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More Mysterious Booms

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What Are the Mysterious Booms?

© 2011 by Linda Moulton Howe

June 7, 2011  Albuquerque, New Mexico – After filing several 2011 Earthfiles reports about loud and mysterious booms in several states, I have received more emails about unusual and loud booms from California, Texas, Northeast Philadelphia, Indiana and Oklahoma.


Red dots are locations from White Rock, British Columbia, Canada (upper left circle) to Woodville and Crawfordville, Florida (lower right circle), where residents have heard “loud booms like a cannon” or “rolling, low thunder,” or a “low flying jet,” or “the first half of a lightening strike.” Recent unidentified, mysterious booms have been reported several times since December 2010 into May 2011, and the unexplained boom
phenomenon goes back to reports in 1804.

To read more go to: http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1863&category=Environment

 

Amazing Solar Images

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AIR-RAISING SOLAR ACTIVITY: Over the past few days, amateur astronomers have recorded some of the most photogenic solar activity in years. Onlookers describe huge prominences of magnetized plasma rising above the stellar surface as “Unbelievable!”–“Hydrogen at its best”–“Massive and incredible!” This shot was simply hair-raising:

Alan Friedman took the picture from his backyard observatory in Buffalo, New York, on June 5th. “There are more to come,” he promises. And why not? The show is still underway. Latest images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory reveal at least three regions of continued activity. Readers with solar telescopes are encouraged to train their optics on the limb of the sun

for more, go to spaceweather.com

 

Daytime Meteor Showers

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A METEOR SHOWER IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: The annual Arietid meteor shower peaks this week on June 7th and 8th. The Arietids are unusual because they are daytime meteors; the shower is most intense after sunrise. People who wake up early might notice a small number of Arietids during the dark hours before dawn. The real action, however, occurs in broad daylight.

Solar Flare & Radiation Storm

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M-FLARE AND RADIATION STORM: This morning around 0641 UT, magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1226-1227 became unstable and erupted. The blast produced an M2-class solar flare, an S1-class radiation storm, and a massive CME. A recording of the blast from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory ranks as one of the most beautiful and dramatic movies of the SDO era:


more movies: YouTube; 5 MB mpeg; 2 MB Quicktime

A video with commentary from solar physicist C. Alex Young of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shows material splashing back to the stellar surface. “I’ve never seen material released this way before,” he says in the video. “It looks like someone kicked a clod of dirt in the air–an amazing, amazing event.”

To read more go to:    http://spaceweather.com/

 

Fire Up Your Creativity & Passion

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6 Techniques to Ignite Your Inner Creativity and Passion

by Ronald Alexander, Ph.D.—Author, ‘Wise Mind, Open Mind’; Executive Director, The OpenMind Training Institute

Posted: 04/26/11 08:54 AM ETMost of us were taught that creativity comes from the thoughts and emotions of the mind. However, the greatest singers, dancers, painters, writers and filmmakers recognize that the most original, and even transformative, ideas actually come from the core of our being, which is accessed through an “open-mind consciousness.”

In ancient traditions, open-mind consciousness was considered to be a spiritual awakening, the great enlightenment that dissolves the darkness of confusion and fear and ushers in peace, happiness, clarity and contentment

To read more, go to:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ronald-alexander-phd/inner-creativity-passion_b_853562.html

Gregg Braden on Spirituality & Science

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The Wisdom of a Spirituality-Based Science

Posted: 06/ 5/11 11:17 AM ET

During the last years of the Cold War, I had a front row seat as a senior systems designer in the defense industry to one of the most frightening times in the history of the world, and the thinking that led to it. During the last years of the most potentially lethal, yet undeclared, war in human history, the superpowers of the United States and the former Soviet Union did something that seems unthinkable to any rationally minded person today. They spent the time, energy, and human resources to develop and stockpile somewhere in the neighborhood of 65,000 nuclear weapons — a combined arsenal with the power to microwave the Earth, and everything on it, many times over.

