Albuquerque Flash Mob

If I Had the Chance, I’d Ask the World to Dance

by BURQUESTYLE on APRIL 11, 2012 ·

By Jdel. Photos by Jdel and Solve Maxwell.

Billy McCall watched a video on YouTube of a handful of middle-aged gentlemen jamming out in the woods to techno music blasting from the trunk of a car.  That was all it took for him to realize that a dance party can — and should — be started anywhere.

He created the Facebook group called the Duke City Dance Party and posted a couple of notices about a flash-mob style gathering at the Dunkin Donuts parking lot along Central and University. Word spread, the post was re posted, and thus sprung their first impromptu dance party.

 

Twist and Shout. Check out homie getting down with that crutch.

The poppers popped, and the breakers breaked.

Peeps from Critical Mass were jammin on their bikes.

Getting wild with the noise makers

 

Hair, the musical

McCall, in his finest dance wear.

Artis, from ABQ Nightvision, put down his camera for a minute and showed us his moves.

Even Burquestyle’s own Solve Maxwell got down with his bad self.

 

The party started promptly at 6:50 and ended roughly twenty minutes later. The idea behind the short spurts of dancing? “I know people have stuff to do,” McCall says. “If you want to dance for three hours straight, you go to a nightclub. If you want to dance for a few minutes, meet some cool people, you come here — to Dunkin Donuts,” he laughed.

Greg Beliveau, owner of said Dunkin Donuts, looked out the window and saw people dancing in his parking lot. “Of all the things I have seen on the streets of Albuquerque, this may be the strangest,” he said.

That doesn’t mean he is a naysayer. “No, I think it’s great. Had I known they were coming, I would have called Channel 4 and told them to come down and get some footage of the flash mob in my parking lot.”

McCall says he appreciates Beliveau’s support. He also knows there is a fine line between spreading the word and receiving too much media and being told to shut down.

“Hopefully there will be more impromptu parties in other spots in the future,” he said. “Anyone can plan them. If you feel like dancing, pick a place and let us know. Albuquerque needs to get weirder.”

from:    http://burquestyle.com/if-i-had-the-chance-id-ask-the-world-to-dance/

Kryon through Lee Carroll on Energetic Shifts, etc.

The Recalibration of The Universe

Lee Carroll
a message from Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll
Friday, 27 January, 2012  at Patagonia  (posted 4 April, 2012)

Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. There is so much I want to tell you, but again, we start softly. We honor the energy in the room. We create a bubble around us of wisdom, so those who wish to hear will do so. We speak to many, not just those in the room. I want you to honor this moment, for it’s for you. This is not idle information. This information has a profound, Human stamp on it. It means that whatever I’m telling you, you have created. I’m aware that this message is being given in two languages [Spanish and English]. The information is complex, yet simple. So we need you to listen to understand concepts prepared in advance for you by those on this side of the veil who know who you are.

There is a shift going on in this planet. If you are indeed an old soul, it is affecting you, and each of you has a different affectation. That is to say, each one of you will have a different way of responding to the energy. Old souls have something very interesting. They may be old souls, but that means that each of them has a vastly different experience of lives. So each of you is going to react separately and uniquely to the energy of the planet’s shift. However, all of you are feeling something interesting. It’s an enhancement of your wisdom and knowledge, and the feeling that the energy on the planet is moving in a direction that is toward your consciousness and not away from it.

This is the fourth channel in a series called “The Recalibration of Humanity.” We’ve talked about how Humans are recalibrating, how Gaia is recalibrating and even how your DNA is recalibrating. Now there’s one that you didn’t expect – how the Universe is recalibrating. It’s a difficult premise that I bring forward to you today, for it has concepts outside of three dimensions. And so I will go slow.

Time

We start with the very predictions of the energy you are in. Let us say that you have a racetrack with cars on it. Picture a track that is very large… really large. Let us say that it takes years for the drivers to race around the track. They get tired. Sometimes they will get out of the car and put a new driver in. Sometimes the new driver will get tired and the older driver will come back and get in again. So the race cars are filled with some experienced drivers and some not. As they go around the track, it might take them years to go around just one time.

Let us say that there is a difficult portion of the track, one that is filled with holes. Some don’t see them and the newest drivers fall into the holes. The older drivers know to go around. Now in your three-dimensional perception, it is not difficult for you to imagine such a thing. But this is a metaphor of time.

The track represents your 3D concept of time, except you think it is a straight road. It is not. It is in a circle. Unaware of the circle, now pretend for a moment you’re one of the drivers in the cars. Also, let us say that you’ve been around the track many times. The new driver may think the track is straight and unending, for it disappears into the horizon. But as the old soul, you know that the track is really huge and the curve just can’t be seen, much like the curvature of the earth. So as an old soul driver, you know where the difficult places in the track are. You also realize in this metaphor that as you drive forward and look out the front of your car, you are looking at a future and the past at the same time. This is one of the premises that a three-dimensional mind cannot grasp – that as you change the future, you are also driving over and changing the past. That premise alone explains how the predictions for 2012 can happen at all.

