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While the death of Sen. Ed Kennedy overshadowed the news last week, the passing of another Washington, D. C. giant unfortunately received little coverage, Robert Novak. This NBC Meet the Press piece described the illustrious career of this fabulous reporter:
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And, mentioned last week was the passing of CBS 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt. This 60 Minutes special on Hewitt’s life and career are well worth the ¾ of an hour to understand this man’s central roll in American television news for the last 1/2 century:
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1. “BUILDING BLOCK OF LIFE FOUND ON COMET”
“The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that raw ingredients of life arrived on Earth from outer space, scientists said on Monday [Aug. 17].
Microscopic traces of glycine were discovered in a sample of particles retrieved from the tail of comet Wild 2 by the NASA spacecraft Stardust deep in the solar system some 242 million miles (390 million km) from Earth, in January 2004,” quoting Reuters.
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2. “HUMANS WALK IN CIRCLES – BUT WE THINK WE’RE GOING STRAIGHT”
“It’s true, people who are lost really do walk in circles -- very wobbly circles. That’s from a study in today’s issue of the journal Current Biology.
Researches at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany attached GPS locators to people and then set them to walking for several hours in the Sahara desert in Tunisia and the Bienwald forest in Germany.
Walkers were only able to continue in a straight line when they could see either the sun or the moon,” quoting USA Today.
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And, the New York Times’ take on this story:
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3. “THE BRAIN: THE DARK MATTER OF THE HUMAN BRAIN”
“Meet the forgotten 90 percent of your brain: glial cells, which outnumber your neurons ten to one. And no one really knows what they do…
Glia, in fact, are busy multitaskers, guiding the brain’s development and sustaining it throughout our lives. Glia also listen carefully to their neighbors, and they speak in a chemical language of their own. Scientists do not yet understand that language, but experiments suggest that it is part of the neurological conversation that takes place as we learn and form new memories,” from Discover Magazine.
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4. “IS QUANTUM MECHANICS SELECTIVELY ERASING OUR MEMORIES?”
“In a paper published last week, MIT physicist Lorenzo Maccone hypothesizes that, yes, quantum physics is messing with our minds. The laws of physics work just as well if time is running forwards or backwards. But we all seem to experience time running in only one direction, and in the same direction as everyone else -- a mystery of physics that's yet to be solved.
So life as we observe it presents a quandary. Randomness -- or entropy -- naturally increases. A drop of food coloring in water will spread out. Heat from a pizza dissipates. But the laws of physics that govern the tiny particles that make up everything could just as well run backwards, so something doesn't jibe. Why don't we see more instances of molecules ordering themselves (sugar un-dissolving itself from my coffee, ice cubes spontaneously forming in my water) if it's just as likely according to the laws of physics?
Maccone says that we do see these events. We just don't remember them, because some quantum weirdness erases the memories,” quoting Popular Science.
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5. “12 SURPRISING SIGNS YOU’LL LIVE TO 100”
“You're the life of the party
You run for 40 minutes a day
You like raspberries in your oatmeal
You feel 13 years younger than you are
You embrace techie trends
You started menopause after age 52
You make every calorie count
You had a baby later in life
Your pulse beats 15 times in 15 seconds
You don't snore
You have a (relatively) flat belly after menopause
You get your blood tested for vitamin D levels,”
From Prevention.
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6. “15 BEAUTIFUL MICROSCOPIC IMAGES FORM INSIDE THE HUMAN BODY”
These are a must-see.
From Environmental Graffiti:
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7. “TICK SALIVA COULD HOLD CANCER CURE”
“It may be one of nature's repulsive little blood-sucking parasites, but the humble tick could yield a future cure for cancers of the skin, liver and pancreas, Brazilian researchers have discovered.
They have identified a protein in the saliva of a common South American tick, Amblyomma cajennense, that apparently reduces and can even eradicate cancerous cells while leaving healthy cells alone.
"This is a radical innovation," said Ana Marisa Chudzinski-Tavassi, the molecular biologist at the Instituto Butantan in Sao Paulo who is leading the research.
"The component of the saliva of this tick... could be the cure for cancer," she told AFP,” quoting France’s AFP.
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8. “INSTINCT BASED MEDICINE”
Dr. Leonard Coldwell, author of "Instinct Based Medicine: How to Survive Your
Illness ...and Your Doctor" was interviewed on Beyond the Ordinary saying.
