting ScienceDaily.
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4. “BRIDGING THE GAP TO QUANTUM WORLD”
“Scientists have "entangled" the motions of pairs of atoms for the first time.
Entanglement is an effect in quantum mechanics, a relatively new branch of physics that is based more in probability than in classical laws.
It describes how properties of two or more objects can be inextricably linked over "vast" distances.
The results, published in Nature, further bridge the gap between the world of quantum mechanics and the laws of everyday experience.
This is the first time entanglement has been seen in a so-called "mechanical system".
The phenomenon suggests that a measurement performed on one object can affect the measurement on another object some distance away. It also implies that the behaviour of two separate objects is linked by some unseen connection - an idea that Albert Einstein described as "spooky",” quoting the BBC.
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5. BLACK HOLES MAKING NEWS
A. “CLOSE-UP LOOK AT BLACK HOLE REVEALS FEEDING FRENZY”
“Astronomers are getting a close-up look at a cosmic eating machine: a spinning black hole that devours the mass equivalent of two Earths per hour, verging on the limit of its feeding ability…
The behemoth of interest in the new close-up study, which will be published in the May 28 issue of the journal Nature, lies at the center of a distant active galaxy known as 1H0707-495. Using data from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton observatory, astronomers analyzed X-rays emitted during the black hole's feeding frenzy,” quoting Space.com.
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B. “A REAL WHOPPER: BLACK HOLE IS MOST MASSIVE”
“The most massive black hole yet weighed lurks at the heart of the relatively nearby giant galaxy M87...
The discovery was announced here [Pasadena] today [June 8th] at the 214th meeting of the American Astronomical Society,” from Space.com:
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6. BRAIN STUDIES REVEAL NEW KNOWLEDGE
A. “SLEEP FOUND TO REPAIR AND REORGANIZE BRAIN”
“We know why we eat, drink, breathe, and move around, but no one can explain why we need to sleep. What does seven or eight hours of snoozing really do for us? Van Savage at the Harvard Medical School and Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico believe they have found a good answer.
One favorite explanation is that sleep is for resting the body. But as Steven Strogatz, a mathematician at Cornell University wisely points out, lying still for eight hours is no substitute for this strange state in which we spend decades of our lives ‘immobilized, unconscious, and vulnerable,’" from Harvard Science.
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B. “MEDITATION FOUND TO INCREASE BRAIN SIZE”
“Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted increased thickness in parts of the brain that deal with attention and processing sensory input.
In one area of gray matter, the thickening turns out to be more pronounced in older than in younger people. That's intriguing because those sections of the human cortex, or thinking cap, normally get thinner as we age,” from Harvard Science.
link here .
7. “A WAKE-UP CALL ON WATER USE”
“Move over, carbon, the next shoe to drop in the popular awareness of eco-issues is the “water footprint.”
That’s the word in environmental circles these days. Just as the image of a heavy carbon foot made it possible for the masses to grasp the power of carbon-dioxide emissions, water footprint is the phrase now drawing attention to the impact of human behavior regarding water.
‘H2O is the next CO2,’ says Nicholas Eisenberger, managing principal of GreenOrder, a consulting firm that specializes in sustainable business. As a phrase, water footprint ‘will probably move more quickly through the public mind as it catches on,’ he says, because water is more tangible than carbon,” quoting the Christian Science Monitor.
link here .
8. NEW CLOUDS PHOTOGRAPHED
A. “NEW CLOUD TYPE DISCOVERED?”
“An "asperatus" cloud rolls over New Zealand's South Island in an undated picture.
This apparently new class of clouds is still a mystery. But experts suspect asperatus clouds' choppy undersides may be due to strong winds disturbing previously stable layers of warm and cold air.
Asperatus clouds may spur the first new classification in the World Meteorological Organization's International Cloud Atlas since the 1950s, Gavin Pretor-Pinney said,” from National Geographic.
link here
B. AND AN IOWA WOMAN CAPTURES AMAZING CLOUD PHOTOS
From the AP:
link here .
