tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-311020242024-03-13T12:03:39.635-05:00The MissalThere is but one way to advise – by example.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-9985283514501613992014-11-05T08:00:00.000-05:002014-11-05T08:04:54.338-05:00MY FELLOW CONSERVATIVES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I told my wife before the election ever began that the Republicans would
pick up 8 seats in the Senate, take a bunch of governor's races, and
pick up maybe 10 or more seats in the House. I knew anyone with any
sense who was actually honest with themselves about the Democrats and
Obama would turn on them. And it looks like that is how it will actually
shake out. And good.<br />
<br />
I’m glad for the wins and the show of honesty on the part of most Americans.<br />
<br />
However I must be honest about this as well.<br />
<br />
A lot of modern people think political elections (<em><strong>and far more
importantly what comes afterward</strong></em>) are like petty high school popularity
contests (<em>oh please like me, please like me best!</em>) or some type of
stupid, juvenile sporting event where every so often your teams shows up
and ass-whoops the other guy. Until next game of course.<br />
<br />
And secondly a lot of modern people believe it is the job of “<span style="color: red;"><strong>their Team</strong></span>” to do everything for them. (That’s’ what you elected them for, right?)<br />
<br />
Nothing could possibly be farther from the Truth. That’s exactly the
way modern liberals think. That politics is a popularity game or a
sporting event and that “your team” is supposed to win the game and fix
the world for you. Fix you for you.<br />
<br />
Now if you’re a Real
Conservative, or even just a mildly mature adult, you know instinctively
that politics as a popularity game is utter infantile bullshit, and
that no one alive is ever going to fix you other than yourself. Unless,
of course, in certain extreme situations, God will have to throw in with
you if you are extraordinarily stubborn and self-destructive. But no
politician is ever gonna be your stupid savior (you are really, really
incredibly naïve and stupid if you believe in "political saviors") and
no political party is ever gonna fix either you or the world for you.
You want a mommy, okay, but you’re an utter imbecile if by now you
haven’t figured out that Obama isn’t gonna breast feed you.<br />
<br />
Neither is the Democratic party or their stupid liberal ideology. Nor is
the Republican party going to fix you or the world for you.<br />
<br />
Let those with eyes to see and ears to hear understand me.<br />
<br />
You’ve won the election, but the actual Work is now yours my friends. Entirely yours.<br />
<br />
It always was. So it will always be. You just forgot that over time.<br />
<br />
Don’t forget it again.<br />
<br />
Instead of all that get off your asses and fix yourself. Get off your
asses and fix the world. Get off your asses and fix your nation. And it
will actually start to get fixed.<br />
<br />
You see that’s exactly what
being a Conservative means. You don’t look to be led, popular,
tended-to, or wet-nursed by effeminate "political saviors." Of any
stripe, color, or class.<br />
<br />
Instead you look to be honest (with yourself and the rest of the world), solve problems, and fix things.<br />
<br />
So don’t let me or anyone else stop ya. Not the old Democrats, not your new Republicans.<br />
<br />
This is your job sports. So, hit the bricks. And let’s whip this mutha back into some kinda working shape again.<br />
<br />
And there ya go. Case closed suckas, case closed!</div>
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-40602673850551025572014-10-17T07:34:00.001-05:002014-10-17T07:40:40.050-05:00THE ANTHROPOCENE ANALYSIS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well now, <i>decisions-decisions.</i><br />
<br />
Sometimes when it comes to modern people I don't know whether to laugh out loud or just to myself, but either way I know there will be a good belly laugh involved.<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #660000;">I breathlessly await their decision.</span></b> For otherwise, and without their erudite analysis, how would we ever truly know?<br />
<br />
I'm just thanking God that there is at least one lawyer in the lot for this momentous decision. <i>There should always be at least one lawyer in the lot when decisions of this magnitude are reached.</i><br />
<br />
One thing is for sure, whatever happens, it's gonna be absolutely amazing. And a fundamental shift in both our world and in human nature...<br />
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<b>Right?</b> <span style="color: red;"><b><i>Ain't I right on this people?</i></b></span><br />
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After 11,700 years, the Holocene epoch may be coming to an end, with a
group of geologists, climate scientists and ecologists meeting in
Berlin this week to decide whether humanity's impact on the planet has
been big enough to deserve a new time period: the Anthropocene.<br />
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The term, coined in the 1980s by ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer, takes
its prefix from the Ancient Greek word for human because its proponents
believe the influence of humanity on the Earth's atmosphere and crust in
the last few centuries is so significant as to constitute a new
geological epoch.<br />
<br />
The Anthropocene Working Group <a href="http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2014/anthropozaenprojekt_ein_bericht/anthropocene_working_group_1/anthropocene_working_group_forum.php" target="_blank">assembles in Berlin on Friday</a>,