But 2012 is simply one of the difficult places in the track, and the ancients knew it was coming. They could prophecy a problem ahead on the track because it’s part of the circle. It’s well known in time, and those who might give a name to it would call it fractal time. In past Human history, some of the difficult parts had actually created the termination of humanity. Some have resulted in a start-over of humanity. The energy that you are in now had a duality in its potential. You could have started over or you could start something the planet had never seen before.

Twenty-two years ago, we told you this: “Get ready for shift,” we said. “Get ready for the weather to change,” we said. Those things have now come about. They came about not because Kryon or the prophets said they would, but instead because of old souls who saw the difficulty coming. They had gone around the circle of time before and knew where the issues were. It was “known” territory.

The most difficult thing I can tell you for you to conceive of is this: As you steer around these difficulties and move forward on the track, you change the energy of the entire track. Therefore, you change the past as you move toward the future. This is not an easy concept to understand; however, it explains so much to the linear mind of how these things can be. For in your 3D perception, you believe that your experience in the future is going to be a product of what took place in the past. You only go in one direction and your expectations alone are in a straight line. All you have is your experience in the past – and it’s not good enough.

As you change the track, you change the rules of the track. So what I wish to say that is simplified is that there is a new paradigm ahead of you. Old souls will see it first, and they will plant the seeds for the rest of humanity. The young people will see it, for they have it in their Akashic inheritance. Slowly, Human nature itself will change and move into a new way of thinking where you’re not guided only by the experience of things that took place in what you think is your past. It’s an amazing potential. You are not the only planet who has experienced this. However, you are the only planet in your galaxy that is experiencing it now.

The Bigger Picture

Now I’m going to say things that are esoterically unbelievable. Your galaxy knows what’s happening here on Earth. I’m not talking about life forms in your galaxy. I’m talking about the very physics of what you think lays there as the “rules.” The Universe is cooperating with your shift – expected it – for this is why you came.

Now it gets difficult to explain. You think physics is simply the rules of the way things work? Let me ask you a question: How do you explain what astronomers have named “intelligent design”? Against all odds, the Universe was created for life. Physics is supposed to be random, following rules that are random. Yet it didn’t happen that way. The better the instruments got of the astronomer, the more they realized there had to be intelligence in the design. How do you explain that? All they know is the math. What you see before you, which you call your galaxy, is equivalent to rolling a six on the dice 10,000 times in a row! And it makes no sense, since it isn’t random and it doesn’t follow the bell-shaped curve of nature. That is why they are saying what they are saying.

There had to be a guiding force of creation. Does that change your mind about physics or about what you see before you? So I will start to tell you how actual physics is beginning to cooperate with you. This time fractal has been known for a long time, and you could have gone many ways. In other words, you had many potentials of consciousness. Look at the prophecies of the ancients. They said you were going to have a world war. They said you were going to have termination. Many spiritual systems called for the end of the world where your souls would be collected. Many systems would have you believe a certain way so that you would be prepared and none of those things happened. Does that tell you a little bit about the shift before you? A different paradigm of thinking is coming. These paradigms will deal with problems you have that are currently seen as “unsolvable”. So let us start with some unbelievable things.

The Magnetics of the Solar System

Now, my partner, I want you to go slow for both yourself and the translator. Twenty-two years ago, we told you the magnetic field of the earth was critical to your consciousness. Magnetics is a quantum energy. So is gravity, and so is light. You are surrounded by a quantum field, and that is the magnetic field of the earth. We said if Human consciousness is going to change, magnetics will change. It has to. It has to be a complement to what you are doing. It has to posture itself to receive what you are doing. How can the consciousness of this planet expand when the magnetics stay the same? It can’t. So the magnetics must move.

So it started with an actual shift of the magnetic lay lines of your planet, and that’s now recorded history and something I predicted more than 20 years ago. Now your compasses show you that all I spoke about is now here. Your magnetics has moved greatly since 1989.

Now, there has to be more. What else do you think could change the magnetics of your entire planet? It has to recalibrate, and in order for it to do so, it’s going to need help. Your solar system is the engine of magnetic change for this planet. If you know anything about how the solar system works and the energies of it, then this will start to make sense.

In your solar system, the core is the sun. It sends out what is called the solar wind, which is almost entirely magnetic. It’s a magnetic energy that literally blasts out from the sun and contains only what was generated from the sun. That magnetic energy has a name – the heliosphere. It “blows” that magnetic wind against the magnetics of your own earth, and that changes your planet.

For if the energy is always the same on Earth, then very little will ever change. For those who wish to get technical, you might say the magnetics of the sun blows against the magnetics of the earth and you will have two interacting magnetic fields. This creates something called inductance, which is a mystery to science. It’s the “soup” of overlapping magnetic fields that allows for energy exchange of information and amplification without a power source. It’s well used on Earth, but the attributes are seen as mysterious.

So here’s what’s going to happen. Watch for changes in your sun. You may call them solar storms, but they’re just a recalibration for you, and they will worry you. This is because there are many sensitive electronics on and around the planet, and these instruments will react. You count on the magnetic field of your planet to remain the same, but it can’t remain the same when there is a giant solar storm happening. Certain kinds of communications will be disrupted. Perhaps even the power grid could be interrupted.