9. “MIND-BLOWING QUICK ANIMAL CAMOUFLAGE CHANGES”
“Scientists at MIT are studying color-changing cuttlefish. An understanding of how these fascinating creatures can change color in less than a second could result in electronic ink and cheap TV screens that could use “less than one-hundredth the power of traditional television screens.”
It’s a great example of how we can develop greener products by studying and mimicking biology and nature,” quoting these two videos on Mercola.
link here .
10. “OUR REAL PRISON PROBLEM”
ED. NOTE: A MUST-READ FOR ALL AMERICANS!
“The United States, with 5 percent of the world's population, houses nearly 25 percent of the world's prisoners. As Webb has explained it, "Either we're the most evil people on earth or we're doing something wrong." We incarcerate 756 inmates per 100,000 residents—nearly five times the world average. Approximately one in every 31 adults in the United States is in prison, in jail or on supervised release. Local, state and federal spending on corrections amounts to about $70 billion per year and has increased 40 percent over the past 20 years.
Webb has no problem locking up the real baddies. He just wants us to recognize that warehousing the nation's mentally ill and drug addicts in crowded correctional facilities tends mostly to create a mass of meaner, more violent, less employable people at the exit. The Justice Department estimates that 16 percent of the adult inmates in American prisons—more than 350,000 of those incarcerated—suffer from mental illness; the percentage in juvenile custody is even higher. Justice statistics for 2007 showed that nearly 60 percent of the state prisoners serving time for a drug offense had no history of violence, and four out of five drug arrests were for drug possession, not sales.
Webb also reminds us that while drug use varies little by ethnic group, African-Americans—estimated at 14 percent of regular drug users—make up 56 percent of those in state prison for drug crimes,” quoting Newsweek.
link here .
11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “Scientists Map Penguins From Space By Locating Their Feces”
[Ed. Note: A very astute KK reader wrote, “If they can track penguins by their poop, what else are they tracking?"]
From ScienceDaily:
link here
B. “First lady's organic garden concerns chemical firms”
From The Hill:
link here
C. “A hands-on revolution”
From Financial Times:
link here
D. “Sick as a pig”
“Ever wondered if factory farming could kill you? Think again...It has plagued hospital wards in Britain for years, picking off the elderly and infirm. But now another strain of MRSA is emerging from the factory farms of Northern Europe, and it is linked to the insatiable demand for cheap meat on our plates. The Ecologist Film Unit travelled to the Netherlands to investigate.”
link here
E. Car engine that gets 110 miles per gallon
“The man who drove his 20-year-old Mustang from Napoleon, Ohio, to Las Vegas and back last year on 39 gallons of fuel will open his first manufacturing facility Monday [June 1] to allow others to get 110 miles per gallon,” quoting the Toledo Blade.
link here
F. Comparing George W. Bush’s Crawford, TX Ranch (where he no longer lives) to Al Gore's Nashville, TN House in energy usage.
From Urban Legends:
link here
G. “East Coast May Feel Rise in Sea Levels the Most”
From the Washington Post:
link here
H. “Concerns are rising on water overuse”
“Fish stock, rivers drop as lawns soak”
From the Boston Globe:
link here
I. “U.N. environment chief urges global ban on plastic bags”
From McClatchy Newspapers:
link here
J. “Schwarzenegger considers oil drilling off coast”
“Desperate to plug California's gaping budget hole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has turned to an idea he has long opposed - offshore oil drilling,” quoting the San Francisco Chronicle:
link here
K. “Scientists: Global warming has already changed oceans”
From McClatchy Newspapers:
link here
L. “WHO declares swine flu pandemic”
From the BBC:
link here
M. “Swine Flu Cases DRAMATIC INCREASE in few days as U. S. citizens drop their guard.”
From The Emergency Email Network:
link here .
12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. “Ron Paul: Current Conditions or Just a Bad Dream on the House Floor 5/19/2009”
From YouTube:
link here
B. Gold in the news
From Bloomberg News:
link here
&
From the Ottawa Citizen:
link here
C. “Have diamonds lost their shine?”
“The global economic slide has combined with increased retail competition to pressure the glamorous industry, forcing many stores to consider closing.”