an interdisciplinary body of scientists and humanists working under the
umbrella of the International Commission on Stratigraphy and "tasked
with developing a proposal for the formal ratification of the
Anthropocene as an official unit amending the Geological Time Scale".<br />
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The 30-strong group, which includes a lawyer, has outlined two
key questions which it will address during deliberations at the Haus der
Kulturen der Welt:<br />
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"How does the recent cognition of the immense
quantitative shift in the biophysical conditions of the Earth affect
both scientific research and a political response to these changes?" and
"Does the Anthropocene also pose a profound qualitative shift, a
paradigm shift for the ways in which science, politics, and law advance
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-71952715874678892972014-10-13T18:02:00.002-05:002014-10-13T18:04:32.830-05:00THE SUPER SECRET THAT NEVER WAS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If it's really so secret then how do you know? <br />
<br />
If it's really so secret then why do you know?<br />
<br />
Seems to me like any other old "modern secret." <br />
<br />
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<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-secret-x-37b-military-space-plane-could-land-in-california-this-week/" target="_blank">Top-secret X-37B military space plane could land in California this week</a></h1>
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Technicians
work on the the first X-37B space plane after a smooth landing on Dec.
3, 2010 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The same X-37B
spacecraft launched back into space on Dec. 11, 2012.
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The U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane will return
to Earth this week --possibly as early as Tuesday -- after 22 months in
orbit on a secret mission.<br />
<br />
The robotic X-37B space plane, also
known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, will land at the Vandenberg Air Force
Base in California, where Air Force officials are gearing up for its
return. As of Oct. 12, the X-37B mini-shuttle has been in orbit since
December 2012 and racked up a <a href="http://www.space.com/26984-military-x37b-space-plane-mission-600-days.html" target="_blank">record-shattering 671 days in space</a>.<br />
<br />
"Team
Vandenberg stands ready to implement safe landing operations for the
X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, the third time for this unique mission" said
Col. Keith Baits, 30th Space Wing commander, in a <a href="http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/mediacenter/pressreleasearchive/story.asp?id=123428053" target="_blank">statement on Friday</a>, Oct. 10. [<a href="http://www.space.com/23834-photos-x-37b-space-plane-third-mystery-mission.html" target="_blank">See photos from the X-37B mission</a>]...</div>
Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-72438333547600498052014-10-13T11:29:00.000-05:002014-10-13T11:39:50.054-05:00THE GULF from POLITICAL CAUSE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Dark Courier";">Politics
is not the basis of my morality. <i>Morality is the basis of my politics.</i> <b>Because
there is a gulf as wide as that separating Heaven and Hell between these two
approaches.</b></span></span></span></div>
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-34198406762402960752014-10-09T09:51:00.001-05:002014-10-09T09:51:08.127-05:00ULTRASONIC UNIFORMS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Superb! (Not the price, the idea and technique.)<br /><br /><h1>
<a href="http://www.navytimes.com/article/20141008/NEWS04/310080036/Navy-tests-out-new-way-making-clothes-Welding" target="_blank">Navy tests out new way of making clothes: Welding</a></h1>
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A swatch of fabric with a welded seam, top, is displayed resting
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Clare King, of Providence, R.I., displays a zipper attached to a
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<strong>PAWTUCKET, R.I.</strong> — Welding isn’t just for aircraft carriers anymore.<br />
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U.S. Navy could be turning to ultrasonic welding to make its uniforms
lighter, stronger and cheaper. And if the project by a Rhode Island
company and the Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility is a
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seams — created when two pieces of fabric are essentially melted
together by sound waves — are already used in some clothing that some
Americans have in their closets. Patagonia and North Face both sell
models of jackets with welded seams. But so far, most, if not all, of
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-80861312864943480102014-10-06T08:22:00.000-05:002014-10-06T08:22:42.013-05:00TORPIC TRAVEL?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm not really seeing the innovation as this idea has been around for an extremely long time.<br /><br />Perhaps the article writer is referring to the specific techniques that would be involved. However there is no guarantee that torpor will either be universally effective or universally safe. Plus there will be the danger of a difficult and untimely revival.<br /><br />And obviously you can't put everyone in torpor, that's far too dangerous.<br /><br /><h1 class="content-title">
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Last year, NASA announced the discovery of water on Mars.