“There is no healing force outside the human body, therefore the only person that can cure you is YOU!
And that is the only truth in regards of permanent optimum health.”
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9. “SINGLE MOLECULE, ONE MILLION TIMES SMALLER THAN A GRAIN OF SAND PICTURED FOR FIRST TIME”
“It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule.
Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule.
'This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,' lead researcher Leo Gross said," from UK’s Daily Mail:
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10. “SCIENTISTS FIND ‘GREAT PACIFIC OCEAN GARBAGE PATCH’”
“Scientists have just completed an unprecedented journey into the vast and little-explored "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch."
On the Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (SEAPLEX), researchers got the first detailed view of plastic debris floating in a remote ocean region.
It wasn't a pretty sight.
The Scripps research vessel (R/V) New Horizon left its San Diego homeport on August 2, 2009, for the North Pacific Ocean Gyre, located some 1,000 miles off California's coast, and returned on August 21, 2009,” quoting Science Daily.
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11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “The vegetable gardeners of Havana”
From the BBC:
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B. “China drought leaves 5m short of water”
From China Daily:
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C. “Smile, there's an upside-down rainbow in the sky over Sussex”
From UK’s Mail:
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D. “Biomimicry: 12 Sustainable Design Ideas from Nature”
From Evolutionezine:
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E. “Clock ticks down on a deadly chemical stockpile” in Kentucky!
From the LA Times:
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F. “Amazing animals: Kingdom oddities”
From the NY Daily News:
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G. “Morning Glory Clouds Over Australia”
From NASA:
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H. “The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D”
An image father than we have ever seen in the Universe:
On YouTube:
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I.“Under the hood of the solar electric car”
From The Ecologist:
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12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. “Red, White, and Bruce”
“He's our blue-collar conscience, our rock 'n' roll sage. Why America needs Bruce Springsteen now more than ever”
Springsteen turns 60 September 23rd.
From AARP Magazine:
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B. “Homelessness grows in shadow of White House”
From McClatchy newspapers:
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C. “Millions face shrinking Social Security payments”
From the AP:
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D. “Nearly 90% of U.S. money has traces of cocaine”
From LiveScience:
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E, “WHO warns of severe form of swine flu”
“Dangerous type goes straight to lungs in otherwise healthy young people”
From Reuters:
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&
“Colleges arm students for swine-flu prevention”
From the Lowell, MA Sun
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F. “Vaccine-Induced Disease - ‘They’ Have Done it Before, Are They Doing in Again?”
From Health Freedom Alliance:
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13. THE NATION
A. “Financial Crisis Called Off”
By James Howard Kunstler
Brilliant observations and well thought out:
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B. “Honduras: Military Coup Engineered By Two US Companies? “
By John Perkins:
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C. “Is Obama Punking Us?”
By Frank Rich in the New York Times:
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D. “Trailer - Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack Obama”
On YouTube:
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E. “The Shell Game - How the Federal Reserve is Monetizing Debt”
From The Martenson Report:
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F. “Rhode Island gov to shut down state government for 12 days”
From the AP:
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G. Yelm’s Fairpoint Communications “…bankruptcy possible”
From Vermont Bix:
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And, from the Portland [ME] Press Herald:
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RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. It's Time to Return: RSE Follow-Ups in Yelm & Around the World!
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B. Blue College Follow-Up Invitation
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C. A Ramtha One on One Auction ends this Wednesday. You may have your session in Yelm or Argentina:
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D. MastersConnection has posted a fabulous, EXCLUSIVE Interview with RSE Guest Speaker Ben Hammott:
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E. Yelm Food Coop Annual Membership Meeting September 13
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F. The last Tank Day Series this year is September 12, 2009
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G. RSE’s economic impact on area noted:
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H. “A new interview has been uploaded with Brooks Agnew, Founder of Advanced Planetary Explorations, LLC and the Scientific Project Director of the North Pole Inner Earth Expedition NPIEE)” now on Beyond the Ordinary – KRSE:
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LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. Yelm Water Bill Insert filled with misleading statements – Part I
B. Yelm Water Bill Insert filled with misleading statements – Part II
C. Yelm Water Bill Insert filled with misleading statements – Part III
D. City & NVN not up-front in serving public’s interests
E. Olympia ties record heat for August 27th
F. City Administrator Badger spins more deceptions
G. NVN Publisher/Editor graves’ Op-Ed put in perspective
H. Two meetings of note in Yelm Monday
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Too many people overvalue what they are not
and undervalue what they are.”