From MSN money:
link here
D. This is a sobering interview!
Who is going to take all the vacant real estate space? Nobody!
“In 2009 were going to see the worst economic collapse ever, the Greatest Depression, says Gerald Celente, U.S. trend forecaster. He believes its going to be very violent in the U.S., including there being a tax revolt,” quoting Russia Today.
The commercial real estate collapse in 2009 will dwarf the residential real estate drop.”
link here
Gerald Celente, U.S. trend forecaster’s site:
link here
E. “Local Currencies Really Can Buy Happiness”
From IPS:
link here
F. “How did 100,000,000 women disappear?”
From the Toronto Star:
link here
G. “Global weapons spending hits record levels”
“US accounts for more than half total increase to $1.4tn
China now second biggest spender in world league table”
From UK’s Guardian:
link here
I. “Audit the Fed Bill Reaches Crucial Benchmark”
From Ron Paul’s House website:
link here
J. “Senators held stock in bailed-out banks”
[Ed. Note: Of course, they did!]
From The Hill:
link here
K. 'Save our CEOs' Teaser for Michael Moore's New Film Hits Theaters!
From YouTube:
link here .
RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. Introducing former RSE & CSE student Yelm High 2009 co-Valedictorian Jennifer Banach-Stein.
link here
Last year’s Yelm High co-Valedictorian was also a then-former RSE student, Akel Hashim:
link here
Akel’s speech to his class is a must-hear!
link here
B. There were two evenings with Ramtha last week:
-
link here
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link here
followed by a teaching in The field on June 12th.
C. Ram's Assay 2009! Mastering Time, Space and Form!
Make certain to click and see the animation:
link here
D. Be sure to see the precious pictures in the CSE end of school year newsletter:
link here
The annual CSE Auction is June 27th. Purchase tickets & browse the auction items:
link here
E. There will be a “Masked Costume Dance Evening with Ramtha” this Halloween:
link here
F. RSE now has a Twitter account to publish the latest updates and announcements:
link here
What is Twitter? More info on Twitter from their site at:
link here
Accounts are free:
link here
G. Wishing these students passing in recent days marvelous new adventures:
Alan Tarrant:
link here
Sunny (Ray Winter’s partner):
link here
H. June’s Tank Day is this Saturday:
link here
I. 4th of July Decorations at JZ Rose
link here
J. RSE announces that for the very first time, Ramtha's teachings will be coming to the "Holy Land" of Israel and the Middle East this August with an Introductory Evening & Workshop to be conducted by Ramtha's appointed Teachers Greg Simmons & Debbie Christie:
Free Introductory Evening in Tel Aviv, Israel - August 13th:
link here
RSE's Intro Workshop in Tel Aviv, Israel - August 14-15
link here
The Israel coordinators’ website:
link here
Ramtha's White Book was translated and published by my wife Yael and is available in Hebrew:
link here .
LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. Yelm property owners to get stomach-punched with water rate hike
B. Introducing Yelm High School’s Valedictorian
C. City Council votes in major water rate hike – says to cover debt HMMM!
D. Mayor Harding & Pro-tem Isom’s actions speak volumes & they run unopposed for their seats. Expect 4 more years of increased public contempt.
E. Thurston Highlands auction postponed – again! Until August.
F. City finally posts Waster System Plan – in June under a March posting date
G. Dungeness Valley Creamery celebrates 3rd anniversary of wholesome goodness
H. Yelm area meetings & civic happening this coming week
link here .
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard
About Holmes on Wikipedia:
link here .
Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2009.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner,
click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives"
at
link here
Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com .
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Dear Readers;
A special “thank you” to those of you who came up and introduced yourselves to me in France last week. I found wonderful to connect with the faces and names of so many Korner readers. You touched my heart with your outpouring of support.
Thank you for your interest!