This posed a question to scientists: Could we grow plants in the soil of
Mars? Trace explains what is necessary to grow crops on Earth, and if
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The deep sleep, called torpor, would reduce astronauts’
metabolic functions with existing medical procedures. Torpor also can
occur naturally in cases of hypothermia.<br />
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<a href="http://news.discovery.com/space/private-spaceflight/space-tourist-mission-to-mars-in-2018-130221.htm">ANALYSIS: Private Mars Mission in 2018?</a><br />
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“Therapeutic torpor has been around in theory since the 1980s
and really since 2003 has been a staple for critical care trauma
patients in hospitals," aerospace engineer Mark Schaffer, with
SpaceWorks Enterprises in Atlanta, said at the International
Astronomical Congress in Toronto this week. "Protocols exist in most
major medical centers for inducing therapeutic hypothermia on patients
to essentially keep them alive until they can get the kind of treatment
that they need.”<br />
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Want to do it right? Don't go Russian...<br />
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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
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-87856462168060070152014-09-26T12:42:00.000-05:002014-09-26T12:44:32.072-05:00EVIL PROPAGATES - AMERICAN BEHEADING<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Foreign Evil propagates. <b>Here</b>. <span style="color: #660000;"><b>Among us</b></span>. (<i>As if we didn't have enough of our own already</i>.)<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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The War of Terror is alive and well. It does not matter how effeminate and intentionally naive we are about our own terminology. Still,<b><i> it comes. </i></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/okla-man-beheads-woman-workplace-fight-report-article-1.1953778" target="_blank">Oklahoma man beheads woman, stabs 2nd victim during workplace fight day after being fired from job</a></h1>
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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.</h2>
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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.<br />
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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. <span style="color: red;"><b>AND ENTIRELY UNMANLY.</b></span> Do you
understand what that means? I say this as a man who is usually
sympathetic to the police.<br />
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You could have killed this man for complying with your request.<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>YOU MUST BE BIGGER THAN YOUR TRAINING.</b></span> If not you are smaller than yourself.<br />
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You keep killing your own cause, <i>and sometimes innocent men</i>. But in the end you must control yourself first, son. No one else.<br />
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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.<br />
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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?<br />
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It is well past time to change my friends. For your sake as much as anyone's.<br />
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"Sir, why was I shot? All I did was reach for my license. I'm coming from work."</h2>
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COLUMBIA, SC — Dashcam video captured the moment an unarmed man was
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The motorist, 35-year-old Levar Jones, pulled into a Columbia convenience store parking lot on September 4th, 2014. </blockquote>
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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...</blockquote>
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I am all for training and tradition. But we make a cult of it when we cannot exceed it.</div>
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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.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What God has forgotten about nothing is still far more than I'll ever know about anything.</span></div>
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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I for one am very glad to see the physical emphasis shifting towards active physical capabilities in testing.<br />
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For the first time in more than 20 years, the Army is gearing
up to change its fitness test for every Soldier.<br />
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Gone is the simple
pushup, sit up, and run routine, and in its place comes a battery of
sprints, jumps and rows.<br />
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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.<br />
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"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.' "<br />
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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.<br />
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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...</div>
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-5866431663561715552014-09-19T07:28:00.000-05:002014-09-19T07:30:11.415-05:00EPIGENETIC MEMORY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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.<br />
<br />
I see it as being directly related (as a manipulation mechanism) to my theory of the Renaissance Man and the polymath.<br />
<br />
Anyway I thought this was a rather good but very basic summary of some of the recent research advances and studies in the field.<br />
<br />
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<br />
<header class="content-head">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<h1>
<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-09-epigenetic-memory.html" target="_blank">Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations</a></h1>
<h5 class="data">
18 hours ago </h5>
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</header><br />
<blockquote>
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<figure class="image-block">
<div class="image-block-ins">
<img alt="Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations" src="http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/2014/5-studyshowsho.jpg" />
</div>
<figcaption class="image-block-caption">
This image shows inheritance and transmission of the epigenetic mark H3K27me3 in <i>C. elegans</i>.