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
US art collector, author, & publisher
From Wikipedia:
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Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2009.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner,
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| KLEINER'S KORNER DOUBLE-EDITION FOR WEEKS OF AUGUST 17/24 , 2009
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Dear Readers;
Yael & I just returned home from a 2 week trip to Israel visiting our families after the first Ramtha School of Enlightenment (RSE) Workshop ever held in the Middle East in Tel Aviv.
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RSE Israel is now on the map with this fabulous website for locals:
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THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE THIS SUCH A MEMORABLE VISIT!
We returned home to note the passing of Don Hewitt at age 86, “recognized as a father of modern television news and the creator of the medium's most successful broadcast, 60 Minutes CBS News 60 minutes.” [Ed. Note: This man was a titan and in addition to Edward R. Murrow & Walter Cronkhite, one of my favorite 20th century icons!]
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1. “WHY BLUE M & M’S MAY HELP TO RELIEVE YOUR MIGRAINE”
“According to neuroscientist and headache specialist Holger Kaube at the University of Freiburg, the migraine is the brain's way of "evoking a state of disease and forcing a day or two of rest" by creating the need to lie down and stay away from light and noise.
The hypothalamus sets off a train of reactions which result in the dilation of the blood vessels in the meninges, the skin membrane surrounding brain. The dilation is accompanied by the inflammation of cells surrounding the vessels, which are intertwined with pain fibres, leading to a throbbing headache sensation.
Blue dye could either act on the root cause of the migraine by targeting and suppressing signals in the hypothalamus. Or it could act on the symptoms of the migraine by reducing inflammation in the membrane. Either one would potentially offer relief.
If this proves to be the case, the blue dye found in sweets such as M&M's and blue Liquorice All Sorts could well prove an safe, effective and cheap way of treating migraine. However, as evidenced by the wonderful pictures of the blue rats, there is one small drawback. It could leave you looking a little blue in the face,” quoting UK’s Times.
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2. “’HIDDEN PORTAL’ CONCEPT DESCRIBED...”
“While the researchers can't promise delivery to a parallel universe or a school for wizards, books like Pullman's Dark Materials and JK Rowling's Harry Potter are steps closer to reality now that researchers in China have created the first tunable electromagnetic gateway.
The work is a further advance in the study of metamaterials, published in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society).
In the research paper, the researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Fudan University in Shanghai describe the concept of a ‘a gateway that can block electromagnetic waves but that allows the passage of other entities’ like a “'hidden portal' as mentioned in fictions’”," quoting ScienceDaily.
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3. NEWS OF UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN BRAIN
A. “BRAIN SCANS OF THE FUTURE”
“Psychologists have found that thought patterns used to recall the past and imagine the future are strikingly similar. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to show the brain at work, they have observed the same regions activated in a similar pattern whenever a person remembers an event from the past or imagines himself in a future situation. This challenges long-standing beliefs that thoughts about the future develop exclusively in the frontal lobe…
‘You might look at it as mental time travel--the ability to take thoughts about ourselves and project them either into the past or into the future,’ says Kathleen McDermott, Ph.D. and Washington University psychology professor,” from ScienceDaily.
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B. “HARNESSING THE POWER OF THE BRAIN”
“This story was first published on Nov. 2, 2008. It was updated on Aug. 6, 2009.
Once in a while, we run across a science story that is hard to believe until you see it. That's how we felt about this story when we first saw human beings operating computers, writing e-mails, and driving wheelchairs with nothing but their thoughts.
Quietly in a number of laboratories, an astounding technology is developing that directly connects the human brain to a computer. It's like a sudden leap in human evolution - a leap that could one day help paralyzed people to walk again and amputees to move bionic limbs. As correspondent Scott Pelley first reported last November, the connection has already been made for a few people, and for them it has been life changing,” quoting CBS News.