1. “THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION”
“This week in Leipzig, the city of Leibnitz, Fichte, Wagner and Nietzsche, the OECD organized a fascinating summit for transportation ministers from the whole world. Company heads from the principal enterprises of the automobile, rail, naval and aviation industries were also in attendance. [The] OECD-sponsored forum [was] entitled "Transport for a Global Economy, Challenges & Opportunities in the Downturn," quoting L’Express.
link here .
2. “NEW MEMORY MATERIAL MAY HOLD DATA FOR ONE BILLION YEARS”
“When it comes to data storage, density and durability have always moved in opposite directions -- the greater the density the shorter the durability. For example, information carved in stone is not dense but can last thousands of years, whereas today’s silicon memory chips can hold their information for only a few decades.
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have smashed this tradition with a new memory storage medium that can pack thousands of times more data into one square inch of space than conventional chips and preserve this data for more than a billion years!” quoting Science Daily.
link here .
3. “PRIVACY STUDY SHOWS GOOGLE’S EYES ARE EVERYWHERE”
“A U.C. Berkeley report shows that most Internet users don’t understand web site privacy policies, and that major online businesses like Google Inc. freely gather data and share it with affiliated businesses via loopholes in those policies.
Using trackers called “web bugs,” third parties collect user data from many popular web sites, and sites often allow this, even though their privacy policies say they don’t share user data with others...
Ashkan Soltani, Travis Pinnick and Joshua Gomez of the university’s information school wrote the study, published Monday [June 1],” quoting the San Francisco Chronicle.
link here
The Know Privacy Study:
link here .
4. CELL PHONE & BLACKBERRY WARNINGS
A. “THE SPY IN YOUR HAND”
“Don't talk: your cell phone may be eavesdropping. Thanks to recent developments in "spy phone" software, a do-it-yourself spook can now wirelessly transfer a wiretapping program to any mobile phone. The programs are inexpensive, and the transfer requires no special skill. The would-be spy needs to get his hands on your phone to press keys authorizing the download, but it takes just a few minutes—about the time needed to download a ringtone.
This new generation of -user-friendly spy-phone software has become widely available in the last year—and it confers stunning powers. The latest programs can silently turn on handset microphones even when no call is being made, allowing a spy to listen to voices in a room halfway around the world. Targets are none the wiser: neither call logs nor phone bills show records of the secretly transmitted data,” quoting Newsweek.
link here
B. “BLACKBERRY MAKER WARNS ON SECURITY VULNERABILITY”
“BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd has issued a security patch for the popular device, whose users include U.S. President Barack Obama, warning that it is vulnerable to attacks by hackers,” quoting Reuters.
link here .
5. “LOOKING UP THE FUNNEL OF A TORNADO”
From the Weather Channel on MSNBC:
link here .
6. “POLLUTION CAN CHANGE YOUR DNA IN 3 DAYS, STUDY SUGGESTS”
“Breathing in polluted air may wreak havoc on our DNA, reprogramming genes in as few as three days and causing increased rates of cancer and other diseases….
The same damage may occur in city dwellers exposed to normal air, the researchers say.
Particulate matter includes suspended, tiny bits of dust, metal, or soot in the air, which can lodge deep in the lungs. Exposure to the substance has been linked to respiratory diseases, lung cancer, and heart problems.
Scientists know little about how inhaling particulate matter can cause health problems, according to lead study author Andrea Baccarelli of the University of Milan,” quoting National Geographic.
link here .
7. "YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS: HOW TO KEEP YOUR BRAIN YOUNG”
“"Gray matter drops as we age," explains Arthur Kramer, professor of human perception and performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gray matter is the brain tissue that's rich in nerve cells. "It drops as we get older," says Kramer. "It's dropping as we speak."
How can you preserve your brain and maybe even ward off Alzheimer's or other dementias?
An explosion of recent studies offers tantalizing evidence,” quoting CSPI’s Nutrition Action newsletter.
link here .