The rationale for such an extreme effort stems from a way of thinking that has dominated much of the modern world for the last 300 years or so, since the beginning of the scientific era. It’s based in the false assumptions of scientific thinking that suggest we’re somehow separate from the Earth, separate from one another, and that the nature that gives us life is based upon relentless struggle and survival of the strongest

to read the whole article go to:    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregg-braden/spirituality-science_b_871483.html

Hurricane Season Begins

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Two systems battle for the first name of the Hurricane Season, Adrian developing fast

Published on June 6, 2011 12:40 am PT
– By Kevin Martin – Senior Meteorologist
– Article Editor and Approved – Warren Miller


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(TheWeatherSpace.com) — Both basins are battling it out for the first named system of the year, which one will it be?

Invest 91e is in the most favored location, west of Mexico. This system is in perfect position for rapid development over the next 48 hours and I would not be surprised to see it become a named system this week. The system will be named Adrian. Adrian would move to the northwest.

The system in the Caribbean Sea, Invest94l, has been affecting Jamaica, and the other islands surrounding it, with flooding rains as it just floats out there not moving much at all.

to read more go to:    http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-06_06_2011_tropical.html

A Break for Tornado Alley

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Tornado Alley escapes what could have been a major tornado outbreak

Published on June 6, 2011 1:25 am PT
– By Dave Tole – Writer
– Article Editor and Approved – Warren Miller


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(TheWeatherSpace.com) — A strong storm system moving into California today could have caused a major tornado outbreak across Tornado Alley if the ridge was not there.

According to TheWeatherSpace.com Senior Meteorologist Kevin Martin’s study, the ridge causing all the hot temperatures in the Southern Plains and Southeastern United States (Article Here)is better than what would have happened had it not been there.

To read more go to:   http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-06_06_2011_block.html

“Dumbocracy”

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I could not resist:

Dumb Politicians, Celebrities And Criminals: Reader’s Digest ‘Dumbocracy’ Suffers Fools Gladly

First Posted: 05-28-11 09:15 AM   |   Updated: 05-31-11 08:17 AM

‘s Memorial Day weekend, a time to remember some of the country’s heroes who have made this a great democracy. But when the Reader’s Digest gang surveyed the land from sea to shining sea, they found enough boneheaded behavior to make it seem at times as though we live in a “dumbocracy”.

You know who they’re talking about: dimwitted crooks, airhead celebrities and mindless politicians. Time and time again, these goofy citizens get away with — or at least try to get away with — the kind of half-baked ideas that make the rest of us wonder how common is common sense. (We’re looking at you, Charlie Sheen.)

“No one really feels sorry for these people,” said Reader’s Digest editor Andy Simmons. “People love to laugh at them. It makes you feel better that you’re not the only schmuck making mistakes.”

A full mind-boggling list of blunders, boo-boos and boners comes out in the magazine’s June/July issue. But while you kick back this holiday weekend, relax with a sneak peak and feel fortunate that you didn’t bungle your way into this group of clueless underachievers.

To read more, and see the images, go to /http://weirdnews.aol.com/2011/05/28/readers-digest-dumb-criminals-celebrities-lawsuits_n_867981.html#s284440&title=Dumb_Idea_Smart

 


 

Volcanic Lightning in Chile

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To See a Slide Show of Images of the eruption of the Puyehue Volcano in Chile, along with more shots of volcanic lightning,  go to http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Volcano-erupts-Chile/ss/events/wl/060611chilevolcano#photoViewer=/110605/481/urn_publicid_ap_org4cab6a52c1d643baa3f97cf4e4ce2114
Volcanic lightning is seen over the Puyehue volcano, ...
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Sun Jun 5, 2:23 PM ET

Volcanic lightning is seen, miles

Volcanic lightning is seen over the Puyehue volcano, over 500 miles south of Santiago, Chile, Sunday June 5, 2011. Authorities have evacuated about 600 people in the nearby area. The volcano was calm on Sunday, one day after raining down ash and forcing thousands to flee, although the cloud of soot it had belched out still darkened skies as far away as Argentina. (AP Photo/Francisco Negroni, AgenciaUno) …