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4. SCIENCE UNDERSTANDINGS TURNED ON THEIR HEELS
A. “CENTURY-OLD PHYSICS LAW VIOLATED”
“A study in the journal Nano Letters shows that the well-known rules of heat transfer from a nonreflective object, called Planck's blackbody radiation law, break down if the object can be brought close enough to another object while still not touching it. Steve Mirsky reports…
It’s good news because of potential applications. For example, computer data storage and solar energy devices are all less efficient because of heat buildup. If tinier distances can be achieved in these real-world devices, such waste could be made to walk the plank<’ quoting Scientific American.
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B. “NEWFOUND PLANETS ORBITS BACKWARDS”
“Planets orbit stars in the same direction that the stars rotate. They all do. Except one.
A newfound planet orbits the wrong way, backward compared to the rotation of its host star. Its discoverers think a near-collision may have created the retrograde orbit, as it is called.
The star and its planet, WASP-17 , are about 1,000 light-years away. The setup was found by the UK's Wide Area Search for Planets (WASP) project in collaboration with Geneva Observatory. The discovery was announced today but has not yet been published in a journal,” quoting Space.com.
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5. “MICHAEL MOORE’S CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY MOVIE TRAILER”
“Since bursting onto the documentary scene 20 years ago with "Roger & Me," a blistering critique of General Motors, Michael Moore has directed the highest-grossing documentary of all time (2004's "Fahrenheit 9/11") and become a professional populist provocateur. The Flint, Mich., native is now busy finishing "Capitalism: A Love Story," his take on the U.S. financial crisis, which will premiere next month at the Venice and Toronto film festivals ahead of its wide release Oct. 2,” quoting The Hollywood Reporter in Truthout. [Ed. Note. I am REALLY looking forward to seeing this film!]
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6. LONGEVITY CAPTIVATES IN THESE STORIES
A. “MORE GOOD YEARS”
“On Ikaria [Greece], a mountainous, 99-square-mile island, residents tell this story to illustrate something they've known all their lives: on average, Ikarians outlive just about everyone else in the world.
For three weeks in April, I [Dan Buettner is the author of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (National Geographic, 2008)] led a scientific expedition to Ikaria to investigate the reasons for the islanders' remarkable longevity. It was part of my research into the earth's few Blue Zones: places where an extraordinarily high proportion of natives live past 90. Our team of demographic and medical researchers—funded by AARP and National Geographic—found that an amazing one in three Ikarians reaches 90,” quoting AARP Magazine. Read the 13 likely contributors to Ikarian longevity.
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B. “LIFE EXPECTANCY REACHES ALL-TIME HIGH IN U. S."
“U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday [Aug. 19]…
The new U.S. data is a preliminary report based on about 90 percent of the death certificates collected in 2007. It comes from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” quoting the AP.
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7. "RED, WHITE & BRUCE"
"He's our blue-collar conscience, our rock 'n' roll sage. Why America needs Bruce Springsteen now more than ever," quoting AARP Magazine. [Ed. Note: I LOVED this story and honor Springsteen for his contributions to this country!]
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8. NEW DISCOVERIES TURN-OVER NEW KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PAST
A. “CAVE COMPLEX MAY LIE BENEATH GIZA PYRAMIDS”
“An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs…
Collins [British explorer Andrew Collins], who will detail his findings in the book "Beneath the Pyramids" to be published in September, tracked down the entrance to the mysterious underworld after reading the forgotten memoirs of a 19th century diplomat and explorer,” quoting Discovery News.
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B. “STUDY: FIRE USED TO MAKE TOOLS 75,000 YEARS AGO”
“Discovery points to breakthrough occurring earlier in Africa, not Europe”
From LiveScience:
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C. “TIMBER STRUCTURE OLDER THAN STONEHENGE FOUND”
“Radiocarbon dating shows London platform is about 6,000 years old”
From LiveScience:
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9. “’DEAD’ BABY WAKES UP FOR HIS FUNERAL WAKE”
“A baby boy born 16 weeks prematurely was declared dead by doctors at a hospital in Paraguay only to wake up in time for his funeral wake hours later…
The family was given a death certificate and a cardboard box with the baby's name scribbled on the outside which served as a makeshift coffin.
But when the family took him from the hospital to prepare him for his funeral, the unbelievable happened,” quoting Reuters. [Ed. Note: How many times have those “pronounced dead” been buried alive? Makes one wonder.]
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10. IS SEATTLE & VICINITY READY FOR THE ‘BIG ONE’?