8. “WHY CHIMPS, MONKEY’S DON’T DEVELOP ALZHEIMER’S”
“The answer to this puzzle could yield valuable insight into how Alzheimer's develops and progresses, and now researchers report they may have a clue. They report their finding in the latest issue of the journal Neurobiology of Aging.
They found that a "tag" molecule used to track plaque build-up latches easily onto plaques in human brains but not in those of apes and monkeys, suggesting that there is a basic structural difference between the two types of plaque.
Figuring out the difference, they said, could lead to ways to render human amyloid plaques as harmless in human brains as they are in the brains of other primates,” quoting Health Day.
link here .
9. “STEP BACK AND YOUR BRAIN WILL STEP FORWARD”
“According to a team of Dutch scientists, walking backward helps people think more clearly.
The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, tested the ability of 38 men and women to quickly name the colors in which different words were displayed. During the tests, participants were told to step four paces to the left, right, backward or forward. In a subset of the trickier trials (ones where the words didn't relate in any way to the colors they were displayed in) performance was quickest when the subjects stepped four paces backward.
‘Backward locomotion appears to be a very powerful trigger to mobilize cognitive resources,’ concluded the authors, of Radboud University Nijmegen. ‘Thus, whenever you encounter a difficult situation, stepping backward may boost your capability to deal with it effectively,’" quoting the LA Times.
link here .
10. AN AMAZING STORY – AN AMAZING ATTITUDE!
“At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators. Hinohara's magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo and teaching at St. Luke's College of Nursing. After World War II, he envisioned a world-class hospital and college springing from the ruins of Tokyo; thanks to his pioneering spirit and business savvy, the doctor turned these institutions into the nation's top medical facility and nursing school. Today he serves as chairman of the board of trustees at both organizations. Always willing to try new things, he has published around 150 books since his 75th birthday, including one "Living Long, Living Good" that has sold more than 1.2 million copies. As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life, a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself,” quoting Japan Times.
link here .
11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “New Survival Seed Bank Lets You Plant A Full Acre Crisis Garden!”
From Survival Seed Bank:
link here
B. Kevin Richardson is an animal behaviorist – amazing interaction with lions:
link here
&
link here
More from African Safari Travel News:
link here
C. Japanese concept car that runs on water:
link here
D. “Rising sea levels: Survival tips from 5000 BC”
From NewScientist:
link here
E. “Greenland ice could fuel severe U.S. sea level rise”
From Reuters:
link here
F. “US Environment Chief Praises Dutch Water Systems”
From the AP:
link here
G. “Climate change turning seas acid: scientists”
From Reuters:
link here
H. “Country clean-up project ‘Lets Do It 2008’"
From YouTube about Estonia:
link here
I. “World’s next big climate pact begins to take shape”
“This week, negotiators from 182 countries meet in Bonn, Germany to lay the groundwork for a post-Kyoto climate regime.”
From the Christian Science Monitor:
link here
J. “Man Whizzes By Gas Stations With Self-Made Electric Car”
“Man Converts Escort To Electric Only”
From Indianapolis’s TV 6:
link here
K. “9 more police killed in Amazon protests in Peru”
“...with Amazon Indians fighting his efforts to exploit oil and gas on their native lands”
From the AP:
link here
L. “Amazon rainforests pay the price as demand for beef soars”
From UK’s Guardian:
link here .
12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. “German firm plans gold ATMs to meet growing demand”
From Reuters:
link here
B. “Vinegar: Wonder product for the frugal”
From Seattle Frugal living:
link here
C. “Goodbye, GM ...by Michael Moore”
From Michael Moore:
link here
D. “Heroin bursts out of U.S. cities”
From the International Herald Tribune:
link here .
13. The Nation
A. “Former Vice President Dick Cheney 'a strong believer' in waterboarding”
From the NY Daily News:
link here
&
“Right-Wing Radio Host Gets Waterboarded, and Lasts Six Seconds Before Saying It's Torture”
[Ed. Note: Let’s ask Dick Cheney to give this a whirl – on himself!]
