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Coronal Holes: 11 Jun 11
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A solar wind stream flowing from the indicated coronal hole should reach Earth on or about June 14th. Credit: SDO/AIA.
Category Archives: Of Interest
Creation and Thinking
Can Thoughts Make Things Happen?
Posted: 06/10/11 09:01 AM ET
by Peter Baksa, Author – The Point of Power
As a pragmatic truth-seeking philosopher, I was very skeptical when I first encountered the Law of Attraction (LOA). Many things I’ve seen really stretch my credulity. But the more I think about it, the more I see nuggets underneath the hype that make sense to me, if reformulated a bit. While I wouldn’t go so far as to say the Buddha was a Law of Attraction proponent, I do think there is some common ground to be found between the two.
We create our world through our thoughts. Max Plank, Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking all seem to agree that the universe/god is actually a set of laws and principles that we can count on to create our world. Steven Hawking and Richard Feynman both speak in terms of M Theory and String Theory to further postulate how thoughts become matter. Our minds are essentially idea machines that refine our thoughts into electrical impulses which communicate with the same source energy that creates everything from nothing.
To read more, check out: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-baksa/law-of-attraction_b_873666.html
Jimmy Fallon’s Summer Do Not Read List
Check out Jimmy Fallon’s Do Not Read List: Two Part Video. Funny!
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/do-not-read-list-part-1-6911/1333035/
and Part 2:
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/do-not-read-list-part-2-6-9-11/1333029
Food Pyramids fr/Around the World
10 Food Pyramids From Around The World
Posted: 06/10/11 10:20 AM ET
by Food Republic
foodrepublic.com
The US Food Pyramid may be dead, but many countries around the world still look to the pyramid to convey nutritional advice for its citizens. Americans now can get used to the new MyPlate design — which is similar to Spain, Australia and Britain’s, by the way — but in China, Poland, and elsewhere, we’ve found some creativity.
We also found a lot of similarities between the ways countries tell their citizens to eat — and some differences. While most of the guidelines propose a similar ratio of proteins, grains, fruits, vegetables, and dairy to the U.S.’s MyPlate, some contain regionally specific advice. It is clear that dietary images worldwide struggle to strike a balance between comprehensive but chaotic information (see Germany’s 3D pyramid) and simple design with few specifics (see Hungary’s house).
To read more and see some of these other Food Pyramids, go to: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/food-republic/food-pyramids-around-the-world_b_874409.html#s288487&title=UKs_Eatwell_Plate
Odd Earthquake in South Pacific
Check out the link from IRIS Seismon.
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/zoom/?view=eveday&lon=-117&lat=-5
Curious as it seems anomalous. Can it herald another big one?
TWS Warns of New Hacker
New form of hacker surfaces, Websites are being taken for ransom
| Published on June 9, 2011 10:55 pm PT – By Jim Duran – Writer – Article Editor and Approved – Warren Miller |
(TheWeatherSpace.com) — An Indonesian hacker was responsible for the downtime of TheWeatherSpace.com, and TWS is warning all on the Internet about this.
The Website, Social Network Passwords, and E-mail accounts were held ransom on Thursday. These accounts were accessed through a GMAIL account setup to control some of the activities. They have been switched from that account to secure server accounts.
No files were accessed on the Website control panel. The hack was done by changing GoDaddy.com nameserver destinations and GoDaddy has secured it so no Website information was taken.
to read more go to :http://theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-06_10_2011_hacked.html
And the Heat Goes on
In Arizona::
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/09/137078844/arizona-blaze-threatens-multi-state-electrical-grid
In the Great Plains, the Midwest, and the Big Apple
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/09/137084209/sizzling-heat-turns-much-of-u-s-into-a-frying-pan
Pawn Star on Life & People
I am something of a “Pawn Stars” Junkie. Rick Harrison just wrote a book and was interviewed on NPR. Some interesting observations:
“Two years ago, a man walked into the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas with a pair of diamond earrings.