A. “SEATTLE AT RISK FOR GIANT EARTHQUAKE”
“Seattle's tallest buildings are at risk of collapse during a rupture of the Cascadia fault zone in the Pacific Northwest, say U.S. seismic experts,” from the UPI:
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B. “PLATES QUIVER UNDER PUGET SOUND, GETTING READY FOR THE BIG ONE”
“Using sophisticated seismometers and GPS devices, scientists have been able to track minute movements along two massive tectonic plates colliding 25 miles or so underneath Washington state’s Puget Sound basin. Their early findings suggest that a mega-earthquake could strike closer to the Seattle-Tacoma area, home to some 3.6 million people, than was thought earlier,” quoting The Tacoma News Tribune.
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11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “Climate change seen as threat to U.S. security”
“Issue could become central in Senate debate over energy legislation”
From the New York Times:
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B. “Orca capture 1971 remembered”
38 years ago last week from KING-5 TV Seattle:
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C. “The perennial Mars hoax e-mail”
From the BBC:
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D. “Soap: Good for cars, not fish”
“Clean Water: Area agencies, businesses aim to keep sudsy water out of storm drain”
From The Tacoma News Tribune:
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E. “First U.S. "Power Tower" Lights Up California”
“Turning the sun's heat into electricity--by concentrating it with thousands of mirrors onto a tower”
From Scientific American:
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F. “All Aboard the Eco-Express: Rail's Hybrid Energy Solutions”
“Green transportation is gaining momentum on U.S. railways”
From Scientific American:
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G. “State [WA.] near top on cutting thirst for oil”
“Ranked No. 3: Natural Resources Defense Council scores efforts”
From The Olympian:
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H. “80-mph winds topple old Central Park trees”
“New York City's jewel 'devastated' by storm, parks commissioner says”
From the AP:
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I. “Obama Asks Court to Block Forest Road Building”
From the AP in Truthout:
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J. “World's ocean temps are warmest on record”
“At 62.6 degrees in July, that's a full degree above 20th Century average”
From the AP;
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12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. “Susan Boyle's New Life, New Look” WOW!
From MSN:
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B. “Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?”
“There are dangerous currents running through America's politics and the way we confront them is crucial.”
From Campaign for America’s Future:
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C. “Clif, creator of Adventures in Future Viewing AKA the Web Bot Project and the resulting ALTA 'asymetric language trend analysis' Reports” was interviewed on Beyond the Ordinary August 11th:
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D. “McDonald's sales boosted by frugal consumers”
From the AP:
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E. “Why is National Guard recruiting for 'internment' cops?”
“Ad campaign seeks workers at 'civilian resettlement facility'”
From World Net Daily:
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The ad from the US Army website:
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F. “American junk food imports hit poor”
“Influx of high-fat and high-sugar foods into Central America has increased obesity levels”
From The Ecologist:
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G. Here comes Swine flu – right on cue!
- “WHO predicts 'explosion' of swine flu cases”
From the AP:
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- “Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America”
From UK’s Daily Mail:
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H. “Forbes names 100 most powerful women”
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel tops list for the fourth consecutive year”
From Forbes on Today on NBC:
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THE NATION
A. “Drones: America's New Air Force”
From CBS News 60 Minutes:
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B. “Jobless spike compounds foreclosure crisis”
“Economists estimate 1.8 million borrowers will lose their homes this year”
From the Washington Post on MSNBC:
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C. “US banking crisis far from over, Congress warns”
“Congressional panel warns that if unemployment remains high and the property market continues to crumble, banks will still incur further losses on bad assets”
From UK’s Guardian:
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D. “Chicago shuts down to save money”
From the BBC:
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F. “Consumer inflation falls as shoppers hold back”
“Worries about personal finances trump some optimism over economy”
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G. “Days Away From Economic Chaos?”
From LewRockwell.com:
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H. “Tacoma makes less honorable list”
“National news weekly U.S. News & World Report in today's issue names Tacoma as one of the metropolitan areas most endangered by a possible collapse of commercial real estate markets.” From the Pierce County Business Examiner:
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I. “Ridge says he was pressured to raise terror alert”
“In book, ex-Homeland Security chief hints Bush aides wanted to sway vote”
[Ed. Note: of course, what else!]
From the AP.