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
</figcaption>
</figure>
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...
</blockquote>
<br />
<br />
<div style="left: -99999px; position: absolute;">
<br />
<header class="content-head"><h1>
Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations</h1>
<h5 class="data">
17 hours ago </h5>
</header>
<section class="content-holder clearfix">
<section class="content">
<article class="post">
<figure class="image-block">
<div class="image-block-ins">
<img alt="Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations" src="http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/2014/5-studyshowsho.jpg" />
</div>
<figcaption class="image-block-caption">
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 …<a class="caption-expand" href="http://phys.org/news/2014-09-epigenetic-memory.html">more</a></figcaption>
</figure>
<section class="article-block">
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.
</section></article></section></section><br />
<br />
Read more at: <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-09-epigenetic-memory.html#jCp">http://phys.org/news/2014-09-epigenetic-memory.html#jCp</a></div>
<div style="left: -99999px; position: absolute;">
<br />
<header class="content-head"><h1>
Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations</h1>
<h5 class="data">
17 hours ago </h5>
</header>
<section class="content-holder clearfix">
<section class="content">
<article class="post">
<figure class="image-block">
<div class="image-block-ins">
<img alt="Study shows how epigenetic memory is passed across generations" src="http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/2014/5-studyshowsho.jpg" />
</div>
<figcaption class="image-block-caption">
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 …<a class="caption-expand" href="http://phys.org/news/2014-09-epigenetic-memory.html">more</a></figcaption>
</figure>
<section class="article-block">
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.
</section></article></section></section><br />
<br />
Read more at: <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-09-epigenetic-memory.html#jCp">http://phys.org/news/2014-09-epigenetic-memory.html#jCp</a></div>
</div>
Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-69896013693847147962014-09-19T07:13:00.000-05:002014-09-19T07:31:40.672-05:00THE HUMAN SUIT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
And about bloody time too. I've been saying the same thing, and following the same design principle with my own<b> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">AISTHPLEIS Suit </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">design for over a decade now.<br /><br />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).</span><br />
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<a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-09-spacesuits-future-resemble-skin.html" target="_blank">Spacesuits of the future may resemble a streamlined second skin</a></h1>
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Sep 18, 2014 by Jennifer Chu </h5>
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The MIT BioSuit, a skintight spacesuit that offers improved
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Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT
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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...