Watch the sun, for it is in the process of shift. It is happening through intelligent design, the love of God and the Creator, changing things for your consciousness. It is a new way of thinking that is developing, literally touching the very DNA field of each Human. This changes the information within the DNA and allows the Human Being to capture and enhance attributes of a new reality it never had before.

Now I get even more physical: Something has been on the way for a very long time. The magnetics of your solar system itself is changing. So here’s the challenge: Go find that fact. You’ll see it, literally, as your solar system moves through space. It intersects certain attributes of space and this is changing some of the magnetics, which then becomes different from the way they ever were before. This then changes the sun. Do you see the cycle? One enhances the other in a fractal of circular reality. Your movement around the center changes your solar system. The solar system’s new position changes the sun’s attributes. The sun’s attributes are sent to the planet via the heliosphere and this affects your DNA.

Now, the intellectuals will say, “Well, this does not make sense. Those processes ready to impact the earth have been on the way for eons, ready to intersect your solar system. So they haven’t ‘just happened.’ In other words, this would have happened no matter what. It didn’t matter if you were in a consciousness shift or not.”

I accept this argument, but with explanation. Let us say in the 1600s, there was a spaceship that came by the planet broadcasting music, a radio transmission of music to the planet. Now let me ask you this: Was the transmission real? Yes, I just told you it was. Was the music beautiful and real? Yes. Had the spaceship been on its way for a long time? Yes. How many people on the planet heard the music? And the answer is: None of them! This is because the radio receiver had not been invented yet.

But in this example, the spaceship had always been on its way. Do you see the metaphor? The magnetic changes would have happened anyway, but if the earth had not been ready, then no person would have heard any music. There would be no reaction and Humans would be the same as they always have, if there even would be Humans at all – for some say that you were on your way to destroying yourselves yet again.

You are changing the past by changing the future. You are rearranging the energy of your solar system and also something else. This is hard for you to conceive, dear ones, but we give it to you anyway: Very, very far away from you, things are changing. You don’t believe it because they’re too far away for you to consider, and in three dimensions, things that are far away are not part of your bubble of reality. However, they’re in a quantum state with you.

The entire galaxy revolves as one plate, in a very counter-intuitive way. The stars and the constellations do not orbit within the rules of Newtonian physics that you are used to seeing all around you in your own solar system. For the stars and clusters in your galaxy, distance from the center does not matter. All the stars rotate as one. This is because the galaxy is entangled with the middle of itself. In that state, there is no time or distance. The change of consciousness on this planet has changed the center of the galaxy. This is because what happens here, dear one, is “known” by the center.

It’s interesting to us what your reaction to all this is scientifically. You saw that the “creative event” of your Universe is missing some energy in order for it to have formed as it did. In addition, the unusual way the galaxy rotates, as I just stated, was also noted. So you have calculated that for all this to be in place, there has to be missing 3D matter, and you have given it a name – dark matter. How funny! Did you ever think that there could be a multidimensional effect going on that you now can observe and calculate – that has immense power, but can’t be seen? It’s not “matter” at all and it’s not 3D. It’s quantum energy.

Let me tell you something about physics. Yet again, I’ll make it simple. Everything your scientists have seen in physics happens in pairs. At the moment, there are four laws of physics in your three-dimensional paradigm. They represent two pairs of energy types. Eventually, there will be six. At the center of your galaxy is what you call a black hole, but it is not a single thing. It is a duality. There is no such thing as “singularity”. You might say it’s one energy with two parts – a weak and a strong quantum force. And the strangest thing is it knows who you are. It is the creator engine. It’s different in other galaxies than this one. It’s unique.

The very physics of your galaxy is postured by what you do here. The astronomers can look into the cosmos and they will discover different physics in different galaxies. Could it be that there’s something going on in the other galaxies like this one? I’m not going to answer that.

Different Thinking

Dear Human Being, this is bigger than you think. Old soul, this is bigger than you think. This is why we plead for you to stay on this planet and to change your cellular structure, to mine your Akash and start looking inside. In other words, do not take the past and project it to your future reality, for you are able to do things now that you were never able to do before. Gaia is cooperating. The Universe is cooperating and Lightworkers are moving into a manifestation paradigm.

Personally for your own body, many of you are getting younger instead of older. You are creating solutions to problems you thought were unsolvable. You were told today that your population is expanding at a rate of at least a billion souls every decade. So what does your past tell you the problem will be? It will be global explosion of humanity. The result, you feel, will be lack of food and water, overcrowding and starvation. That is what your past tells you will happen.

Let me tell you what the assumption is, dear Human Being. The assumption to create this conclusion is that Human Beings are simply too dense to notice it and have no idea what to do to change it. That’s the old perception, based on an old Human nature. Watch what happens. Watch…what…happens. You’re going to figure it out and there will be elegant solutions to unsolvable problems of the past.

In almost every field of science, this is coming. It will help Human Beings live longer and healthier without war. There’ll come a time when there won’t even be terrorism, dear ones. Oh, there will be unbalance, Human Being. That comes with life. But not country against country, not spiritual group against spiritual group.