From AlterNet:
link here
B. Shoe on other foot - Interview of Larry King about his book “My Remarkable Journey”
From NBC News:
link here
C. “Openly gay teen voted prom queen at LA high school”
From the LA Times:
link here
D. “Review of Government Secrecy Ordered”
“Obama Names Holder, Napolitano to Lead Drive for 'Unprecedented Level of Openness'”
From the Washington Post:
link here
E. The Debt Clock
This is enlightening!
link here .
RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. No other single statement shows the contempt of Yelm’s City Hall towards JZ Knight, RSE, and our students than that of Councilman Bob Isom in the newspaper last week, “I have every right to disregard JZ Knight, Ramtha and any of the so-called students who do not live within the city limits when they attempt to influence decisions of the city council.”
That is a telling comment since we property owners living outside the city pay Yelm Schools, Yelm Cemetery & Yelm Timberland Library taxes. Is this then taxation without representation?
Amazing with all of the contributions our students add to the Yelm Community; both in their own businesses operating within Yelm & our folks spending dollars within Yelm and paying city sales taxes. I will have more on this on the Yelm Community Blog early in the week!
link here
I spoke with Nancy & Eleana at Beyond the Ordinary – KRSE internet radio on May 12th about some of the issues we face here in Yelm:
link here
B. Ram's Assay 2009! Mastering Time, Space and Form!
link here
C. CSE’s new Video Documentary:
“CSE is privileged to work with videographers Andrew Wright & Lisa Fiskin on creating a new video documentary about the vision and programs of the school. Approximately 15 hours of footage was taped within 2 days, including interviews with students, parents, teachers and our Head of School, plus real time lessons, classroom activities and lots of happenings around campus. The video is slated for release at CSE’s Auction on June 27th, 2009.”
link here
D. MastersConnection.com has an amazing collection of websites with various pictures regarding Ramtha's Avenue of The Ram:
link here
E. While no re-air date has been set for JZ on Larry King Live, the transcript from her panel interview is available. See what she said, in her own words:
link here
F. “Healing Horses: Through the Eye of the Observer”
About our own Dr. Louie Enos.
From SuperConsciousness Magazine (free registration required):
link here
G. Excellent candle for focus
From Guustaaf Damave’s site:
link here .
LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. Support our locally owned businesses: Signature Service Real Estate
B. Thurston Highlands Part III: Response to Pastor Adams
A. Not one comment supports Yelm’s MDNS on water
B. Support our locally owned businesses: McCrea Cellars Winery
C. Record high temperature recorded
D. Councilman Isom says he will disregard RSE student influence
E. Yelm’s Thurston Highlands’ auction postponed
F. Yelm Prairie Day sign-up
G. Rep. Tom Campbell’s Congressional campaign kick-off
link here .
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Imagination is the true magic carpet".
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)
Protestant preacher and author and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking".
From Wikipedia:
link here .
Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2009.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner,
click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives"
at
link here
Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com .
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Dear Readers,
A. “An obituary printed in the London Times, [about the death of] “Common Sense”:
link here
B. Correction to last week’s story:
2. USING MIND TO CONTROL MATTER
A new toy was demonstrated on ABC TV with a device that reads mind waves to levitate – a ping-pong ball, with absolute focus! From ABC News May 22, 2009. Robin Roberts says on-air, “Focus, baby, focus!”
[Ed. Note: A reader wrote to day this has nothing to do with levitation - it's "simply" a biofeedback device, with "flashy output". Probably more successful as a training device, since the feedback is quite graphic - but still totally unrelated to levitation.]
C. Susan Boyle came in 2nd in Britain's Got Talent final
From MSNBC:
link here
"Enjoy Susan's last appearance on Britains Got Talent"
From YouTube:
link here
1. “...INMATES TRAIN PUPPIES TO BECOME SERVICE DOGS”
Wow! Such inspiration for felons! I must-see for all-Americans, indeed everyone!
On Oprah.com:
link here .