Pawn dealer Rick Harrison asked him the typical questions — Where did you get it? Where is the receipt? — and the man readily answered. Harrison filled out the required paperwork and paid the man $40,000 for his merchandise.
The very next day, Harrison found out the earrings were stolen. The victim got her earrings back and the criminal was prosecuted. Harrison, meanwhile, was out $40,000.
“It’s the cost of doing business,” Harrison says. “That’s the way I look at it. … And Las Vegas is a crazy town at times. There’s a lot of high-end things I get. So you have to know about … really large diamonds, really expensive watches. … So it’s a lot different than most places.”
Harrison, a second-generation pawn shop owner, is one of the stars of The History Channel’s reality series Pawn Stars. The show follows Harrison, his father, Richard, his son Big Hoss and his son’s friend Chumlee as they meet and haggle with customers who bring in all sorts of objects to sell and pawn. Harrison and his relatives assess the value of the objects — and try to determine whether or not they’re fake — before offering their customers a collateral loan or money for their merchandise.
Harrison’s new memoir, License to Pawn, details how he became an expert in, among other things, spotting fake Rolexes (he sees at least one a day), customer relations, human behavior, antiques and economics — all through running his 24-hour-a-day pawn business over the past 30 years.
License to Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life at the Gold & Silver
By Rick Harrison and Tim Keown
Hardcover, 272 pages
Hyperion
List Price: $23.99
How Pawn Shops Work
Pawn shops, Harrison says, have been around for thousands of years and are among the oldest forms of banking. The way it works is simple: Customers provide a personal item as collateral to receive a loan from a pawn broker, who can then sell the product if the customer doesn’t pay back the loan plus interest in a set amount of time.
to read more, go to: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/09/137033690/pawn-star-rick-harrison-on-his-deals-and-steals
Consciousness & The Brain
Does Our Brain Really Create Consciousness?
by Peter Russell, Physicist & Author
Western science has had remarkable success in explaining the functioning of the material world, but when it comes to the inner world of the mind, it has very little to say. And when it comes to consciousness itself, science falls curiously silent. There is nothing in physics, chemistry, biology, or any other science that can account for our having an interior world. In a strange way, scientists would be much happier if minds did not exist. Yet without minds there would be no science.
This ever-present paradox may be pushing Western science into what Thomas Kuhn called a paradigm shift–a fundamental change in worldview.
This process begins when the prevalent paradigm encounters an anomaly — an observation that the current worldview can’t explain. As far as the today’s scientific paradigm is concerned, consciousness is certainly one big anomaly. It is the most obvious fact of life: the fact that we are aware and experience an internal world of images, sensations, thoughts, and feelings. Yet there is nothing more difficult to explain. It is easier to explain how the universe evolved from the Big Bang to human beings than it is to explain why any of us should ever have a single inner experience. How does all that electro-chemical activity in the physical matter of the brain ever give rise to conscious experience? Why doesn’t it all just go on in the dark?
to read more go to:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-russell/brain-consciousness_b_873595.html
A New NIMBY
A New Kind of NIMBY: Nature in My Backyard
by David Suzuki, founder David Suzuki Foundation
On reading about the growing resistance to a mega-quarry being proposed for southern Ontario, I had an epiphany about the media’s use of the term NIMBY, for “not in my backyard.” It’s normally used to describe grassroots efforts to block everything from landfills and windmills to big box stores and bike lanes. NIMBYism has taken on a negative association, often implying naive or parochial resistance to projects that challenge the status quo in a community.
But NIMBYism isn’t always bad. Although it can arise out of fear of something new or different in a community, it can also be the result of genuine concern for the local environment. I’d like to propose a new kind of NIMBY, one that is positive and reflects a true sense of caring for our communities. Let’s go green and say yes to Nature in My Backyard.
To read more, go to: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-suzuki/environment-canada_b_872869.html