This is what you are planting seeds for now, and the Universe knows who you are. Your galaxy resounds with your victory! Death has no sting. I will tell you this: You’re all involved for eons to come here. Old souls are starting to manifest the new reality. I have no clock. I cannot tell you how long this is going to take. But you’ve had 18 earth years to make a big difference, for that is the energy we see.

Recalibration of Systems and New Sight

By the way, what happens to the solar system when the magnetics shift? Now you start to see where astrology will begin to shift as well. There are those who will start to apply the quantum filter to astrology. It’s happening now. What is your quantum sign? It’s different than the three-dimensional sign. Oh, there’ll come a day, dear ones, in science, where the scientists will be able to apply what I will call a quantum filter to alter what they see. This will be a filter developed for telescopes that involves a super-cooling of the filter itself. Astronomers will be able to look out into the cosmos and, for the first time, see quantum attributes.

The first thing they’ll notice is two things in the center of the galaxy, not one. The next thing will be the colors around the Human Being. And science will start a whole new section called “The Study of the Human Auric Energy.” All of these are coming.

How long will all this take? That is up to you. Meanwhile, plant the seeds of understanding, of peacefulness, of appreciation and of love. Become slow to anger, slow to create drama. Take on the attributes of the masters, and that is what your abilities are changing to right now. Soften in all things. Look at each other differently.

There’ll come a time when there’s no war. Those in this room and those listening will know I’m right. Watch for these things in your science. When they happen, remember this day when I told you how it really works.

Blessed is the Human Being who has understood this message as personal for themselves, not about the cosmos. It’s about the inner being and the journey of the soul – and the Universe within.

And so it is.

KRYON

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Lee Carroll

from:    http://spiritlibrary.com/kryon/channelings/the-recalibration-of-the-universe

Human Use of Fire Earlier Than Thought

 

Hot Find! Humans Used Fire 1 Million Years Ago

Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor
Date: 02 April 2012 Time: 03:01 PM ET
Researchers found evidence of human fire use in South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave (shown here), a massive cavern located near the edge of the Kalahari Desert.
Researchers found evidence of human fire use in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave (shown here), a massive cavern located near the edge of the Kalahari Desert.
CREDIT: M. Chazan

Ash and charred bone, the earliest known evidence of controlled use of fire, reveal that human ancestors may have used fire a million years ago, a discovery that researchers say will shed light on this major turning point in human evolution.

Scientists analyzed material from Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, a massive cavern located near the edge of the Kalahari Desert. Previous excavations there had uncovered an extensive record of human occupation.

Microscopic analysis revealed clear evidence of burning, such as plant ash and charred bone fragments. These materials were apparently burned in the cave, as opposed to being carried in there by wind or water, and were found alongside stone tools in a layer dating back about 1 million years. Surface fracturing of ironstone, the kind expected from fires, was also seen.

Micrograph of burned bone on a paleosurface at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.
Micrograph of burned bone on a paleosurface at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.
CREDIT: Image courtesy of P. Goldberg.

Although modern humans are the only human species alive today, originating about 200,000 years ago, other human species once roamed the Earth, such as Homo erectus, which arose about 1.9 million years ago.

“The analysis pushes the timing for the human use of fire back by 300,000 years, suggesting that human ancestors as early asHomo erectus may have begun using fire as part of their way of life,” said researcher Michael Chazan, a paleolithic archaeologist at the University of Toronto and director of the university’s archaeology center.

The research team’s analysis suggests that materials in the cave were not heated above about 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit (700 degrees Celsius). This is consistent with preliminary findings that grasses, brushes and leaves were burned for these fires — such fuel would not have been capable of hotter flames.

Fire would have helped early humans stay warm and keep nighttime predators at bay, and enabled cooking, which would have made food more digestible. In addition, “socializing around a campfire might actually be an essential aspect of what makes us human,” Chazan said. “The control of fire would have been a major turning point in human evolution.”

Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham has speculated that controlled fires and cooked meat even influenced human brain evolution. He suggests that humans were cooking their prey as far back as the first appearance of Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, just when humans were experiencing major brain expansion, and proposes that cooking allowed our ancestors to evolve larger, more calorie-hungry brains and bodies, and smaller guts suited for more easily digested cooked food.

“It’s possible we may find evidence of fire use as early as Wrangham has suggested,” Chazan told LiveScience.

Future research will analyze both earlier and later materials from this site to see how fire use might have developed over time.

“We’re opening the question of how fire fit into the life of early humans and how that might have changed over time,” Chazan said.

The scientists detailed their findings online April 2 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

from:    http://www.livescience.com/19425-earliest-human-fire.html

New Solar Eruption

ANOTHER ERUPTION: For the past few days, magnetic filaments have been rising and snapping all around the sun. The latest eruption occured during the late hours of April 7th, shown here in an extreme UV video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory:

A CME hurled into space by this eruption might deliver a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field on or about April 9th. Like a CME observed two days ago, this one was visually confused by two other clouds leaving the sun from other blast sites at about the same time: movie.