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RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. RSE student Mary Beth Meyers co-authored a book project series called, "Horse as Teacher". The first book of the series, "Horse as Teacher"/ Path to Authenticity was published, May 15, 2009. The second book is scheduled to be published October 15, 2009, with the third book due out next spring.
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More about Mary Beth here:
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Congratulations to Mary Beth in manifesting what she calls one of her "time tiles"!
B. Update on CSE’s Beach Boys Benefit Concert:
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C. Remembering Jim Aeder, who passed July 29th 2009. Celebrating his transition will be with a small gathering on Sept. 11th at Diana Hall's home.
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D. JZ Rose Halloween Greetings
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E. RSE student Elizabeth Bennett, food storage expert and co-owner of EarthWave Living on Food Storage Preparedness:
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F. RSE’s newsletter is out
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G. Ramtha’s 2007 prediction of NZ moving closer to Australia now reported happening:
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H. RSE Follow-Ups Worldwide
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I. Christmas Has Arrived at JZ Rose! Shop Early!
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J. A Private Session with Ramtha in Argentina or Yelm!
Closes September 2nd:
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K. Elegant in black and White at JZ Rose!
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G. So many of you have asked how the Klein family horses are doing. Thanks for your interest. Here is an update from the Voice-Tribune of Kentucky:
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LOCAL NOTES
Covered recently on the Yelm Community Blog
A. Single day rain record for August in Yelm
B. Wilcox “Sound-Friendly” farming
C. Yelm has new Librarian
D. Intercity Transit awarded best mid-sized agency in USA
E. Children’s School of Excellence now enrolling
F. Yelm withdraws MDNS – cites lack of DOW water rights
G. City Councilman Baker votes against 2% B & O tax increase
H. Latest on Stage One of Yelm Bypass
I. “The Price of Wal-mart Coming to Town” & to Yelm
J. Introducing CZ Infrared™ Heaters
K. Wolf Haven wins award
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.”
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)
“American aviation pioneer, and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean,” from Wikipedia.
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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"
at
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Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com .
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| KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF AUGUST 17, 2009
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There is no Kleiner's Korner this week.
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| KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF AUGUST 10, 2009
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The all-time-ever highest recorded temperature in Seattle and the tie for all-time-ever hottest temperature in Olympia plus the string of record 90-degree days certainly made big news out here in the Pacific Northwest last week:
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1. “SCIENTISTS UNCORK POTENTIAL SECRET OF RED WINE’S HEALTH BENEFITS”
“Scientists from Scotland and Singapore have unraveled a mystery that has perplexed scientists since red wine was first discovered to have health benefits: how does resveratrol control inflammation? New research published in the August 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal, not only explains resveratrol's one-two punch on inflammation, but also show how it—or a derivative—can be used to treat potentially deadly inflammatory disease, such as appendicitis, peritonitis, and systemic sepsis,” quoting SceinceDaily.
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2. “WATCHING TV: WORST FOR KIDS THAN YOU THINK”
“Researchers in the U.S. and Spain collaborated on the study of 111 children ages 3 to 8 and found that of all the forms of inactivity they examined, television-viewing was the worst. It was linked to significantly higher blood pressure in children - the more TV kids watched, the higher their blood pressure - and the effect held true regardless of whether a child was heavy or at a healthy weight. What's more, other sedentary behaviors, like using a computer, were not associated with similar blood-pressure hikes, according to the study, which was published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicin,” quoting TIME Magazine.
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3. NEWS OF FINDINGS ABOUT THE HUMAN BRAIN
A. “BRAIN POWER: IN BATTLE, HUNCHES PROVE TO BE VALUABLE”
“Still, high-tech gear, while helping to reduce casualties, remains a mere supplement to the most sensitive detection system of all — the human brain. Troops on the ground, using only their senses and experience, are responsible for foiling many I.E.D. attacks, and, like Sergeant Tierney, they often cite a gut feeling or a hunch as their first clue,” quoting the New York Times.
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B. “A PATCHWORK MIND: HOW YOUR PARENTS GENES SHAPE YOUR BRAIN”
“Through the study of imprinted genes, researchers are also uncovering clues about how our parents’ genes influence our brain—it seems that maternal genes play a more important role in the formation of some brain areas, such as those for language and complex thought, and paternal genes have more influence in regions involved in growing, eating and mating,” quoting Scientific American.