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-82597156764370506662014-09-17T20:05:00.000-05:002014-09-17T20:05:38.434-05:00THE DEATH OF EVERYTHING ELSE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I completely agree. Modern liberalism is obsessed with turning everything else into modern liberalism. To the death and detriment of everything else.<br /><br /><br /><div class="header">
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<a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118958/liberals-are-killing-art-insisting-its-always-political" target="_blank"><span class="headline" itemprop="name">Liberals Are Killing Art</span><span class="caption"> How the Left became obsessed with ideology over beauty </span></a></h1>
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<span class="dropcap">D</span>o more and more liberals find the emotions unleashed by the arts<span class="em">—</span>I mean all of the arts, from poetry to painting to dance<span class="em">—</span>something of an embarrassment? Are the liberal-spirited people who support a rational public policy<span class="em">—</span>a social safety net, consistency and efficiency in foreign affairs, steps to reverse global warming<span class="em">—</span>reluctant to embrace art’s celebration of unfettered metaphor and mystery and magic? If you had asked me ten years ago, I would have said the answer was no. Now I am inclined to say the opposite. What is certain is that in our data- and metrics-obsessed era the imaginative ground without which art cannot exist is losing ground. Instead of art-as-art we have art as a comrade-in-arms to some more supposedly stable or substantial or readily comprehensible aspect of our world. Now art is always hyphenated. We have art-and-society, art-and-money, art-and-education, art-and-tourism, art-and-politics, art-and-fun. Art itself, with its ardor, its emotionalism, and its unabashed assertion of the imagination, has become an outlier, its tendency to celebrate a purposeful purposelessness found to be intimidating, if not downright frightening.</div>
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The erosion of art’s imaginative ground, often blamed on demagogues of the left and the right, is taking place in the very heart of the liberal, educated, cultivated audience<span class="em">—</span>the audience that arts professionals always imagined they could count on. The whole question is so painful and so difficult that I have frankly hesitated to tackle it. It is relatively easy to point to the deformations of art at the hands of politically correct left-wingers and cheap-shot moralists on the right, as the late Robert Hughes did in the fast-paced, witty series of lectures that he published as <em>Culture of Complaint</em> in 1993. It is far more difficult to explain why people who pride themselves on their carefully reasoned view of the world want to argue that art is not a value in and of itself, but rather a vehicle or a medium or a vessel through which some other human value or values are expressed. That these thoughts are often voiced indirectly makes them no less significant. Indeed, such thoughts may be all the more significant because they are being expressed by critics and scholars who would deny that they are in any way discomfited by the unique powers of the arts. An illiberal view of art is gaining ground, even among the liberal audience. This is one of the essential if largely hidden factors that is undermining faith in our museums, our libraries, our publishing houses, our concert halls, symphony orchestras, and theater and dance troupes.</div>
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-79358432751047189272014-09-16T16:52:00.000-05:002014-09-16T16:52:15.115-05:00NASA CATCHES UP TO THE 21ST CENTURY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Good. We should be relying upon American corporations not hostile foreign nations for our Space Exploration endeavours. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">On the other hand we shouldn't be relying upon the American government for our Space Exploration efforts either. The future of Space Exploration is <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Private Enterprise</b></span>.</span></blockquote>
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-57069895635932078212014-09-16T13:18:00.006-05:002014-09-16T13:20:55.585-05:00THE ORIGINAL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have nothing but admiration and respect for <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Classical Liberalism</span>.</h4>
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<br />I have nothing but disdain and disgust for<span style="color: red;"> <i>modern liberalism</i></span>.</h4>
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-85892352980127559752014-09-16T13:09:00.000-05:002014-09-16T13:09:11.568-05:00ONE THING INTO ANOTHER - PRINTER INTO LABORATORY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I very much like the idea of one device having multiple applications (<i>with a small amount of reconfiguring or even retooling</i>). <br /><br /><b>To me this is a positive step towards <i>God Technology</i>.</b><br /><br /><header class="content-head">
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If you stop and think about it for a moment, you will realise what
an astonishing feat of precision engineering your colour printer is. It
can take the primary colours – cyan, yellow, magenta and black – and mix
them together carefully enough to achieve more than a million different
hues and shades. Not only that but the drops of colour are mere
nanolitres (billionths of a litre) in volume, each of which is then
placed on the paper – assuming its not jammed in the feeder tray – with
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-62782891616085326202014-09-11T14:10:00.000-05:002014-09-11T14:10:53.562-05:00WHAT I REMEMBER: 9/11, 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is hardly a day to celebrate, of course, but it is a day to remember
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What bothers me about this day is not that we were ambushed, for anyone can
be, or even that we did not anticipate 9/11/01 (we should have, but humans are