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April 8-14

Overall Color for the Week:   Dark Blue-Green

This is a week for lessons, lots of them large, some hard, some easy.  And it is equally a time for no regrets.  When things come your way, step back and take a look at them.  You may find that your perspectives are shifting.  In the new light, you can see things that were not obvious before.  Accept what is happening as it is a way to move you forward.  There is a lot of stuckness that has been going on, and a major shakeup, even a complete reversal, is often the thing that can take you out of what was, turn you around, and open up new ways.  Events that are happening now are exactly what need to happen, and while you may question, blame, angst and whine, know that this is part of the process and the very fact that you are in this place means that you are being given the opportunity for change.  It is easy to take things for granted, accept that they cannot be changed, even to give our power away.  This week gives you the opportunity to step back and see what is going on in your life, while giving you the option to deal with them in a way that is most acceptable to you.  Choices made this week will last.  You are in control of all of this, and decisions made now will be affecting you as the shift moves forward.  Good luck.

On the larger scale, there are lessons to be learned also.  They will come in all areas, politics, economics, travel, medicine, energy, spirituality, etc., etc., etc.  There are some surprises, but mostly confirmations of things that have been going on for quite some time.  The Earth shifts and shudders.  Things in that area will be out of character.  There will be a sense that something is gong to happen, and then there will be nothing.  Some interesting things will be coming to the surface.

Sunday, April 8:    Blue Grey

Easter Sunday:    There is something new on the horizon here today.  You can see it if you wish to.  The last few weeks, have brought you face to face in many ways with people, places, and thing that have been causing you some turmoil.  The current energy is somewhat rough and it is leading you to attempt to deal with these feelings in such a way as to reinstate your comfort level.  Take a look at what it is that is most obvious in the all of this.  Then step back and place it into the larger perspective.  Now is the important moment,  Now is made up of many prior and future nows, You have the ability to set the trajectory for the next moment.  Take time to meditate, create, go within, journal, whatever it is that allows you to reach a new point of comfort.  That will be the basis for tomorrow.

Crystal Vibe:    Hematite — This stone brings grounding and connection.  Resonates with the Root and Crown Chakras

Monday, April 9:    Dark Violet

Things can be a bit rough today.  Be prepared to deal with changes of plan, reversals, setbacks, and delays.  When these things happen, do not react, rather step back and see the opportunities they are presenting to you.  There are new perspectives out there.  It is time to look in other directions for solutions.  A lot of the stuff you have done in the past, relied on in the past, is not longer workable,  And that is okay.  Old lessons and old solutions are no longer applicable in the new energies,  The dimensions are moving and shifting and, guess what….., there is magic in the air.  Truly.  Many things that may cause you concern, anger, whatever, actually are openings to some pretty incredible results.  You must be accepting and allowing, stay grounded in your true heart’s knowing, and in tune with the Universal Consciousness, of which you are a part.  Much can come of this.

Crystal Vibe:    Cathedral Quartz—-The energy of this stone brings together that which is of Earth and that which is of the Universe.  It can bring balance and open to new revelations.  Resonates with the Root and Crown Chakras.

Tuesday, April 10:    Dark Orange

There are questions to be asked today.  Not all of them will get answers.  Some do not need answers.  Some do not deserve answers.  And some answers are not yet ready.  There is an instability in the air today, and it can lead to uncertainty on all levels.  This is not a good time for making decisions, plans, or commitments.  All things are subject to change.  The current energy favors stepping back and observing all that is going on around you. but also how things are moving in relation to what is there.  Patterns are beginning to take form, and you are going to want to know where you stand in the midst of them.  It is advisable to take some time today to go within, to go to your Core, and to discover the power of WHO you are.

Crystal Energy:    Green Sapphire—-The energy of this stone brings hope and comfort in the midst of the storm.  It allows you to go within and know the inner power that can get you through.  Resonates with the Heart Chakra.

Wednesday, April 11:    Lavender

Things will not be as they seem today.  Look through the obvious to what lies beneath.  There are hints of truths that are shaping these times.  This is a day for knowing what it is that you are truly wanting to manifest in your life.  This is a day for recognizing WHO you truly are, in all your strengths and weakness.  Then know that each and every weakness is merely a strength in disguise.  There will be some synchronicities today that are going to assist with a number of issues that you have been trying to resolve.  These events will allow you to see things differently, even open you to some facts about yourself that you have hidden.  Look for an interesting remark from an unexpected source.  It can be revealing.

Crystal Energy:    Strawberry Agate—-This mineral assists in transformative points in one’s life by opening to possibility while closing down a lot of those nagging voices in the head.  It works through the heart.  Resonates with the Solar Plexus and Heart Chakras.

Thursday, April 12:    Dark Green

Things that are happening today are largely under the surface.  If you are trying to figure something out, you will need to look deep within the obvious.  The hints are there, as always, but they are at best small glimmers.  The best option here is to step back and let the day be.  That which is hidden will not show itself until the time is right.  The current energy calls for what is out in front, in your face.  It is a good time to deal with big issues that you may have been putting on hold.  As you do this, you can discover that they are not as big as you had thought them to be.  This will assist in changing your perspective and shifting your focus.  Take some time this evening to ground and relax.  Find the quiet center of your core and find the peace that lies within.

Crystal Frequency:    Galena—-This metallic element walks into the middle of the physical and spiritual and creates a bridge and balance.  It can bring healing and a new way of looking at things.  Resonates with the Third Eye and Solar Plexus Chakras, as well as the eleventh.