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C. “GIRL SEES FINE WITH HALF A BRAIN”
“A 10-year-old girl from Germany has had quite a normal life despite the fact that she was born with only half her brain. Even more surprising, she has almost perfect vision in one of her eyes.
Now, scientists have figured out why. The girl's brain rewired itself - likely in the womb - so that it's able to process information from both the right and left fields of vision even though she is missing the right brain hemisphere, which failed to develop while she was in the womb.
The child's case is the only one of its kind known in the world, researchers said,” quoting LiveScience.
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D. “A CROSSWORD PUZZLE A DAY MAY DELAY DEMENTIA”
“Doing crossword puzzles, reading, and playing cards daily may delay the rapid memory decline that occurs if people develop dementia , according to a U.S. study.
Researchers from New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine spent five years following 488 people aged 75 to 85 who did not have dementia at the start of the study,” quoting Reuters.
link here .
4. “SCIENTISTS CLAIM NEW STATE OF MATTER CREATED”
“Scientists claim to have created a form of aluminum that's nearly transparent to extreme ultraviolet radiation and which is a new state of matter.
It's an idea straight out of science fiction, featured in the movie "Star Trek IV."
The work is detailed in the journal Nature Physics.
The normal states of matter are solid, liquid and gas, and a fourth state, called plasma, is a superheated gas considered more exotic. Other experiments have created strange states of matter for brief periods. This one, too, existed only briefly,” quoting LiveScience.
link here .
5. “SWISS WANT TO REVERSE PRAYERS, ASK GOD TO STOP GLACIER’S SHRINKING”
“Villagers from deeply Roman Catholic south Switzerland have for centuries offered a sacred vow to God to protect them from the advancing ice mass of the Great Aletsch glacier.
Global warming is making them want to reverse their prayers, and the Alpine faithful are seeking the permission of the pope.
Since the vow was established in 1678, the deal was simple: the citizens of the isolated mountain hamlets of Fiesch and Fieschertal would pledge to lead virtuous lives. In exchange, God would spare their homes and livelihoods from being swallowed by Europe's largest glacier as it expanded toward the valley with heavy winter snows.
Times have changed, and the once-fearsome Aletsch is melting amid temperatures that are 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.3 Fahrenheit) warmer than in the 19th century. The pastor at the Ernerwald Chapel has warned his flock that a new danger threatens,” quoting USA Today.
link here .
6. “CLEVER ROOKS REPEAT ANCIENT FABLE”
“One of Aesop's fables may have been based on fact, scientists report.
In the tale, written more than 2,000 years ago, a crow uses stones to raise the water level in a pitcher so it can reach the liquid to quench its thirst.
Now a study published in Current Biology reveals that rooks, a relative of crows, do just the same when presented with a similar situation…
Another paper, published in the journal Plos One, shows that New Caledonian crows - which like rooks, are a member of the corvid group, along with ravens, jackdaws, magpies and jays - can use three tools in succession to reach a treat,” quoting BBC.
link here .
7. “FROM 2-D TO 3-D SIGHT: HOW ONE SCIENTIST LEARNED TO SEE”
“Sue Barry is a neuroscientist at Mount Holyoke College. She's also the author of the newly released book Fixing My Gaze, which tells the story of how Barry, at the age of 48, finally learned to see in 3-D. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Barry about what a flat world looks like and what her own experience can teach us about brain plasticity and education,” from Scientific American.
link here .
8. INTRODUCING SEARASER
“SEARASER could be one of the most efficient sources of renewable energy…
“SEARASER uses wave displacement to lift a float attached to a piston and uses gravity in the wave’s following trough to push the piston back down. It is different from other wecs as it is tethered to a weight on the seabed by a single flexible tether, but utilises a double acting piston, thereby producing volumes of pressurised water in both directions of the piston,” quoting Searaser.
link here .
9. “THE FLOWER OF POSITIVE THINKING”
“Can lavender change your life?”
“Iris Lee Underwood had long heard that lavender was powerful balm for an aching heart. But when she caressed the velvety lavender flower she was harvesting outside her home one sunny afternoon six years ago, she felt its legendary mood-boosting powers in a way she didn't expect,” quoting AARP Magazine.
link here .
