HOW TO SOVIET UP YOUR IRRIGATION PROJECT

Want to do it right? Don't go Russian...

ARAL SEA

2000

2014

 

 

In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. The region’s two major rivers, fed by snowmelt and precipitation in faraway mountains, were used to transform the desert into farms for cotton and other crops. Before the project, the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya rivers flowed down from the mountains, cut northwest through the Kyzylkum Desert, and finally pooled together in the lowest part of the basin. The lake they made, the Aral Sea, was once the fourth largest in the world.

Although irrigation made the desert bloom, it devastated the Aral Sea. This series of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite documents the changes. At the start of the series in 2000, the lake was already a fraction of its 1960 extent (black line). The Northern Aral Sea (sometimes called the Small Aral Sea) had separated from the Southern (Large) Aral Sea. The Southern Aral Sea had split into eastern and western lobes that remained tenuously connected at both ends.

By 2001, the southern connection had been severed, and the shallower eastern part retreated rapidly over the next several years. Especially large retreats in the eastern lobe of the Southern Sea appear to have occurred ...

EVIL PROPAGATES - AMERICAN BEHEADING

Foreign Evil propagates. Here. Among us. (As if we didn't have enough of our own already.)

And unless we are men enough to call it what it truly is and then obliterate it, then it will spread and corrupt and do much more harm and countless murders.

We should kill this now and give it no room or time to grow. We've already wasted far too much time allowing it to breed elsewhere in the world.

The War of Terror is alive and well. It does not matter how effeminate and intentionally naive we are about our own terminology. Still, it comes.

Oklahoma man beheads woman, stabs 2nd victim during workplace fight day after being fired from job

Police said Alton Nolen, who recently converted to Islam, burst into a Moore, Okla., food distribution center beheaded 54-year-old Colleen Hufford. He injured a second woman, 43-year-old Traci Johnson, before an off-duty cop at the plant shot him and ended the rampage. Police said he did not know either of his victims. He’s expected to survive.

BY Meg Wagner , Corky Siemaszko

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Published: Friday, September 26, 2014, 10:14 AM

Updated: Friday, September 26, 2014, 1:21 PM

Moore PolicePolice said 30-year-old Alton Nolen rushed into an Oklahoma food distribution plant and stabbed two women, one fatally.

The FBI is investigating an outbreak of Islamic State-like terror in the heartland after a recently-fired Oklahoma man stormed into a food plant and savagely beheaded a former co-worker.

Alton Nolen also stabbed and critically injured another woman before he was shot and wounded by a company executive who is also an Oklahoma County reserve deputy...

Save This Page

THE BIGGER MAN

This pretty much confirms what I believe. Modern police training is abominable. And reckless and totally contrary to your real function, to protect and serve. Cops are being trained that they are at war with the Citizen.

Police, you are not at fucking war with the Citizen. You're supposed to be serving him. Drawing your weapon and shooting unarmed, peaceful men before they present themselves as threats is utterly inexcusable and entirely unmanly. AND ENTIRELY UNMANLY. Do you understand what that means? I say this as a man who is usually sympathetic to the police.

You could have killed this man for complying with your request.

YOU MUST BE BIGGER THAN YOUR TRAINING. If not you are smaller than yourself.

You keep killing your own cause, and sometimes innocent men. But in the end you must control yourself first, son. No one else.

Manhood requires far more than being a trained automaton. Your job is to protect the innocent from danger, not to become dangerous to the innocent.

If you do not realize this then who will? And how can any amount of training prepare you for recklessly and impulsively shooting the innocent?

It is well past time to change my friends. For your sake as much as anyone's.

South Carolina man shot by police after alleged seatbelt violation

"Sir, why was I shot? All I did was reach for my license. I'm coming from work."

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Site Staff in News

The moment State Trooper Sean Groubert shot Levar Jones.

COLUMBIA, SC — Dashcam video captured the moment an unarmed man was shot by a state trooper while being confronted about alleged not wearing a seatbelt.

The motorist, 35-year-old Levar Jones, pulled into a Columbia convenience store parking lot on September 4th, 2014.

South Carolina State Trooper Sean Groubert was lurking in his cruiser adjacent to the parking lot, and watched as Mr. Jones slowly pull his white pickup truck into the lot. Officer Groubert waited a moment for Mr. Jones to park, then pulled his cruiser up behind the truck...

 Save This Page

THE MODERN CULT from HUMAN EFFORT

I am all for training and tradition. But we make a cult of it when we cannot exceed it.

ELIMINATE AND OVERCOME

Criminals rely upon the fear and ignorance of their victims to be successful. Eliminate your ignorance and overcome your fear and the criminal has a far bigger problem than you do.

AND STILL MORE...

What God has forgotten about nothing is still far more than I'll ever know about anything.

ARMY GOES ATHLETE

Indeed. There is a great deal of difference between static strength (as exemplified by things like push-ups) and flexible, capable, athletic capabilities as evidenced by the ability to climb, jump, pull, push, roll, etc.

The ability to climb, roll, carry, climb, hoist, and so forth are far more important capabilities to a soldier (or anyone in an occupation requiring both physical fitness and adaptable capability) than is an ability to complete a specific number of sit-ups.