Friday, April 13:    Light Magenta

Things will be up and down today, and most of it will not be what it seems.  Take time in conversations and situations to be aware of just what is going on.  Also be sensitive to what is happening at the periphery.  The current energy is bringing in a lot of new and unusual strands.  you can find yourself feeling a bit overwhelmed or even on unfamiliar ground.  If this happens, go in and ground.  It is a good idea to keep a grounding stone or mineral with your today, such as hematite, obsidian, black jade or amber.  This can help with brief moments of vertigo.  There is much shifting and slipping right now, and the openness of the dimensions in the current energy will allow those who are sensitive to be affected by it.  It is a good day for connecting with WHO you are on this plane as well as the WHO you are as part of Universal Consciousness.

Crystal Vibe:    Rainbow Fluorite—-This stone also assists with grounding.  It brings into a matrix the various energies that are swirling around and lines them up for easier understanding.  It resonates with all the lower seven Chakras, while connecting with the higher ones.

Saturday, April 14:    Silver-White

There is a sense of unreality about the day.  This will allow for unusual events and occurrences.  You can find yourself meeting with strange people, and then wondering whether that really happened.  There is also that sense of longing and melancholy.  Do not let it get you down, rather see it a s a gift from the past to the present bringing those various times and events together and into focus.  There is a possibility of some significant happening today.  You will not need to plan or anticipate.  It will come as it must.  And you can see in it anew reflection of WHO you are.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quiet Hurricane Season Expected

fr/Dr. Jeff Masters:

CSU: expect a quiet 2012 Atlantic hurricane season; EF-3 tornado confirmed in Texas
Posted by: JeffMasters, 2:47 PM GMT on April 05, 2012 +29
Expect one of the quietest Atlantic hurricane seasons since 1995 this year, say the hurricane forecasting team of Dr. Phil Klotzbach and Dr. Bill Gray of Colorado State University (CSU) in their latest seasonal forecast issued April 4. They call for an Atlantic hurricane season with below-average activity: 10 named storms, 4 hurricanes, and 2 intense hurricanes. An average season has 10 – 11 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 2 intense hurricanes. The 2012 forecast calls for a below-average chance of a major hurricane hitting the U.S., both along the East Coast (24% chance, 31% chance is average) and the Gulf Coast (24% chance, 30% chance is average). The Caribbean is forecast to have a 34% chance of seeing at least one major hurricane (42% is average.) Four years with similar pre-season March atmospheric and oceanic conditions were selected as “analogue” years that the 2012 hurricane season may resemble: 2009, 2001, 1965, and 1957. These years all had neutral to El Niño conditions during hurricane season. The average activity for these years was 9.5 named storms, 4.8 hurricanes, and 2.3 major hurricanes.


Figure 1. Departure of sea surface temperature (SST) from average for April 5, 2012, as computed by NOAA’s NESDISbranch. SSTs in the hurricane Main Development Region (red box) were near average to below-average.

Why the forecast of a quiet season?
The CSU team cited two main reasons why this may be a quieter than average hurricane season:

1) La Niña has weakened rapidly over the tropical Eastern Pacific over the past month, and is expected to be gone by the end of April. In its wake, El Niño conditions may develop in time for the August – September – October peak of hurricane season. If El Niño conditions are present this fall, this will likely bring about a quiet Atlantic hurricane season due to increased upper-level winds over the tropical Atlantic creating wind shear that will tend to tear storms apart. The CSU team is leaning towards putting their trust in the ECMWF model, which is predicting that a weak El Niño event will be in place by fall.

2) Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Main Development Region (MDR) for hurricanes from the Caribbean to the coast of Africa between 10°N and 20°N were near average to below average in March 2012. Virtually all African waves originate in the MDR, and these African waves account for 85% of all Atlantic major hurricanes and 60% of all named storms. When SSTs in the MDR are much above average during hurricane season, a very active season typically results (if there is no El Niño event present.) Conversely, when MDR SSTs are cooler than average, a below-average Atlantic hurricane season is more likely. This year’s SSTs in the MDR are among the coolest we’ve seen since our current active hurricane period began in 1995. The cool temperatures are largely due to strong surface winds that blew during the winter over the tropical Atlantic in response to the positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO.) The strong winds stirred up the water, bringing up cooler waters from the depths.

How good are the April forecasts?
The forecasters are using a new statistical model developed last year for making April forecasts, so we don’t have a long enough track record to judge how good the new model is. The new model correctly predicted a more active than average season for last year, though called for more activity than was actually observed. However, April forecasts of hurricane season activity are low-skill, since they must deal with the so-called “predictability barrier.” April is the time of year when the El Niño/La Niña phenomenon commonly undergoes a rapid change from one state to another, making it difficult to predict whether we will have El Niño, La Niña, or neutral conditions in place for the coming hurricane season. Correctly predicting this is key, since if El Niño, conditions are present this fall, this will likely bring about a quiet Atlantic hurricane season due to increased upper-level winds over the tropical Atlantic creating wind shear that will tend to tear storms apart.