10. “SELECTING THE SAME SEX”
“There is one place where the definition of gender remains binary – in the womb. When it comes to sonograms, amniocentesis and standard pre-natal testing, there are no nuances. Here, the pronouncement, “It’s a girl,” can translate into fierce and instant parental rejection. The fact is that when the issue is “sex selection abortion,” the same sex is always being selected – female,” quoting On The Issues Magazine.
link here .
11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “The first climate change evacuation: what have we learned?”
From The Ecologist:
link here
B. “New Hope for Fisheries on the Horizon?”
From the National Science Foundation:
link here
C. “Forget gas, batteries — pee is new power source”
“Scientists can create cheap hydrogen from urine for use in fuel cells”
From Discovery News:
link here
D. “Brazilians Urged to Urinate in Shower”
To save water & toilet flushes
From AOL:
link here
E. “Britain invaded by power-crazed super-ants that cause blackouts and fires”
From UK’s Daily Mail:
link here
F. “Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere, Fans Conspiracy Flames”
From Wired Magazine:
link here
G. "Global warming may have helped Incas"
"British archaeologists say global warming helped fuel the Inca empire"
From the Los Angeles Times:
link here .
12. SOCIO-ECONOMIC NEWS
A. “Vaccinations: Deadly Immunity”
"Government health agencies colluded with Big Pharma to hide the risks"
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Global Research:
link here
B. “Federal Reserve Revealed”
On Coast to Coast AM:
link here
C. “Warren Buffett to Teach Kids About Finance in Cartoon”
From Bloomberg:
link here
D. “About half of U.S. mortgages seen underwater by 2011”
From Reuters:
link here
E. “Old Banks, New Lending Tricks”
“Lenders haven't sworn off risky financial products. They've come up with a slew of new ones”
From Business Week:
link here
F. “China 'trusts prostitutes more'’
From the BBC:
link here
G. “Feds see biggest tax revenue drop since 1932”
“Recession's toll comes as Congress and president try to fund programs”
From the AP:
link here
H. “President Carter: Many Children Were Tortured Under Bush”
From The People’s Voice:
link here
I. “Webbot Cliff High and George ure on coast2coast radio 7/21/09”
Ed. Note: I find this bang-on about our future!
From Coast to Coast AM:
link here
Or on YouTube:
link here
J. “Giving anonymously”
“A new way of giving”
From Givinganon.org:
link here .
RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. RSE student Nicole Martin has published her story “Elocin: An Extraordinary, Magical Life” available for purchase by contacting the author at Elocin.thebook@gmail.com buy on Amazon.com (next week), or at the 'Novel Bookstore', and potentially at Lemuria.
B. RSE Mexico Advanced Retreat!
link here
C. A Private Session with Ramtha in Italy or Yelm! Closed on Aug 5th
link here
D. “RSE contributes to Yelm retail sales with figures rising in 1st quarter. Yelm was the only area in Thurston County to show a sales gain.”
From JZ Knight’s website:
link here
E. JZ Rose Piece of the Week
link here
F. EarthWave Living is having an AUGUST SUPER SALE. Check it out.
link here
G. Dry Food Storage is having a sale!
The CSE Beach Boys benefit concert has been postponed, but DriedFoodStorage.net is having a sale!
Freeze Dried Food is 20%-25% off through Aug. 23rd and 5% of our profit benefits the Children's School of Excellence!
link here
I. Check out Salma Hayek's March-April 2009 Cover Article of WebMD magazine.
“Salma Hayek: Mom on a Mission”
“Motherhood inspired Salma Hayek to take on one more high-profile role: saving women and children in Africa.”
link here
J. Introductory Evening Tulsa, OK
August 29th, 2009
Center of Light -8123 E 48th St -Tulsa, OK
Creating Personal Reality Weekend Tulsa, OK
October 17-19, 2009
link here .
LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week of the Yelm Community Blog
A. Introducing Yelm’s 1st Rotary Club
B. Trader Joe’s to open in Olympia
C. Yelm’s Beck misleads Council on 6-year transportation plan
D. Introducing Yelm Networking Group
E. Major heat & dryness records broken
F. Yelm only area jurisdiction showing sales increase
G. Introducing young performers theater
H. Nisqually Watershed Building Guide
I. 2nd annual McKenna Fest coming Aug 15th
link here .
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
English poet & satirist
From Wikipedia:
link here .
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