2. “VIRGIN SEES SPACE TOURISM AS JUST THE BEGINNING”
“Long-haul trips could be made in spaceships instead of planes in 20 years' time if Virgin's efforts to commercialize space travel succeed, the president of Virgin Galactic said.
Will Whitehorn said Virgin's plans to take tourists into space were just a first stage that could open up a range of possibilities for the company including space science, computer server farms in space and replacing long-haul flights.
Virgin Galactic, part of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, has collected $40 million in deposits from would-be space tourists including physicist Stephen Hawking and ex-racing driver Niki Lauda, and hopes to start commercial trips within two years,” quoting Reuters.
link here .
3. “RIGHT WHALES BREAK RECORD BIRTH”
“Right whales have plenty to celebrate this Mother's Day — the sea moms gave birth to a record 39 calves this spring.
The New England Aquarium said Friday [May 8th] that the birth surge breaks the old record of 31 and shows much improvement from 2000, when only one calf was born.
Each birthing season is important because right whales number fewer than 400 and are among the most endangered whales in the world,” quoting the AP.
link here .
4. “SCIENTISTS DISCOVER A NEARLY EARTH-SIZED PLANET”
“In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in the right place. European researchers said they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, called Gliese 581 e, but realized that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habitable zone for potential life.
"The Holy Grail of current exoplanet research is the detection of a rocky, Earth-like planet in the 'habitable zone,'" said Michel Mayor, an astrophysicist at Geneva University in Switzerland.
An American expert called the discovery of the tiny planet ‘extraordinary,’" quoting the AP.
link here .
5. “THE MOBILE PHONE AS SELF-INFLICTED SURVEILLANCE”
“Like the breadcrumbs in Hansel and Gretel, mobile phones leave a trail wherever they go. Practically everybody can be tracked via this trail, and the beauty of it all is, we're effectively tracking ourselves.
By design, phones pass their location on to local base stations. You can gauge how effectively the networks can track you by requesting your personal information from your network provider using a data subject access under the Data Protection Act, or by just running Google Mobile Maps on your phone. The smaller 3G cells in central London give an even better location than on GSM,” quoting UK’s The Register.
link here .
6. “THE STRANGE CONCEPT OF WHITE HOLES”
“Think of a white hole as an “anti-black hole,” according to Cornell University’s Curious About Astronomy Web site. So if black holes are places where matter is sucked in, white holes could be where it spews out, like water through a fire hose…
Another way to look at it is through the waterfall analogy. If you think of a black hole as space falling down one side of a ravine, imagine it bouncing off the bottom and climbing back up the other side, said Andrew Hamilton, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder…
The concept of white holes is totally theoretical and most people don’t give it much credence, McClintock added.
‘Thousands of astronomers are just grinding their brains away on black holes,’ he said. ‘You compare that to a white hole, I don’t think you’ll find one astronomer grinding his brain away,’” quoting SciTechBlog on CNN:
link here .
7. ELDER AMERICAN INDIAN SPEAKS
“We are all one,” from December, 2008 YouTube:
link here
[Ed. Note: What a valuable message, no matter the source.
“Guaranteed to touch the heart and inspire the mind,
this incredible short film shares an Indigenous Native American Prophecy that links all of life and the future of our planet.”
From the website for We Are All One:
link here ].
8. “10 DIETARY TIPS FOR THOSE AGED 100+”
“Britain's oldest woman Florence Baldwin, who turns 113 on Tuesday, puts her longevity down to a daily fried egg sandwich. It's one of many dietary tips from those who have reached three figures.
Everyone wants to live to a ripe old age - and it doesn't take a dietary expert to know that eating healthily does that ambition no harm.
But ask anyone who has actually reached the magic 100 how they got there, and their dietary tips don't always square with the official advice. So we asked Dr Elisabeth Weichselbaum, of the British Nutrition Foundation, to cast an eye over a selection of centenarians' staples,” quoting the BBC.
[Ed. Note: Ramtha has often said it isn't what we eat that is bad for us -
it is our attitudes and beliefs that make it so. HMMM!