CSU maintains an Excel spreadsheet of their forecast errors ( expressed as a mathematical correlation coefficient, where positive means a skilled forecast, and negative means they did worse than climatology) for their their April forecasts. For now, these April forecasts should simply be viewed as an interesting research effort that has the potential to make skillful forecasts. The next CSU forecast, due by June 1, is the one worth paying attention to. Their early June forecasts have shown considerable skill over the years.

to read more, go to:    http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2067

New CME

INCOMING CME: NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% chance of strong geomagnetic storms around the poles on April 8-9 when a CME delivers a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field. The cloud was propelled in our direction by a solar filament, which erupted on April 5th (movie). High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

from: spacewweather.com

Link: Midwest Earthquakes & Oil & Gas Production?

Oil and gas production linked to spike in Midwest earthquakes: study

A six-fold increase in earthquakes since the late 20th century is “almost certainly man-made,” the report concludes

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Saturday, April 7, 2012,
Peak oil theory warns that once the fossile fuel is depleted, we'll be headed back to the stone age.

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A new study links a rise in Midwest earthquakes to oil and gas production.

NEW YORK — Oil and gas production may explain a sharp increase in small earthquakes in the nation’s midsection, a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey suggests.

The rate has jumped six-fold from the late 20th century through last year, the team reports, and the changes are “almost certainly man-made.”

Outside experts were split in their opinions about the report, which is not yet published but is due to be presented at a meeting later this month.
The study said a relatively mild increase starting in 2001 comes from increased quake activity in a methane production area along the state line between Colorado and New Mexico. The increase began about the time that methane production began there, so there’s a “clear possibility” of a link, says lead author William Ellsworth of the USGS.
The increase over the nation’s midsection has gotten steeper since 2009, due to more quakes in a variety of oil and gas production areas, including some in Arkansas and Oklahoma, the researchers say.
It’s not clear how the earthquake rates might be related to oil and gas production, the study authors said. They note that others have linked earthquakes to injecting huge amounts of leftover wastewater deep into the earth.
There has been concern about potential earthquakes from a smaller-scale injection of fluids during a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which is used to recover gas. But Ellsworth said Friday he is confident that fracking is not responsible for the earthquake trends his study found, based on prior studies.
The study covers a swath of the United States that lies roughly west of Ohio and east of Utah. It counted earthquakes of magnitude 3 and above.
Magnitude 3 quakes are mild, and may be felt by only a few people in the upper floors of buildings, or may cause parked cars to rock slightly. The biggest counted in the study was a magnitude-5.6 quake that hit Oklahoma last Nov. 5, damaging dozens of homes. Experts said it was too strong to be linked to oil and gas production.
The researchers reported that from 1970 to 2000, the region they studied averaged about 21 quakes a year. That rose to about 29 a year for 2001 through 2008, they wrote, and the three following years produced totals of 50, 87 and 134, respectively.
The study results make sense and are likely due to man-made stress in the ground, said Rowena Lohman, a Cornell University geophysicist.
“The key thing to remember is magnitude 3s are really small,” Lohman said. “We’ve seen this sort of behavior in the western United States for a long time.”
Usually, it’s with geothermal energy, dams or prospecting. With magnitude 4 quakes, a person standing on top of them would at most feel like a sharp jolt, but mostly don’t last long enough to be a problem for buildings, she said.
The idea is to understand how the man-made activity triggers quakes, she said. One possibility is that the injected fluids change the friction and stickiness of minerals on fault lines. Another concept is that they change the below-surface pressure because the fluid is trapped and builds, and then “sets off something that’s about ready to go anyway,” Lohman said.
But another expert was not convinced of a link to oil and gas operations.
Austin Holland, the Oklahoma state seismologist, said the new work presents an “interesting hypothesis” but that the increase in earthquake rates could simply be the result of natural processes.
Holland said clusters of quakes can occur naturally, and that scientists do not yet fully understand the natural cycles of seismic activity in the central United States. Comprehensive earthquake records for the region go back only a few decades, he said, while natural cycles stretch for tens of thousands of years. So too little is known to rule out natural processes for causing the increase, he said

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/oil-gas-production-linked-spike-midwest-earthquakes-study-article-1.1057905#ixzz1rP2VMaOU

Herbicide Causes Shape Changes in Vertebrate Animals

Herbicide Can Induce Morphological Changes in Vertebrate Animals: Tadpoles Change Shape

ScienceDaily (Apr. 2, 2012) — The world’s most popular weed killer, Roundup®, can cause amphibians to change shape, according to research recently published in Ecological Applications

Rick Relyea, University of Pittsburgh professor of biological sciences in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and director of Pitt’s Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, demonstrated that sublethal and environmentally relevant concentrations of Roundup® caused two species of amphibians to alter their morphology. According to Relyea, this is the first study to show that a herbicide can induce morphological changes in a vertebrate animal.

Relyea set up large outdoor water tanks that contained many of the components of natural wetlands. Some tanks contained caged predators, which emit chemicals that naturally induce changes in tadpole morphology (such as larger tails to better escape predators). After adding tadpoles to each tank, he exposed them to a range of Roundup® concentrations. After 3 weeks, the tadpoles were removed from the tanks.