I for one am very glad to see the physical emphasis shifting towards active physical capabilities in testing.

Army's Big PT Test Changes

by Christian Lowe

 

For the first time in more than 20 years, the Army is gearing up to change its fitness test for every Soldier.

Gone is the simple pushup, sit up, and run routine, and in its place comes a battery of sprints, jumps and rows.

And the service is also introducing a grueling series of slalom runs, balance beam walks, casualty drags, and ammo carries it calls the Army Combat Readiness Test -- a totally new evaluation that simulates the kind of body crush Joes experience on deployment.

"The key difference is between 'readiness' and fitness," said Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, the Army's deputy commanding general for initial training. "It's one thing to be fit it's quite another thing to be ready for the things we are being asked to do. And in our case, it's becoming a 'tactical athlete.' "

For the next six months, the Army will be administering the new Army Physical Readiness Test and the ACRT to almost 10,000 Soldiers at nearly 10 Army commands, including Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; Fort Benning, Ga., and Fort Sill, Okla. Soldiers there will help Army fitness experts determine how best to structure the tests and how often to do them.

Army officials are also looking into how to grade the new tests, with a simple "excellent," "good" or "poor" potentially replacing a pass-fail or a point score...

BABY FINGERS

BABY FINGERS (The Secret Song of Lord Petyr Baelish)

a song I wrote linked from Wyrdwend, my Literary Blog.

AMERICA from POLITICAL CAUSE

America, late to every war that will ever matter, and determined to lose every war that will ever count…

SO RARELY from POLITICAL CAUSE

There is a certain pathetic irony to human history in that the vast majority of people are willing to endure evil for so long yet are willing to risk for the better so rarely.

EPIGENETIC MEMORY

I have been studying the field of epigenetics for about ten years or so now? Something like that. Since the field of genetics has been a personal interest of mine for decades. But I only relatively recently became of aware of modern epigenetics and began studying it in depth.

I see it as being directly related (as a manipulation mechanism) to my theory of the Renaissance Man and the polymath.

Anyway I thought this was a rather good but very basic summary of some of the recent research advances and studies in the field.

Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations

18 hours ago

This image shows inheritance and transmission of the epigenetic mark H3K27me3 in C. elegans. The 1-cell embryo (left) shows the mark (green) inherited on sperm chromosomes but not on the oocyte chromosomes (pink) contributed by a mutant mother lacking the methylation enzyme PRC2. The 2-cell embryo (right) shows transmission of the mark on the sperm-derived chromosomes in each daughter nucleus. Credit: Laura J. Gaydos

A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental stresses can cause changes in gene expression that are transmitted from parents to their offspring, making "epigenetics" a hot topic. Epigenetic modifications do not affect the DNA sequence of genes, but change how the DNA is packaged and how genes are expressed. Now, a study by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows how epigenetic memory can be passed across generations and from cell to cell during development...

Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations

17 hours ago

This image shows inheritance and transmission of the epigenetic mark H3K27me3 in C. elegans. The 1-cell embryo (left) shows the mark (green) inherited on sperm chromosomes but not on the oocyte chromosomes (pink) contributed by a mutant …more

A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental stresses can cause changes in gene expression that are transmitted from parents to their offspring, making "epigenetics" a hot topic. Epigenetic modifications do not affect the DNA sequence of genes, but change how the DNA is packaged and how genes are expressed. Now, a study by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows how epigenetic memory can be passed across generations and from cell to cell during development.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-epigenetic-memory.html#jCp

Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations

17 hours ago

This image shows inheritance and transmission of the epigenetic mark H3K27me3 in C. elegans. The 1-cell embryo (left) shows the mark (green) inherited on sperm chromosomes but not on the oocyte chromosomes (pink) contributed by a mutant …more

A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental stresses can cause changes in gene expression that are transmitted from parents to their offspring, making "epigenetics" a hot topic. Epigenetic modifications do not affect the DNA sequence of genes, but change how the DNA is packaged and how genes are expressed. Now, a study by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows how epigenetic memory can be passed across generations and from cell to cell during development.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-epigenetic-memory.html#jCp

THE HUMAN SUIT

And about bloody time too. I've been saying the same thing, and following the same design principle with my own AISTHPLEIS Suit design for over a decade now.

The idea makes far more sense and would be far more efficient and pragmatic than either a bulky, cumbersome diving bell type suit (current designs) or a totally artificial/mechanical robotic machine type exoskeletal suit (current military designs).

Biomechanical, bio-organic, nanobiological, human imitative and human enhancing and direct somatic interfacing technologies such as this are the wave of the future, not old style mechanical and robotic technologies.

Spacesuits of the future may resemble a streamlined second skin

Sep 18, 2014 by Jennifer Chu

The MIT BioSuit, a skintight spacesuit that offers improved mobility and reduced mass compared to modern gas-pressurized spacesuits. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT

For future astronauts, the process of suiting up may go something like this: Instead of climbing into a conventional, bulky, gas-pressurized suit, an astronaut may don a lightweight, stretchy garment, lined with tiny, musclelike coils. She would then plug in to a spacecraft's power supply, triggering the coils to contract and essentially shrink-wrap the garment around her body...