Perhaps it is time to re-think our thinking. Remember when he told us to eat Twinkie & drinks Cokes?
link here .
9. “STANFORD BIOLOGISTS RAP ABOUT WHAT MAKE US HUMAN”
“Here, two Stanford biologists, Derrick Davis and Tom McFadden bring rap to the horrifically complicated world of gene regulation. Rather than differences in structural genes, it is the regulation of genes that is thought to play a major role in steering a developing embryo into one species or another,” quoting UK’s Guardian.
[Ed. Note: I asked Stanford Grad & personal friend Dr. Karriem Ali for his take om this finding:
"Rapping and rhyming is a very ancient and effective form of communication. It gives structure to the wording of an idea that greatly facilitates retention.
I can flawlessly recall song and lyrics from my days at Harvard and Stanford, while the content of so many scholarly lectures is mostly lost to recall. Like television, rap is a medium with global popular appeal that could be applied to enhance learning across the spectrum from the ADD child to the genius."]
link here .
10. “LOST GENERATION”
“I guess I should finally get around to putting something here. I am surprised that it has received so much attention recently.
This video was created for the AARP U@50 video contest and placed second,” from YouTube posted on Nov., 2007.
[Ed. Note: WOW! This IS some video for all to watch!]
link here .
11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “It's a bird, it's a plane. No, no, it's cocaine”
“Spanish study shows cocaine in the air in Madrid and Barcelona”
From the AP:
link here
B. “Exxon begins drilling at Point Thomson in Alaska”
From the AP:
link here
C. “Bakers furious at 'mass medication' of NZ's bread”
From the New Zealand Herald:
link here .
12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. “Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve?”
“Rep. Alan Grayson asks the Federal Reserve Inspector General about the trillions of dollars lent or spent by the Federal Reserve and where it went, and the trillions of off balance sheet obligations. Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is,” quoting You Tube on May 6th.
link here
B. “The Great Water Heist”
“Senate Bill 787 will change federal jurisdiction over "navigable" water, to give the federal government control over all water everwhere, in municiple reservoirs, and on private lands, and in private wells. This bill ignores state water law authority and the Fifth Amendment.of the U.S. Constitution,” quoting YouTube on May 2nd.
link here
C. “STATE LAYOFFS WILL HIT HARD IN COUNTY”
From The Olympian:
link here
D. “Get Out of Iraq. Get Out Afghanistan. Come Home America”
From Congressman Dennis Kucinich on May 14th speaking on a Supplemental Appropriations bill that would continue to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan:
link here
E. “Animation: Those were the days”
“Move over Edith and Archie, George and Dick sing about the good old days in this, “All in the Family” parody.”
From Walt Handelsman:
link here
F. “Police Used GPS Illegally, Court Rules”
From the NY Times:
link here .
RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. Wishing these students well on their next adventures, as they passed in recent days:
Marion Sincavage, May 27
Linda Tarrant's husband Alan Tarrant, May 28th
B. Sunday, June 7, at 2:00 p.m., Kathy Soroka will be singing in a recital in the Alumni Concert for the Pittsburgh [PA.] Concert Society at Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University. If you're in the area, check it out:
link here
"View Webcast" - The webcast also will be archived.
C. RSE Presents "Southern California Beginning Retreat" | June 10, 2009
link here
D. "Last Waltz of the Tyrants" - Revisited | Now available! Get your copy today.
link here
E. Ram's Teachings in France at Beginner Advanced Workshop! June 10, 2009
link here
F. June Beginning Retreat in Yelm - June 7, 2009
link here .
LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. Memorial Day in the USA
B. Thurston Highlands - Part II
C. Welcome to Stream Team
D. Lecture: Becoming Pandemic Proof by Dr. Karriem Ali
E. Community Recycle Days
F. Nisqually Stream Stewards Classes
G. Perma-culture classes return to Yelm
link here .
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer.
We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world".
Deepak Chopra (1946 - )
Indian-American medical doctor and writer.
From Wikipedia:
link here .
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