“It was not surprising to see that the smell of predators in the water induced larger tadpole tails,” says Relyea. “That is a normal, adaptive response. What shocked us was that the Roundup® induced the same changes. Moreover, the combination of predators and Roundup® caused the tail changes to be twice as large.” Because tadpoles alter their body shape to match their environment, having a body shape that does not fit the environment can put the animals at a distinct disadvantage.

Predators cause tadpoles to change shape by altering the stress hormones of tadpoles, says Relyea. The similar shape changes when exposed to Roundup® suggest that Roundup® may interfere with the hormones of tadpoles and potentially many other animals.

“This discovery highlights the fact that pesticides, which are important for crop production and human health, can have unintended consequences for species that are not the pesticide’s target,” says Relyea. “Herbicides are not designed to affect animals, but we are learning that they can have a wide range of surprising effects by altering how hormones work in the bodies of animals. This is important because amphibians not only serve as a barometer of the ecosystem’s health, but also as an indicator of potential dangers to other species in the food chain, including humans.”

from:    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120402144938.htm

Guerrero, Mexico Strong Aftershock

Very strong dangerous earthquake / aftershock in Guerrero, Mexico – severe shaking for 17,000 people

Last update: April 2, 2012 at 8:33 pm by By 

Most important Earthquake Data:
Magnitude : 6.3
UTC Time : Monday, April 02, 2012 at 17:36:43 UTC
Local time at epicenter : Monday, April 02, 2012 at 12:36:43 PM at epicenter
Depth (Hypocenter) : 12 km
Geo-location(s) :
27 km (17 miles) SSE (148°) from Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico

Update 20:28 UTC :  The authorities in Puebla, one of the major Mexican cities and approx. 250 km from the epicenter,  have reported NO injures or damage. Good news which we expected at this distance.
Earthquake-report.com calls an area with a radius of about 35 km around the epicenter at high risk for additional damage (to the already damaged houses during the March 20 mainshock).

Update 19:44 UTC :  USGS has increased his intensity mapping prediction. The new estimate mention 17,000 people having felt a severe MMI VIII shaking (damaging environment), 180,000 people a VII MMI very strong shaking.
The new values are bad news and will make this aftershock almost certain a damaging one.
Until now we have No details yet on damage and injuries. As said earlier it will take another 2 to 6 hours to have see first serious assessments of the epicenter area

Update 19:42 UTC :  Intensity report in the most important cities in the greater epicenter area :
VII    Cuajinicuilapa    9,000 people
VII    San Juan Cacahuatepec    4,000  people
VII    Ometepec    18,000  people
VII    San Pedro Amuzgos    4,000  people
VI    San Pedro Jicayan    4,000  people
VI    Santiago Pinotepa Nacional    26,000  people
MMI VII : very strong shaking
MMI VI : strong shaking

Update 19:16 UTC :  Mexican authorities are reporting the strongest shaking in the Costa Chica region. Until now, we have no reports of damage, but we are almost sure that they will appear in 4 to 8 hours.

Update 18:38 UTC :  Helicopters were dispatched 5 MINUTES after the earthquake. The only damage seen was a billboard that fall causing NO injuries. (we are confirming the very swift reaction of the authorities in DF)

Update :  The Mexican seismological agency has increased his initial Magnitude to 6.0. Since the mainshock today, 2 aftershocks of resp. 4.6 and 4.7 have been listed (normal)

Update :  Read also the many felt reports at the bottom of this page

Update 18:29 UTC :  Last time, damage was only reported after several hours or even a couple of days in the epicenter area (one of the poorest areas in Mexico). Most houses are made from brick or in adobe in the greater epicenter area.

Update:
– Security secretary of Mexico City reports that there is NO damage.
– Communications are still working.
– Subway is still working.
Such reports are mostly based on the capital Mexico City or DF.

Update :  Intermediate report from Carlos Robles : Servicio Sismologico Nacional is upgrading the earthquake to 6.0. Saldo blanco (no deaths) is reported. There aren’t reports of damage.

Update 18:23 UTC :  There are NO Nuclear plants or Hydrodams in the greater epicenter area

Update :  EMSC (Seismology Europe) reports now a magnitude of 6.1 at a depth of 10 km

Update 18:18 UTC :  NO tsunami danger as the epicenter of the earthquake is below the Mexican mainland

Update :  Evacuation were held at Mexico city.It was felt strong in some parts of Mexico city.In Coyoacan there are only reports of scared people. (source : Carlos Robles)

I Have Felt It map courtesy USGS – blue lighter, yellow strong shaking

Update : USGS predicts a very strong shaking for 3,000 people in the epicentral area. 164,000 people will have experienced a strong MMI VI shaking and 289,000 people a moderate shaking. As this earthquake is also felt in DF,  the earthquake will have been noticed by millions of people.

Update : As this is an aftershock from the March 20 M 7.4 earthquake,  these aftershocks, even at the current magnitude are very normal !

Update : The president of DF is flying by helicopter over DF areas to overview the situation. He reports that so far no serious damage can be seen from the air

Update : The Mexican media including the local seismological agency are not reachable because of too many connections

for more information and updates, go to:    http://earthquake-report.com/2012/04/02/very-strong-dangerous-earthquake-aftershock-in-guerrero-mexico/