humans, we do not anticipate everything, even those things we easily should) but
how easily we have dismissed the implications of this day.</div>
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We are in the very early stages of what may very well promise to be another
Hundred Year’s War.</div>
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Yet so many are still so naïve, so self-absorbed, so easily deluded.</div>
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They thought this would all be over quickly, won easily, that they could
return unabashed and untroubled to their self-indulgent and erroneous political
theories and their quaint causes and their video games and their personal
interests du jour and that the War on Terror would disappear because they and
their self-appointed leaders so desired. Merely because they chose to stop
calling it a war. As if anything ever disappears simply by un-naming it.</div>
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Good luck with that. </div>
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You’re sure as hell gonna need it.<br /><br />Evil doesn’t give a shit what you
think of it. It doesn’t care what you want. It doesn’t care how complacent or
apathetic or naïve or just plain ignorant you desperately desire to be. It
doesn’t care who you are. It likes to make martyrs, not be martyred, it likes
the weak, it likes the naïve, it likes the apathetic, and it especially loves
the overly sophisticated, the urbanized intelligentsia, and wholly self-deluded
(I apologize for being redundant, that was just for emphasis). They all make for
awful good eating.</div>
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Evil is what it is folks, and it is a hunter of the unprepared, and it is
extremely patient, and it smells blood where you smell your own self-absorption
and Danish topped coffee stains.</div>
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So just get used to it, it is the way of things.</div>
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You might think war is something you wage on TV and film screens,
something that will be won in a single tow-hour fictional combat by Captain
America and Batman. You might think it can be won by words and empty suit
promises by painted pretty boy Presidents who can’t wipe their own asses for
confusing it with a back-nine grass-covered golf hole.</div>
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But what you’re likely gonna get is something altogether different and more
costly than that.<br /><br />So, get used to it sunshine. <br /><br />You just have no
idea of what’s coming... and how little you yet understand.</div>
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And God help us, maybe you’ll just get lucky, eh?</div>
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Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-1322061591994417862014-09-11T07:34:00.001-05:002014-09-11T07:34:11.367-05:00WHAT DO YOU THINK?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;">For those of you familiar with blogging I have a question to ask. I'd like to solicit your advice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
have four blogs, one is my personal blog, one is my literary blog, one
is my business and invention blog, and one is my gaming and design blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Three of my blogs are on <strong><em>Wordpress</em></strong>, one is on <strong>Blogger</strong>.
When each is old enough and well established enough (I just started
them a couple of months back) each will go private, but for now they are
hosted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So here is my question: of these two platforms, Wordpress
and Blogger, which is better for building your audience and which is
better overall if your aim is blog success to support your business and
writing enterprises?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">At this stage of my blog development process which do you think is the superior platform?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Which do you recommend, and why? Your advice is appreciated.</span></div>
Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940703663598608926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31102024.post-33199466438215258092014-09-10T14:29:00.000-05:002014-09-10T14:33:06.012-05:00THE MISSAL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've reinitialized the Missal<span style="background-color: lime;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">.</span><span style="background-color: black;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">The Missal</span></span></span><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></b></span>will now become my personal and political and religious blog, though I'll also cover other topics as well, such as military and law enforcement matters. I'll disclose more details later, but for now I'll be making regular blog posts to the Missal once or twice a week again.</h4>
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I also have other blogs I am currently writing. If you would like to visit one of my other blogs they are as follows:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="http://wyrdwend.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Wyrdwend</a> : my Literary blog covering my writings - fiction and non-fiction, my songwriting, and my poetry.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: lime;"><a href="http://launchport.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Launch Port</a> : my business and entrepreneurial blog covering business, career, entrepreneurship, start-ups, capital and funding, and my inventions.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://tomeandtomb.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Tome and Tomb</a> : my gaming and game design blog.</span></span></b><br />
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You are welcome to link to or follow any of my blogs. All readers are welcome.<br />
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Have a great day,<br />
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Jack. <b><span style="color: lime;"> </span></b><br />
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